post your cool ww2 pics
GOAT WW2 photo.
17 year old Kamikaze pilot. Photo taken day before he killed himself for the glorious emperor
>>1196754
I hope at least he didn't take poor doggy with him
>>1196810
They most likely ate it.
>>1196803
BEADY
one of the more casual photos of the Führer
>>1196799
One girl is wearing a Polish cap and the other a Soviet one, plus they're both wearing earrings. That's just some crappy models with a B&W filter on it.
:(((
The cockpit of a Japanese Imperial Navy Mitsubishi G4M bomber (Allied reporting name "Betty").
Lightly wounded German paratrooper during the battle of Monte Cassino.
USAAF B-17 bomber "Silver Dollar" going down above Germany after getting hit by a bomb dropped by another B-17.
Soviet soldiers firing a PTRD anti-tank rifle.
Early days of Operation Barbarossa, Soviet POWs pass by advancing German troops on a railroad bridge near Brest, 1941.
Japanese pilots pose with some natives in front of a Mitsubishi F1M "Pete" float plane.
American POWs on their way to captivity in Tunisia, 1943.
Dead German paratroopers have been loaded onto a truck in Normandy, 1944.
German paratroopers
Hitler, Mussolini and various Axis officers inspecting the interior of Brest Fortress.
The execution of German general Anton Dostler, 1945.
Hanging of the partisan Vladimir Vinogradov for the murder of a German soldier in Vitebsk, Soviet Byelorussia.
American tank driver Julian H. Patrick, KIA in Germany, March 1945.
Piles of dead Red Army soldiers in Kuhmo, Finland at the end of Winter War.
Paratrooper of the Italian Social Republic posing for the camera.
Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber over Wapping, London in 1940.
Romanian AA gun crew.
Hungarian AA MG.
Japanese soldiers cheer for the camera after capturing Hankou, 1938.
Welcome to pavlovs house
the cause of countless german deaths
the less famous version
the flag was planted before the island was actually captured, they spent another 31 days figthing after the flag was planted
>>1197373
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov's_House
stalingrad in a nutshell
CNT Militas
if you think the Spanish civil war isnt WW2 youre wrong :^)
>>1196803
>"Get in loser, we're raiding Rommel's airfield."
>>1196968
This is from Die Brücke, a 1959 West German film
>>1197373
the german officers marked the house as a fortress ("Festung") on their maps.
source: my book about Stalingrad.
>>1197482
your post won't matter. that image has been reposted as "authentic" on 4chan since at least 2009. it's basically an internet myth by now.
>>1197482
its an authentic film tho :^)
>>1196899
They could be partisans?
>>1197502
I doubt it, I'm pretty sure it's a modern pic. The earrings are and makeup are the biggest giveaway. No real soldier, even female auxiliaries, are going to give a shit about their appearance in that regard, and certainly not soviet women in the 40's.
SS volunteers from Azerbaijan during the Warsaw rising in '44
Japanese infantry cross The Great Wall of China
Another pic of a Japanese assault on The Great Wall
>>1197584
Are we doing Spanish Civil War too? Cool.
>>1197621
Would definetly like too see some dank spanish cw pics!
>>1197628
I have like 2 more, I'll post 'em
>>1197646
>>1197643
Ok, last pic, I need to find some more :(
>>1197652
Thank you friend !
>>1197628
Here's some pics from the obviously superior Nationalist faction
>>1197628
>>1197628
Victorious Nationalists taking surrendering Republican troops as prisoners
>>1198078
>gets butthurt about his party losing the election
>launches a military coup against the democratically elected popular government, which fails miserably
>proceeds to invade his own country with a foreign army
>only wins because he has legions of foreigners with which to bomb and murder his own countrymen
>creates a brutal military dictatorship which establishes concentration camps and state terrorism
>decades later, he is celebrated as "based" by edgy teenagers on the internet
>>1198162
Not once did I say that Franco or his regime was "based" I was simply praising the Nationalist faction during the war. Stay mad, commie faggot.
>>1198227
>F-franco's faction was based! b-but yeah his regime w-wasn't, I guess...
Full damage control
>>1198227
Honestly I'm gonna have to agree that the Nationalists were assholes. Franco himself even said that he would line up half of Spain and execute them if he needed to. A republican victory would have been the best long-term hope for wider stability in Europe. If the allies hadn't been pussies and had intervened on the Republic's behalf, WW2 would have been very different, if it had happened at all. Fucking fascists.
>>1196730
Going to shoot a couple Russians
>>1198263
maybe if they weren't dirty gommies and anarchists the allies would have supported them
>>1198242
Franco may have been a dick, but the Nationalists were a lot better than the faggot Anarchists and Commie trash who infested the Republican faction.
>>1198263
The Wehrmacht simply would have overrun war torn spain. After WW2 though the allies could have set up a democracy so that spain would have had much fewer time under a dictatorship.
>>1196765
I wonder if those haircuts would be within regs today.
>>1197293
Mirin that dude's forearms.
>>1198291
Well the infighting on the Republican side certainly hurt them, and so did all the Stalinist bs the Soviets brought in. But if fucking Chamberlain had half spine and stood up to Hitler and Mussolini, history would have taken a very different course. Germany in '36/'37 was NOT ready for war with France or Britain, and certainly not both. The Spanish government provided the Allies with mountains of Evidence that there were German and Italian combat personnel fighting in Spain, but they stood by and did nothing. And now history remembers them for there incompetence and lack of decisiveness. GG Chamberlain and Daladier.
>>1198302
No, no they weren't. Not at all.
The Republicans were literally just the Spanish people defending their liberty against foreign invasion.
>>1198263
Republican (Moscow-aligned, communist dominated) Iberian peninsula would have meant German invasion of Spain and Portugal (since the Republicans wanted a united peninsula). A lefty Spain could never possibly have remained neutral, the only reason Spain wasn't occupied is because Hitler viewed Franco as an ally (Franco's Spain joined the anti-comintern pact.)
Basically, if Spain (and then inevitably Portugal) had been invaded by the Germans during the war - which would have been inevitable had the republicans won the war - then three things would have happened:
1. Portugal, which was the last escape route for literally millions of refugees fleeing Nazi Europe, becomes Nazi puppet state/is occupied, ensuring the death of at least thousands of political and ethnic refugees from the Nazis.
2. Germans now control the navy ports of the Iberian peninsula, and most likely Portugal's bases on the Azores too. This gives the Germans an advantage in the Atlantic, not to mention the fact that the Azores - as it happened - ended up as a vital naval base for the allies later on in the war, not just for air-supremacy over most of the Atlantic but also as a stop-off for flights between America and Europe.
3. Germans have strategic control over the entrance to the mediterranean and have a much more powerful position over North Africa. This puts Patin's eventual North-African campaign in to question, not least with respect to maintaining a safe supply chain.
Neutral Spain and Portugal were an absolutely massive help to the allies, mores than if they had joined on the Allied side, since the Wehrmacht would have just curb stomped them.
>>1198366
thats not accurate at all, you realise the population was split roughly 50-50 republican to nationalist?
SS cavalry, let that sink in, my niggas.
>>1196899
Also note the stripped mg-42(?) In the side car
>>1197547
Why does /pol/ always forget how much of an islamboo Himmler was?
bf 109 pilot
newsreels ok? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmpag7cWfvk
British paratroopers and four Waffen-SS soldiers who were captured at Arnhem Bridge, 1944.
Grumman F6F Hellcat taking off from the deck of USS Lexington.
>>1199404
>USS Lexington
that tripped me out cause I was like
>wait a minute, the lex got sunk at the coral sea, why the fuck is there a hellcat on it?
then I remembered the essex class
Imperial Japanese Navy Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bomber takes off from the deck of an unknown Japanese carrier during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Italian motorcycle trooper getting guided by another Italian soldier somewhere on the Eastern Front. Behind him stands a German military policeman of the Feldgendarmerie.
HMS Campbelltown at St Nazaire after ramming the dock gates of the Normandie dry dock during operation Chariot. Soon after this picture was taken by the Germans, 4.5 tons of delayed-action high explosives packed into Campbelltown's hull went off, seriously damaging the dock gates.
German soldiers pose behind a damaged French Hotchkiss 25mm AT-gun after the fall of France. One of them is wearing a British brodie helmet, while another one has a French Adrian helmet without the crest.
German soldiers in makeshift snow camouflage on the Eastern Front, 1941.
>>1196819
Beat me to it
>>1196836
>inb4 confirmed existence of lightsabers
That is confirmed to be an officer's sword.
American Marine and his dog pose with a captured Japanese Good Luck Flag.
Italian soldiers march into occupied Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1941.
Decorated Soviet soldier who destroyed several German tanks with captured Panzerfausts, 1945.
A Kriegsmarine sailor poses with a machete in front of a destroyed Churchill tank after the Dieppe Raid.
American marines pose with captured Japanese LMGs.
>>1198417
You misunderstood what I'm saying. If Britain and France had prevented Fascist intervention in Spain, it's quite possible that the Republic might have won. Also, if Hitler had been given a clear message not to mettle in other countries affairs, he would likely not have gone for Czechoslovakia and then Poland. The only reason Hitler annexed or invaded those countries is because he knew the western Allies were impotent and unwilling to risk military conflict with him. If it had come to open war over the Sudetenland Germany would have lost. The Wehrmacht was nowhere near ready for all out war in 36, 37, or 38. Hitler knew this, that's why he schemed and calculated the way he did. He correctly gambled that the British and French would allow him to bully other nations out of fear of another Great War. But the great tragedy is, a WW2 that breaks out in 38 over Czechoslovakia would have been FAR less destructive and lengthy. So basically, Spain was the first domino that led to appeasement of Hitler.
>>1199533
He's got a K-98AZ on his back
>>1197569
guess it wasn't so great after all
>>1196909
What are we looking at exactly?
>>1197439
>didn't fire a shot
>>1199676
British Commandos on a night raid, I think it's in Norway.
>>1199695
Thanks
>>1199606
Yeah, not a very common Mauser carbine in German use in WW2, but they were around.
Pic related, German combat engineer in 1941.
German soldiers inspecting a Belgian T13 B3 tank destroyer, 1940.
German POWs captured in the Battle of Kharkov.
The gun camera of an American P-47 Thunderbolt fighter has captured the moment when a German pilot has popped the canopy of his Focke-Wulf FW-190A fighter in order to bail out of his damaged aircraft.
German soldiers in the streets of Feodosia in the Crimean Peninsula, 1942.
British para mortar squad in action in the village of Oosterbeek in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden, 1944.
Italian Blackshirts eating lunch on top of a destroyed statue of Lenin, 1942.
Polish Uhlan with a Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle on his back.
Suspected of shooting at and killing some Hungarian soldiers in the nearby forest, Ukrainian villagers dig their own graves as Hungarians look on.
Surprised on the road by British Paras during the early hours of Operation Market Garden, the driver of General Kussin lies dead next to the General's car.
Finnish AT-gun crew with their French 25mm Hotchkiss AT-gun.
German 50mm Pak 38 AT-gun in Stalingrad.
US Marines ride on top of a M4 Sherman tank in Okinawa, 1945.
>>1199814
nice dude,
you got any british stuff?
>>1199798
never understood how the fuck did that work and after reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wz._35_anti-tank_rifle#Description i had more doubts than certainties
supposedly it was meant to be used as a barrett but it fired regular bullets, so calling it anti-tank is probably very excessive... the best it might have done it to have stopped a light vehicle like a jeep or similar
A lot of Eternal Anglo BLOOD ITT
>>1199870
>Anglo
>>1199822
You're really underestimating the penetration power of anti-tank rifles and overestimating the armor of early-war tanks and other AFVs. While ATRs did become obsolete fairly early in the war, they did serve a purpose in 1939-42 or so.
German Fallschirmjaeger drop onto Crete during Operation Mercury
dude, that looks an awful lot like C-47, not Ju-52s
>>1200329
Look at the front of the aircraft, you can see the propeller on the nose of the planes, C47 didn't have that. You can also see the Iron Cross on the back of the fuselage. Pic related.
>>1200329
Crete was in inside job.
>>1200329
>>1200334
Well, ok. After some googling I'm getting a few different sources for that pic but none say Crete. Most seem to indicate it is indeed operation dragoon but a few others say Market Garden. I don't remember where I found the picture, but the description said it was taken on Crete so I just went with it.
>>1200338
nigga there is no propeller on the nose, also the tail shape is wrong, and the wing tips look round, not squared off.
I don't see the iron cross at all, it looks more like the american star.
also, you look up pics of the invasion of Crete and the terrain is wrong too.
>>1199816
Sniper of the Black Watch in a ruined building in Holland, 1945.
Crew and support personnel of an Italian Piaggio P.108 heavy bomber.
Tail gunner position of a Japanese Imperial Navy Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber, with its 20mm Type 99 cannon.
US Marines after the battle of Eniwetok, 1944.
Soviets and Germans meeting after the fall of Poland, 1939.
German guards with a Maxim MG 08 during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Finnish soldiers with Suomi SMGs, 1941.
Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä visiting his Winter War "hunting grounds" with a couple of old comerades a few years later.
Maori soldiers from New Zealand performing the Haka in North Africa.
Rhodesian soldiers with a Two-inch mortar somewhere in North Africa.
7th Seaforth Highlanders advance led by their piper in Normandy during Operation Epsom, 1944.
>>1200898
Rhodesians never die
