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Here's a photo archive of large pictures about D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944:
http://flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/

It is all in French, so you may have difficulty with the translation.
Pic: US helmet in France - Normandy - Omaha Beach.
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US troops dead in the hedgerows of Normandy.
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US ferries transport material after D-Day.
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US nurse at a field hospital, Omaha Beach.
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US, Canadian, British and French allies confer by a WW1 memorial.
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>>405594
beautiful. simply beautiful.
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General Eisenhower passing a Tiger II overturned at Chambois.

Gotta go.
If anyone else finds good pictures at http://flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/ please post them here.
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Hiya!
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lalalala
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US Liberation of Basse-Normandie.
>> Anonymous
great flickr find, dude.
>> Anonymous
Thank you very much!

Could you also post the other flickr links with ww2 pictures?
>> Anonymous
got any WWI photos?
>> Amicable Herculean
If I recall correctly, some photographer bloke went along with a bunch of troops during the landing at Omaha and took over 106 pictures.

However, when he went back home, some faggot destroyed nearly all the pictures in the developing process.

Only ten survived.
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>>405910

indeed. that was robert capa.
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US Browning M2HB .50 Caliber Air Cooled Machine Gun in Normandy.
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US WW2 D-Day Wehrmacht soldier from Asia taken prisoner.

If I recall this story correctly, this guy was a Manchurian captured by the Japanese, impressed into their army, taken prisoner by the Soviets during Japan's abortive invasion of Soviet East Asia (Kalinin Gol?), impressed into the Red Army. Later, captured by the Germans in their invasion of the Soviet Union, impressed into the German Army. Sent to defend the beaches at Normandy, France. Captured by the Americans. I don't think this guy was impressed into the US Army.
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Crossed rifles in the sand placed as a tribute to this fallen soldier, Omaha Beach.
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frenchcanadianfag here, will translate for free.

post french text and i will deliver.
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>>406024
Merci!

Please translate this (goes with the above Asian prisoner):
Un homme de la Engineer Special Brigade 5th ou 6th (trait blanc sur le casque) inscrit les noms des prisonniers de la Wehrmacht. L'un-d'eux très jeune est de type asiatique.
certains "soldats" allemands en 1944 avaient 14 ans.
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>>406141


A man of the Special Engineer Brigade 5th or 6th (he has a white helmet) wrote down the names of prisoners of the Wehrmacht. One very young east Asian type.
Some "soldiers" in Germany in 1944 were only 14 years old.


That's what I could get out of it. I'm taking 3 years of French.
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>>406010

That must have been one hell of a ride. A true badass motherfucker.
>> Anonymous
Good stuff as usual Guano.
>> Anonymous
>>406010
Correct.

"The name of the soldier in this photo is Kyoungjong Yang who was born in Shin Euijoo, Northwestern Korea on March 3, 1920. He was conscripted to the Kwantung army in 1938 and captured by the Soviets in Nomonhan and captured again by Germans in Ukraine in the summer of 1943, maybe in the battle of Kharkov, and captured finally by Americans in Utah beach, Normandy on June 6, 1944.
He was freed from a POW camp in Britain on May, 1945 and moved and settled in America in 1947. He lived near the Northwestern Univ. in Illinois until he died on April 7, 1992. He lived as an ordinary US citizen without telling his unbelievable life story even to his two sons and one daughter."
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>>406331
Thanks!
Looks like most of the belligerent powers got to swap that guy around.

Continuing to post pictures from the above Flickr photo set.

Pic: US M10 Tank Destroyer embarking on the beach.
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General Eisenhower meeting with the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) of the 101st Airborne Division.
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US troops study a French phrase book.

What French phrases would be handy to know after D-Day?
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US troops of the 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) in an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle & Personnel) Higgins Boat.
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And some US 20mm Hispano triple anti aircraft guns.
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Does anyone remeber who made those huge Normandy 1944 rars in Rapidshare and what was his source?

Pic related.
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>>406361
wonder why the trooper's rank/patches/identification were blacked out...and the color on Eisenhower and to the left of the picture looks shooped
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>>406548

Pic related?...
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>>406371
US? Those arent americans, those are commonwealth/UK helmets they are wearing.
>> Dividedbytripfaggotry !/UDmf/jOTQ
>>406892
He said the guns are US, not the soldiers.
>> BurtGummer !!RRMHFHglFsy
>>405594

Beautiful shot, sums up the whole war to me... the strong arm of america, the exotic canadian force and the gritty little brits.

>>406892

America wore these helmets too early on in the war.
>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
I fucking love you, bat guano
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>>406892
Those troops may also be Americans. The US military used the British 'Brodie' style steel helmet from 1917 (the US M1917 helmet) until it was replaced by the distinctive US M1 helmet in 1942.

Pic: US WW1 troops wearing British style M1917 helmets, firing a French Hotchkiss Mle 14 machine-gun on a German observation plane.
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Here's a wonderfully staged shot of a US trooper wearing the earlier M1917 helmet, aiming by a halftrack, in 1942.
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>>406907
I love you, too, Teus.

Pic: an LST-543 (Landing Ship, Tank) unloading a DUKW amphibious truck.

The designation of DUKW is not a military pun - the name comes from the terminology used for military vehicles in World War II; the D indicates a vehicle designed in 1942, the U meant "utility (amphibious)", the K indicated all-wheel drive and the W indicated two powered rear axles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW
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>>406938

These are Commonwealth troops manning Commonwealth guns. Her eis why:

1. These are 20mm Oerlikons or Polstens; the US Army used 37mm, 40mm, or 0.50-inch automatic AA but not 20mm.

2. The gun mount is a Mounting, Triple, 20mm Mk 1 - a British mount.

3. The M1917 'Brodie' helmet was replaced with the M1 by 1942 - while the US Army began ground combat in Europe in 1943.

4. The American star marking was used among the Western Allies from mid-1943.

The guns are conclusively British; the gun crew - soldiers on the ground in Europe - certainly dates from 1943 (or, more probably, 1944) and thus would not be American if they are wearing Brodie helmets.
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>>406967
You may be right, sir.
Thanks for the info.

Pic: Un soldat américain tient un enfant dans ses bras à Trévières.
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>> 406954

I've ridden in a DUKW through Chattanooga and out into the Tennessee River. They have daily tours.
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>>407185
Sounds fun. I saw one in Santa Cruz, California. Didn't get to see it drive into the ocean, though.

Pic: a US WW2 GMC DUKW-353, aka "Truck, 2.5ton, 6x6, Amphibian."