Collection of the Best Rare Photos from world war 2 1. A Finnish snowmobile during the Continuation War (1941-1944). The swastika was the emblem of the Finnish Air Force and Tank Corps from 1918 to 1945 2. Captured SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945 3. “Wild” Bill Guarnere and Edward “Babe” Heffron— 2 heroes of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division. 4. HISTORICAL picture of cigarette lighting from a flammenwerfer. 5. Stalin in the Kremlin after a meeting about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union at the start of Operation Barbarossa. The photographer secretly defied orders to destroy it as it was deemed not to show Stalin in a positive light. 6. Spitfire tipping a V1 rocket off course with it's wing 7. Accompanied by Shermans M4A3E2 "Jumbo", GIs of the 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division "Old Reliables" near the town of Rath, during the Operation Grenade, plan for Ninth US Army to cross the Roer river. Rhineland, Germany. 21 February 1945. 8. German graveyard in Tunisia 9. Youthful Wehrmacht soldier receiving first aid attention from a U.S. medic 10. German soldiers speaking with swiss border guards, 1944 11. The gear of a paratrooper from the 101st airborne 12. Soviet troops firing from a destroyed building near voronezh, 1942. 13. General Erwin Rommel’s funeral ceremony held in his hometown of Ulm, Württemberg, 18 October 1944. 14. Two American soldiers having fun with a captured Panzerschreck 15. Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 20 November 1942 16. A liberated Frenchman lights British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s cigar. Circa 1944. 17. German Soldiers Surrender to the Red Army in East Prussia, 1945. 18. Black French Colonial Troops in Eastern France, 1944 | Despite forming a majority of Free French Forces, Black soldiers were barred from Victory Parades across France 19. 30,000 k98 rifles seized after the surrender of German troops in Norway 20. Reindeer in Murmansk, 1941 21. Czesława Kwoka, a polish girl who was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. She was 14 years old when she was murdered by the Nazis on March 12 1943. 22. D-Day/Today 23. Survivors of the Dachau Concentration Camp attack and beat one of the camps SS guards after US Army 42nd and 45th Infantry Divisions liberated the camp, April 29, 1945. (Colorized) 24. Finnish soldier with two foxes 1942 25. Neat photo my grandfather took in Normandy 26. German infantry advance through a Russian cornfields, Caucasus area, summer 1942 27. One last peek 28. An American medic tends to a wounded Waffen-SS soldier in France, 1944. 29. GIs of the 102nd Division take time for a quick Thanksgiving day dinner in a shelled house. Geilenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, November 23, 1944. 30. Semyon Nomokonov (1900–1973) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 367 kills. 31. The execution of Rudolf Höss, the commander of Auschwitz concentration camp 32. A German soldier walks into a BAR... Illy, France, Sept 1944. 33. Poor guy, at least he had some fun with it 34. V1 rocket in flight, picture possibly taken from a fighters gun camera before it gets shot down 35. The sheer magnitude of D-Day. Mind boggling— 36. Dogfighting over the Saint Paul’s cathedral during the London Blitz in 1940. Found on Instagram, credits to @combatpix 37. B-29 crewman Henry Erwin lay swathed in bandages at the hospital in Guam after he threw the burning white phosphorus bomb out the plane during a combat mission over Koriyama, Japan, burning his whole body but saving the plane and crew from going down. He was given a Medal of Honor for this act, 1945 38. DUKW Amphibious vehicles in Venice, Italy, during World War II 39. Ghosts of the Eastern Front. Soldiers of the 11th Armoured Division are advancing to Moscow, December, 1941. 40. French woman pouring tea for an allied soldier 41. Burial at sea for sailors of the USS Intrepid killed in a kamikaze attack, 1944 42. Russian soldier on Red Square during a parade in 1940. Note the French Adrian helmet 43. American soldier holding a Bazooka and Panzerschreck (1943) 44. U-537's crew members posing in front of a polar bear they shot during a secret mission to set up a weather station in eastern Canada, October 1943 45. The Autobahn put to good use, 1945 46. Lest we never forget: Battleship Row during the attack on Pearl Harbor, photograph taken from a Japanese aircraft. December 7, 1941– 78 years ago today. 47. Soviet tankman chats with German soldiers on the demarcation line in Poland - late September, 1939 48. German and Soviet soldiers socializing with each other at the end of the Invasion of Poland, 1939. 49. Messerschmidt Me 262

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