Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet generals (two lieutenant generals and a major general) talk to soldiers at the German Pz.Kpfw tank captured near Stalingrad. III Ausf. L. 1942. The tank bears the emblems of two German tank divisions: on the tower, above the number "223" (seen in the photo from other angles) - a diamond-shaped ribbon (14th Panzer Division) and on the wing in front above the caterpillar - a galloping horseman taking a barrier ( 24th Panzer Division). Additional 20-mm frontal armor is visible, additional armor has been removed from the gun mantlet.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A Finnish self-propelled artillery unit of the German-made StuG III assault gun class captured by Soviet troops. Assault guns of this type in the amount of 59 units were delivered to Finland from allied Germany.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Exposition of captured military equipment in the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure. Moscow, March 1944.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Red Army soldiers at the captured German light staff armored car Sd.Kfz.261. Western direction, August 1941.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Trophy equipment. Courland, 1945.

In front, it seems, is a French Packard car. And behind - a number of Soviet BA-10

 

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[Иван Феоктистов]

Trophies in Sevastopol. 1944 year.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A Soviet soldier next to a captured German anti-tank gun.

 

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A Finnish self-propelled artillery unit of the German-made StuG III assault gun class captured by Soviet troops.

Did these see service in soviet use?

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soldiers of the NKVD units near the captured German heavy armored car Sd.Kfz.231 (8-Rad). Kiev, 1941.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Did these see service in soviet use?

Some of the captured Pz.III and StuG.IIIs were converted into the SU-76I self-propelled guns. A small part of the captured self-propelled guns was used until the exhaustion of shells and spare parts. I don't know about specific Finnish SPGs - most likely, they, like most captured vehicles, were melted down. After the war, the USSR was in dire need of steel.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Abandoned German SPGs captured by Soviet troops in the Stalingrad cauldron. This is a Marder II self-propelled gun with a 76.2 mm cannon. Winter 1943

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Captured by a serviceable 150 mm siG 33 (sf) self-propelled gun based on the Pz.I Ausf B tank (Bizon self-propelled gun). Western Front, December 1941.

 

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A brigade of tankers-repairmen arriving from the front to study captured StuG IIIs (from the 192nd assault guns division) at one of the Moscow factories. April 1942.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet officers with German guard bots in their hands.

 

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[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet soldiers with captured German rocket-propelled 150-mm mortar "Nebelwerfer 41". 1942 year. Author: Natalia Bode

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet officers inspect the German StuG assault gun abandoned in the forest near Kiev. III, November 1943.

According to some reports, StuG was from the 202nd brigade, which had a large number of vehicles with its own name.

An officer in an overcoat without shoulder straps - Captain Eremenko.

From the photo album of the Soviet 238th Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade.