On this day during W.W. 2

Sherman Firefly IC Hybrid leads Sherman Vs (M4A4s) of the British 11th Armoured Division during the advance towards Gemert, Netherlands - September 26, 1944

The “Hybrid” designation was British nomenclature for a composite Sherman hull (cast front, welded rear), a “C” at the end of the Roman numeral indicated a Firefly conversion equipped with the 17-pdr.

IWM - Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 10358

@captainwalker

yea longer barrel for the Firefly. More accurate. Better range

@barnee

In my opinion, also better-looking.

Three British Humber armored cars of 8th Army Tactical HQ’s Defense Company await the order to move out in Italy - September 27, 1944

IWM - Gade, Richard Felix (Captain) Photographer
IWM NA 19104

British Priest 105mm SPG of the 6th Armoured Division near the top of the Muraglione Pass between San Godenzo and San Benedetto in Italy - September 27, 1944

IWM - Hunter (Sgt) Photographer
IWM NA 19040

The three Army Film and Photographic Unit
Photographers who took the graphic still and cine pictures of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. The picture, which shows them with their cameras, was taken at the AFPU Centre at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire on 28 September 1944, the day that they arrived back. Smith was wounded in the shoulder. Left to right: Sgt. Dennis M Smith, Sgt.
Gordon “Jock” Walker and Sgt. C M “Mike” Lewis.

(Photo source - © IWM BU 1169)
Barker, Jack E. (Lieutenant)
Army Film and Photographic Unit

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The German battleship Bismarck, in Kiel in late September 1940

@captainwalker beautiful.

US 3rd Armored Division 75mm Sherman Tanks being used as artillery near Stolberg Germany area - September 29, 1944

LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer WWP-PD

@captainwalker

Cool!

@captainwalker

Nice! Color pictures!

Tiger I A02 from III./Panzer Regiment Grossdeutschland Division on the Eastern Front in October 1943

Still Missing in Action…
USAAF Major Sherman Beaty of the 386th Bomb Group, with his B-26B Marauder 41-31613 “Son of Satan” at RAF Great Dunmow - September 30, 1943

Sherman Randolph Beaty was born on October 17, 1916 in Wayne County, Missouri. He served in the USAAF & USAF during WW2 & Korea.

On April 1, 1953, while on a night intruder mission, his aircraft was hit by AA fire and crashed in North Korea. Beaty was listed as Missing in Action and his remains have never been recovered.

Sherman Randolph Beaty is memorialized at the National Korean War Veterans Memorial in
Washington DC.

“Son of Satan” was lost on November 18, 1944 when hit by flak and crashed near Mörschied Germany, Beaty does not appear to of been onboard when this occurred.

Keystone Press Photographer
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Finnish Lt Esa Seesta and a USA volunteer 2nd Lt with captured Soviet PPD-34 SMGs near Koivisto Municipality, Finland - September 30, 1941

When the Winter War broke out, many Finnish immigrants in the USA & Canada traveled to Finland to join Finland’s armed forces.

Koivisto is now Primorsk in the Leningrad Oblast Russia

SA-Kuva - Sa-Picture 54382 - Lauri Bacon Photographer

@captainwalker

A bit late, but October 2 was the 80th anniversary of the end of the Warsaw Uprising. On this day the Polish insurgents surrendered to the German army

A major rebellion in Warsaw by the Polish Home Army, it was launched in late August 1944 as the Soviets approached very close to Warsaw. Despite the Poles counting on Soviet help (having informed them in advance), little help was given (for disputed reasons), even from the First Polish Army fighting with the Soviets.

I always wonder what would’ve happened had the Soviets put all of their effort towards liberating Warsaw instead of clearing out the Balkans during August-September 1944 and leaving them out to be destroyed by the Germans.

Or even crazier, what if the Allies, foregoing Market Garden, used Soviet airfields to send the entire First Airborne Army to help out the partisans?

October 4 1943: Panzerkampfwagen VI ‘Tiger’, Ausf. E, Sd.Kfz. 181,
#332 of 3./Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 (3./s.Pz.Abt.503), stuck in the mud on the banks of a river near the town of Znamenka, Tambovskaya oblast, Soviet Union.

In October 1943, the battalion was in a rest area near Znamenka, where it had time to maintain and repair vehicles and conduct training.

@captainwalker

guess that little bridge couldn’t hold it, so it tried going around ?

@barnee I’m guessing they put the bridge in after the first one got stuck

@captainwalker

Where I live, today marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Debrecen.

Throughout October 1944, the Soviets conducted an offensive with twin pincers in Hungary, one aimed at capturing Budapest, and the other focussed on Debrecen, Hungary second largest city. Despite advancing 160 kilometers, the Soviets were unable to decisively break the German-Hungarian defense and capture either city.

It would be one of the last times German troops would be able to prevent a Soviet offensive from reaching its goals.

Despite the Germans achieving a favorable casualty ratio against the Soviets, the Red Army would capture Budapest in 1945.

Finnish patrol at the Rukajärvi area, October 7, 1942.

Sa-kuva / colorized by jhlcolorizing