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The operation was carried our by the RAF, RCAF and USAAF. The Germans agreed upon a temporary ceasefire in order to let the bombers fly low above the dropzones.
OPERATION 'MANNA', MAY 1945 | #ROTTERDAM | NETHERLANDS
Dutch police officers stand guard over the proceeds of a food drop at the #Terbregge air dropzone.
Operations #Manna, #Chowhound, and Faust provided food to relieve a famine in 1944–1945 in the German-occupied Netherlands.
geen excuses nodig!
je vergeet Rutte 1,2,3 en 4
Ik vrees dat Jesse hetzelfde lot wacht als Frans en de partij geen goed zal doen. Vanuit rechts wordt óók hij verguist. We hebben een 'Obama-type' nodig, in mannelijke dan wel vrouwelijke vorm. Iemand met flair en een onbevlekt blazoen die in de debatten de rest omver blaast.
MAY 20, 1940 | #LONDON | GREAT BRITAIN
#Belgian and #Dutch #refugees of war are resting on cots placed in #AlexandraPalace in #NorthLondon.
Just a reminder that we were once upon a time refugees ourselves.
Happy voting tomorrow!
#vluchtelingen #asielzoekers #wo2 #asylumseekers #verkiezingen #ww2
The Dutch Marine Brigade advances to #Driaredja on Java, Dutch East Indies(now #indonesia). A broad front extends from village to village, June 13, 1946. #nimh
#nederlandsindie #DeOost #politioneleacties #java #indonesië #sukarno #mohammedhatta #ww2 #KNIL #mariniers #marines
APRIL 1945 | FRIESLAND | NETHERLANDS
In the Frisian countryside, evacuees from Zuid-Limburg are on their way home. On average a 200 mile journey.
#WWII #bevrijding #wo2 #friesland #zuidlimburg #provinciefriesland #provinciezuidlimburg
#vluchtelingen #nimh #vluchtelingenopvang #WW2
A #Flail tank, designed to detonate mines, leaves a LCT during the landing at #Westkapelle, #Zeeland Province, The Netherlands on November 2, 1944.
Liberated ##Antwerp was to become the supply port for the Allied advance but first the Western Scheldt had to be breached.
#WW2 #nimh
A weary US soldier takes a rest during a lull in the fighting, Papua New Guinea.
The Battle of #BunaGona was part of the #NewGuinea campaign during WWII.
It followed the conclusion of the #KokodaTrack campaign and lasted from 16 November 1942 until 22 January 1943. #WW2 #usarmy
Léo Major, hero of the Dutch city of #Zwolle, posing with members of the local resistance in #Zwolle, the Netherlands, April 1945, was in the infantry regiment, #RégimentdelaChaudière and the only Canadian to receive the Distinguished Conduct Medal twice in two wars. #ww2 #korea
A sniper from the Scottish 5th Battalion (Black Watch) has found a clear location in the fortified attic of a house in Gennep.
#ww2 #bevrijding #sniper #Scherpschutter #wo2 #wo2inkleur #highlanddivision #operationveritable #gennep #groesbeek #operationmarketgarden #AIFree
6 SEPTEMBER 1938 | SURABAYA | DUTCH EAST INDIES (now Indonesia)
On the quay of the naval port of Surabaya, a presentation of the Dutch fleet is being held to celebrate Queen Wilhelmina's fortieth anniversary.
#indonesia #java #javasea #surabaya #koninlijkemarine #royaldutchnavy
SEPTEMBER 1941 | DUTCH EAST INDIES
American troops land on Morotai, located between #Celebes and
#PapuaNewGuinea. The Japanese have constructed 9 runways on this #moluccan island, and Allied S.C. Douglas MacArthur intends to seize them and
use them for attacks on the #Philippines
AUGUST 9, 1943 | #SICILY | #ITALY
U.S. Army Medic Harvey White administers blood plasma to
Pvt. Roy Humphrey of the 7th Infantry Regiment. However, the 21-year-old Humphrey, can't be saved with extra blood. He succumbs to his wounds.
#ItalianCampaign #ww2 #wwtwo #WWII #wwii
JULY 15, 1945 | HAIFA | PALESTINE
#Holocaust survivors arrive in #haifa on the British refugee ship
#mataroa. These young Jews from Europe, in camp uniforms and with tattoos of the Nazi death camps on their forearms, are not yet allowed into #palestine.
#Holocaust #nonpolitical
#TheNetherlands, July 14, 1940, on the #Scheveningen beach, a #Luftwaffe officer shows himself to be a child's best friend.
The German #StapfBilderdienst, operating from #Amsterdam, contributes to #Nazification by attempting to portray a German idyll in occupied territory.
#wo2
TIME FOR ICE CREAM I AMSTERDAM I JUNE 1940
An Amsterdam ice cream vendor is trying to make some money on German soldiers during a warm and sunny day in June, 1940.
#hittegolf #ICE #ICECREAM #WWIII #Artis #softijs
#wo2inkleur
13 APRIL 1943 SOVIET UNION
International press examins a mass grave in the #Katynforest
The #Katyn #massacre was a series of mass executions of over 22,000 #Polish military officers and intelligentsia ordered by #Stalin and carried out by the #SovietUnion, specifically the #NKVD
12 JUNE 1944 | NORMANDY | FRANCE
At the foot of the dunes near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer and Vierville-sur-Mer, the U.S. Graves Registration Service collects the fallen of Omaha Beach.
In the cemetery, Americans and Germans lie together in brotherly fashion after the merciless fight
June of 1944, 2nd Lt. Margaret B. Stanfill prepares dressings in a tent at the 128th Army Evacuation Hospital near Saint-Mère-Église.
4 days prior to this picture, she was the 1st nurse to wade ashore when the 128th landed on #UtahBeach
#ww2 #DDay #normandie #WWII #armynurse
An American #Sherman III in British service is unloaded from USS LST 21 onto a "Rhino" barge during the early hours of the #invasion on #GoldBeach, 6 June 1944
#DDay #aifree #invasie
#shermantank #Sherman #8tharmouredbrigade #WW2 #wo2 #bevrijding #wo2inkleur
JUNE 6, 1944 UTAH BEACH
Soldiers of the #4thInfantrydivision and #101stAirborneDivision packed aboard an LCT on their way to #UtahBeach in the afternoon.
#DDay #dday1 #DDay1944 #normandy #WWII #NormandyInvasion #utahbeach #goldbeach #swordbeach #omahabeach #junobeach #wo2 #d-day #airbornedivision
20 FEBRUARY 1945 THE NETHERLANDS
Prior to #OperationGrenade River crossing training is being given to men of the 134th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, 9th #USArmy, on the #Maas river near #Obbicht.
#usarmysoldier #ww2 #WWII #limburg #throughtheireyes #museumvalkenburg
LUFTWAFFE TECHNICIANS TEST A RHEINMETALL 37MM FLAK CANNON IN AN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL, VÖLKENRODE, GERMANY, 1940.
The 15,000 m³ tunnel called "höhenkanal" (high altitude firing range) was built to test AA and aircraft weapons. The range had cost approximately 4 million marks!
#colourisedpieceofjake
APRIL 1943 | #MACDONALD | #AUSTRALIA
The crew of #B25mitchell N5-147 of the 18th Sqdn. (Netherlands East Indies), poses on the half-paved strip of a military airfield at MacDonald, 230 kilometres south of Darwin. The plane will be shot down by the Japanese in May 1943.
#wo2 #knil #ww2 #luchtmacht
10 MAY 1945 | SOEST | THE NETHERLANDS
Completely disarmed and stripped of all the goods
they tried to steal, German soldiers leave the assembly point on the Biltseweg in Soest.
British and Canadian soldiers disarmed nearly 120.000 German soldiers in "Festung Holland".
#k98 #ww2
MAY 1945 | OUDEWATER | THE NETHERLANDS
Surrounded by smiling faces, two women in the St. #Antoniuspatronaat on the Kapellestraat in #Oudewater undergo the humiliation of having their hair cut.
#wo2inkleur (part 4)
#collaboratie #bijltjesdag #utrecht #bevrijding #wo2 #NSB
With the liberation of #Apeldoorn, #OperationCannonshot and 7 days of fierce fighting against the Germans, ended.
Partying residents celebrate their regained freedom from a flat carriage in front of Pasweg no.19
#gemeenteapeldoorn #bevrijdingvandeveluwe #inourfathersfootsteps