American paratroopers. Why the hair-cut, anybody?Chinese soldier. The man looks puny, unlike the strong, tall soldiers of the Chinese army todayJapanese soldiers in action in ChinaFrench fighter pilots. Must be from the Free France air forceA German ace pilot. The man could walk into any Hollywood pictureGerman paratroopers. Smart uniformNazi anti-Soviet propaganda poster. No wonder the German soldiers fought so ferociously till the end. SS men getting acquainted with the machine-gunOops!Did it fall off a train?Japanese pilots getting a send-off before a mission. Kamikaze?Japanese soldiers in actionJapanese soldiers with a range-finderJapanese soldiers in the streets of ShanghaiJapanese tanks trundle through ChinaGerman general Dietl. Having a good time with the ladies? The man died in an air-crash in 1943 WHO WAS EDUARD DIETL?
A convinced Nazi and one of Hitler's favorite generals, he was the first German soldier to receive, on 19 June 1940, the oak leaves cluster to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Dietl commanded German forces in Norway and northern Finland and in Eastern Europe and rose to the rank of Generaloberst (equivalent to a US four-star general), commanding the 20th Mountain Army on the northern Eastern Front, where the results of the German Arctic campaign were disappointing. On June 23, 1944, Ju 52 aircraft carrying Dietl crashed in the vicinity of the small village of Rettenegg, Styria; there were no survivors.
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1944. Ruins of German column in Odessa. Must have been strafed by the Russian air forceHad a bad landingRussian troops move in Odessa. 1944Russian soldiers in Poland. 1944And last of all: StalingradRELATED.... Rare Unseen Pictures from WW2: Part 1Rare Unseen Pictures from WW2: Part 3
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