ANZAC Day 25th April
A working party of water carriers from the 6th Battery AIF take a break on Gallipoli, 1915.

T/Sgt. Lawrence J. Gettings from Ottumwa, Iowa, (E Co., 2nd Bn., 320th Inf. Reg., 35th Division) heats a can of rations and takes time out for a rest during the fighting southeast of Bastogne, Belgium. 7 January 1945.
(KIA 17 April 1945)

A 'Lost Tommie' soldier (possibly) of the 19th Btn., London Regt. (St Pancras) in Vignacourt, Picardy c.1916-18
Photographed by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier.

Second Lieutenant Adam Bachleda-Curuś of the 1st Polish Independent Commando Company (the 6th Troop of the 10th Inter-Allied Commando) on his BSA M20 motorcycle C4666503 with the company mascot-dog Myszka (Mouse). In the UK, April 1942.
© IWM MH 1155

14 April 1945
Private John Davies, with a Bren light machine-gun, during an attack by the Australian 24th Battalion against the Japanese at the Hatai Junction on Buin Road, Southern Bougainville.
(Australian War Memorial - 091023)

Normandy invasion front - German Infantry officer taking cover behind a hedge, watching with binoculars and armed with an Italian MP38. 21 June 1944.
(Bundesarchiv - Bild 101I-680-8257-16)

Photographer Sgt. Robert Beatty Neubacher, Los Angeles, California, relaxes somewhere in India. March 1945
Neubacher was with the Chinese 22nd Division for about four months, accompanying them on their assault on Kamaing, Burma.
(wearing the China Burma India CBI patch)

Upon returning, the intelligence officer Lt. Harrison, checks off the names of the pilots from VMF-213 'Hell Hawks' at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. April 1943.
Winnia, Leary, Jones, Humberd, Garison, Votaw and McCleary.
(US Army Signal Corps Archive)

4 April 1945
Royal Marine Commandos F. Mander and R. J. Angus of the 1st Special Service Brigade on look out for snipers in the ruins of Osnabruck, Germany.
© IWM BU 3057

18 January 1943
Lieutenant Colonel David Stirling officer commanding the SAS in the Middle East talking to Patrol Commander Lieutenant Edward McDonald and Corporal Bill Kennedy, 'L' Detachment, 1st SAS, just back from a three month patrol.
© IWM (E 21339)

23 March 1945
An American M4A1 (76mm) Sherman tank of the 14th Armoured Division moves past a roadside littered with debris from the retreating German forces near, Silz, Germany.

31 March 1944
Winston Churchill inspects a Cromwell Mk IV tank ('Blenheim') of No. 2 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards, at the Searchlight Field, Whitby Road, Pickering in Yorkshire.
© IWM H 37169)

2nd Lt. D.W. Hurlburt, Co-Pilot; 2nd Lt. Donald L. Grant, Navigator; 1st Lt. George T. Oxrider, Pilot; T/Sgt. Everett A. Dasher, Radio Op; T/Sgt. F.B. Ziemer, Gunner; 2nd Lt. Earle A. Steele, Bombardier; Sgt. Theodore C. Heaps. Leftside Waist Gunner.
303rdbg.com/c-358-oxrider.…

29 March 1918
Unidentified officers and NCOs of the Australian 13th Machine Gun Company studying a map in a billet at Sailly-le-Sec, Northern France
13th Machine Gun Company, 13th Brigade, 4th Division, AIF
(AWM E01942)

'The Greatest Raid of All ' - 82 years ago
The Royal Naval and Commando raid on St. Nazaire.
British prisoners of war detained in a building nearby S.Nazaire dockside - they look like they might be in a pub. They knew something the Germans didn't.
28 March 1942

Pfc. Gerald A. Cohan, Newark, N.J., mans a .30 caliber machine gun covering approaches to Salmchâteau, as the 75th Division takes the town.
3rd Battalion, 289th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division. 16 January, 1945.
Photographer: Cedicks.