After the great battles, the soldiers still had their own daily lives. This rare color photo collection will share with you what WWII soldier's everyday life looked like.
Belgian soldiers after surrendering German troops 1940 |
British soldiers captured in Dunkirk square, France, 1940 |
German troops marching through Paris, June 14th 1940 |
Messerschmitt Bf-110E Zerstörer after returning from combat flight, 1940 |
German soldiers s in North Africa, 1941 |
American soldiers and sailors unloaded ammunition and stores on the shore of Guadalcanal, 1942 |
AutoTech ICA Hungarian army on a street in occupied Belgorod (the right is the Polish-Lithuanian Church), Russia, 1942 |
Hungarian 29M 8 cm 80-mm anti-aircraft gun during the war, Stary Oskol part of Kursk region, now part of Belgorod region, Russia, 1942 |
Hungarian soldier with cart of wood near the village of Ivanovka Hohol′skogo district of Voronezh region, Russia, 1942 |
Hungarian soldiers transported by cart, Soviet eastern front, 1942 |
Hungarian soldiers with a captured Soviet Voroshilovets heavy artillery tractor, 1942 |
Rearming guns on a RAF P-400 Airacobra from 601 Squadron, it was the only British Squadron ever armed fighters, the P-400 from August, 1941 to March 1942 |
40-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun at Finnish airfield, Leningradskaya oblast, August 26, 1943 |
Hungarian Pilot climbs into cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4, 1943 |
Women with children in a courtyard in one of the occupied village of the Belgorod region, Russia, 1943 |
5 Rangers battalion in a troop ship LCA before departure to Normandy, Weymouth, England, 5 June 1944 |
British fighter pilot and his best friend, Bazenville, Normandy, France, July 1944 |
Canadian soldiers in the destroyed town of Falaise, August 1944 |
Landing craft preparing for the landings in Normandy, Weymouth, June 1944 |
US Gunners prepare 76mm anti-tank gun (3 inch Gun M5) for transportation in preparation for Operation Overlord, June 1944 |
US Soldiers in the English village during tactical exercises in preparation for Operation Overlord, 18 April 1944 |
US Soldiers playing darts, whilst waiting for loading on ships, before the beginning of Operation Overlord, England, June 1944 |
USN LCT Channel Fever (1st Infantry Division) before Operation Overlord, at Weymouth, Dorset, 05 June 1944 |
USN LST 13, 4th June 1944 |
Typhoon Mk-IB RCAF, 1945 |
Canadian trucks with QF 25 pounder in the square of the French city of Rouen (Rouen Cathedral in the distance) |
Children in the occupied village of Belgorod region and German soldiers next to the horse |
German pilots with peasant and oxen at one of the airports in Bulgaria |
Mountain soldiers of Wehrmacht troops relax on the sun loungers at a hunting lodge |
Ready for D Day, Falmouth, England |
Servicing a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch also a captured British BSA M20 motorcycle |