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Making selfie, 1941.
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The Fuhrer, Mussolini and high officers visit the troops in Ukraine, Eastern front 1941.
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Excersices aboard a U-boat, somewhere in the Atlantic, Dec 1943.
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Berliners read official guidelines and instructions in case of air attack.
Better have good eye sight and a better attention span!
Berliners read official guidelines and instructions in case of air attack.
"Protect your lives and goods."
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Waffen-SS recruiting office in Calais, after liberation, 1944.
I’m surprised the sign was allowed to exist after liberation.Waffen-SS recruiting office in Calais, after liberation, 1944.
They were too busy shaving lady collaborators' heads...
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The image, exactly from Nov 12, 1944.
If memory serves me wasn't it French Waffen SS troops defending Hitler's Bunker there at the end? I thought I read that somewhere recently.
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A young German female worker is being trained at an ammunition factory, 1942.
A Grossdeutschland Division Horch Kfz 15 blocks a road with a damaged axle, while a Workshop Abteilung mechanic looks to repair & enable traffic to continue. His C/O, Werkmeister Zimmermann looks at the camera. Note the GD stahlhelm symbol on the driver’s door.
Colourised pic of U-899 surrendering to Canadian Navy in Nova Scotia, May1945.
U-889 was laid down on 13 September 1943 at the DeSchiMAG AG Weser shipyard in Bremen and was commissioned on 4 August 1944, with Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Braeucker (Crew IV/37) as commander. Until 14 March 1945 she was attached to 4th U-boat Flotilla for training. She was then assigned to 33rd U-boat Flotilla, a combat unit based at Flensburg. Her first, and only, active patrol started on 5 April 1945. She sank no vessels before the war ended and subsequently surrendered to a Canadian patrol.
After the German surrender on 8 May 1945, the German High Command ordered all U-boats to surrender. On the afternoon of 10 May, U-889 was spotted south of Newfoundland by a RCAF airplane, steaming at 10 knots and flying a black flag of surrender. The RCAF plane radioed to nearby Western Escort Force W-6 who intercepted the submarine an hour later. U-889 was ordered to head to Bay Bulls, Newfoundland. On 13 May, U-889 was turned over to the frigates HMCS Buckingham and HMCS Inch Arran who escorted her to Shelburne Harbour where she was boarded and Braeucker, her commanding officer, made a formal surrender.
On 14 May 1945, U-889 was commissioned into the RCN and decommissioned in December 1945.
U-889 was one of ten U-boats allocated to the United States as part of the Tripartite Naval Commission sitting in Berlin in November 1945. She sailed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 10 January 1946 and experiments were conducted on her special hydrophone gear. She was sunk off Cape Cod on 20 November 1947.
U-889 was laid down on 13 September 1943 at the DeSchiMAG AG Weser shipyard in Bremen and was commissioned on 4 August 1944, with Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Braeucker (Crew IV/37) as commander. Until 14 March 1945 she was attached to 4th U-boat Flotilla for training. She was then assigned to 33rd U-boat Flotilla, a combat unit based at Flensburg. Her first, and only, active patrol started on 5 April 1945. She sank no vessels before the war ended and subsequently surrendered to a Canadian patrol.
After the German surrender on 8 May 1945, the German High Command ordered all U-boats to surrender. On the afternoon of 10 May, U-889 was spotted south of Newfoundland by a RCAF airplane, steaming at 10 knots and flying a black flag of surrender. The RCAF plane radioed to nearby Western Escort Force W-6 who intercepted the submarine an hour later. U-889 was ordered to head to Bay Bulls, Newfoundland. On 13 May, U-889 was turned over to the frigates HMCS Buckingham and HMCS Inch Arran who escorted her to Shelburne Harbour where she was boarded and Braeucker, her commanding officer, made a formal surrender.
On 14 May 1945, U-889 was commissioned into the RCN and decommissioned in December 1945.
U-889 was one of ten U-boats allocated to the United States as part of the Tripartite Naval Commission sitting in Berlin in November 1945. She sailed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 10 January 1946 and experiments were conducted on her special hydrophone gear. She was sunk off Cape Cod on 20 November 1947.
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Original colour photo (I think) of some very young-looking German Luftwaffe POW's on the devastated battlefield in the aftermath of the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy 1944.
The abbey can be seen on the mountain top in the background.
The abbey can be seen on the mountain top in the background.
It would be great to be able to do a tour of the Gustav Line.
Afrikakorps motorcyclist in desert sandstorm...
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Conning tower of the U-756 from above. Eighteen days into her first patrol, on 1 Sept 1942 the U-756 in the mid North-Atlantic was attacked by the Canadian corvette HMCS Morden. Heavily damaged, the vessel went down with all 43 aboard.
I know this isn't a WWII German Photo but I was wondering about the HMCS Morden that sank the above Uboat, and what a corvette looked like, so I did some research.....
"HMCS Morden was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as an ocean escort.
The "corvette" designation was created by the French for classes of small warships; the Royal Navy borrowed the term for a period but discontinued its use in 1877.
During the hurried preparations for war in the late 1930s, Winston Churchill reactivated the corvette class, needing a name for smaller ships used in an escort capacity, in this case based on a whaling ship design."
Morden is a city in the Pembina Valley region of southern Manitoba in Canada. (Corvettes commissioned by the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were named after Canadian communities).
HMCS Morden, 1941
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"HMCS Morden was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as an ocean escort.
The "corvette" designation was created by the French for classes of small warships; the Royal Navy borrowed the term for a period but discontinued its use in 1877.
During the hurried preparations for war in the late 1930s, Winston Churchill reactivated the corvette class, needing a name for smaller ships used in an escort capacity, in this case based on a whaling ship design."
Morden is a city in the Pembina Valley region of southern Manitoba in Canada. (Corvettes commissioned by the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were named after Canadian communities).
HMCS Morden, 1941