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We just passed 10K followers! Thanks for the follows, likes & RTs: lots more photos upcoming & as always don't forget to have a look at the @the_worldatwar website: .

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Faces of Normandy - photographs of unnamed members of 101st Airborne taken after #DDay by a Life Magazine photographer. One of a series of images. #DDay78

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Aerial photo taken over the Ardennes battlefield during the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945 showing knocked out & abandoned tanks, including Panthers. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardenes #BattleoftheBulge

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American GIs on a snowy road near St. Vith in January 1945. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Faces of Normandy - photographs of unnamed members of 101st Airborne taken after #DDay by a Life Magazine photographer. One of a series of images.

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A photo taken some weeks after D-Day from one of the German bunkers overlooking Omaha Beach, showing the field of fire they had on 6 June 1944. Life Magazine image. #WW2 #DDay

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Foxhole positions in a Normandy field in the Bocage, June 1944. Aerial image by Life Magazine. #WW2 #Normandy

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Aerial photo taken over the Ardennes battlefield in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945 showing knocked out & abandoned tanks, including Panthers. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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A GI looking out across a snowy Ardennes landscape, December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardenes #BattleoftheBulge

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The scale of loss in the Ardennes, and the fighting across the border in Germany: American graves in the Henri-Chapelle Cemetery in Belgium, photographed in 1945. Life Image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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American GIs on a snowy road near St. Vith in January 1945. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Abandoned and burning Tiger II near La Gleize in Belgium, after Kampfgruppe Peiper had been stopped and had withdrawn from the area in December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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American Tanks moving up through Bocage fields in Normandy, during the fighting for Saint-Lô, July 1944. Life Magazine Image by Frank Scherschel. #Normandy #WW2

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Foxhole positions in a Normandy field among the Bocage, in a sector held by US Forces in June 1944. Aerial image by Life Magazine. #WW2 #Normandy #DDay

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An American mortar team dug in on a snowy landscape near St. Vith in January 1945. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Two American GIs in a foxhole during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Americans passing two abandoned German Tiger tanks near Cori in Italy, June 1944. Life Magazine image by George Silk. #WW2

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Men marching to the battlefield - US forces in Malmedy Belgium during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Life Magazine image taken by John Florea. #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge #WW2

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Aerial photo of a shell-pocked snow-covered landscape in the Ardennes, January 1945. Life Magazine image by William Vandivert. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Foxhole positions in a Normandy field in the Bocage, June 1944. Aerial image by Life Magazine. #WW2 #Normandy

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We Will Remember Them. #RemembranceSunday

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US forces in Malmedy Belgium during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Life Magazine image taken by John Florea. #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge #WW2

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Operation Market Garden 1944: this Life Magazine image shows a typical scene along Hell's Highway in September 1944 as units from XXX Corps move up. #Arnhem #MarketGarden #WW2

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Aerial photo taken over the Ardennes battlefield during the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945 showing US M36 Jacksons. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardenes #BattleoftheBulge

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American M10 Tank Destroyers camouflaged in the snow near Sourbrodt, Belgium, taken late December 1944. Image by Life Photographer George Silk. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Abandoned Tiger II at La Gleize in Belgium, after Kampfgruppe Peiper had been stopped and had withdrawn from the area in December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Something of a #WW2 gem found on @Spotify : Major General 'Roy' Urquhart, commanding 1st Airborne Division, describing his unit's operations at Arnhem, said to be recorded in October 1944. Listen here:

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A private photo taken by a Royal Engineer in XXX Corps showing Dakotas taking in Waco Gliders in the opening phase of Operation Market Garden, September 1944. Image from my own collection. #WW2 #Arnhem77

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Abandoned M4A1 Sherman Tank in the snow, close to the village of Houffalize in the Belgian Ardennes, January 1945. Life Magazine image by Marie Hansen. #WW2 #BattleOfTheBulge #Ardennes

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Faces of Normandy - photographs of unnamed members of 101st Airborne taken after #DDay by a Life Magazine photographer. One of a series of images. [6]

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Tanks moving up past Belgian civilians who probably thought they were liberated - US forces in Malmedy, during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Life Magazine image taken by John Florea. #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge #WW2

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The scale of loss in the Ardennes, and the fighting across the border in Germany: American graves in the Henri-Chapelle Cemetery in Belgium, photographed in 1945. Life Image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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A photo taken some weeks after D-Day from one of the German bunkers overlooking Omaha Beach, showing the field of fire they had on 6 June 1944. Life Magazine image. #WW2 #DDay

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The #BattleOfBritain began #OTD in 1940. This colour (not colourised) image of RAF pilots taken in the summer of 1940 is an iconic image of The Few - men of many nations who flew above England to defend freedom and defeat Nazi tyranny. Life Magazine image. #WW2

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Battle-weary GIs from the American 29th Infantry Division guarding German Prisoners, taken in the Roer fighting, December 1944. Images by Life Photographer, George Silk. #WW2

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Faces of Normandy: photographs of unnamed members of 101st Airborne taken after #DDay by a Life Magazine photographer. Thanks to @liberationtours I now know this is John David Kleinfelder a 502 PIR Pathfinder who was later killed at Bastogne on 31/12/1944.

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Abandoned German Panther, and American Sherman, outside the town hall at La Gleize in Belgium, after Kampfgruppe Peiper had been stopped and had withdrawn from the area in December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Flight Sergeant Colin A. Joseph of San Fernando, Trinidad, who has shot down two enemy aircraft in recent months. Picture issued 1944. He survived the war. Image by RAF via @I_W_M (IWM CH11977) #WW2 #BlackHistoryMonth

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The end of #WW2 in Europe: an air photo of thousands of German POWs taken by the Allies in May 1945. #VEDay

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#DDay — a very evocative image, misty with the vague shapes of tanks visible on the beach, showing the British landings on Sword Beach at Strong Point Cod on 6 June 1944. #Normandy #WW2

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Abandoned and burning Tiger II at La Gleize in Belgium, after Kampfgruppe Peiper had been stopped and had withdrawn from the area in December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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An American M4 Sherman passes a knocked out German Panzer IV near Salerno, September 1943. Life Magazine image by George Rodger. #WW2

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Soldiers from the American 2nd Infantry Division spending Christmas in their trenches and foxholes near Sourbrodt in Belgium, 25 December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. Life Magazine image by George Silk. #WW2

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US Army Engineers preparing a ‘Daisy Chain’ of Anti-Tank mines alongside a road near Malmedy during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Snow-covered abandoned German Stug near St. Vith in January 1945. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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A colour (not colourised) photo of a M3A3 Stuart Light tank from the Free French Forces (FFI) at the Arc de Triomphe, following the Liberation of Paris in August 1944. Life Image by Frank Scherschel. #WW2

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Gathering ammunition (in this case also Rifle Grenades) before heading to the front - US forces in Malmedy, during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Life Magazine image taken by John Florea. #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge #WW2

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American Airborne in St Mere Eglise after the capture of the town in June 1944. Life Magazine image by Bob Landry. #Normandy #DDay #WW2

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GIs from the American 2nd Division in positions during the Christmas period in Belgium, December 1944. Image by Life photographer George Silk. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Faces of Normandy - photographs of unnamed members of 101st Airborne taken after #DDay by a Life Magazine photographer. One of a series of images. [1]

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Abandoned Panther Tanks & a knocked-out Stug Assault Gun: aerial image taken during the fighting for Saint-Lô, July 1944. Life Magazine Image by Frank Scherschel. #Normandy #WW2

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Destroyed German Pioneer Half-Track at La Gleize in Belgium, after Kampfgruppe Peiper had been stopped and had withdrawn from the area in December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Cromwells, and a Sherman Firefly, from 1st Royal Tank Regiment, 7th Armoured Division, moving up to cross the Orne River during 'Operation Goodwood' in July 1944. Life Magazine image by George Rodger. #Normandy #WW2

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Amazing colour (not colourised) photo of a Free-French Nurse at a Field Hospital in Italy, 1943. A Life Magazine image. #WW2

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Faces of Normandy - over the past week we've had a series of Tweets showing portraits of 101st Airborne men taken after #DDay . This is a group photograph which includes some of these men taken by a Life Magazine photographer, c.June 1944. #WW2

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American M4A1 Sherman Tanks during manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain in England, early 1944. Life Magazine image by Bob Landry. #WW2

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Members of 101st Airborne Division photographed after the Battle of Carentan, Normandy, June 1944. Image by Life Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel. #WW2 #DDay

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American soldiers and locals inspect an abandoned German Panther tank at Chateau-Thierry, 29 August 1944. Life Magazine image by Ralph Morse. #WW2

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Dog-tired soldiers fall asleep on the pavements of the recently liberated town of Carentan after the fighting there in June 1944. Image by Life Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel. #WW2 #Normandy

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American soldiers and locals inspect an abandoned Panther tank at Chateau-Thierry, 29 August 1944. Life Magazine image by Ralph Morse. #WW2

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Operation Market Garden 1944: this Life Magazine image shows men from Guards Armoured Division along Hell's Highway in September 1944. #Arnhem #MarketGarden #WW2

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A GI looking out across a snowy Ardennes landscape, December 1944. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardenes #BattleoftheBulge

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World At War: Colour (not colourised) images of knocked out German armour in Italy, summer 1944 #WW2

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Men from 101st Airborne in the streets of Carentan after the fighting there in June 1944. Image by Life Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel. #Normandy #WW2

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"We, once conquered by William, have now set free the Conqueror's native land." - Allied soldiers in Bayeux Cathedral, June 1944. Image by Life Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel. #WW2 #Normandy

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Tech/Sergeant Meredith Rogers, who served with the US 2nd Infantry Division in Normandy, showing bullet holes in his helmet, July 1944. Image by Life Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel. #WW2 #Normandy

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Faces of Normandy - photographs of unnamed members of 101st Airborne taken after #DDay by a Life Magazine photographer. One of a series of images. [1] #WW2 #Normandy

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Destroyed German vehicles in the Falaise Pocket, August 1944. Life Magazine Image by George Rodger. #Normandy #WW2

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Men from the 3rd Division in the streets of Caen, July 1944. Image from Life Magazine archive. #WW2 #Normandy

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Market Garden: a private photo taken by a Royal Engineer in XXX Corps taken at Nijmegen Bridge, September 1944. From an image in my collection. #WW2

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American Airborne running along the back wall of the famous church in St Mere Eglise after the capture of the town in June 1944. Life Magazine image by Bob Landry. #Normandy #DDay #WW2

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Soldiers will sleep anywhere: taken during the fighting for Saint-Lô in July 1944. Life Magazine Image by Ralph Morse. #Normandy #WW2

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Defences on the D-Day beaches photographed after the fighting had moved inland, June 1944. Aerial image by Life Magazine. #WW2 #Normandy #DDay

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Destroyed German vehicles in the Falaise Pocket, August 1944. Life Magazine Image by George Rodger. #Normandy #WW2

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Aerial photo taken during the fighting near Saint-Lô in July 1944 showing American tanks advancing through the Bocage countryside. Life Magazine image by Frank Scherschel. #WW2 #Normandy

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Faces of Normandy - photographs of unnamed members of 101st Airborne taken after #DDay by a Life Magazine photographer. One of a series of images. [2]

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Americans passing two abandoned Tiger tanks near Cori in Italy, June 1944. Life Magazine image by George Silk. #WW2

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War Correspondent Lee Miller chats with two American GI’s in Saint-Malo, France, after its Liberation in September 1944. She was one of many women reporting from the front line in #WW2 . Life magazine image by David Scherman.

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A colour (not colourised) image of General George S. Patton watching his men advance across the El Guettar Valley in Tunisia, March 1943. Photograph by Life Magazine photographer Eliot Elisofon. #WW2

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Faces of Normandy - photographs of unnamed members of 101st Airborne taken after #DDay by a Life Magazine photographer. One of a series of images. #WW2 #Normandy

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American troops in St Mere Eglise after the capture of the town in June 1944. Life Magazine image by Bob Landry. #Normandy #DDay #WW2

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View of the iconic church at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, June 1944. Aerial image by Life Magazine. #WW2 #Normandy

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Today is the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of #ElAlamein - this private photo was taken during the battle by an officer of the Queen’s Regiment. (From an original image in my collection). #WW2

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An American mortar team dug in on a snowy landscape near St. Vith in January 1945. Life Magazine image by John Florea. #WW2 #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge

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Major General Sir Richard Nelson 'Windy' Gale, commanding 6th Airborne Division, being decorated by General Omar Bradley in Normandy, 13 July 1944. Image by Life Magazine Photographer George Rodger. #WW2 #Normandy

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Operation Market Garden: this Life Magazine image shows Guards Armoured Division Lorried Infantry along Hell's Highway during the advance in September 1944. #Arnhem #MarketGarden #WW2

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A colour photograph (not colourised) of captured German soldiers in Italy, Summer 1944. Life magazine photograph. #WW2

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Absolute carnage at Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive during the fighting in the Falaise Pocket, August 1944. Image by Life Magazine Photographer, George Rodger. #Normandy #WW2

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A private photo taken by a Royal Engineer in 30 Corps showing Dakotas taking in Waco Gliders in the opening phase of Operation Market Garden, September 1944. Image from my own collection. #WW2 #Arnhem78

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American M29 Weasel being used by Medics, near Bütgenbach in Belgium, January 1945. Life Magazine image by George Silk. #WW2 #Ardennes

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American soldier photographed on the outskirts of Chateau-Thierry, 29 August 1944. Life Magazine image by Ralph Morse. #WW2

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A soldier of the 101st Airborne in Carentan after the fighting there in June 1944. Image by Life Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel. #WW2 #Normandy

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Abandoned Axis Equipment in Tunisia, May 1943. Life Image by Bob Landry. #WW2

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Sherman tank crossing the Caen Canal near the outskirts of Caen, July 1944. Image from Life Magazine archive. #WW2 #Normandy

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US forces in Malmedy Belgium during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Life Magazine image taken by John Florea. #Ardennes #BattleoftheBulge #WW2

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Abandoned Hummel at Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive during the fighting in the Falaise Pocket, August 1944. Image by Life Magazine Photographer, George Rodger. #Normandy #WW2

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A colour photo (not colourised) of a USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt undergoing maintenance at airfield A-3 near Cardonville in #Normandy , August 1944. The tracked vehicle is an M2 airfield tractor. Image by Life photographer Frank Scherschel. #WW2

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American Tanks moving up through Bocage fields in Normandy, during the fighting for Saint-Lô, July 1944. Life Magazine Image by Frank Scherschel. #Normandy #WW2

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Colour image of German Tiger I, abandoned at the side of the road beside a #WW1 Cemetery near Roclincourt close to Arras, photographed by an airman of 406th Fighter Group, 1944. The Tiger is vehicle 304, of 3. Kompanie, Schwere SS-Panzer-Ateilung 101. Via @I_W_M . (© IWM FRE 7408)

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American soldiers explore the Eagle’s Nest, following the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Kehlsteinhaus sits high on the Kehlstein mountain in Bavaria. It was never the home of Adolf Hitler but was built for his 50th Birthday in 1937. Life magazine image. #WW2

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