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Parade of the Naval Arrows of the Falange Youth Organisation
before the Count of Pace and other Italian dignitaries. Barcelona, 1939.
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A279 Remagen - First Army's First Engineer Heavy Pontoon Bn., to reach the Rhine, the 86th loads the first heavy tank on a ferry prior to crossing to the enemy shore. This battalion reached the Rhine the day following the capture of the Ludendorf bridge. Immediately ferries were constructed and operated, under artillery fire, to ferry needed troops and supplies to the far shore. 3/12/45.Photo courtesy of NARA.
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German motorcycle courier in Eastern Front, 1942
Riding on an exposed vehicle in the Russian Winter, here a combination motorcycle, required protective clothing. This Kradfahrer wears a sentry’s fur-lined overcoat, heavy mittens, the fur-lined cap of the reversible winter suit, which is no doubt being worn beneath the overcoat, and a gas-mask for face protection. The air filter canister has been removed from the gas-mask 38. Special extra eyepiece lens were issued for cold weather to prevent fogging by creating an airspace between the two lens.
The German military was the largest employers of motorcycles during World War II 1939-45. On June 22, 1941 Germany launched its Operation Barbarossa, the 3-million-man invasion of the Soviet Union. During the campaigns that followed, the military motorcyclist served a variety of functions including chauffeur service for officers, delivering dispatches, even hot meals, as scouting patrols, as point vehicles taking the brunt of battle, sometimes as specially equipped tank destroyers. As with all motorcyclists, there was a kinship among these soldiers who called themselves “kradmelder” (military motorcycle messenger). They rode exposed without the armor plating of the Panzers, without the safety of hundreds of foot soldiers beside them. Moving targets as it were, sniper magnets, and then there were mine fields, artillery fire, and strafing aircraft to contend with.
The other enemy was the Russian weather. By autumn the roads had turned into nearly impassable bogs, the fields over which the motorcycles traveled turning in to “seas of jelly three feet more deep”. By winter, temperatures fell to -40 degrees Celsius, engine oil and exposed soldiers froze solid. Some German motorcycle riders benefited from special heating systems grafted onto their bikes, including foot and hand warmers. However, by war’s end, many if not most of the motorcycles, along with their riders, never returned home.
source: http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german-motorcycle-courier-in-eastern-front-1942/
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forbidden to let horses drink in a 30m radius
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In this picture we can see the effects of a 152 mm shell versus a Panther.
In the next picture we can see the effects of the 152 mm shell versus what I believe to be a Elefant.
In the following picture we can see the devastating effects that the 152 mm round had on the turret of this unfortunate Tiger II model H.
In this last picture we can see what the 152 mm shell could do versus a Tiger II frontally. It penetrates with ease.
If anyone is interested, this is where I found these pictures: http://tankarchives.blogspot.nl/2013/03/suisu-152-vs-german-big-cats.html
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In the next picture we can see the effects of the 152 mm shell versus what I believe to be a Elefant.
The Cyrilics say "Ferdinand" which was more or less an Elefant
Good find BTW
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The Cyrilics say "Ferdinand" which was more or less an Elefant
Good find BTW
Thanks for the translation! So that must have been during 1943 and around the Operation Citadel time, since that is the only time that Ferdinands were used before they revamped them to the Elefant.
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A Parisian newspaper stand selling only German publications, in the boulevard des Italiens, Paris. (1940)
http://66.media.tumblr.com/531b55e0453a05170f07cb5b3154119f/tumblr_nwhsn4wkzQ1up72m4o5_1280.jpg
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Thanks for the translation! So that must have been during 1943 and around the Operation Citadel time, since that is the only time that Ferdinands were used before they revamped them to the Elefant.
NWs.
I'm from a Serb background, and dont know much Russian, but alphabet has more ore less same chars.
Looks like the distance that the shot was made from was 1200m... scary!
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NWs.
I'm from a Serb background, and dont know much Russian, but alphabet has more ore less same chars.
Looks like the distance that the shot was made from was 1200m... scary!
Nice work then! Damn 1200m, sick range..
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Nice work then! Damn 1200m, sick range..
All shots are fired from almost point blank, they just adjust the powder fillings so the shells hit with a velocity as if they were fired from 1,2km.
Don't think anybody is going to waste their time shooting from that far out trying to hit specific areas of a tank
Also, the website you pull this information from is very biased and not very scientific. Mister Samsonov is a flaming nationalist. I've read the actual reports this site uses and it tells a different story.
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