Panzerkampfwagen IVs of the 26th Panzer Division knocked out near Lanuvio in Italy – June 1944 [album] Submitted December 16, 2016 at 02:25AM 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…
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 –…
An American soldier says goodbye to his wife and child before shipping out to serve in WWII. Pennsylvania Station. New York City, 1943