It is impossible to understate how weird these guys are.

(Roughly) #OnThisDay April 1945: The French 5th Armored Division (5e Division Blindeé - 5e DB) pushes towards Stuttgart. [2/2]

The Sherman in #1 belongs to the 6e Rgt. de Chasseurs d'Afrique (RCA), infantry likely Legionaires of the RMLE.

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(Roughly) #OnThisDay April 1945: The French 5th Armored Division (5e Division Blindeé - 5e DB) pushes towards Stuttgart. [1/2]

German prisoners captured between Tübingen and Stuttgart.

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The fact that a battalion was shipped back across the Med to make a last stand on the Weygand Line already boggles the mind- that they were pressed back into service in Tunisia in 1942/43 is simply absurd

Saturday throwback to the Levant, April 1940, with some interesting interwar vehicles on display

(Roughly) #OnThisDay April 1945: AFVs of the French 5th Armored Division (5e Division Blindeé - 5e DB) in the Tübingen-Stuttgart area.

Sherman is M4A4 "Montmirail II" of the 3e Escadron, 1er Régiment de Cuirassiers.

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(Roughly) #OnThisDay April 1945: Halftracks of the French 5th Armored Division (5e Division Blindeé - 5e DB) in the Tübingen-Stuttgart area.

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Bonus: (Roughly) #OnThisDay April 1945: Allied forces in and around Tübingen, Germany.

1. 5e DB entering Luffnau, suburb of Tübingen.
2. German POWs captured outside the city.
3-4. A minor roadbump between Tübingen and Stuttgart.

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(Roughly) #OnThisDay April 1945: Allied forces on the move in the vicinity of Tübingen, Germany. [3/3]

1-3. Infantry and Shermans of the 5e DB near Breitenholz.
4. M4 "Brie III" 2e Esc., 6e Rgt de Chasseurs d'Afrique, probably in Tübingen.

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(Roughly) #OnThisDay April 1945: Allied forces on the move in the vicinity of Tübingen, Germany. [2/3]

American M10 GMCs near Breitenholz, advancing on Tübingen, in photo 4 they are saluted by liberated French POWs.

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(Roughly) #OnThisDay April 1945: Allied forces on the move in the vicinity of Tübingen, Germany. [1/3]

1. Sherman of the 5e Division Blindeé (5e DB)
2. 3e Bn, Régiment de Marche de Légion Etrangère near Breitenholz.
3+4. 5e DB (prob. CC6) near Breitenholz.

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The Night Witches live on

the constitution, as the actual document as it actually exists, is unfit for our republic. for precisely that reason, we have already seen large facets of said republic dismantled in little over a year. we must go to war with the constitution so that a new republic may yet be born.

Canadian tank supporting British infantry advancing through trees

17th April, so perfect excuse to post this beautifully composed photo by Peter Handford, taken #OTD in 1945.

Sherman VC from 5th Canadian Armoured Division supporting 11th Royal Scots Fusiliers, 49th (West Riding) Division in Ede.

Look at all that track!

IWM BU 4215 #SWW #History #ShermanFirefly

By pure coincidence I stumbled across some uncensored photos!

An Sdkfz 223, WH-146996, 2nd Company of an Aufklärungsabteilung- but which? Does anyone know of a source that might be able to clarify?

Thanks so much!

#OnThisDay 15 April 1945: Kehl, Germany, captured that day by the Rgt. d'Inf. Coloniale du Maroc (9e DIC) and tanks of CC3.

1. French troops with captured StG-44.
2. Sentry at the Strasbourg-Kehl bridge.
3. Damaged buildings.
4. Brig. Gen. Valluy of the 9e DIC.

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#OnThisDay 14 April 1945: The Bataillon d'Infanterie de Marine et du Pacifique (BIMP) at the Tour-Maubourg barracks in Paris. The BIMP, composed of troops from French Polynesia, was one of the first units to rally to Free France, and fought at Bir Hakeim in 1942.

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M3A3 "D'ORNANO", 4e Compagnie, 501e Régiment de Chars de Combat, 2e Division Blindée. England, prior to embarkation for Normandy, 1944.

#Portrait - Pilote militaire, chirurgienne-dentiste, résistante… qui était Suzanne Jannin ?
👩‍⚕️ Après des études en chirurgie dentaire, elle commence à prendre des leçons de pilotage et obtient un brevet de pilote privé.

ARTICLE: The Other D-day: Op Dragoon, 1944 Raoul Salan was born in Roquecourbe, in France’s Tarn region, in 1899.

Still full of all the bread and wine having just arrived back from Normandy, but here’s a piece on the OTHER D Day in 1944 achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...

#OnThisDay 13 April 1945 (possibly the 12th, no exact date given).

Interesting snapshot of jeeps from the 9e Division d'Infanterie Coloniale near Rastatt, Germany, passing a railway bridge destroyed by either sabotage or allied bombing (I suspect that latter).

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#OnThisDay 13 April 1945: A sentry at the SS barracks in Rastatt, Germany (based on the sign a French regimental HQ has been established there).

Rastatt was taken by the 9th Colonial Division on the 12th after a sharp fight, with 1,500 Germans captured.

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Boeing Stearman PT-17 Kaydet (model A75N1) 1941.

Fairey Swordfish floatplane

#OnThisDay in 1940, launched from HMS Warspite, a Fairey Swordfish floatplane scored the Fleet Air Arm's first U-boat victory, sinking U-64.

Read our Swordfish profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-airc... #WW2 #WorldWar2

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Better late than never. Check it out

I had a similar thought this morning, what is there even to say? This is just aimless killing detached from any purpose, completely impossible to imagine any outcome better than the pre-war status quo.

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I did manage to make it to the end without losing any outposts- unfortunately the flipside is that everyone was starving and I was unable to evacuate the wounded by the end because I'd been too busy focusing on the combat aspect. But hey, still made it to the month of May at least.

Looks like fun! #WW2 #HISTORY