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Tiger on a truck.

How to care for your Tiger.

Tiger, with flak.

Afrika Korps

Generaloberst Heinz Guderian visited the 13./SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 of the Leibstandarte Division in his capacity as Inspector General of the Armored Forces in mid-April 1943, Kharkov area, Ukraine. The company commander’s tank ‘Tiger 405’ is displayed for Guderian.





British soldiers advance in Carlentini, Sicily - Italy 1943

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The prototype tank IS-100 with a 100-mm gun during factory testing in the courtyard of the Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant

More Russian mud. Three Tigers.

Tigers on a train.

Tiger 112 of Panzer Abteilung 501.

German artillery observation car SdKfz 253 on the road to Novgorod.



Germans moving through a Soviet factory in Stalingrad .



British troops advancing toward Caen, D-Day - 1944 .

Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) Single-Seat Scout Helicopter 
The Fl 282 Kolibri was an improved version of the Flettner Fl 265 announced in July 1940, which pioneered the same intermeshing rotor configuration that the Kolibri used. It had a 7.7 litre displacement, seven-cylinder Siemens-Halske Sh 14 radial engine of 150-160 hp mounted in the center of the fuselage, with a transmission mounted on the front of the engine from which a drive shaft ran to an upper gearbox, which then split the power to a pair of opposite-rotation drive shafts to turn the rotors.[2]
The German Navy was impressed with the Kolibri and wanted to evaluate it for submarine spotting duties, ordering an initial 15 examples, to be followed by 30 production models. Flight testing of the first two prototypes was carried out through 1941, including repeated takeoffs and landings from a pad mounted on the German cruiser Köln.
The first two "A" series prototypes had enclosed cockpits; all subsequent examples had open cockpits and were designated "B" series.
Intended roles of Fl 282 included ferrying items between ships and reconnaissance. However, as the war progressed, the Luftwaffe began considering converting the Fl 282 for battlefield use. Until this time the craft had been flown by a single pilot, but by then a position for an observer was added at the very rear of the craft, resulting in the B-2 version. Later the B-2 proved a useful artillery spotting aircraft and an observation unit was established in 1945 comprising three Fl 282 and three Fa 223 helicopters.
Good handling in bad weather led the German Air Ministry to issue a contract in 1944 to BMW to produce 1,000 units. However, the company's Munich plant was destroyed by Allied bombing raids after producing just 24 machines.
Towards the end of World War II most of the surviving Fl 282s were stationed at Rangsdorf, in their role as artillery spotters, but gradually fell victim to Soviet fighters and anti-aircraft fire.

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Soviet paratroopers behind enemy lines, preparing to open fire from 50-mm mortar. Battle for Moscow 1941


Soviet soldiers sleep in the "Willis". On the hood a trophy MG.34. Prague 1945

A late Tiger Ausf. E in Hungarian service in 1944, Galicia. The Hungarian 2. Armoured Division had few Tiger in the Summer of 1944

Campaign against soviet union /eastern front, theater of war: German assault gun crossing the Teterew river (Ukraina) July 1941



German soldiers in Spartanovka, in the outskirts of Stalingrad.



Soldiers of the Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 “Hermann Göring”. Date/Location unknown.



Waiting for orders. A group of Leibstandarte Division soldiers rest in a ditch during the fighting around Belgorod in the early phase of Operation Zitadelle, July 1943.

This photograph shows A.T.S. Aircraft Spotters using specially designed chairs on 24th September 1941.