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Post war recycling of the mighty Luftwaffe. A little insight as to why so few planes have survived to this day.

Lothar von Richthofen and Emil Schäfer, Jagdstaffel 11.

Netherlands on 19 September 1944.

Captured and wounded British paratroopers being marched away by the Hohenstaufen troops on the eastern side of Oosterbeek, Netherlands on 20 September 1944. The parachutists are on their way to Arnhem, most of them ending up at the St Elizabeth’s Hospital.

in the bell tower at the monastery in Kiev. In the background is the burning wooden Navodnitsky Bridge. 1941

A view of the road heading towards Près de Moeuvres where shellfire can be seen in the distance, September 1918.

Destroyed the Italian convoy somewhere in Cyrenaica. In the foreground - medium tank Fiat Ansaldo M13/40, rear - burned-out trucks and Fiat SPA

Untitled, 1930’s, Ladislav Rozman. Czech

This photograph taken at Kerama Retto on 9 April 1945 shows the damage caused by a kamikaze hit on USS Newcomb (DD-586). The photo is one in a series sent to Fleet Admiral Nimitz by Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner to illustrate the horrendous toll that kamikazes were taking on U.S. Navy destroyers in the waters off Okinawa. Operational Archives NH

From the NHK TV drama

A German machine gun crew in a trench during the Battle of Tannenberg near the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia, August 1914.

 Japanese ship under attack by American bomber (1945)

SU-6 self-propelled artillery gun based on T-26

On the outskirts of Stalingrad, a German machine gun emplacement overlooks the Volga River. The fierce defences of the city would make it a much harder fight to reach the shore than the forces who remained outside of the city proper.

Hermann Goering conferring with his lawyer during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945

60 cm Karl-Gerät “Ziu” firing in Warsaw, August 1944.

A note from Tsesarevich Nicholas to Prince Ernst of Hesse, 1884