German Troops Testing a Captured SVT-40
Leibstandarte personnel firing their Kar 98 bolt-action rifles and a captured SVT-40 during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
Leibstandarte personnel firing their Kar 98 bolt-action rifles and a captured SVT-40 during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
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…
The Warsaw uprising was the largest single operation undertaken by any resistance movement during World War Two. The Armia Krajowa – The Polish Resistance Home Army were aiming to liberate the city of Warsaw from the occupying forces of Nazi Germany.…
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…
American soldiers during the squeezing out of “The Bulge” By 24 December the German advance was effectively stalled short of the Meuse.The Germans had outrun their supply lines, and shortages of fuel and ammunition were becoming critical. Up to this…