Sunday, January 17, 2021

Kübelwagen in the Mud

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An unknown German photographer from Wolff & Tritschler captured the adventures of his Kubelwagen (type 82) on the eastern front in Ukrai...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

German Panzers Ready to Cross a Pontoon Bridge

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  Interesting photo of a German panzer unit on the approaches to the blown bridge at Kremenchug, Ostfront. At left we can see a temporary br...

Boeing B-17 '5 Grand'

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The Boeing B-17 '5 Grand' (43-37716) In flight over England. This is the 5000th B-17 made by the factory. It delivered Cheyenne 15/5...

Panther Recovery

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  Panther Ausf. D being hooked up to a German tank recovery vehicle, Soviet Union, 1943-44. They're changing the engine and need to move...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

German War Machines in Denmark

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  A discarded German panzer and halftrack as seen in Esbjerg, Denmark, January 1946. Notice the excellence of those original color slides. T...

German Flak 88 Artillery

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  The 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 is a German 88 mm anti-aircraft and anti-tank artillery gun, developed in the 1930s. It was widely used by G...

German Heavy Field Howitzer in Action

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  The moment of a shot from a 210 mm German heavy field howitzer. Ukraine, summer 1941. The color slide was made by Leutnant Herbert Achenba...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Bio of SS-Oberstgruppenführer Kurt Daluege

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    SS-Oberstgruppenführer und Generaloberst der Polizei Kurt Daluege. The picture was first published in "Signal" magazine, in th...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Emperor Hirohito and His Empress

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Emperor Hirohito of Japan and his Empress pictured in the Imperial Garden, Tokyo, 1946. Hirohito (29 April 1901 - 7 January 1989) was the...

Free French Rest in a Poppy Field

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  In the Fields where the Poppies Grow... Free French soldiers rest in a poppy field near the M4 'Sherman' tanks. Between the tanks ...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Sd.Kfz.222 of 2. Panzer-Division during Balkanfeldzug

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    An Sd.Kfz.222 from Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5 of 2. Panzer-Division is seen with its crew in Balkan during Balkanfeldzug, spring 194...

Oberst Rudolf Sieckenius in his Command Tank

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Oberst Rudolf Sieckenius (Kommandeur Panzer-Regiment 2 / 16.Panzer-Division). Oberst Sieckenius on his command tank "0", summer 19...

Nikko Toscho-gu Shrine in Japan

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  Nikko Toscho-gu, a color slide from a doctor on a eastern Asian trip, 1941 A german doctor enjoyed a trip to eastern Asia (Japan - Korea...
Friday, January 1, 2021

German MG Gunner in Winter Camo

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    MG-Schütze from section machine gunner number 1 of a Heer combat team in the Ukrainian village, February 1944. The machine gunner case/p...

Erasing the Winter Camo on Halftrack

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  1943. Winter is over. Time to "clean the white": German soldiers wash off winter camouflage from the Sd.Kfz half-track armored p...

Heroes Remembrance Day 1940

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  Heldengedenktag (Heroes Remembrance Day) 1940 on Unter den Linden boulevard in Berlin. Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, accompanied by Reich...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

A Captured US Truck belong to the Wehrmacht

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    A Studebaker US6 2½-ton 6×6 truck. Probably a lend lease truck captured from the Russians. This US truck is captured with WH numberplate...

Winter Camo for German Artillery

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December 8th, 1942. A light (10,5cm) howitzer from 168. Infanterie-Division rests in a position. Note protections on breech block and muzzle...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

"Rambo" of World War II

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  'Big, Bigger, and Biggest'! An unidentified soldier poses in front of a American flag, wearing a helmet and wrapped in several amm...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen

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  August von Mackensen, Prussian Field Marshal General, in the series of pictures probably taken in 1944 on the occasion of his 95th birthda...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Grave of Alois Hitler, Hitler's Father

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    Grave of Alois Hitler, Adolf's father in the Leonding cemetery, Austria, 1938. Photos by Hugo Jaeger. Alois Hitler Sr. (born Alois...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Young German Soldier

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    Portrait of a young German soldier with a cigarette, around 1941. He wears a nice spring blurred edge carmouflage uniform and helmet cov...
Friday, December 25, 2020

U-Boat Crew in the Sea

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    During 1942 and 1943, German U-boats deployed in Norwegian waters had proven highly effective in harrying the Arctic convoys, despite th...

Pilots and Gunners of StG 1 Discussing a Map

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    All wearing their multi-zippered summer flying suits, pilots and gunners from I.Gruppe / Sturzkampfgeschwader 1 (StG 1) gather around a ...

Bio of Major d.R. Gerhard Konopka

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  Gerhard Konopka with Knight’s Cross and Close Combat Clasp in Gold. He was never awarded the first two levels of the decoration.   Major...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

MG Gunner on a He 111 Cockpit

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German Machine-Gunner in the Cockpit of a two-engine Heinkel He-111 medium bomber, 1940. These He 111 crews of Kampfgeschwader 26 (KG) 26 ha...
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Bio of Generalmajor (Luftwaffe) Erich von Falkenhayn

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  Luftwaffe Generalmajor Erich von Falkenhayn (Kommandeur Luftwaffen-Bau-Brigade II) in the harsh winter of the Eastern Front, 1941/42   G...

A U.S. Navy Vought F4U-4 Corsair at Deck

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A U.S. Navy Vought F4U-4 Corsair of Bombing Fighter Squadron 82 (VBF-82) "Checkmates", piloted by Bud Geer, is preparing to take o...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Tannenberg Memorial

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  The Tannenberg Memorial, in East Prussia (now Poland) in 1939. Photo by Hugo Jäger. The Tannenberg Memorial (German: Tannenberg-National...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Photo Collage of 14. Panzer-Division

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  Soviet Union, Ukraine.- The 14th Panzer Division during the Russian campaign   The 14th Panzer Division (German: 14. Panzer-Division) wa...