Photos WW2 Various Miscellaneous Images

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Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes (left) faces General Reichilt (right) during a conference on the surrender of German forces in the Netherlands, 5 May 1945.

Lieutenant-General Foulkes and General Reichilt negotiating the surrender of German forces in the Netherlands, 5 May 1945.

 

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Adolf Galland, one of the Luftwaffe's top fighter aces in WW2 who flew 705 combat missions, pictured at the controls of the Lufthansa 707 airliner that flew him into Sydney. February 16, 1967.

 

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Report of the visit of Portuguese officers as observors to the eastern front in August/September 1942.
The images were published in the magazine "Signal" in December 1942.

 

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A Portuguese dead on the Russian front

The doctors were taken by surprise and tried in every possible way to stop the bleeding, caused by the rupture of the artery in the left thigh of engineering captain Mariano Augusto Lopes Pires.

At 23 hours and 53 minutes, on the night of September 15, 1941, Dr. Tempel declared the death of the Portuguese officer, at the Lazaret 122 Military Hospital, in Berlin Tempelhof, after several resuscitation attempts that included at least three blood transfusions. .

 

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As an additional curiosity, one of the young officers that visited the Leningrad front was António de Spinola.
He would achieve fame later on as governor of Portuguese Guinea and the Head of the National Portuguese Junta that took over after the 1974 revolution, serving briefly as President of the Republic.
He was the last Portuguese Marshall.

Spinola on the left with the black cap

 

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Cruiser Scharnhorst. Date unknown

 

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Messerschmitt 163 "Komet" engaging B-17.

 

[uktabber]

Wow, great photo mate!!! That's one you don't see too often!