HMS Warspite alongside R-Class destroyer HMS Raider in 1943.

Is that a fake gun mounted over the 37 mm turret? What is wrong with the 75 mm, it appears to have a missing breech...

USS Iowa firing her main battery in the 1980s while working with NATO warships.

You start by getting dressed as a soldier when you are a child, you end up as a rotten half-body in a ditch or if you're lucky enough...:



German soldiers surrendering in Pomerania, February 1945.

Japanese Hospital Ship, probably Asahi Maru, in the periscope sight of USS Silversides (SS-236), 1943.

Rare photo of Yamato-class Battleship Musashi underway. This picture would have been taken around 1942, as the ship retains it's two 15.5 cm/60 3rd Year Type secondary batteries located on port side and starboard side. Such armament would be replaced before Musashi's demise in order to bolster her anti-aircraft defenses.

When the order to retreat was finally given, on 4 November 1942, the Italian troops within Panzer Army Africa were the ones who found themselves in the worst situation. Largely unmotorized and greatly weakened by the losses they had sustained in battle, they had to retreat on foot through hundreds of miles of desert, with little or no ammunition, food or water; they thus easily fell prey to the Allied motorized formations, which overtook, encircled, and destroyed them. Four infantry divisions, two armoured divisions and one paratrooper division ceased to exist.

The 102nd Motorized Division "Trento" (that by this time was motorized only in name), which had already lost half its troops in the first days of the battle, was cut off and destroyed near Bir el Abd on 4 November; General Giorgio Masina, its commander, was among those captured.

The remnants of the 185th Paratrooper Division "Folgore", after sustaining heavy casualties in the battle (where they had even resorted to attacking tanks with molotov cocktails), covered the retreat of the other units but were eventually encircled and surrendered at 14:35 on 6 November, after running out of ammunition. Its commander, General Enrico Frattini, was captured along with his deputy, General Riccardo Bignami.

The 27th Infantry Division "Brescia" withdrew to Deir Sha'la, but was destroyed on 7 November while retreating on foot towards Fuka. Its commander, General Brunetto Brunetti, had been captured on 5 November.