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The first allied airborne army landed in the Nazi-occupied Dutch during Operation Market Garden. Source of operation Market Garden photos: www.defenseimagery.mil. Location: The Netherlands Date: September 1944

The English women-technicians from the WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) of the women’s auxiliary air forces help the pilot of the Spitfire MkII fighter prepare for the combat mission. Spitfire…

Captured German officers of the Nazi Wehrmacht in the number of 99 people captured by the Anglo-Canadian forces near the city of Boulogne during the liberation of France. Location: Boulogne,…

American and Canadian Armies on the island of Kyska (Aleutian Islands), left by the Japanese Force, who found the protection of the islands they had captured unpromising. Location: Kyska, Aleutian…

Soviet soldiers and officers from the infantry of the Red Army and a Canadian paratrooper. Location: Wismar, Germany Date: May 05, 1945

Mackenzie King, Franulin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and the high command of US and British troops during the Quebec Conference. From left to right: Seated: William Mackenzie King (Prime Minister of…

The leaders of the Allies, of the countries of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, on the terrace of the Citadel in Quebec during the Quebec Conference of 1943, where the strategy of…

Sapper from the Canadian regiment “Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders” on the street of the French town of Saint-Lambert-sur-Dives at the burning tank M4 “Sherman”. A Canadian Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders…

The British Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter aboard a merchant ship equipped with a catapult at the port of Halifax. Location: Halifax, Canada Date: November 1941

English Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter aircraft of the Royal Air Force, installed on the catapult of CAM-ship (a merchant ship with a catapult plane). Harbor of Halifax city, Canada. The…