World War II is the largest and most severe war in human history so far. This world-wide war has been involved in more than 60 countries and regions. The warring sides mobilized 110 million troops, affecting more than 2 billion people, about 70 million people died and 130 million injured.
Let us relive that war-torn era through a set of World War II real photos that were colored later.
In October 1944, on the streets of Aachen, Germany, two US soldiers fired at the buildings occupied by the German army with a M1919A4 heavy machine gun behind the bunker. The bullet shells thrown by the machine gun were scattered all over the ground.
1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, the U.S. Marine Corps Flamethrowers were using flamethrowers to destroy a Japanese bunker.
The flame ejected by the flamethrower can instantly exceed 1000℃, and the steel can be melted by it. Even if the Japanese soldiers in the bunker were not burned to death, they would die of suffocation due to hypoxia.
In February 1944, two F6F fighter jets landed on the deck of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier, and another F6F fighter jet was about to land in the distance. The wings of the fighter are foldable.
In 1942, during the Battle of Voronezh on the Soviet-German battlefield, two Soviet scouts carried out reconnaissance missions in an abandoned house 40 meters away from the German position.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1944, a team of US soldiers stationed on an island in the Pacific Ocean surrounded an oven with tableware in their hands, and the oven was filled with a roasted turkey that had just been baked.
1942 Battle of Volkhov on the Soviet-German battlefield, near Ladoga Lake , a German Wehrmacht soldier was seriously injured on the back. His comrades asked a captured Soviet medical soldier to provide him with first aid.
In July 1944, a Royal Air Force pilot happily played with an Labrador Retriever with a cigarette in his mouth.
This Labrador Retriever is the pet of the British pilot. He followed him on a plane from England to France, and behind him was the fighter plane he was flying at that time.
In November 1944, a small town in western Germany, two US soldiers hid behind an Sherman tank and took advantage of the battle to smoke and relax.
1943, the German prisoner of war in the Kursk Battle , next to it was the body of his comrade.
This prisoner of war looked dejected and obviously could not face the ending of being captured.
A lieutenant of the German Wehrmacht was drinking beer on the street.
The detailed background was not found in the picture, but based on the information in the picture, it can be roughly speculated that this was a local woman presented beer to the handsome German lieutenant after the German army occupied a city in the early days of World War II.
A British soldier operates a machine gun in the B-17 bomber nose machine gun turret. The
B-17 bomber was the main strategic bomber of the US military in the early days of World War II. It also has a nickname called "Air Fortress". After the United States declared war on Germany, it began to provide large amounts of B-17 bombers to British Air Force .
In May 1940, Belgium capital Brussels , two German Wehrmacht soldiers were eating ice cream while resting on the street.
The soldier on the left did not forget to hold his gun steadily even though he was eating delicious ice cream.
A small team of the US military set up M1 57mm anti-tank gun on the commanding heights on the coast and launched artillery bombardment targets on the other side.
In 1944, a US Sherman tank was advancing towards the German defense line near the German defense line on the Rhine River fell into a mud pit.
Several US soldiers are fixing one end of the steel cable to the broken tank , and the other end of the steel cable is fixed to another marching tank.
When a US military B-24 bomber was performing a bombing mission in German airspace, its right wing was hit by German air defense shells.The teammates on the bomber next to
can only watch the bomber lose balance and fall to the ground.
In May 1943, the German SS burned the Jewish neighborhood in Warsaw, and there were buildings burning in the distance. The cause of the
incident was on April 19 of the same year. On April 19 of the same year, the Jewish people living in Warsaw launched an uprising to resist the rule of Germany's fascist rule. The uprising lasted for several weeks and was brutally suppressed by the German army.
In November 1940, the British military industrial center Coventry was bombed violently by the Nazi Luftwaffe . After the bombing of
, the British army was assisting in cleaning up the ruins on a street.
Berlin, Germany, Soviet self-propelled artillery fired at the enemy.
In April 1945, the German army at the end of its strength retreated step by step. Soviet troops advanced to the German capital Berlin , and a Soviet SU-76M self-propelled artillery was firing at the enemy-occupied building.
The mother of a Soviet soldier covered her face with a handkerchief and cried loudly after hearing the news of her son's death.
The soldiers who informed the death news also had a heavy face. Perhaps in his opinion, he would rather charge forward on the front line than see such a desperate scene.
After the end of World War II, Polish publicly hanged Nazi German female guards.
These female guards abused prisoners extremely madly in the concentration camp. There were countless prisoners who were cruelly tortured to death by them. They deserved to be hanged.
