An Indian 3-inch mortar platoon supporting Sherman tanks, Burma, 1944.The tanks themselves don't need mortar protection but the assisting infantry does ;)
taken from fb/Uma Shankar Das‎Tiger Tanks, Armoured Vehicles & Places of Combat from WWll till Today










Mortar fire

Two Norwegian Freiwillige in the area around Leningrad "appears to be engaging enemy aircrafts". Two odd details about this picture. There is no Anti-Aircraft sight present, so if they are indeed shooting at anything they must be using the standard sights, which is rather odd. The other detail is that the charging handle is in the rearmost position. Not very smart if you try to shoot a gun with an open bolt mechanism.....
 Most likely a staged "for my photoalbum" photo!
taken from fb/Bergflak photo

Shooting goose...

Virginia Hall: The Woman With a Limp

 Virginia Hall supported the Resistance to Nazi takeover for years in Spain and France. She provided maps to Allied forces for drop zones, found safe houses, reported on enemy movements, and even assisted in training at battalions of French Resistance forces. She did all this with a wooden prosthesis, after she lost part of her leg in a 1932 hunting accident.

 "The Germans recognized her activities and made her one of their most wanted spies calling her the 'woman with a limp' and 'Artemis.'" 

 Hall taught herself to walk without a limp and successfully employed many disguises to foil Nazi attempts to capture her.
taken from fb/Daniel del moral/History of WW2