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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · 6d

#1gm #WW1 – A French soldier in a trench. (my colorization)
The trenches of the First World War were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived, fought, and sheltered from enemy fire.
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · 13d

#2gm #WW2 #USARMY - In the close quarters of a rubble-strewn street in Aachen, American soldiers fire a 57mm antitank weapon against a distant German target. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · 20d

#usarmy #2gm #WW2 - February 26, 1945: German-speaking interrogator U.S. Corporal Ralph Valtin of the 16th Regiment, First Infantry Division, speaks with a German battalion commander.
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · 27d

#2gm #WW2 - 9 July 1944. Two U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1A ''Corsair'' aircraft from Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-113 in flight near Eniwetok. Plane No. 51 is known as "GET EM BLUEDOG" and No. 56 as "SUN SETTER". Photo US Navy. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Oct 1

#2gm #ww2 Sept 9, 1943, German troops began operations to disarm their former Italian allies.
In the photo taken in Parma, a Fiat-Ansaldo da 75/18 Semovente is requisitioned by troops of SS Panzer Gr. Division "Leibstandarte."
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Sep 19

#ww2 #2gm “The Battle of Hürtgen Forest” from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and German forces. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Sep 15

#2gm #WW2 - Two German women prisoners of war from a Wehrmachthelferin unit (female auxiliaries of the German Wehrmacht - Luftwaffe ), walk into captivity after surrendering to soldiers from the US VII Army on 14th May 1945, near Bad Aibling, Germany. (my colorization)

RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Sep 8

#2gm #WWII #1943 #ww2 - On September 8, 1943, the armistice with the Allies was announced, having been secretly signed in Cassibile, Sicily, on September 3 (pictured are American General Bedell Smith and Italian General Castellano – my colorization).
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Aug 29

#2gm #WW2 - Aug 1944. The Polish PM poses on the armor of the Nashorn of the 525th heavy btl of tank fighters, captured by 2nd btl of the 4th Arm. Reg. of the 2nd Polish Corps, near Ancona, Italy. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Aug 26

#usarmy #2gm #WW2 – August 1944. US Army Engineers find a German “Teller Mine” in front of a damaged M4 Sherman during the advance to Chartres France.
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer WWP-PD (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jul 29

#2GM #ESERCITOITALIANO #WWII - 1942. A sergeant of the Italian 9th Bersaglieri Regiment in North Africa wears the characteristic fez and carries a Carcano Mod. 91 rifle with a folding bayonet. Photo Ecpad. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jul 25

#2GM #UKARMY #WW2 – Rome 20 July, 1944. This British soldier is shown wearing a new type British paratrooper uniform without the jump jacket. Photographer: Sgt. Elson, 196th Signal Photo Co. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jul 18

#1gm #WW1 #tanks #greatwar - Two French soldiers near a damaged Renault FT light tank. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jul 11

#2gm #italy #WWII - 1942 North Africa. A German Obergefreiter and an Italian Bersagliere from the 4th or 9th Regiment talk and smoke, sitting near a reconnaissance vehicle. (Ecpad photo – my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jul 4

#1gm #italy #WW1 #wwi – Italian Alpine troops passing through a quiet mountain village.
Unfortunately, the fighting was in beautiful landscapes. (IWM Q 83721) (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jun 27

#2gm #usarmy #WW2 – June 1944. US Army soldiers advance up the Cotentin Peninsula towards Cherbourg.
LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photo WWP-PD (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jun 20

#2gm #usarmy #wwii #WW2 June 26 1944, Cherbourg, France. The surrender of German General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke to General J. Lawton Collins Commander VII Army Corps. Photo Bob Landry. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jun 13

#2gm #WW2 #wwii – 1944, Central Italy. A captain of the 88th Division examines an Axis ammunition box containing loading strips for the Breda 30 and handles a device used with the K98 also for anti-tank purposes. Photo Time Life. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jun 6

#2gm #dday #WW2 – June 6 1944 D DAY - USAAF s.n.: 41-31577 Martin B-26B-15-MA Marauder - Unit: 386BG552BS The Crusaders, Code: AN-Y named: Elmer, flies over France during D Day with the characteristic "invasion stripes". (my colorization) .
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · Jun 5

#2GM #ROMA #WW2 - June 4, 1944. US 5th Army general Mark Clark speaks with a cleric in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Rome. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · May 30

#2gm #polisharmy #WW2 - 25 May 1944 - Luftwaffe Personnel emerge from an underground bunker to surrender to Polish Soldiers in Piedimonte S. Germano (FR), Italy. Johnson, Alan (Sgt) Photographer. NA 15451. (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · May 23

#2gm #WW2 #5tharmy – 1944 - Commander of the US 5th Army in Italy, General Clark, visits the front lines with his staff near Anzio, Italy – LIFE Magazine – Photo G. Silk (my colorization)
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · May 22

#wwii #2gm #regioesercitoitaliano #esercitoitaliano #WW2 – Royal Italian Army, second lieutenant officer, 20° Rgt. artiglieria "Piave"self-propelled artillery. (my colorization and motion)

RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · May 20

#wwii #WW2 #redarmy – "Shturmovik”. (my colorization)
The Ilyushin Il-2, also known as the "Shturmovik," was a Soviet ground-attack aircraft widely regarded as one of the most effective and formidable aircraft of World War II.
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RO COlor 🇮🇹 @rocolor.bsky.social · May 16

#montecassino #2gm #WW2 – May 1944. Cassino Aftermath - New Zealand soldiers clearing mines near Cassino. Photo George Silk – Life. (My colorization)
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