Picture of the Day

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Zehden bridgehead 1945.

Spoiler

(slide from a color propaganda film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6FQa2CcDqs.

Trivia-bit: In March 1944, 425 examples of Flak 8.5/8.8 cm 39 (r) were in use with home-based AA units. In the final months of the war, most of these guns were transferred to frontline units, and another 100 were utilized as Festung-Pak in the West.

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Far from a crisp propaganda shot... a veteran Ausf. F from StuG.Brig. 303. Karelian Isthmus, the summer of 1944.

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77th Guards Rifle Division at Klessin Manor, 24 March 1945.

Spoiler

Panther from 1./Pz.Rgt. "Brandenburg" was knocked out on 22 March by artillery/AT-fire. The commander Lt. Eimer was killed during the break-out just short of the German lines.

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[Seth_Soldier]

zimmerit breaking from the shock ?

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zimmerit breaking from the shock ?

Yes. Zimmerit was divided by an anti-spalling grid, limiting the damaged surface as far as possible by the grids and the shock would not be transferred through the material itself.
The penetrating shot obviously killed the commander (SS-Untersturmführer Norbert Neven du Mont) of this early production Ausf. A:

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Tiger E from s.Pz.Abt. 503 at Mariupol railway station. Early spring 1943.

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SdKfz. 221 from the 3. SS-Panzer-Division "TK" in France, June 1940.

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interesting that german cross plate !

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Yugoslavia.