OPERATION 'MANNA', MAY 1945 | #ROTTERDAM | NETHERLANDS Dutch police officers stand guard over the proceeds of a food drop at the #Terbregge air dropzone. Operations #Manna, #Chowhound, and Faust provided food to relieve a famine in 1944–1945 in the German-occupied Netherlands.

MAY 20, 1940 | #LONDON | GREAT BRITAIN #Belgian and #Dutch #refugees of war are resting on cots placed in #AlexandraPalace in #NorthLondon. Just a reminder that we were once upon a time, refugees ourselves. Happy voting tomorrow! #vluchtelingen #immigrants #asielzoekers #wo2

The Dutch Marine Brigade advances to #Driaredja on Java, Dutch East Indies(now #indonesia). A broad front extends from village to village, June 13, 1946. #nimh #nederlandsindie #DeOost #politioneleacties #java #indonesië #sukarno #mohammedhatta #ww2 #KNIL #mariniers #marines

APRIL 1945 | FRIESLAND | NETHERLANDS In the Frisian countryside, evacuees from Zuid-Limburg are on their way home. On average a 200 mile journey. #WWII #bevrijding #wo2 #friesland #zuidlimburg #provinciefriesland #provinciezuidlimburg #vluchtelingen #vluchtelingenopvang #WW2

A #Flail tank, designed to detonate mines, leaves a LCT during the landing at #Westkapelle, #Zeeland Province, The Netherlands on November 2, 1944. Liberated ##Antwerp was to become the supply port for the Allied advance but first the Western Scheldt had to be breached. #WW2

A weary US soldier takes a rest during a lull in the fighting, Papua New Guinea. The Battle of #BunaGona was part of the #NewGuinea campaign during WWII. It followed the conclusion of the #KokodaTrack campaign and lasted from 16 November 1942 until 22 January 1943. #WW2 #usarmy

Léo Major, hero of the Dutch city of #Zwolle, posing with members of the local resistance in #Zwolle, the Netherlands, April 1945, was in the infantry regiment, #RégimentdelaChaudière and the only Canadian to receive the Distinguished Conduct Medal twice in two wars. #ww2 #korea

A sniper from the Scottish 5th Battalion (Black Watch) has found a clear location in the fortified attic of a house in Gennep. #ww2 #bevrijding #sniper #Scherpschutter #wo2 #wo2inkleur #highlanddivision #operationveritable #gennep #groesbeek #operationmarketgarden #AIFree

"A wash and shave is good even in a front-line trench," is the caption of this photo of soldiers from the #British 1st #NorfolkBattalion, taken on October 16, 1944. They are in a trench south of #Venray , where heavy fighting is taking place. #zuidlimburg #nimh #wo2 #loopgraaf

6 SEPTEMBER 1938 | SURABAYA | DUTCH EAST INDIES (now Indonesia) On the quay of the naval port of Surabaya, a presentation of the Dutch fleet is being held to celebrate Queen Wilhelmina's fortieth anniversary. #indonesia #java #javasea #surabaya #koninlijkemarine #royaldutchnavy

SEPTEMBER 1941 | DUTCH EAST INDIES American troops land on Morotai, located between #Celebes and #PapuaNewGuinea. The Japanese have constructed 9 runways on this #moluccan island, and Allied S.C. Douglas MacArthur intends to seize them and use them for attacks on the #Philippines

2 September 1940, #Amsterdam. #Dutch motorcycle police orders bystanders to leave the #Amstelveld area where NSB members provoked and initiated fights witch #Jewish vendors on the local market. #prinsengracht #stadhouderskade #joodsamsterdam #nsb #wo2

AUGUST 9, 1943 | #SICILY | #ITALY U.S. Army Medic Harvey White administers blood plasma to Pvt. Roy Humphrey of the 7th Infantry Regiment. However, the 21-year-old Humphrey, can't be saved with extra blood. He succumbs to his wounds. #ItalianCampaign #ww2 #wwtwo #WWII #wwii

JULY 15, 1945 | HAIFA | PALESTINE #Holocaust survivors arrive in #haifa on the British refugee ship #mataroa. These young Jews from Europe, in camp uniforms and with tattoos of the Nazi death camps on their forearms, are not yet allowed into #palestine. #Holocaust #nonpolitical

#TheNetherlands, July 14, 1940, on the #Scheveningen beach, a #Luftwaffe officer shows himself to be a child's best friend. The German #StapfBilderdienst, operating from #Amsterdam, contributes to #Nazification by attempting to portray a German idyll in occupied territory. #wo2

TIME FOR ICE CREAM I AMSTERDAM I JUNE 1940 An Amsterdam ice cream vendor is trying to make some money on German soldiers during a warm and sunny day in June, 1940. #hittegolf #ICE #ICECREAM #WWIII #Artis #softijs #wo2inkleur

13 APRIL 1943 SOVIET UNION International press examins a mass grave in the #Katynforest The #Katyn #massacre was a series of mass executions of over 22,000 #Polish military officers and intelligentsia ordered by #Stalin and carried out by the #SovietUnion, specifically the #NKVD

12 JUNE 1944 | NORMANDY | FRANCE At the foot of the dunes near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer and Vierville-sur-Mer, the U.S. Graves Registration Service collects the fallen of Omaha Beach. In the cemetery, Americans and Germans lie together in brotherly fashion after the merciless fight

June of 1944, 2nd Lt. Margaret B. Stanfill prepares dressings in a tent at the 128th Army Evacuation Hospital near Saint-Mère-Église. 4 days prior to this picture, she was the 1st nurse to wade ashore when the 128th landed on #UtahBeach #ww2 #DDay #normandie #WWII #armynurse

#NORMANDY, #FRANCE An American #Sherman III in British service is unloaded from USS LST 21 onto a "Rhino" barge during the early hours of the #invasion on #GoldBeach, 6 June 1944 #DDay #aifree #invasie #shermantank #Sherman #8tharmouredbrigade #WW2 #wo2 #bevrijding #wo2inkleur