Photos WW2 Axis Forces

[BravoZulu]

A Hungarian 39M Csaba damaged by a landmine and with the turret covered in Serbia, 1941, during the invasion of Yugoslavia

 

[BravoZulu]

Hungarian 39M "Csába" at the hangar. Presumably 1944.

 

[BravoZulu]

Romanian R-2 light tank with winter camouflage on the Eastern Front

 

[RisingStar]

Romanian soldier during Operation Barbarossa (1941)

 

[RisingStar]

Hungarian 38M Rába Botond being towed on the Eastern Front (1942)

 

[RisingStar]

Hungarian soldiers force Russian civilians in the small village of Polnikovo to dig their own graves before being summarily executed, while the other villagers are forced to watch (July 1942)

 

[BravoZulu]

Hungarian soldiers force Russian civilians in the small village of Polnikovo to dig their own graves before being summarily executed, while the other villagers are forced to watch (July 1942)
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Days previously, two Hungarian soldiers were killed in the forest near the village. The Hungarian Army then carried out reprisal killings of all male civilians in the village who had been in or near the forest on the day the Hungarian soldiers were killed. Polnikovo, Ukolovskogo District, Voronezh Oblast (now, Krasnensky District, Belgorod Oblast), Russia, Soviet Union. July 1942.

 

[BravoZulu]

Hungarian 38M Rába Botond being towed on the Eastern Front (1942).

 

[RisingStar]

Romanian soldier wielding a rare Orița M1941 SMG

 

[BravoZulu]

Axis vehicles, hurriedly abandoned by their drivers, during an attack by Bristol Beaufighters of No. 252 Squadron RAF on a road in in North Africa - October 18, 1942
Photographed from the nose camera of one of the attacking Beaufighters

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Just added these to my personal photo collection.

Hungarian Tanker posing with the Toldi built on the Swedish Landsverk L60 hull.

Hungarian Tanker with the 40M Turan which is a total Hungarian build, a good tank but a wee bit late/dated for its time.

40M Turán - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[SamWell]

Norwegian Waffen-SS volunteers in Finland, circa winter of 1941/42

 

[BravoZulu]

German, Japanese, and Finnish officers during a front-line visit in Uhtua, Finland, on April 5, 1943.

 

[BravoZulu]

German and Soviet soldiers socializing with each other at the end of the Invasion of Poland, 1939.