Picture of the Day

[Torenico]

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Any known background?. That's a thing you don't see every day...




A German column is being attacked by at least a pair of British Fairey Battles during the Battle of France, 1940

[nysä]

[Hjaldrgud]

[Seth_Soldier]

it must be just a scratch 

[Seth_Soldier]

[nysä]

[nysä]

Any known background?. That's a thing you don't see every day...

"A Jagdpanzer 38(t) followed by a Panzer II Ausf. F in Neuland (Niwnice) between 18 and 22 February 1945 during the offensive on Seifersdorf (Mściszów). These machines belong to the 8. Panzer-Division (XXVII. Armeekorps, Heeresgruppe Mitte)."

[Torenico]

Any known background?. That's a thing you don't see every day...

"A Jagdpanzer 38(t) followed by a Panzer II Ausf. F in Neuland (Niwnice) between 18 and 22 February 1945 during the offensive on Seifersdorf (Mściszów). These machines belong to the 8. Panzer-Division (XXVII. Armeekorps, Heeresgruppe Mitte)."

Amazing!, weird to see a Panzer II in that stage of the war that wasn't even converted to something else...

Thanks




Two camoufalged Königstigers belonging to the sPz.Abt.501 await the Soviets, Poland 1944.

[nysä]

Amazing!, weird to see a Panzer II in that stage of the war that wasn't even converted to something else...

Thanks

There were 145 Panzer II (+ 534 Pz III) "in action" by March 1945. The real number was probably higher since many of the Panzer units didn't even bother to mention the surviving, obsolete vehicles (incl. Pz II) in monthly status reports by 1944. Still very useful as a recon/support/antipartisan vehicle, plus the planned conversions (eg. Pz III into StuGs) were constantly interfered by the Allied bombing.

[Seth_Soldier]

[Leopardi]

[Kasztelan]

Marines and Army ground crews look over the first Sikorsky R-4 helicopter to land in the fighter strip on Iwo Jima, Mar 23, 1945.

[Hjaldrgud]

You vs the man your gf tells you not to worry about

[VonMudra]

That's not even a normal Panzer III, that's a Panzer III Beobachter tank- used for artillery observation.   It has a dummy cannon and the center position on the mantlet just as a spot for an MG34.

[nysä]