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  1. Future Infantry Soldier

    Future Infantry Soldier

    Future Infantry Soldier -Germany.
  2. Martin Borman and Adolf Hitler

    Martin Borman and Adolf Hitler

    Martin Borman and Adolf Hitler at some rally or meeting. It appears that the officers are all German army? It could be at some weapons plant or tank demonstration.
  3. Hitler and Franco

    Hitler and Franco

    German leader Adolf Hitler meeting Spain's dictator General Francisco Franco on the Spanish border at Hendaye October 23,1940 to talk about Spain helping out in case of war.
  4. Hitler at Nurenburg

    Hitler at Nurenburg

    Adolf Hitler at a rally in Nuremburg
  5. Prinz Adalbert Armoured Cruiser

    Prinz Adalbert Armoured Cruiser

    1902 PRINZ ADALBERT. Leader of a small class of armoured cruisers constructed just after the turn of the twentieth century for the Imperial German Navy. THE PRINZ ADAIJBERT CLASS The German armoured cruisers formed a neat, evolutionary pattern, each new class of two ships being no more...
  6. Karlsruhe, German Guided-missile Frigate

    Karlsruhe, German Guided-missile Frigate

    1982 KARLSRUHE. One of the eight Type 122 frigates, based on the Dutch Kortenaer class, commissioned into the German Navy in the 1980s. THE GERMAN TYPE 122 FRIGATES The choice for a new frigate for the German Navy fell on the Dutch Kortenaer, with modified superstructure and internal...
  7. Niedersachsen German Frigate

    Niedersachsen German Frigate

    1980 NIEDERSACHSEN. One of a class of eight frigates designated as Type 122s, based on the Dutch Kortenaer class but with American, rather than British, machinery and modified superstructure. THE GERMAN TYPE 122 FRIGATES During the 1950s, the newly re-instated Federal German Navy built a...
  8. Braunschweig German Anti-submarine Frigate

    Braunschweig German Anti-submarine Frigate

    1964 BRAUNSCHWEIG. One of a class of six Type 120 frigates, the first new major warships to be constructed for the German Navy since the Second World War. THE KLN-CLASS FRIGATES Until the 1960s, the Federal German Navy, as it then was, operated Second World War-vintage escorts acquired...
  9. Rommel German Destroyer

    Rommel German Destroyer

    1968 ROMMEL. One of a group of three guided-missile destroyers built in the USA for the Federal German Navy in the latter half of the 1960s to the pattern of the later Charles F Adams class, and known in Germany as the Ltjens class. THE LUTJENS CLASS The three German Type 103 destroyers...
  10. Molders German Destroyer

    Molders German Destroyer

    1968 MOLDERS. One of a group of three guided missile destroyers built in the USA in the latter half of the 1960s to the pattern of the later Charles F Adams class, and known in Germany as the Ltjens class. THE LUTJENS CLASS The three German Type 103 destroyers Lutjens, named after a...
  11. Lutjens German Guided-missile Destroyer

    Lutjens German Guided-missile Destroyer

    1967 LUTJENS. Named after Admiral Gunther Ltjens, commander of the German fleet from 1940, the LOtjens was the leader of a class of three ships that were versions of destroyers built for the US Navy. AMERICAN ASSISTANCE The three Type 102B destroyers of the Ltjens class were based closely...
  12. Bayern German Destroyer

    Bayern German Destroyer

    1962 BAYER. One of a class of four Type 101UI destroyers constructed for the Federal German Republics navy and in service for three decades from the mid-1960s. THE HAMBURG CLASS West Germany acquired her first destroyers six ex-US Fletcher-class ships between 1958 and 1960, and at that...
  13. Hamburg German General-Purpose Destroyer

    Hamburg German General-Purpose Destroyer

    1960 HAMBURG. The Federal Republic of Germany constructed a class of four Type 101 A destroyers, led by the Hamburg, in the early 1960s, the biggest warships built in Germany since the Second World War. NEW BIG DESTROYERS West Germany acquired her first destroyers six ex-US Fletcher-class...
  14. Deutschland Armoured Cruiser

    Deutschland Armoured Cruiser

    1874 DEUTSCHLAND With her sister-ship the Kaiser, these were the last German Capital Ships to be built abroad. Originally rigged as sailing ships, they were later substantially rebuilt along more modern lines. THE KAISER CLASS These ships were built on the Thames by Samuda Bros. to the...
  15. Admiral Graf Spee More Infor

    Admiral Graf Spee More Infor

    An ignominious end: Tothe Admiral Graf Spee in the South Atlantic At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the Kriegsmarine lay far behind the Royal Navy, as Hitler knew all too well. He had long come to the realisetion that fleet actions were out of the question, but had...
  16. German,  Heavy Cruiser, Admiral Graf Spee

    German, Heavy Cruiser, Admiral Graf Spee

    1934 ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE. The Graf Spee was a German commerce-raider brought to action by three smaller British cruisers in the first naval battle of World War II. A GESTURE OF DEFIANCE The third unit of the Deufschland class was the best known of these pocket battleships built in the early...
  17. Gneisenau. German Battle Ship. More information

    Gneisenau. German Battle Ship. More information

    1939- 1945 Gneisenau: a brilliant compromise, or a waste of resources? She was to become one of the best-known German war ships of the Second World War, but that actually says very little, for the surface fleet in which she served was incapable of making a real mark on the conflict...
  18. Bismarck, German Battle Ship

    Bismarck, German Battle Ship

    1939 BISMARCK. Launched on 14 February 1939 at the Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss and commissioned on 24 August 1940, the Bismarck required the concentrated fire of half the British Home Fleet to sink her on 27 May 1941. In her day the worlds largest battleship, Bismarck was in service for...
  19. Tirpitz, German Battle Ship

    Tirpitz, German Battle Ship

    1939 TIRPITZ. For years the Tirpitz was a lonely queen of the north posing a continuous threat to the North Sea convoys between Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and as a result she tied up substantial naval forces all on her own. The second and last battleship of the Bismarck class was the...
  20. Gneisenau. German Battle Ship

    Gneisenau. German Battle Ship

    1936 GNEISENAU. Like most of the Third Reichs major surface warships, Gneisenau, and her sister-ship Scharnhorst, with whom she was always linked, were really effective only as components of a powerful fleet-in-being. SQUANDERED RESOURCES The two ships of the Scharrihorst class were to...
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