Photos WW2 German Forces

[BravoZulu]

Panzer III knocked out during the Battle of Prokhorovka, a part of the Battle of Kursk - July, 1943

 

[BravoZulu]

Wilhelm Beck pokes his head out of a Panther tank's commander's hatch. Beck was the Commander of the 2nd Company of the 12th SS Tank Division and had been in the service since 1938. He was a "dedicated", and highly decorated soldier, having received the Knight's Cross of Iron Cross after actions on the Eastern Front. He was killed a few days after D-Day by a fighter bomber attack.

 

[BravoZulu]

A tank crew from 1st company, sPzAbt.503 loading ammunition into a Tiger I heavy tank near Kursk, Russia, 21 June 1943

 

[Redav]

A soldier of the 10th SS Regiment stands watch in a sheepskin coat from the roof of the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, Poland, in 1940.

 

[Redav]

A Panzer IV medium tank of the 1st SS Panzer Division in front of the Milan Cathedral in September, 1943.

 

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A soldier in the 16th Luftwaffe field division while the division was stationed in the Netherlands in early 1944
Note the 4 M39 “egg” grenades hanging from his MP40 ammo pouches as well as the 2 M24 “stick” grenades handling by a rope from his neck.
He also wears a pair of Heer Equipment suspenders (Y-Straps)

 

[Redav]

Bismarck photographed from the Prinz Eugen

 

[Redav]

Assembly shop of the German Ju-87 dive bombers of the Weser-Flugzeugbau plant in the hangars of Tempelhof airport in Berlin, 1943.

 

[Redav]

Panzer III at El Alamein, 1954