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Infrared night vision equipment “Дудка” (fife), being tested on a BT-7 light tank, 1941.
(via Юрий Пашолок )

39 ♥ / 2 months ago

tkohl:

Ivan wants you to buy him stuff

Finnish propaganda to Russian soldiers during WW2:
“Finns would pay a lot for every weapon you’ll take with you:
for revolver gun: 100 roubles for rifle: 150 roubles for fast shooting revolver: 400 roubles for machine gun: 1500 roubles for tank: 10,000 roubles
For every whole plane we would pay 10,000 DOLLARS and besides you’ll get the tickets to any country you would choose”.

16 ♥ / 2 months ago

Winkelturm (air-raid shelter) in Ibbenbüren, 1949.
via luftschutzbunker-osnabrueck

121 ♥ / 4 months ago

an-overwhelming-question:

Zdzisław Beksiński (1941)

Little Zdzisek (nickname from Zdzisław) Beksiński (right side) and his friend play in the rubble of a destroyed Soviet bunker past Slovak-German offensive on the Molotov Line in summer 1941, Sanok, Poland.

7 ♥ / 4 months ago

endilletante:

Japanese Nurse dressed in Black 1905 by Blue Ruin1 on Flickr.

29 ♥ / 5 months ago

an-overwhelming-question:

Reichstag (1945)

13 ♥ / 5 months ago

Two US soldiers in hand-to-hand combat training. This photo along with other First World War related pictures were all censored and banned from publication in the United States.

196 ♥ / 5 months ago

Clara Bow in ‘Wings’ (1927).
via The Decophile

18 ♥ / 5 months ago

dqswords:

B-17 - Evil Sean

1010 ♥ / 5 months ago

ritual-noise:

A German shell striking the cathedral at Rheims, France

264 ♥ / 5 months ago

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov:

gleefulhistoriography:

ironeurope:

A7V

It’s Beautiful.

Is that captured? The guy on the side looks British.

The first tank captured from the Germans, an A7V, with the name “Elfriede”. It was salvaged by the French at Saleux, near Villers-Bretonneux, and is en route to Paris. With others, it was used by the enemy in their early morning attack of 24 April 1918, on the hard-strained British Divisions before Villers-Bretonneux and Cachy, when the Germans took the town in a wide-fronted advance of 2,000 yards. The reply at night by the Australian 13th and 15th Brigades won back the entire position by a brilliant maneouvre and hard fighting.
“Elfriede” was displayed at Place de la Concorde in Paris in late 1918.

102 ♥ / 5 months ago

oldthunder:

Mirage shadow

57 ♥ / 6 months ago

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