WWW.2:Weird World War 2

This is just a blog with some of the weirder events in WW2

Soldiers peel onions while using gas masks to stop them from crying. [1941]

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A US Marine poses somewhere in the Pacific Islands.

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An elephant loads supplies on an American plane. [1945]

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British Soldiers with captured German Goliath tank busters, which drove under tanks and exploded

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A British home barricaded during the Blitz is guarded by a bulldog.

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A dog is posed by a German soldier. [1940]

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Adolf Hitler, Along with Mussolini’s son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano (to Hitler’s right), and Joachim von Ribbentrop, attend a NSDAP (Nazi Party) rally, some time in the 1930s.

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Captain Walter “Waddy” Young and his crew pose in front of their caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress, Nov. 24, 1944

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Two U.S. soldiers of C Company, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, seek shelter behind an M-4 Sherman tank at Geich, Germany, on Dec. 11, 1944.

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Children watch as their neighborhood is bombed in Minsk, Belorussia. The bombing was part of Operation Barbarossa. June, 1941.

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Maori Battalion Haka in Egypt,1941

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Berlin at the end of WWII

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