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Lockheed YP-38 pre-production series built for the development of the Lightning interceptor put through its paces circa early 1941

German Marder III tank destroyer under tow after being captured by British forces near El Alamein in late 1942. The vehicle combined the chassis of the Czech-made Panzer 38(t) with the Soviet 76mm F-22 modified as the Pak 36(r) to fire the same ammunition as the 7.5cm Pak 40.

Waffen-SS 5cm Pak 38 anti-tank gun crew fire down a road in the Balkans parallel to their own advancing forces circa 1941

P-47 Thunderbolt gun camera captures a fellow fighter's strafing run on a Luftwaffe airfield at extreme low level in 1944, low enough that one can observe the dust thrown up by spent cartridges hitting the ground #guncamera

US troops in Normandy demonstrate the importance of brushing up on one's German before the invasion. Given the emphasis on the sign, one assumes that the men were perfectly aware that it read "no drinking water" and the scene was filmed in jest.

Footage from "Project Gun-Val" where a number of F-86F Sabre fighters were armed with four T-160 20mm cannon instead of the standard six AN/M3 .50 cal machineguns and trialed operationally during the Korean War in early 1953, scoring six confirmed MiG kills in the process

3.7cm Pak 36 anti-tank gun in action with the top of its gun shield folded down on the Eastern Front in 1943

The first of four British Blackburn Perth trimotor biplane flying boats built demonstrating its nose-mounted Coventry Ordnance Works 37mm autocannon circa October 1933

B-26 Marauder manufacturing scenes at the Martin Company plant in Baltimore circa 1941

Jagdpanther 134 of schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 654 still smoldering near Wolfgantzen along with a Nashorn tank destroyer and Sherman tank knocked out during the liberation of Colmar in February 1945

Turret access for the commander of a French Char D1 tank pictured in North Africa in 1943

US 57mm M1 anti-tank gun targeting German fortified positions in Cherbourg shortly before the city was liberated in late June 1944

5cm leichter Granatwerfer 36 in action on the Eastern Front circa early 1942

The wreck of what would have been among the first USAAF P-38 Lightnings lost in North Africa examined by German personnel circa late 1942