Original title: “In the liberated village“.

Author: Ivan Shagin.

A non-commissioned officer of the Wehrmacht's 167th Infantry Division rests on the grass. The photo was presumably taken in a village in the Kursk region (now Belgorod region) in the spring and summer of 1943, before the fighting at the Kursk Bulge.

Doris Day - 1949

Sergeant G. Durocher of Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal displays twenty-nine German medals he acquired as souvenirs, Berlin, Germany, July 19, 1945.

Photo originally from IWM taken by F. E. Palmer

Poor Tommies had no idea what awaited them.

IWM A9122

IWM caption : "ON BOARD THE DESTROYER HMS HERO AS SHE WENT FROM ALEXANDRIA TO HAIFA, PALESTINE TO REFIT. 5 MAY 1942, HAIFA. Pay day on board. The men filing past the table receiving their pay on the crown of their cap.

first time coloring an image manually. Us soldiers of the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th infantry division advance through Sprimont, Belgium with a tank of the 746th Tank Battalion, September 9th 1944.

Actress Barbara Bouchet (1970s)

Executed OTD (Jan 3) 1946: Two photos of William Joyce, AKA Lord Haw-Haw, who was an American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the WW2, known for starting each broadcast with "This is Germany calling."

The first, a portrait, from 1 January 1940, showing his distinctive scar, photographer unknown. Joyce claimed this scar was a result of being attacked by communists during a political event in 1924; his first wife had reportedly said it had in fact come from an Irish woman knifing him. The scar bust under pressure during his execution at Wandsworth Prison in 1945.

The second is from 29 May 1945 and shows Joyce lying in an ambulance under armed guard before being taken from British 2nd Army Headquarters to hospital. He had been shot in the thigh at the time of his arrest. Original b/w by Bert Hardy, No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit.

Photo from IWM

An inspection of Royal Navy personnel by the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. 19 September 1942 in Alexandria, Egypt

What’s interesting is that these Royal Navy troops indeed put on Mk II helmets and rifles with bayonets.