25,042 items in this album on 1,253 pages.
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| Close-up of a rocket launcher control cabin aboard HMS King George V while she was in drydock at Rosyth, Scotland, United Kingdom, circa 1940-1941 | Close-up view of Bismarck's Turm Anton and Bruno barbettes, 1940-1941 |
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| Close-up view of Bismarck's Turm Bruno barbette, 1940-1941 | Colonel General Erwin Rommel and General Siegfried Westphal helping with pushing a stuck vehicle, North Africa, early 1941 |
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| Colonel Kurt Zeitzler standing over a map, Yugoslavia, circa 1941 | Conning tower of U-132, circa early 1940s |
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| Crashed German Ju 88 aircraft in France, 1940-1941 | Crew of a 24 cm SK L/40 Theodor Karl railway gun practice loading, southern France, 1941 |
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| Crew of cruiser HMAS Sydney, circa late 1940 or early 1941 | Crew of HMS Rodney lowering a paravane into the water, date unknown |
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| Damaged DC-3 aircraft at Suifu, Sichuan Province, China, 1941 | DC-2 passenger aircraft at Loiwing (Leiyun) airfield, Yunnan Province, China, date unknown |
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| Dead Soviet soldier next to his Maxim M1910 heavy machine gun, circa 1940s | Deck opening aboard Bismarck with weather guard, 1940-1941 |
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| Diagram of the early DUKW from the US Army Service Manual | Dodge WC27 1/2 ton ambulances and CCKW 21/2 ton trucks loaded on railway flat cars for shipment from manufacturing plants to points of embarkation, circa 1941 |
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| Dodge WC54 3/4-ton field ambulance converted for use by the US Army Signal Corps; conversions of this type were not unique but they were rare | DShK machine gun and other weapons atop a Soviet armored train, 1941 |
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| Early DUKW engaged in training, United States, 1940-1944 | Early GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 closed cab long wheel base transport with winch, date unknown |
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