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