A LTV Buffalo uncovered in an English field in April of 2021.  She was buried by flood waters in the mid-50's after being used to construct barriers by the Army along with six others.  This one may have crossed the Rhine in Operation Varsity in 1945.

An LTV

A symbol of the Allied occupation of post-War Vienna. An international military patrol with four representatives of the occupation powers leaning on the hood of a British Jeep; Vienna, Austria, September 25, 1945.

Four on a Jeep

American and British soldiers stand next to a Soviet ACS SU-100 tank destroyer in Vienna, Austria. In the background is a monument to Soviet soldiers who died during the battles for Vienna.
  The monument was opened on August 19, 1945.

Post-war Vienna

... and so it looks today
taken from fb/WW2 colorised

Chapel today

One of the earlier grave markers (headstone) of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the Herrlingen Cemetery, the town of Blaustein, 6 kms. west of Ulm on the Danube river.

Field Marshal Rommel's grave

A German mortar shell and helmet were dug up together on a farm somewhere on the Eastern front. We can only imagine how these two items ended up being joined like this.
taken from fb

Strange couple

Roadsign between Bastogne and Lutrebois, Belgium

Roadsign

Vienna (AFP) - Renovation works at Auschwitz have turned up spoons, forks, cobbler's tools and other objects hidden beneath a chimney flue -- some that might have been used to plan escapes, a national fund said Tuesday.

The objects, which also include knives, hooks, scissors, pieces of leather and parts of shoes, were found last month in block 17 of the main camp, Austria's National Fund for Victims of National Socialism said.
...
The fund commissioned the renovation and restoration works in the block at the former concentration camp in Poland in preparation for an exhibition.

&quot;These utensils, kept out of sight of the SS guards, were perhaps used by shoemakers, or to prepare an escape or simply to be able to eat,&quot; fund secretary general Hannah Lessing told [url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/auschwitz-renovation-uncovers-objects-hidden-prisoners-152356774.html]AFP[/url] on Tuesday...
Edited for space*

Hidden Tools and Utensils found at Auschwitz

By Madeline Chambers

BERLIN [url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/berlins-battle-scars-linger-75-111932773.html](Reuters LINK)[/url] - Germany has been forced to cancel public events to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe but Berliners need no ceremonies to remember their downfall - the scars of war are all around them.

Facades in the centre are disfigured by bullet holes and shell damage, a reminder that Hitler's Third Reich ended in devastating defeat, not the liberation it is hailed as today.

The Scars of War Linger in Berlin

An M48A5 Monument Display at American Legion Post 1778 in central NY.  I took this photo the other day the verify whether this was either the 90mm armed A3 variant or the final A5 model featuring the M68/L7 105mm gun.  It was probably retired from the Army National Guard sometime in the 1990's where it was used as a training tank for Guardsmen that would likely receive M1A1's upon activation.
 
 The A5 was the final US development of the M48, making it essentially equivalent to an early M60 tank.  US tank development tended to be evolutionary until the M1 came online.  The M48A5 and the M60A3 can both trace their lineage back to the M26 Pershing with related hull layouts.  The M48A5 was the culmination of the M48 model with a series of upgrades conducted in the mid-to-late 1970's where Pattons were improved.  The next generation replacement M1-series was running several years later than anticipated due to the Vietnam war and costly missteps such as the failed MBT-70 project, so the M48’s were upgraded to the A5 standard and the M60 to its A3 standard to keep them competitive against newer Soviet T-72s. 
 
The M48A5’s had been in service since the 1950s and was showing its age and despite many upgrades like the 750-hp Continental diesel engine (tripling its combat range to over 300 miles), fire control system, and of course the improved gun.  It was long-in-the-tooth by the mid-1980’s and was placed in a reserve/training role and finally mothballed in 1996.

Rest Easy oh Cold Warrior

This very plane is the R5868 preserved in RAF Museum Hendon and flew 137 missions. Sadly the true record holder with 140 missions was scrapped...
taken from fb/Rodrigo Marcato

Dedicated to herr Meyer today

Skullring

A portrayal of war correspondent Ernie Pyle (1900-1945, in center, with a round patch on his left shoulder) portrayed by Burgess Meredith in [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_G.I._Joe]The Story of GI Joe[/url]

The Story of GI Joe

Remains of  a Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber.1980 near Murmansk.
Taken frpm fb/Shadows of the Eastern front/Feldgrau info

Ju87 remains

The aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) before sailing from Pearl Harbor to San Francisco, with deactivated troops on board, shortly after Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender; September 1945.

Homebound

Soldiers of the American 11th Airborne Division with a flag at an empty factory building in Japan; late 1945. 

Acquisition of an unused building

The picturesque town of Linz-on-Rhine as it looks today. The pontoon bridge is long gone, but the church and mountain remain...

Present day view of river and town

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, (1883-1963), in passing and review the formation of the British 7th Armored Division during the Berlin Victory Parade; 7 September, 1945.

Berlin Victory Parade

Under guard by American MPs, Japanese prisoners of war carry weapons, delivered by truck, to a storage facility in the city of Yokohama, Japan.

Weapons into storage

4 soldiers (renactors) of le régiment de la Chaudière for the 75th of D-DAY

Bernière-sur-Mer 6 juin 2019

U.S. General George S. Patton (l) and Russian General Georgy Zhukov (r) - interpreter between them - during a parade of the Allied Forces on occasion of the victory over Japan; Berlin, Germany, 7th September 1945. 

Parade for surrender of Japan

An M24 "Chaffee" light tank of the U.S. 1st Armored Division stands in front of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg (Germany), during the international trial of former Nazi leaders. To the left of the tank is a Ford V8 Special staff car; October 1946.

In front of the Palace of Justice

Unarmed German soldiers rowing their boat across the Elbe river in Germany to surrender to waiting American soldiers of the 335th Regiment, 84th Infantry Division - to avoid getting trapped on the side, occupied by Soviet Forces; 1945. 


War is now over...

A young woman observes a sign in post-war Berlin, that either wasn't there before or used for orientation; summer of 1945.


Post-war Berlin

A Soviet military traffic controller and a serviceman of the British Army Service Corps (RASC) converse on a Berlin street in the Soviet Zone. The woman standing between them is probably an interpreter; post-war 1945. 

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