The first British WAAF orderlies, Leading Aircraftwoman Myra Roberts, Corporal Lydia Alford, and Leading Aircraftwoman Edna Birbeck selected to fly on air ambulance duties to France posing before a Dakota Mk III of No. 233 Squadron RAF at B-2 Bazenville.. in Normandie.

Paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th PIR, "Band of Brothers", in the square of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont on June 7, 1944. Front, left to right: Forrest Guth, Frank Mellet, David Morris, Daniel West, Floyd Talbert and C.T. Smith. #WW2 #History #WWII

Danish resistance fighters engaged in street fighting at Strandboulevarden in Copenhagen, Denmark. May 1945 #WW2 #WWII #WorldWarII

Soldiers of B Company, 1st New Guinea Infantry Battalion aboard the former #Hawkesbury_River (New South Wales) vehicle ferry the Francis Peat in Jacquinot Bay on November 6, 1944. #WWII #WW2 #WorldWarII

#German soldiers around a campfire beside a Panther tank, somewhere in the Ardennes, #Belgium,1944-1945 . #WW2 #WWII #WorldWar2

Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks and armed with a Czech ZB vz. 26 light machine gun, between 1937 and 1945 . #WW2 #WWII #WorldWar2

#Austrailan army officer inspecting a captured #Japanese sidecar motorbike after the Battle of Milne Bay, september 1942. #WW2 #WWII #WorldWar2

Finnish soldiers raise the flag at the three-country cairn between #Norway, #Sweden and Finland on 27 April 1945 after the end of the Lapland War and thus, the end of World War II in #Finland #WW2 #WWII #WorldWar2

A #British soldier with an Bren machine gun covers his mate who is digging a foxhole. El Alamein, North Africa , October or November 1942 . #WW2 #WWII #WorldWar2

#British commandos attacking under the cover of a smokescreen during Operation #Archery in #Norway, 27 December 1941. #WWII #WW2 #History #worldwarII

Tanks of the 3rd SS #Panzer Division "Totenkopf" advance on Russian defensive lines, Belgorod sector, Battle of #Kursk, July 1943. #WWII #WW2 #History #worldwarII

German Soldiers digging foxholes in the open field. Anti-tank rifle in the foreground; PK 694. October 1941 in the Northern Front. #WW2 #WWII #WorldWar2 #HISTORY

#Japanese night raiders are greeted with a lacework of anti-aircraft fire by the Marine defenders of #Yontan airfield on #Okinawa, 1945. #WW2 #WWII

#German soldiers with "Hotchkiss M1914" machine gun somewhere in the the #Atlantic Wall in Northern #France, 1944 #WWII #WW2

Australian gunners of the 8th Infantry Brigade/7th #Australian Division at work in #Borneo, July 2, 1945. #WWII #WW2

A Panther of 5th SS #Panzer Division Wiking scans for targets in eastern of #Poland, July 22, 1944. #WW2 #WWII

#German battleship #Bismarck is photographed from the deck of Prinz Eugen days before the Bismarck was sunk in May, 1941. #WW2 #WWII

Searchlights on the Rock of #Gibraltar, 1942. #WW2 #WWII

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