British Infantry

[PoorOldSpike]

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Burnt Fallschirmjager, Crete

 

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Canadians capture Juno beach model

 

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Yorkshire Light Inf and Crocodile

 

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Brit commandos and POW, Italy

 

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[PoorOldSpike]

Brit paras near Wolfheze, Arnhem

Arnhem garrison commander General Friedrich Kussin after running into ambush by into Brit paras

His driver copped it at the same time-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

PIAT talkthrough, Plymouth UK Armed Forces Day, Jun 2011

 

[Bootie]

Probably a lot less cheerful after getting off the evacuation boat from Dunkirk

If they ever did come back and dont occupy a little corner of some French field.

 

[Rico]

If they ever did come back and dont occupy a little corner of some French field.

True... I was thinking best case scenario... in their defense, they were probably hamming it up for the propaganda press photo guy anyway
"Cheeful lads -- go kick some Jerry backside and be back in blighty for Christmas!"

 

[Bootie]

An allied soldier thrusts the plunger of an explosive mechanism that will blast a bridge to delay the Nazi advance, in the Leuven region of Belgium, on June 1, 1940, before this area fell to the Germans.

 

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Soldiers carrying off the tail of a Messerschmitt 110, which was shot down by fighter planes in Essex, England, on September 3, 1940.

 

[Bootie]

British Infantrymen in position in a shallow trench near Bardia, a Libyan Port, which had been occupied by Italian forces, and fell to the Allies on January 5, 1941, after a 20-day siege.

 

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Cameron Highlanders, a Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army, and Indian troops march past the Great Pyramid in the North African Desert, on December 9, 1940.

 

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Two examples of Britain's war forces, a soldier in battle dress and a bearded Canadian sailor share a light at an English port, on January 14, 1941.

 

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A British patrol is on the lookout for enemy movements over a valley in the Western Desert, on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Libya border, in February of 1942.

 

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A wounded British warrior in Libya lies on cot in a desert hospital tent, on June 18, 1942, shielded from the strong tropical sun.

 

[Bootie]

A wounded German officer, found in the Egyptian desert during the first two days of a British offensive, is guarded by a sentry while awaiting backup, on November 13, 1942.

 

[Bootie]

Wildly enthusiastic citizens of Tunis greet the victorious allied troops who occupied the city. A British tankman gets a personal welcome from a Tunis resident in Tunisia, on May 19, 1943.

 

[Louis]

A british soldier rescued a puppy from the ruins of a shelled german house on the outskirts of Geilenkirchen, nov 1944.-