Tanks

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  French Renault FT-17 light tank which was captured by the Soviets during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, afterwards donated by the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Afghanistan – photo shows U.S. soldiers with the tank, c. 2005.

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  A tank crew with the 11th Armored Division next to their M4 tank during the Battle of the Bulge. 1/12/45

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  American M4A1(76)W Sherman medium tanks of the 771st Separate Tank Battalion in Münster. The tower of St. Lambert’s Church is visible in the background.

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  M36 Jackson from the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion stood in front of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg, April 1945

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  Final assembly of Jagdpanzer VI ‘Jagdtiger’ at the Nibelungenwerke tank factory in St. Valentin, Lower Austria, 1944

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  American infantrymen, one armed with a Browning Automatic Rifle, advance cautiously down Gereonstrasse while being led by T26E3 Pershing ‘Eagle 7’, likely just moments before a German Panther tank knocked out an M4A1 (76) W on the neighboring Komödienstrasse. Cologne, Germany, March 6th 1945

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  Panzer IV tank abandoned after backing up into a house for cover during combat in north Italy

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  A U. S. tank carrying the bodies of fallen Marines moves out, following hand-to-hand combat with North Vietnamese troops near Con Thien, July 1967

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  Marilyn Monroe on M29 Pershing tank in Korean war 1954

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  The wreckage of a jeep after running over a German anti-tank mine on the road to Saint Sever, France. 8/4/44. this picture shows you the incredible power of the blast

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  4th Canadian Armoured Division Sherman tanks lined up awaiting the order to proceed with the infantry to clear German paratroopers from the town ahead of them, 11 April 1945.

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  The war weary faces of a Tiger Tank crew during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943.

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  An M4 Sherman tank equipped with flame-thrower in the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.

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  A Soviet tank faces the badly damaged Reichstag building in Berlin where the last desperate pocket of German resistance was finally crushed, May 1945.

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  A tank repair workshop in combat conditions at the front line. Major Cherkushevich’s tank unit. On the right is a T-34-76 tank with an open engine compartment. 1941

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  Burnt head of a Japanese soldier propped up on a captured Japanese tank by US Marines in Guadalcanal

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  German soldier demonstrating the handling of a Sturmpistole in the anti-tank role, 30 October 1943.

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  5th SS Panzer Division Wiking Panther tanks as seen from the periscope of another Panther, summer 1944, Eastern front.

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  My great grandfather with his tank he served with panzer rgt 9 and fought at Kursk and Normandy.

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  The crew of Eagle 7, an M26 Pershing attached to the 3rd Armored Division made famous for knocking out a Panther by Koln Cathedral on the 6th March 1945. An event that remains one of the clearest tank duels ever recorded

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