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Here is a Link with some Amazing Color Pictures of World War Two:

http://www.warcolorphotos.com/

Bachem Ba 349 Natter (Adder/Viper) Vertically-Launched, Rocket-Powered Interceptor 
The Bachem Ba 349 Natter was designed to quickly respond to incoming Allied bomber formations and attack with high-explosive rockets.
The Bachem Ba 349 Natter (English: Viper, Adder) was a World War II German point-defence rocket powered interceptor, which was to be used in a very similar way to a manned surface-to-air missile. After a vertical take-off, which eliminated the need for airfields, the majority of the flight to the Allied bombers was to be controlled by an autopilot. The primary mission of the relatively untrained pilot, was to aim the aircraft at its target bomber and fire its armament of rockets. The pilot and the fuselage containing the rocket motor would then land under separate parachutes, while the nose section was disposable. The only manned vertical take-off flight on 1 March 1945 ended in the death of the test pilot, Lothar Sieber.

Caught in the act!

Caught in the act!

plz guys keep the thread clean , lol , dappy you yankee weasel .

75 LeIG (in COH2... this is the OKW version of a mortar)
Development of the gun began in 1927, by Rheinmetall. The crew was protected by an armoured shield. There was a mountain gun variant, the 7.5 cm le.GebIG 18. For transport, the mountain variant could be broken down into six to ten packs, the heaviest weighing 74.9 kg. The Germans would typically assign two of these to each mountain battalion. Six 7.5 cm le.IG 18F were manufactured in 1939. These were airborne guns, capable of being broken down into four 140 kg loads. The airborne variant had smaller wheels and no shield. There was also an infantry support gun, known as the 7.5 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/13, which was designed as a replacement for the le.IG 18, this gun could be broken into four to six loads.

The famous Sherman tank. Not nearly as powerful in real life as they are in COH2.

One more Sherman in trouble

And finally, this one. A catastrophic hit.

my favourite architecture: flaktowers

Simo Hayha
Super Sniper
Häyhä was born in the municipality of Rautjärvi near the present-day border of Finland and Russia, and started his military service in 1925. Before entering combat, Häyhä was a farmer and hunter. At the age of 20, he joined the Finnish militia Suojeluskunta and succeeded with his marksman skills in shooting sports in Viipuri province. His home was reportedly full of trophies for marksmanship. Häyhä in the 1940s, with visible damage to his left cheek after his 1940 wound
During the Winter War (1939–1940) between Finland and the Soviet Union, Häyhä served as a sniper for the Finnish Army against the Red Army in the 6th Company of JR 34 during the Battle of Kollaa in temperatures between −40 °C (−40 °F) and −20 °C (−4 °F), dressed completely in white camouflage. Stalin’s purges of military experts caused chaos, and Soviet troops were not issued with white camouflage suits for most of the war, making them easily visible to snipers.[5] Häyhä has been credited with 505 sniper kills. A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was made for the Finnish snipers. All of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days – an average of just over five kills per day – at a time of year with very few daylight hours. Häyhä used an M/28-30, with serial number 60974, because it suited his small frame (1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)). The rifle is a shorter, Finnish White Guard militia variant of the Mosin–Nagant rifle, known as "Pystykorva" (literally "Spitz", due to the front sight's resemblance to the head of a spitz-type dog) chambered in the Finnish Mosin–Nagant cartridge 7.62×53R. He preferred iron sights over telescopic sights as to present a smaller target for the enemy (a sniper must raise his head higher when using a telescopic sight), to increase accuracy (a telescopic sight's glass can fog up easily in cold weather), and to aid in concealment (sunlight glare in telescopic sight lenses can reveal a sniper's position). As well as these tactics, he frequently packed dense mounds of snow in front of his position to conceal himself, provide padding for his rifle and reduce the characteristic puff of snow stirred up by the muzzle blast. He was also known to keep snow in his mouth whilst sniping, to prevent steamy breaths giving away his position in the cold air. The Soviets' efforts to kill Häyhä included counter-snipers and artillery strikes,[citation needed] and on March 6, 1940, Häyhä was hit by an explosive bullet[citation needed] in his lower left jaw by a Red Army soldier, blowing off his lower left cheek. He was picked up by fellow soldiers who said "half his face was missing", but he did not die, regaining consciousness on March 13, the day peace was declared. Shortly after the war, Häyhä was promoted from alikersantti (Corporal) to vänrikki (Second lieutenant) by Field Marshal Mannerheim.
It took several years for Häyhä to recuperate from his wound. The bullet had crushed his jaw and blown off his left cheek. Nonetheless, he made a full recovery and became a successful moose hunter and dog breeder after World War II, and hunted with the Finnish President Urho Kekkonen.
When asked in 1998 how he had become such a good shooter, Häyhä answered, "Practice." When asked if he regretted killing so many people, he said, "I only did my duty, and what I was told to do, as well as I could." Simo Häyhä spent his last years in Ruokolahti, a small municipality located in southeastern Finland, near the Russian border. Simo Häyhä died in a war veterans' nursing home in Hamina in 2002 at the age of 96,and was buried in Ruokolahti.

To show u some color of the war:









By the way: one one has a colored pic of a 3,7cm flak or a Bison spg, or? ^^

Here is one colored flak. Still looking for more.

s.Pz.Abt. 508 Tiger at Anzio. Foward observer Robert Griffin lived under this s.Pz.Abt. 508 Tiger at Anzio. Ground air spotters could call in naval gunfire as well as land based artillery, tank and tank destroyer to neutralise germans attempts to reduce the beach head. The engine cover is in the raised position on this Tiger and a glancing blow from an AP shot has hit the turret side.

Wait, is that really a Deutche Bank branch?? How bloody old is that bank?!


This one looks like a painting.


Russians using a Bofors?

Wait, is that really a Deutche Bank branch?? How bloody old is that bank?!

Deutsche Bank is really old, it was founded in March 1870. If you are interested, you should look up the rise of Deutsche bank. It would scare you to see what Deutsche banks and others have become now lol.

Russians using a Bofors?

Nope. Looks like a soviet 37mm M1939 61-K anti air gun. The standard AA gun of the red army tank and mechanized corps during the 1944-45 operations (the tank corps and the mechanized corps had 24 37mm guns at the AA regiment - keep in mind that a soviet "corps" was equal to a german armored division - on paper).

SS Panzergrenadier troops of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Division in Kharkov. Third Battle of Kharkov, March 1943.