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Color WWII Photos

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Brian forwarded links to some color WWII photos. These two photos included jeeps.

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British and South African soldiers hold up Nazi trophy flag while combat engineers on bulldozers clear a path through the debris of the bombed out city of Cassino in 1943.

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American servicemen drive in jeeps through an unidentified and nearly completely destroyed town, Italy, May 1944.

 

3 Comments on “Color WWII Photos

  1. Marc-Flyingfish

    In the first photo the South African soldiers can be identified by the orange tabs on their shoulders.

  2. mmdeilers Post author

    I looked around Cassino using google’s satellite view. I couldn’t find the remains of that structure above, but there’s enough space that it is possible no one built over the tank. It looks like Cassino is in a pretty valley.

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