Any WWII history buffs here ?

footman · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:17

Good post, some of the descriptive text is very detailed.

wordy · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:31

WWll, isn't that the one that the americans won all on their own?

Margaret · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:31

Stop tempting me to watch Band of Brothers. Again.

matt_fsr · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:31

Great photos - and thanks! Just incase you're interested in some more captions:

photo-33.jpg - PzKpfw II

photo-49.jpg - Fiesler Storch.

photo-65.jpg - PzKpfw II

photo-68.jpg - Looks like a tracked Bren carrier

photo-74.jpg - Appears to be French 155mm artillery piece, same gun in photo-75 too.

photo-80.jpg - French troops surrendering. *insert joke here*

photo-86.jpg - Seemingly French anti-tank gun, knocked out. Looks like 25mm by the shell box on the ground.

Can't guarantee that I'm 100% correct on those, so if anyone else thinks different or gives a better suggestion feel free to amend.

Cosimo · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:36

What a fascinating collection. Thanks for sharing, the links are saved for further viewing.

platypus · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:40

Thanks for posting these, very interesting.

lucky13 · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:45

Great collection, I really should be working. Arwell.

TMP · 21 Jul 2010 at 11:19

Great collection, the ones of the Cherbourg docks show how much of a scorched earth policy the Wehrmacht used, total destruction!

Burnsy2023 · 21 Jul 2010 at 11:28

Is there anyway to download the whole lot to view them as a sideshow?

nin9abadga · 21 Jul 2010 at 12:27

seems like quite a few german perspective images in the first link? I've not seen many from their end (though I've not looked at all the images). second link is awesome, will go through all those.

i'm currently reading Churchill's war diaries - fascinating overview of what went on.

Efour · 21 Jul 2010 at 13:27

There is a few naval ones with a few eastern looking guys are they Filipinos that served in the Atlantic fleet on American ships ?

TMP · 21 Jul 2010 at 14:36

I think they may be part of Wehrmacht volunteer units? Few of them seem to have Volksgrenadier uniforms on. I think a few of the units used on the Atlantic wall had foreign sympathisers in them, Polish, Russian etc.

footman · 21 Jul 2010 at 14:56

TMP said:
think a few of the units used on the Atlantic wall had foreign sympathisers in them, Polish, Russian etc.

Known as Hiwis they weren't necessarily sympathisers, many were pressed into service or face certain death in POW camps.

Biohazard · 21 Jul 2010 at 15:51

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/

National Library of Scotland has today posted nearly 2000 photos of this period..

Stolly · 21 Jul 2010 at 21:48

Efour2 said:
There is a few naval ones with a few eastern looking guys are they Filipinos that served in the Atlantic fleet on American ships ?

No, they were captured "German" POW's (if you are referring to the pictures i think you are)

Its often not appreciated that the Atlantic Wall was largely manned by low quality static divisions. People of all sorts of countries manned these units, including Koreans captured by the Germans when in the Soviet army, who captured from from the Japanese who conscripted them from Korea. I think these pictures may be those poor folk.