Photos WW2 German Forces

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I like French girls, I remember Toulon.

 

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German MG42 machine gun crew in Russia, Jan 1944; note Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle.
German Federal Archive

 

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Heinkel HE-111 bombers on September 7 1940, the first day of the blitz 4pm.

 

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German forces move into Dunkirk. Disarmed French soldiers file pass German officers on the outskirts of Dunkirk. The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force had been completed a few hours earlier. June 1940.

 

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German troops advancing north from Oslo during the invasion of Norway in April 1940 (Colorized photo).

 

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On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, the beginning of the Second World War in Europe.
On 17 September, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East, this rendered the Polish plan of defense obsolete. The last resistance of Polish units ended on October 6.

 

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Pilots of Jagdgeschwader 53 (JG 53).
JG 53 was a Luftwaffe fighter-wing which perated in Western Europe and in the Mediterranean. JG 53 - or as it was better known, the "Pik As" (Ace of Spades) Geschwader - was one of the oldest German fighter units of the war with its origins going back to 1937. JG 53 flew the various models of the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
The Geschwader commenced its wartime operations with a high proportion of its personnel experienced ex-Condor Legion pilots including Werner Mölders. On 14 May 1940, JG 53 claimed some 43 victories in one day. The Battle of France thus saw the Geschwader score heavily during May and June 1940, with some 275 claims against Armee de l'Air and Royal Air Force forces. While JG 53 was making a reputation for itself during the Battle of Britain, according to RAF Air Ministry intelligence summary no. 60, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring was informed that Major Hans-Jürgen von Cramon-Taubadel's wife was Jewish. Göring then ordered the whole of Stabschwarm/JG 53 to remove the "Pik As" emblem from their planes, and replace it with a red stripe around the engine cowling as punishment. All of Stab./JG 53's planes immediately were stripped of their "Pik As" insignia, and soon after the whole of the Stab./JG 53 had also stripped the swastikas off the tails of their planes in protest.

 

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Airfield in Poland, September 1939
German soldiers inspecting a Polish aircraft in a bombed out airfield.

 

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A series of pictures of the German army in 1940. I didn't find any other details regarding teh different photos. Some might be from pre-war exercises.

 

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