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Troops of the Royal Irish Regiment, 36th (Ulster) Division, smile for the camera before the Battle of Cambrai. November 20, 1917.

The 50th (Northumbrian) Division goes over the top at Cambrai. November 20, 1917.

November 20, 1917 - Battle of Cambrai Begins as 400 British Tanks Charge the German Lines

Over 370 British tanks smashed through the German lines at Cambrai on November 20, 1917. It was history’s first “tank battle,” and for the new weapon of war, a qualified success, but British failed to exploit their sudden break-through.

Sheep graze near the ruins of the Dresden Frauenkirche

Battleship Espana in Santander

A prototype of the KV-1S with 85mm gun S-31

88-mm heavy tank destroyer “Hornisse” own name “Puma” at Vitebsk. January 1944.

Natter

Ba-349 Natter, in the back Ju-290

Tiger schwere PanzerAbteilung 509, Tarnopol. 1944

Mortier de 280 Tir Rapide Mle1914 Schneider sur Affût-Chenilles St Chamond

Manufactured by Schneider and Saint-Chamond c.1918-19.
280mm Schneider Mle1914 ‘rapid fire’ howitzer, de Bange breechloading system, 2~3 shells per minute. Mounted on a St-Chamond Mle1917 chassis with a top speed of 5km/h on roads and rough terrain, powered by a 50m power cable linked to a gun tractor/ammo carrier using the same chassis fitted with a Panhard 120 hp petrol engine.

MOBILE ARTILLERY OBSERVATION POST APNP (“OBJECT 610”) (USSR).

The unit commander explains the task to the crew of the Soviet tank “Valentine” III. Somewhere in the Ukraine, 1943.

Tiger with the number “712” - thrown in Tunisia, was found by the Americans and subsequently delivered to Aberdeen proving ground.

Tugs push “Pensi” (battleship PA) from the pier of the Navy yard in Philadelphia,March 24, 1931.The ship sails for West Indiesba

The Japanese Type 11 Light Machine Gun,

Australian soldier Jack Keanne of the Second Australian Imperial Force, from  Stanthorpe, Queensland, studies the dunes above the beaches for possible Japanese snipers through captured Japanese field glasses, which rest on a Japanese wooden crate during the Battle of Balikpapan. The battle was the concluding stage of Operation Oboe of the Borneo Campaign, in which Allied American, Australian, Dutch and British forces successfully retook the island of Borneo. Balikpapan, Borneo, Dutch East Indies (now, Indonesia). July 1945.

The battlecruiser HMS New Zealand. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1913.

Destroyed SdKfz 234/2. Normandy 1944

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