Photos WW2 German Forces

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JU-52 "Tante Ju" - Auntie Ju - of the Luftwaffe.

 

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Focke-Wulf Fw P.VII (Flitzer) 1944, jet and rocket powerd fighter

 

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"Ostfront"

 

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Luftwaffe personnel examine one of Douglas Bader's legs - presumably the spare leg dropped by by the RAF to replace his damaged leg. 1941.

 

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May/June 1940. German soldiers examining crashed french Bloch MB.152.
In air combat they were outmatched by the Messerschmitt Bf 109E on almost every count and proved slower than the twin-engined Bf 110. All Blochs units suffered heavy losses during the Battle of France.

 

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German soldiers being transported on top of a Sturmgeschütz III. Eastern Front, 1943.

 

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Focke-Wulf Fw P.VII (Flitzer) 1944, jet and rocket powerd fighter

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So the vampire wasnt original design then!

 

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WWII. 1944. German Panzer IV's refuel somewhere on the Eastern Front.

 

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Panther tanks of SS Panzer Regiment 12 at Soumont-Saint-Quentin, near Potigny 10 km north of Falaise in Normandy - 14 August 1944
The town of Potigny fell to the Polish 8th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Armoured Division (1 Dywizja Pancerna) in the late afternoon of that day

 

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Pictures from Franz Grasser member of a "PK Kompanie"

With the outbreak of World War II, Franz Grasser lost his last job as a photographer aboard a cruise ship that was touring the world. He was called up by the Wehrmacht to serve his native country in the spring of 1942. Initially, he was sent to the Netherlands and, in mid-1943, to the eastern part of Ukraine (later he would be sent to Central Russia and Romania). He attempted to serve as a war correspondent, but was assigned to the front as an Oberschütze (rank between Soldat and Gefreiter) in the 167th Infantry Division of the German Army. However, during his service with the German Army he continued to take photographs, leaving us an extensive collection of color documents in b & w and AGFA. Moving away from the scenes of death and destruction, his photographs focused primarily on his companions and the broad, brooding landscapes of the southern Soviet Union and its people.
When his division (the 376th Inf. Div. Which had been made up of survivors from the 167th) was destroyed in Romania in August 1944, he was declared missing in action. The German War Graves Commission has him listed as deceased in Soviet captivity near Novorossiysk on November 13, 1944.
His photographs would be published by the Deutsche Fotothek department of the Saxon State and University Library in Dresden in 2009.

 

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