Tag Archives: france

PWs at Verdun

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Three miscellaneous photographs of German prisoners of war at work in Verdun, France in 1944, including a captured German truck. (Collection LoneSentry.com website.) On back of photo: P.W. at Verdun 1944 (Collection LoneSentry.com)

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Metz, France (1944-1945)

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

A small set of photographs from Metz, France in 1944-45. Wreckage in the railyards, Metz, France.

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Dummy Tanks in France

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

A report from the Intelligence Bulletin, December 1944 on the German use of dummy Panther tanks during World War II. The report includes two photographs of a dummy tank encountered in France in 1944. DUMMY TANKS Although German use of … Continue reading →

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Destroyed Railyards in Metz, France

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Three small photographs from an unknown U.S. soldier of the destroyed railyards in Metz, France after the city’s capture by Allied forces.

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537th AAA AW Bn in Action

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Report on a small-unit action by Battery D, 537th AAA AW Bn from “Antiaircraft Artillery Notes,” HQ ETO, No. 3, November 1944: Subject: Gallantry in Action. Source: Antiaircraft Section, Headquarters Twelfth Army Group. a. Another outstanding example of individual gallantry, again … Continue reading →

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Allied Uniforms

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Allied Army, Navy, and Air Force Uniforms: Newsmap, U.S. War Department, March 1943.  

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Blitzkrieg, France 1940

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Two recent 1/35th Dragon kits depicting German men and panzers during the Blitzkrieg in France in summer of 1940. The first kit is a Panzer III Ausf. E equipped as the vehicle was used in the Blitzkrieg. The second kit … Continue reading →

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Paris 1944

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Paris ’44, The Big Picture, Army Pictorial Center, U.S. Army — The story of the liberation in Paris by the Allies in August 1944.    

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