7,766 items in this album on 389 pages.
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| HMS York and an oil tanker in Suda Bay, Crete, Greece, May 1941 | The squadron commander’s plane, a rare PBM-1D variant, with Patrol Squadron VP-55 flying Neutrality Patrols, probably at Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 1941. |
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| Vice Admiral Andrew Cunningham and Major General Bernard Freyberg aboard HMS Phoebe off Crete, Greece, May 1941 | A Marmon-Herrington Armored Car at Tobruk, Libya, 8 May 1941. Note the Italian Breda Model 35 anti-aircraft gun mounted on the top and the steel wheel ramps hanging over the rear wheels. |
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| British Royal Air Force Vickers Wellesley light bomber kicking up a dust cloud during a take off from an East African airstrip, 15 May 1941. | Battleship Bismarck as seen from heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Baltic Sea, mid-May 1941 |
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| A Ju 52 aircraft flying low over Crete, Greece, 20 May 1941 | German paratroopers landing in Crete, Greece, 20 May 1941 |
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| German paratroops jumping from Ju 52 transports over Crete, Greece, 20 May 1941 | Bismarck near Bergen, Norway, 21 May 1941, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Bismarck near Bergen, Norway, 21 May 1941, photo 2 of 2 | German paratroopers in Crete, Greece, late May 1941 |
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| A group of British soldiers in a trench with fixed bayonets, Crete, Greece, late May 1941 | Palls of smoke rising above the countryside, Crete, Greece, late May 1941 |
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| A smoke cloud hanging over HMS Hood immediately after an explosion, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941 | Battleship Bismarck withdrawing from the Battle of Denmark Strait after sinking HMS Hood, 24 May 1941 |
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| Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 1 of 5; photographed from Prinz Eugen | Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 2 of 5; photographed from Prinz Eugen |
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| Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 3 of 5; photographed from Prinz Eugen | Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 4 of 5; photographed from Prinz Eugen |
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