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vietnamization:

A Deer onlooks adjacent to Soviet bombers over Seelow, Germany 1945.


The German destroyer Z19 Hermann Kuhne beached at Hepjangs Fjord during the second British naval action off Narvik, 1940



demons:

Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers of the 6th Reconnaissance Squadron photographed during training, 1941


itsjohnsen:

Bombs rain over Paris, 1943.
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itsjohnsen:

Russian soldiers advancing, 1943.
Mark Markov-Grinberg


❝ War is just as horrible as they tell you it is, don’t let anyone tell you that it isn’t. One either kills or get kills—it doesn’t possess all the glamour that the movies and storybooks give it.

— Sergeant Robert Mason 1943, Letters Home From World War II (via demons)


demons:

Operation Torch, the assault of North Africa


Soldiers in the Army’s 31st Division charge into a trench, bayonets fixed, during training exercises at Camp Blanding, Fla., in 1943.


A flamethrower operator of Co. E, 2nd Bn, 9th Marines, runs under fire on Iwo Jima, February 1945.


interwar:

A marine moves on to catch up with his unit after he has covered a dead comrade with a poncho cover and marked his position with his bayoneted rifle. Battle of Saipan, 1944.