Allies military WW II

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No 80 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force P-40s at Kamiri airfield in New Guinea.
Ground crews loading bombs onto aircraft of No. 80 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF at a forward operational base on Kamiri Airstrip. Kamiri was located on Noemfoor Island in Papua New Guinea. A combined US / Australian / Netherlands landing force captured the island in August 1944.
Canadian soldier with a captured German Panzerschreck in Normandy, 1944.
Sergeant V. R. Francis of 19th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery with a captured German Panzerschreck and its 88mm rocket in France, June 16, 1944.
Prototype Canadian tank destroyer, a 40mm gun mounted on a Universal carrier.
One of several Canadian proposals for a tank destroyer that never went into production, this design was dangerous to its own driver whenever the gun fired or the turret was traversed.
Spitfires from No. 452 Squadron RAAF escorting 37 Squadron transport planes, 1944.
Supermarine Spitfire aircraft of No. 452 Squadron RAAF escorting probable Lockheed Lodestar aircraft of No. 37 Squadron RAAF shortly after leaving Sattler airfield near Darwin en route to Merauke, Dutch New Guinea, the first stop on the move of the squadron from Sattler to Morotai Island. December 1944.
RCAF gunner Sergeant R.S. Sandelin.
Sergeant R. S. Sandelin from Cornwall, Ontario, served as an air gunner with the RCAF's "Demon Squadron," a unit within Coastal Command. He enlisted in the Air Force immediately after finishing school.
Australian 6th Cavalry in captured Italian tanks. Libya, 1941.
Captured Italian tanks refitted for use with the Australian 6th Cavalry Regiment near Tobruk, Libya. January 23, 1941.