Showing posts with label Transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transportation. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Panther Tanks Transported on the Rail


Two Panzerkampfwagen V Panthers transported on the rail. The picture was taken at Mailly le camp, Aube, France, circa 1944. Departure for Normandy?

Source :
Akira Takiguchi photo collection
http://www.history.jp/wehrmacht/034.htm
https://smolbattle.ru/threads/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B-%D0%B8-%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8F-%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8.74773/
http://souvenezvous44.blogspot.com/2020/07/depart-pour-zur-normandi-front.html
https://twitter.com/puyokuma7/status/1199381810691497984

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Paris under Occupation

Paris under occupation: Avenue des Champs-Elysées in the eyes of an unknown SS-Kriegsberichter who travelled with Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Division to France.


SS-Kriegsberichter posing in front of Eifel Tower


Source :
Akira Takiguchi photo collection
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220780743501908&set=gm.1443269669191785&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Monday, February 15, 2016

A Jeep Equipped with a Portable Radio is Loaded onto a C-47

The crew of a C-47 works with a Willys MB operator to get his ¼ ton truck (jeep) - equipped with a portable radio - on board the aircraft for transport to France. The picture was taken in England in 1944. Although experiments like this were conducted, jeeps of the U.S. Army 101St Airborne Division were most frequently landed with the division's gliders. Unlike ordinary 'leg' infantry divisions, which had 612 jeeps, the more lightly equipped airborne divisions only had 283 of this highly versatile vehicle. During World War II, the armed forces of many countries used the C-47 and modified DC-3s for the transport of troops, cargo, and wounded


Source :
Book "Screaming Eagles: The 101St Airborne Division from D-day to Desert Storm" by Christopher J. Anderson
http://historylink101.com/ww2_color/WorldWarIITransportPlanes/PICT0392.html