[PIC GALLERY] WW2 Then & Now

[Myles]

PzKpfw IV and grenadiers of SS Division Totenkopf at the fork of the tramlines in the area of Piskunovsky Street, Kharkov. The Gosprom complex is visible in the distance. March, 1943.

 

[Myles]

Stukas over Stalingrad, 1942.

 

[Myles]

Barricades on Kommunarov Street [Lenin Ave.] Tula, Soviet Union, 1941.

 

[Myles]

T-34 [missing road wheel on it's right side] rounds a corner in Vyborg, 1944.

 

[Louis]

German troops near the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, 1940.

 

[Louis]

Pre war: The fuhrer & Goering walking in Munich, 1923.

 

[Myles]

Tiger II in Stavelot, Belgium, during the Ardennes Offensive of 16 Dec 1944 – 25 Jan 1945. The Battle of the Bulge.

 

[Louis]

Russian soldiers with PPSh-41's entering the Frankfurter Allee station in Berlin, 1945.

 

[Myles]

Devastation in the besieged town of Bastogne after a Luftwaffe bombing raid the previous night. December 1944.

 

[Myles]

Officers of the Ninth Air Force pose with a German Panther tank of Kampfgruppe Peiper knocked out in front of the Hotel des Ardennes in Ligneuville, Belgium on December 17th, 1944. The Panther was commanded by SS Untersturmführer Arndt Fisher who was badly burned in the battle. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)

 

[Myles]

Knocked out PzKpfw V Panther Ausf G, Ligneuville, Belgium, December, 1944.

 

[Louis]

Employees of the Japan Embassy in Washington close the main gates to their building after the announcement by the White House that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941.

 

[Louis]

Americans at the train station of Paestum city, Province of Salerno, Italy, sep 1943.

 

[Louis]

Sd.Kfz. 233 advances along a street in Split, former Yugoslavia, 1943.

 

[Louis]

Liberation of Paris, aug 31, 1944.

 

[Louis]

Irish members in the liberation of Centuripe, Sicily island, 1943.

 

[mTk]

I see they finally got around to putting a fence around that temple. 'bout time!

 

[Myles]

Destroyed T-34 at the intersection of Nevskaya and Karskaya streets during the Battle of Stalingrad, and the same intersection today.

 

[Dutch Grenadier]

Wow there is not much to recognise left.

 

[Myles]

True. And a nice big apartment building has sprung up on the right. But one feature still visible is the median strip with the trees on it. Might even be some of the same trees.