A Wehrmacht veteran teaches Hitler Youth boys how to use a Panzerfaust. The badges on his sleeve represent enemy tanks destroyed. [1072×1501]
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Hurra! 8.8cm Flak crew deploying their piece in the ground role celebrate a hit Submitted January 16, 2017 at 03:57AM by 3rdweal via reddit
As with yesterday’s post, here is another two King Tigers, this time a year later and on the Eastern Front. After it had received forty-five new Tiger IIs in December 1944, the detachment was attached to IV SS Panzer Corps,…
Spitfire chases a Heinkel He-111 Submitted December 20, 2016 at 02:53AM by Nemephis via reddit
Sergeant M. Katasonov scout 372nd Infantry Division, wielding a PPSh-41 sub-machine gun – one of the approximately 1.5 million produced by the Soviet Union during WWII. The PPSh-41 is a classic example of a design adapted for mass production (other…
Das Reich Panzer Column – Eastern Front Submitted December 23, 2016 at 02:55AM by Saferight via reddit
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Sd.Kfz 138/2 – “Hetzer” The Jagdpanzer 38 (Sd.Kfz. 138/2), later known as Hetzer (“pursuer/hunter”), was a German light tank destroyer of the Second World War based on a modified Czechoslovakian Panzer 38(t) chassis. The project was inspired by the Romanian…
During World War II, Paderborn was bombed by Allied aircraft in 1944 and 1945, resulting in 85% destruction, including many of the historic buildings. It was seized by the US 3rd Armored Division after a pitched battle 31 March –…
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