Showing posts with label soldier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soldier. Show all posts

Saturday, September 30, 2017

WWI face

Harry Drinkwater signed up to a 'Pals Battalion' in 1914 and was sent to the front line. In his diary extracts he writes about his brutal introduction to trench life.


Evacuation from Tobruk, 1941


Friday, March 31, 2017

Fashion war. Unknown.

During the Battle of the Bulge (Dec 1944), allied soldiers decorated their helmets with lace curtains, after realizing it provided excellent camouflage in the snow.



Nothing left

German prisoner of war returning to his home town.
By Tony Vaccaro



Saturday, February 25, 2017

Belgium, May 1917

A WWI allied soldier and a Red Cross working dog in Flanders. Unknown.

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Neulette, 1917

The human part of the war: a British soldier and a kitten “shaking hands”