Flamethrower Operators Move Back Up The Line After Refilling Their Tanks With Fuel, Iwo Jima, 1945
Flamethrower Operators Move Back Up The Line After Refilling Their Tanks With Fuel, Iwo Jima, 1945
Flamethrower Operators Move Back Up The Line After Refilling Their Tanks With Fuel, Iwo Jima, 1945
The Flak 41 was a Rheinmetall improvement on the famous Krupp “eighty-eight”, resulting in a more powerful version than any of the previous ones. Only very few numbers were produced, but this prompted Krupp to respond with another prototype which…
Crouching Low In A DUKW For Concealment And Protection, Men Of The 89th Division, U.S. Third Army, Cross the Rhine River at Oberwesel, Germany. March 26, 1945
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 –…
Deep in the Ardennes forest a Panther crew and some German infantry enjoy the warmth of their fire during “Operation Watch on the Rhine” – Hitler’s last gamble to halt the Allies in the west, hoping to force them to…