Land War #3

A dummy is bayoneted during a demonstration at Sarafand in Palestine, 11 November 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 19278)

Military Police at the training depot in Tehran learning how to salute correctly, 28 September 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 17489)

Infantry practice unarmed combat, 31 May 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 12089)

A 2-pdr anti-tank gun being manned by members of 2nd Rifle Brigade, 24 March 1942. 

A stagnant pool being sprayed with Paris Green to kill the larvae and pupae of mosquitos in an effort to prevent Malaria being contracted in Syria, 11 May 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 11626)

British troops talk to Orthodox Greek priests outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, 11 August 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 15534)

Tests being carried out in the cutting of a new type of barbed wire called "Barblock", 11 May 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 11645)

A captured German 28mm sPzB 41 anti-tank gun, 6 March 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 9090)

Infantry charge over an obstacle on an assault course, 31 May 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo  E 12083)

Men of the Leicestershire Regiment man a Bren gun near Tobruk, 10 November 1941. (Imperial War Museum photo E 6436)

The Axis retreat and the Tunisian campaign 1942-1943: Forward patrols of the British First and Eighth Armies meet in the Gabes-Tozeur area. A wireless operator of the Special Air Service, Eighth Army with men of the 6th Armoured Division, First Army. (Imperial War Museum photo NA 684)

An alfresco lunch taken by Prime Minister Mr Winston Churchill, together with General Sir Bernard Montgomery and other senior officers of the Eighth Army, during Churchill's visit to Tripoli, 7 February 1943. (Imperial War Museum photo E 22267)

100 British and 100 Egyptian convalescent soldiers were entertained at the Industrial Exhibition at Gezira, Lady Lampson, wife of His Excellency the British Ambassador in Egypt. Lady Lampson helping the soldiers to tea, 30 May 1940. (Imperial War Museum photo E 105)

Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, 15 October 1941. (Imperial War Museum photo E 6034)

The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill with military leaders during his visit to Tripoli. The group includes: General Sir Oliver Leese, General Sir Harold Alexander, General Sir Alan Brooke and General Sir Bernard Montgomery, 7 February 1943. (Imperial War Museum photo E 22271)

British paratroops marching away after disembarking from a troopship on quayside in Allied-occupied Algiers, Operation Torch, 12-13 November 1942. Note the French liner VILLE D'ORAN in the background. (Imperial War Museum photo NA 89)

A South African sapper carrying a stack of mines, Egypt, 2 July 1942. (Imperial War Museum E13901)

Soldiers of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade unloading their kit and equipment on arrival at their camp site. The Poles joined the British only five days earlier after General Eugene Mittelhauser, a commander of French forces in Syria which the Brigade was part of, decided to support the Vichy regime. Photograph taken in the village of Samakh along the Sea of Galilee, 4 July 1940. (Imperial War Museum E331)

A British 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun in the Western Desert, 27 June 1941. (Imperial War Museum E3870)

French Colonial troops man a machine gun post in a forward part of the line, 16 February 1942. (Imperial War Museum E8400)

British troops stop to look at a portrait of Mussolini which was found in Derna, 3 February 1941. (Imperial War Museum E1871)

Vickers machine gun team of 10th Battalion The Rifle Brigade, training near Bou Arada, Tunisia, 30 April 1943. (Imperial War Museum NA2407)

A British 17-pdr anti-tank gun. (Imperial War Museum NA665)

British troops manning a sandbagged defensive position during the First Battle of El Alamein, 17 July 1942. (Imperial War Museum E14575)

Italian troops charging in the desert, 1941.

American troops on board a landing craft going in to land at Oran during Operation Torch. (Imperial War Museum A12661)

Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen von Arnim welcomes General der Panzertruppe Gustav von Vaerst. Rades near Tunis, North Africa, 7 May 1943. (Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-787-0502-34A)

Captured German senior officers from the African Campaign arrive at a prisoner of war camp in Britain, 10 June 1943. German senior officers are received by the Camp Commandant Major Topham and representatives of the War Office. The German officers include: General von Vaerst, Lieutenant General Bulowius, Major General Borowietz, Major General Weuffer, Major General Karawse, Major General Bassenge, and Colonel von Quast. (Imperial War Museum TR980)

British and German offensives in Libya, 1940-1941: Graziani's advance and Wavell's offensive 13 September 1940 – 7 February 1941. (The History Department of the United States Military Academy)

Two GIs firing Thompson submachine guns against attacking Italian-German forces from the window of a farm in the Anzio sector.

Fifth Division infantrymen carry a boat down to the Moselle River at Dornot, France.

A replica of GALAHAD’s first shoulder patch, designed by unit members following the capture of Myitkyina airfield. The Army never approved a shoulder patch for GALAHAD.

The patch worn by GALAHAD veterans. This was designed by the Merrill’s Marauders Association.

A spurious insignia for Mars Task Force, which was not authorized any patch. It is bullion and based on the previous design.

The authorized shoulder patch of the 75th Regimental Combat Team.

155mm “Long Tom” gun in action at Anzio.

155mm “Long Tom” gun in action at Anzio.

Anti-tank gun crews manhandling a 37mm M3 anti-tank gun into position is only one of the chores that young gun crews training at Fort Benning, Georgia take in stride. April 1942.

Crew of an M3 37mm anti-tank gun in training at Fort Benning, Georgia clean and adjust their weapons. April 1942.

Infantryman loading an M3 37mm anti-tank gun during training at Fort Benning, Georgia, April 1942.

Crew of an M3 37mm anti-tank gun in training at Fort Benning, Georgia, April 1942.

Crew of a 37 mm M3 anti-tank gun in training at Fort Benning, Georgia, April 1942.

American infantrymen fighting in the hedgerows at Mortain.

 
Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry. April 1942.

Major Raymond G. Davis, pictured recovering from malaria in late 1943, received the Navy Cross for leading his battalion on Peleliu. During the Korean War, his heroism during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir would earn him the Medal of Honor.

A Japanese American soldier, equipped with a BAR, goes on night patrol. Date and location unknown.

Marines dry machine gun belts in a camp on Guadalcanal Island. February 1943.

American soldiers standing on a captured Schwerer Gustav railway siege gun.

Navajo Code Talkers.

A Marine dog handler and his war dog pose for a photo in what used to be a Japanese fighting position on the island of Peleliu in September 1944.

German troops view battle in distance.

Soviet gunners position a gun among the ruins of Berlin in April 1945.

Kachin Scouts, composed of American and British officers and men, Chinese and jungle-wise Kachin natives, burrow in the jungle growth as they take up a position to ambush the enemy in Burma.

A Japanese prisoner, one of three Japanese and 101 Koreans captured, going to command post at Ukiangong village for interrogation. Makin, 1943.

The victor and the vanquished: A gloating Japanese officer announces to a group of Allied prisoners that Singapore, the British Empire's "Gibraltar of the East," has fallen and that 70,000 of their comrades have been captured by the Japanese.

Wartime painting by Japanese combat artist Yasu Matsusaka of the final surrender of the American forces on Wake, including U.S. Navy Commander Cunningham.

A shipment of 155mm howitzers on their way to Europe.

155mm howitzer preparing for action.

General George S. Patton, Jr., North Africa, 1943.

Patton talks to wounded soldiers preparing for evacuation, Italy, 1943-44.

General arrangement plans of German bunker Type S414.

The gun embrasure of Casemate 1 at the Merville Battery. Heavy casualties were incurred by both sides during the fight for this position, which did not contain the expected heavy guns.

Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall confers with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.

General George C. Marshall.

General George C. Marshall speaking to an audience of congressmen and military leaders at the eighth annual National Council Dinner of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, 9 January 1942.

General of the Army George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff.

General George C. Marshall leaves the Cairo Conference at Mena House in Cairo, Egypt, in 1943.

Sgt John Basilone at Guadalcanal, 1942; painting by Johnny Shumate.

Members of a North African cavalry unit smile for the camera while moving through a French village on horseback.

Aviators became a well-known style of sunglasses when General Douglas MacArthur landed on a beach in the Philippines in World War II and newspaper photographers snapped several pictures of him wearing them that became a lasting image of the Second World War. Bausch & Lomb dedicated a line of sunglasses to him in 1987. -- Ian Murray

MG 34 used on its tripod mount in the heavy machine gun role. The crew are wearing the Gebirgsmütze forage cap and normal field grey service dress.

A German ski patrol of mountain infantrymen have left their skis on the mountain track (just to the right, off picture) while they peer cautiously over the edge of a ridge on the lookout for the enemy. They are wearing greatcoats and carry Bergen type rucksacks. Some 25% of the men of a mountain division were expected to be skiers. A six week course for trainee skiers was held at the various mountain warfare schools. In practice many divisions had more than 25% skiers since many conscripts who joined the Army elected to join mountain divisions if they already had pre-war skiing experience.

French and British troops surrender to German forces, France, 1940.

German soldiers, 1940.

Haile Selassie (right), exiled Emperor of Ethiopia, whose empire was absorbed by Italy, returns with an Ethiopian army recruited to aid the British in Africa, on February 19, 1941. Here, the emperor inspects an airport, an interpreter at his side. On May 5, 1941, after the Italians in Ethiopia were defeated by Allied troops, Selassie returned to Addis Ababa, and resumed his position as ruler.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks to D-Day veterans in Caen, France, July 22, 1944.

General Harry Crerar at the wheel of his jeep. With him is Brigadier D G Cunningham commander of 9th Brigade, 3rd Canadian Inf Division and the Brigade Major NR Kingsmill.

Norwegian Infantry Regiment 12 maintained neutrality at the border with the Soviet Union and Finland in Finnmark in 1940. When the Germans invaded Norway on April 9, IR 12 was sent south, and under General Carl Gustav Fleischer they were deployed in the Norwegian counterattack at Gratangen near Narvik, where IR 12 suffered heavy losses. Original caption: "The field kitchen was in full swing with today's dinner; airy and cold. The nasal drips easily fell into the pot."

Royal Hungarian Army soldiers at a field kitchen in 1938.

French colonial forces move out of Haiphong, in the Tonkin region of French Indochina, on September 26, 1940, as Japanese occupational troops take over the port and city under the terms of the Franco-Japanese agreement, where Vichy France granted military access to Japanese forces.

Left to right, Pvt. John A. Quinn, Syracuse, N.Y., PFC Bennett Fenberg, Detroit, Mich., both of the 163rd Signal Photo Company, and Cpl. Harry Koppelman, Cleveland, Ohio, 3rd Division, Hqs., enjoy their Christmas dinner on the hood of a jeep.” San Felice area, Italy, 25 December 1943.

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