When you got no brakes, use your chutes ! A clever way to slow down a plane has been used by this crew after the hydraulic system broke down. A B-24H bomber of the 784th bombing squadron, 466th bombing group of the 8th Air Force is finishing his run at Woodbridge, UK. This manoeuvre yet forbidden by flying manuels was effective, B-24 needed about 915 meters of runway to land properly. Notice the bomb bay left open for an easier evacuation.
American women learning how to weld in a technical school in Florida. 1942.
A dead Marine on a Pacific Beach, 1945. Too bad I didn’t find the location.
A French collaborationist poster against allied bombings : “Cowards ! France won’t forget!”
Soldiers from every part of the French colonial empire.
Latvian women giving water to a German column. At the beginning of the war, Wehrmacht soldier were seen as liberators by many citizen of Eastern European countries after some very rough years of Stalinism in the 30s.
Marching in the tundra. Russia, summer 1942.
An A-20 havoc of the 9th Air Force which got its tail section busted by an AA shell falling straight to the ground. No one knows if some crew members managed to bail out.
A WW2 German propaganda poster “The enemy see your light ! Hide it!”.
