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  • The Invasion of Norway. The Allied and German plans for the invasion of the Scandinavian nation during WW2.
    • German tank with a Infantry company in Norway
    • A German ship leaves a Norwegian Fjord
    • A german ship destroyed in a Norwegian Fjord
    • A Nazi Officer visit a military cemetery in Norway
    • Quisling passes in review a unit of the Wehrmacht during a visit of his in Germany
    • Quisling during his trial in Nurnberg
  • A Defeat transformed in Victory . The epic retreat from Dunkirk of the allied army under the pressure of the German armored divisions.
    • British soldiers on lifeboat
    • Soldiers who reach a ship swimming
    • A photo of French General Gamelin and British General Gort
    • A British transport ship overcrowded
    • A German destroyed bomber's wing used as lifeboat
    • Dunkerque after a bombardment
    • A sample of the 'Mosquito-Fleet'
    • French soldiers embarked during the last tragic days in Dunkirk
    • The Queen of England visits a wounded soldier
  • The illusions of the Duce. The rash declaration of war against France and the “parallel war” conducted from Italy in the second world war. The loss of the colonial empire and the ruinous war of Greece.
    • Two Italian soldiers hoist a friend flag on a hostile bunker in British Somalia
    • Italian soldiers on their way to the imprisonment after the defeats in Ethiopia
    • An Italian truck bogged on the mountains of Albania
    • A column of Alpine troops of the division “Julia” laboriously climbs an impervious path of the Albanian mountains
  • The Infantry of The Air. The life of the general German Kurt Student and his work for the constitution and the war use of a paratroopers' Corp.
    • A photo of Kurt Student
    • Propaganda for Hitler during the 1932 German elections
    • A Junkers Ju 52
    • A German Paratrooper
    • The Belgian Fortress of Eben-Emael after the assault of the special troops of Student
    • A German patrol observes the arrival in Crete of a destroyer after the conquest of the island from the airborne troops of the 7th and 22nd air divisions
  • Yellow Tide. The Japanese dream to conquer Asian Continent.
    • The 'Prince of Wales' while it was sinking
    • A Japanese soldier makes homage to fallen companions
    • British restocking in Malaya
    • An English anti-aircraft battery opens the fire against the enemy
    • Sir Percival transports the Union Jack to the side of the white flag after the siege of Singapore
    • Yamashita and Percival at the table of negotiations
    • A Japanese unit during an operation in Burma
    • Racial revenge. Some captured Australian soldiers are forced to sweep the roads in front of an amused native crowd
  • The D-Day. The Allied landing in Normandy during World War 2
    • Allied infantry emerges from a landing ship
    • A dead soldier at Omaha beach
    • A huge artillery gun of the German Atlantic Wall
    • General Eisenhower and American paratroopers
    • A German 88mm tank in Normandy
    • A German tank created from a modified Czech tank, at Caen
    • An Allied LST
  • The secret weapons of the Luftwaffe. Photos of the secret weapons of the German Luftwaffe: the reaction-propulsed fighters and the dangerous rockets NEW!
    • The German aircraft "Komet"
    • A German pilot in a Komet cockpit
    • Messerschnitt Me262 during the landing after its first flight
    • Detail of Messerschnitt Me262 used as bomber
    • A V1 winged bomb on a launch ramp
    • A drawing of the inside section of a V2 rocket
  • The World enters the Nuclear Era. Planning, use and consequences of the first atomic bombs.
    • The first atomic battery built in the university of Chicago
    • Enrico Fermi with his wife Laura
    • Oppenheimer in company of a soldier on the place where it was let detonate the first atomic bomb
    • Little boy, the nuclear device that was dropped upon Hiroshima on August 6 1945
    • The center of Hiroshima in a photo of the day after the bombardment
    • War time photo of Enola Gay's commander Tibbets
    • An image of the bomber Enola Gay
  • An Unlucky Legend. Planning and operational life of the German airplane Messerschnitt Bf 109
    • An exclusive image of the definitive prototype D-I0QY
    • An English city in flames seen through the cabin of a German bomber during the summer of 1940
    • English pilots proudly show the insignia with the nazi cross coming from the fuselage of a destroyed German airplane
    • A Messerschnitt camouflages itself with great success flying grazing to the African ground
    • The graceless Lavochkin La-5, the great enemy of the Me Bf 109 in Soviet Union
    • A Me Bf 109 armed with a rack for rockets used to attack the B-17

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