Looks like he has a couple of nice bottles of wine to keep him company.
German guns/ artillery/ self-prop arty
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Smile for the camera! With Panzerfaust and Stielhandgranate at a train station, before redeployment to the front. Germany, 1944.
I wonder how long he lasted?
I was thinking the same thing.
I wonder how long that smile lasted.
I wonder how long that smile lasted.
It looks to me like he had NO idea what was going on.
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A German 8.8cm Flak firing on British tanks near the Egypt/Libya border, Nov 1941.
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Morser 81mm mortar. Somewhere in Holland, May 1940.
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Installing a Werfer-Granate 21 rocket (210 mm) on a Fw 190.
"...The Werfer-Granate 21 rocket launcher, also known as the BR 21 (Bordrakete) was the first on-board rocket in Luftwaffe service, first introduced in mid 1943. This weapon enabled the German pilots to attack the bomber targets out to a distance of 1,200 metres (1,300 yd). These weapons were also sometimes used against ground targets from late 1943 onwards..."
"...The Werfer-Granate 21 rocket launcher, also known as the BR 21 (Bordrakete) was the first on-board rocket in Luftwaffe service, first introduced in mid 1943. This weapon enabled the German pilots to attack the bomber targets out to a distance of 1,200 metres (1,300 yd). These weapons were also sometimes used against ground targets from late 1943 onwards..."
Here I am thinking "Bordrakete' in German meant something like "Dragon Breath" or some such tough sounding name.
Nope.
Bordrakete = Onboard rocket
Nope.
Bordrakete = Onboard rocket
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8.8cm Pak 43, whose destiny had been to be the armament of a Jagdpanther, but here employed as a fixed emplacement. Germany, 1945.
Same gun in Tiger II also.
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A 8.8cm Flak 36 being transported by rail somewhere on the Eastern Front; observe their victories.
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German 150mm heavy field howitzer being inspected by the Russians, 1942.
Schwimmwagen with a 20mm Flak.
Around 50 or so were converted to give some measure of AA cover for infantry units, late '44.
Must've been hell on the suspension.
Around 50 or so were converted to give some measure of AA cover for infantry units, late '44.
Must've been hell on the suspension.
I wonder how well it schwimmed with a thousand pound gun in it's back seat.
I wonder how well it schwimmed with a thousand pound gun in it's back seat.
More like a Sinkwagen
I’m sure everything went … swimmingly.I wonder how well it schwimmed with a thousand pound gun in it's back seat.
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Using a MG15. The machine gun used the 7.92mm bullet, and was developed in the 1920s specifically for use in the anti-aircraft role, with 75 round. Date and location unknown.
Luftwaffe units providing overwatch for Me109’s.