Two Panzer 38(t) tanks passing a knocked out Soviet T-34/76 in 1942, on the front of the first tank a wounded German soldier is hitching a ride.
Captured Soviet soldier dressed in SN-42 body armor – 1944
Stalnoi Nagrudnik – the steel bib, designed to stop the 9mm pistol round and potentially even a round from a rifle as long as it did not hit directly front on.
In this photo three non-penetrating bullets have hit the front of the vest and have been successfully stopped, saving this young soldiers life.
US Infantry, German POW’s and a ruined Half track
France 1944, US infantry and German POW’s march past the remains of a US M3A1 torn apart.
The M3A1 was a M3 with the improved M49 machine gun ring mount over the right hand front seat. All M3 halftracks were continually upgraded to M3A1 versions throughout the course of the war.
German Troops Testing a Captured SVT-40
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Leibstandarte personnel firing their Kar 98 bolt-action rifles and a captured SVT-40 during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
Panzergrenadiers about to commence an attack – Eastern Front 1944
Untersturmführer Gerhard Mahn, commander of 11th company, 9th regiment “Germania” of the 5th SS Panzer Division “Wiking” directs the actions of the division of armored personnel carriers Sd.Kfz.251. They are about to mount an attack against the Red Army during the battles east of Warsaw in the summer of 1944
