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Landing craft on the beach during D-Day on June 6, 1944 in France. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories.

 

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Ships and blimps sit off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories.

 

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"Free France" M4 Shermans and GMC CCKW, Italy, August 1944.

 

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Afrika Corps

 

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Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber.

 

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Canadian soldiers A. Lockhart and William Campbell in destroyed Falaise, France, 1944

 

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US Navy Seabee (Construction Battalion) wields a M1903A3 bolt-action rifle while on guard duty, Tarawa.

 

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German officer is escorted by U.S. soldiers after the liberation of Paris in 1944. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories.

 

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SS-Obersturmbannführer Max Wünsche (with the bandaged head), Rgt. Komm. of SS-PzRgt 12 visiting survivors of III.ZUG 15./25 SS PzG. Rgt. at Rots, Normandy on June 9, 1944.

Partly seen on the right side of image #1 is SS-Hauptsturmführer Rudolf von Ribbentrop, 3. Kompanie, I./SS-PzRgt 12, son of German foreign minister von Ribbentrop.

On the left is thought to be Unterscharführer Peter Koslowski on the far right is Hauptscharführer Wilhelm Boigk, that is SS-Sturmmann Otto Funk at the back but #2 and #4 are unknown.

 

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SS Sturmann Otto Funk and his SS Hitlerjugend comrades in Rots, west of Caen. Funk's unit was the 15. (Aufklarungs) Kompanie/SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 25 of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend", was photographed resting up after fierce fighting in Norrey-en-Bessin. Otto Funk was 18 years old at that time, and had been fighting continuously for days with little to no sleep. He kept on fighting until the end of the war, when he was captured by U.S. forces in Austria; he would eventually pass away on September 11, 2011. Most of Funk's unit consisted of 17-18 year old boys who did not survive the fierce fighting in the bocage; just like his comrade Klaus Schuh (in the image next to Otto), an MG42 gunner for whom Funk carried ammunition belts. Schuh was KIA on 26th of June 1944 in Normandy.

At around 0900 hours on the morning of 9 June, the 3rd Company of SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 rumbled through Rots towards la Villeneuve on the Caen-Bayeux highway. They were ordered to assault Norrey with the support of a small number of infantry from SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 25.

The attack was to be in conjunction with infantry attack from the I Battalion of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 26 south of the village.
Just after noon on 9 June, Twelve Panthers fanned out in a single line at a right angle to the rail embankment. Approaching the village the company swung left keeping in a solid line with their fronts towards the village in anticipation of confronting the Canadian anti-tank guns.
However, nine Sherman tanks from the 1st Hussars including several "Fireflys" equipped with 17 pdrs, were moving towards the front to reinforce the Reginas' position in Norrey. The majority of the Sherman tanks were navigating through the village, but one Firefly, commanded by Lt G. K. Henry, had worked his way around the village to the front where he spotted the advancing Panthers.

Catastrophically for the 3rd Panzerkompanie, their swing to the left, though protecting them from the 6-pounders in Norrey, exposed their flanks to Lt Henry at not more than 1000 metres distance. The Canadian tank opened fire hitting the tank nearest the rail-line first. Incredibly Lt Henry fired five shots and knocked out five Panthers. A sixth was accounted for by another “C” squadron tank.
The crews from the burning Panthers along with their supporting infantry retreated back to an underpass where Canadian artillery began to pound the area inflicting even more casualties.

The attack of the I Battalion, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 25 never materialized leaving the assault a complete failure.

 

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Propaganda Map Published By The Wehrmacht Depicting The Axis War Against The Soviet Union

LOTR vibes anyone?

 

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Young German soldiers, likely taken directly from the rank of a local Hitler Youth group, were captured somewhere outside of Leipzig Germany in May of 1945.