[PIC GALLERY] WW2 Then & Now

[Myles]

Japanese Type 97 ‘Te-Ke’ light tanks, parade in front of the Philippines Legislature Building in Manila, after the city's capture in January 1942. The building is now The National Museum of Fine Arts, Manila.

 

[Louis]

British policemen examine the wreckage of a Bf 109 plane which crashed in Byron Avenue, Margate, UK. 24 July 1940.

 

[Louis]

It's not exactly a tourist bus in Paris.
Aug 1940, during the occupation.

 

[Louis]

British members of ‘L’ Squadron SBS (Special Boat Squadron) investigate the inscriptions in the ruins of the Acropolis in Athens, Oct 1944.

 

[Louis]

A French female waves a flag in tribute to the forces which liberated her city as they march past Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Aug 26, 1944

 

[Louis]

Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, Sept 2, 1945.

 

[mTk]

I stood there when I visited the Missouri. The space was unexpectedly small. Got the job done though, I guess.

 

[Louis]

Sd.Kfz. 6/2 in the ancient ruins at the Temple of Zeus, Athens, 1941.

 

[Louis]

Destroyed german tank at Belpasso, Sicily, 1943.

 

[Louis]

German forces and two american POWs aboard a captured Jeep, in Arnhem, Netherlands.

 

[Louis]

Exchange of shots in Aachen, Oct 1944.

Credit Cor Sleutel/Pinterest

 

[Myles]

The Battle of Stalingrad. The Germans place an 88 mm Flak gun at the intersection of Socialist and Barrikadnaya streets, facing north, in case of a Soviet counterattack.

 

[Louis]

Hey @Myles It's good to know about you !

 

[Myles]

Hey @Myles It's good to know about you !

Aw, thanks very much Louis. Appreciated.

 

[Louis]

Ruins at Berlin Cathedral, July 1945.

 

[Louis]

Curious around a Ju-88 bomber in front of the Revolution Square, Moscow. No exact date.

 

[Louis]

Bands of the British army's 38th Brigade playing in front of St Peter's Basilica, Vtican city - June 1944.

 

[Louis]

Krakow ghetto: German Order Police and Jewish residents of the ghetto are photographed in front of the ghetto gate in Limanowskiego and Rynek Podgórski streets.
Between March 1941 and March 1943 a small section of the Podgórze district of Krakow was walled off and served as a holding pen, or ghetto, for about 15,000 Jewish residents of Krakow. The walls and gates are variously reported as having been built by forced Jewish labor or Polish contractors, probably a mixture of both. The writing above the gate reads “Jewish residential area” in German but rendered in Yiddish script.

 

[Louis]

Change of guard front the Capitol of Toulouse during the german occupation.

 

[Louis]

Headquarters of the Schalburg Corps, a Danish SS unit, after 1943, Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen.