14 April 1945
Private John Davies, with a Bren light machine-gun, during an attack by the Australian 24th Battalion against the Japanese at the Hatai Junction on Buin Road, Southern Bougainville.
(Australian War Memorial - 091023)

Normandy invasion front - German Infantry officer taking cover behind a hedge, watching with binoculars and armed with an Italian MP38. 21 June 1944.
(Bundesarchiv - Bild 101I-680-8257-16)

Photographer Sgt. Robert Beatty Neubacher, Los Angeles, California, relaxes somewhere in India. March 1945
Neubacher was with the Chinese 22nd Division for about four months, accompanying them on their assault on Kamaing, Burma.
(wearing the China Burma India CBI patch)

Upon returning, the intelligence officer Lt. Harrison, checks off the names of the pilots from VMF-213 'Hell Hawks' at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. April 1943.
Winnia, Leary, Jones, Humberd, Garison, Votaw and McCleary.
(US Army Signal Corps Archive)

4 April 1945
Royal Marine Commandos F. Mander and R. J. Angus of the 1st Special Service Brigade on look out for snipers in the ruins of Osnabruck, Germany.
© IWM BU 3057

18 January 1943
Lieutenant Colonel David Stirling officer commanding the SAS in the Middle East talking to Patrol Commander Lieutenant Edward McDonald and Corporal Bill Kennedy, 'L' Detachment, 1st SAS, just back from a three month patrol.
© IWM (E 21339)

23 March 1945
An American M4A1 (76mm) Sherman tank of the 14th Armoured Division moves past a roadside littered with debris from the retreating German forces near, Silz, Germany.

31 March 1944
Winston Churchill inspects a Cromwell Mk IV tank ('Blenheim') of No. 2 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards, at the Searchlight Field, Whitby Road, Pickering in Yorkshire.
© IWM H 37169)

2nd Lt. D.W. Hurlburt, Co-Pilot; 2nd Lt. Donald L. Grant, Navigator; 1st Lt. George T. Oxrider, Pilot; T/Sgt. Everett A. Dasher, Radio Op; T/Sgt. F.B. Ziemer, Gunner; 2nd Lt. Earle A. Steele, Bombardier; Sgt. Theodore C. Heaps. Leftside Waist Gunner.
303rdbg.com/c-358-oxrider.…

29 March 1918
Unidentified officers and NCOs of the Australian 13th Machine Gun Company studying a map in a billet at Sailly-le-Sec, Northern France
13th Machine Gun Company, 13th Brigade, 4th Division, AIF
(AWM E01942)

'The Greatest Raid of All ' - 82 years ago
The Royal Naval and Commando raid on St. Nazaire.
British prisoners of war detained in a building nearby S.Nazaire dockside - they look like they might be in a pub. They knew something the Germans didn't.
28 March 1942

Pfc. Gerald A. Cohan, Newark, N.J., mans a .30 caliber machine gun covering approaches to Salmchâteau, as the 75th Division takes the town.
3rd Battalion, 289th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division. 16 January, 1945.
Photographer: Cedicks.

Whippet tanks preparing to retire near Albert, 28 March 1918.
Whippet A267 'Cork II' and others of the 3rd Btn. with wooden 'track spuds' stowed at the rear.
© IWM Q 9817

Flying Officer J. Brindley of York, a pilot serving in a Bristol Beaufighter squadron, sitting at the controls of his aircraft before taking off from an airfield in Central Burma. (possibly 211 Squadron - 1943-45) © IWM (CF 547)

Tuskegee airmen of WW2. 🧵

F/Lt Geoffrey 'Sammy' Allard DFM at Castle Camps (RAF Debden's satellite airfield), Cambridgeshire. July 1940
Geoffrey Allard, late of 85 (F) Squadron lost his life in a flying accident on the 13th March 1941