Picture of the Day

[Butcher]

The commander orders the driver to point the whole vehicle into a certain directon. Then the gunner aims at the target with the swivel range the gun has. If he doesn´t get the target into the swivel range, he reports to the commander/ directly to the driver if needed that the whole assault gun should be slightly turned left or right, so he can engage the target.
I think that´s one of the reasons asault-guns were better suited to set ambushes than actually assaulting. It was way easier to set ambushes with them, also because of the low silhouette.

[Rawhide]

[Dukat]

May, 2nd 1945. USS Missouri.

[SirGutz]

Soldiers from the 32nd Division crash into Montgomery’s right flank northwest of Adwa

[Torenico]

[Rawhide]

Signaller Keith Richards, Corporal John Donovan and Sergeant Frank Press (left to right), from the Australian 2/2nd Independent Company, using a radio on a mountain top in Japanese-occupied Timor, in about November 1942. (Photograph by Damien Parer.)

The Battle of Timor occurred in Portuguese Timor and Dutch Timor during the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded the island on 20 February 1942 and were resisted by a small, under-equipped force of Allied military personnel—known as Sparrow Force—predominantly from Australia and the Netherlands East Indies. Following a brief but stout resistance, the Japanese succeeded in forcing the surrender of the bulk of the Allied force after three days of fighting, however several hundred Australian commandos continued to wage an unconventional raiding campaign. They were resupplied by aircraft and vessels, based mostly in Darwin, Australia, about 650 km (400 mi) to the southeast, across the Timor Sea. During the subsequent fighting the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, but they were eventually able to contain the Australians.

[Dukat]

USS Bunker Hill, May 11th, 1945

[SirGutz]

[LuckyOne]

^Why are they putting shells on the roof of a house ... 

[THeTA0123]

^Why are they putting shells on the roof of a house ... 

Not sure if trolling................

[Mayhemic.MAD]

That panther pic is taken in Italy, near the Rapido River. I saw it just a few days ago in a book about the Battle for Monte Cassino.


Bombing of Cassino, March the 15th, 1944.

[Zrix]

^Why are they putting shells on the roof of a house ... 

Not sure if trolling................

Here, take this

[Torenico]

Fighting to the bitter end, the Armee de L'Air shot down this Henschel 126 on the 24th of June 1940. It was brought down at 6.15p.m by S/Lt. Marchelidon of GC I/2 (probably him in the photo) during an observation sortie between Romans and Valence. Fw H-J. Lessing was killed and Oberlt C. Jahn was badly wounded dying the next day and thus becoming the last German airman killed in action in the Battle of France. This airplane was the last German aircraft shot down by French fighters prior to the Armistice.

[THeTA0123]

^Why are they putting shells on the roof of a house ... 

Not sure if trolling................

Here, take this

oooh god this baby is OFF THE CHARTS!

[SirGutz]

RSI-soldiers with le IG 18