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Historic b/w images turned into Ai-FREE Colour Impressions by Jake. Books & info on cpoj.nl

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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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#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
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