German Infantry

[Louis]

Probably recruits at the shooting range. Germany, 1942.

 

[Gunner]

It kind of makes me sad to see such youthful enthusiasm and thinking where they will be in a year or two.

 

[Nort]

It kind of makes me sad to see such youthful enthusiasm and thinking where they will be in a year or two.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Louis]

Hungary, 1945. Studying the map before their mission. The end of everything was near.

 

[Rico]

Winter on the Eastern Front 1943/44.

 

[Rico]

German infantry training for close up anti tank work with a T-34 mock up.

 

[Louis]

Waiting for orders, Tobruk, Nov 1941.

 

[Rico]

Caption said this was Oberstleutnant Bruno Kikillus of the Grossdeutschland Panzer Division, Summer 1944.

 

[Nathangun]

Waiting for orders, Tobruk, Nov 1941.

Furlong hope are the words that spring to mind in that photo.

 

[Louis]

I can only imagine the dialogue: -I could swear I saw Russians nearby.
Stalingrad. Sept, 1942.

 

[mTk]

"I don't think the is a sniper in that building to the left".

 

[Louis]

Unknown place and date, but curious image.

 

[mTk]

Just a couple of good friends hanging out.

 

[Nort]

I’m wondering what they are up to in the background. Digging a mass grave?

 

[Louis]

Members of the Fallschirmjäger on a reconnaissance patrol somewhere the Italian mountains, Feb 1944

 

[Rico]

Nicely posed

 

[Rico]

A seemingly VERY pleased Fallschirmjager posing with his trophy -- a captured Bren gun.

 

[Nort]

A seemingly VERY pleased Fallschirmjager posing with his trophy -- a captured Bren gun.

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Is the Bren a superior weapon to an MG 34?

 

[Nathangun]

Is the Bren a superior weapon to an MG 34?

I don't think so. Better than their rifles.

 

[Rico]

Is the Bren a superior weapon to an MG 34?

Let's not get that old debate started...LOL