Picture of the Day

[Eat Uranium]

Continuing the theme of the update:

The crew of a Sherman ARV pose with an intact German PzKpfw IV tank which they successfully recovered and brought back to 27th Armoured Brigade workshops, 3 July 1944. This vehicle had the turret number '612'.

[Sir Apple]

Bougainville - American aiming at looks to be a Japanese soldier... but its very difficult to tell.

[Neverdies]

Women's Army Corps Boarding Transport
Original caption: At a port in southern England, a group of U.S .Army WACs board a troop transport, via gangplank, on their way to France.
Date Photographed:         July 15, 1944
Location Information:         England, UK

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

Thats a T17E3 Staghound, Torenico.



Rommel's retreat from Africa.

[bosco]

[Seth_Soldier]

[Eat Uranium]

A soldier crouches near a knocked-out German PzKpfw III tank in Oosterhout near Nijmegen, 27 September 1944.

[Dukat]

"...and remember: when the photographer comes up: BE COOL!"

[Seth_Soldier]

[Flippy Warbear]

Pretty colours! 


POTD:




Finnish used Maxim Sokolov on a sled, used in combat at Maaselkä Isthmus, during the 1941-42 Red Army counterattack right after the finnish advance had stopped to where they remained until 1944.

[bosco]

Flakturm in Berlin

[bosco]

That's some really huge buggers 

Yup... here's another one:


pardon the double post

[hOMEr_jAy]

Yeah, those Flak towers were monsters. AFAIK they still exist today and the Allies weren´t able to destroy them because they were too massive.
New pic:
German soldiers arrest French Resistance fighters:

[SirGutz]

Captured  Matilda II

[Torenico]

Flakturm is awesome!




Tiger II was something like a bullet magnet..