#WWII

A German soldier stuck in the mud during WWII

Photographs of pilots showing off their plane crests featured in the 3rd of Novemberˏ 1943 issue of The Sketch newspaper.

Big fan of the Bugs Bunny crest in particular.

Photograph featured in the 17th of Aprilˏ 1940 issue of The Sketch newspaper.

Navy men really will kiss anything but a woman 🫣 kiddingˏ of course!

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“A jeep manned by Sergeant A Schofield and Trooper O Jeavons of 1 SAS near Geilenkirchen in Germany. The jeep is armed with three Vickers ‘K’ guns, and fitted with armoured glass shields in place of a windscreen. The SAS were involved at this time in clearing snipers in the 43rd Wessex Division area.”(IWM)

Battle for Britain

Inclement Character Design sheets.

1. Anastasius Nulesmurt - 24, Soviet Russian Sergeant, ethnic Udmurt, grew up as a shepherd boy on a collective farm in Kama-Vatkya.
2. Yakov Rimsky Ovechkin- 21, A private, nicknamed “Ovechka”, meaning Lamb, by his regiment. The son of Aristocrats from Petrograd/Leningrad, he spent his entire life in a gulag until being conscripted into the army.
3. Lieutenant Volkov - 28, a political officer and Bolshevik intellectual who graduated from Moscow State University. Likely indoctrinated by politically active parents.
4. Anastasius Nulesmurt as a child, in Udmurt folk dress.

A Stuart light-tank of the Royal Scots Greys, 4th Armoured Brigade in Wismar, Germany, May 1945. (FTP).

A Stuart light-tank of the Irish Guards leads a column of Shermans in Normandy a month after D-day, July, 1944. (FTP)

Private from the 1st Bn. Royal West Kent Regiment, France, Spring 1940. The blue triangle arm badges and helmet flash are one of the very few unauthorised unit insignias worn on Battledress in the early period before its proliferation and acceptance. ‘37 'Braithwaite’ web equipment is worn in battle-order, blancoed in the light khaki-green shade No. 97. Gas-mask worn on the chest in the’ alert’ position with gas-cape rolled on top of the small pack (haversack), the European-style 1939 pattern entrenching tool was a late edition as they were not included in the new set of webbing as it was thought they would not be needed again! The old 1908 version was soo reintroduced to sit across the back, as, as we can see this style worn here is an encumbrance. SMLE rifle carried with old Mk. I helmet with new web chin-strap and liner. (FTP) 

Art by the great Mike Chappell from Osprey Men-At-Arms book, British Army 1939-45(1).

Stuka

Find out about Germany’s World War II Henschel Hs 129 tank buster warplane, the Luftwaffe’s ‘flying can opener’

Henschel Hs 129 Tank Buster: The Luftwaffe’s 'Flying Can Opener’

Shout out to Irena Sendler

Member of the Polish Underground Resistance who actually did rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Summer 1940. Soldiers of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment on invasion alert on the south-coast of England in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. The little girls are Jeanette and Pamela, who had wanted to play on the beach before it was sealed off. From a newspaper article of the day. The soldiers are carriyng P-14 Enfield rifles which indicates they may be from a home defence battalion of the regiment. (FTP)

British Comet tanks of the veteran 11th armoured Division - Germany, March 1945.

The best British Tank of the war and very modern looking as you can see.

The Comet was designed and made in the Lancashire town of Leyland by Leyland Motors.

Tom Lea. The Price. 1944. Oil on canvas.

Peggy Diggins poses here as a member of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), recognizable by her uniform and camera equipment.