Picture of the Day

[Torenico]

Wehrmacht in Stalingrad.

[siben]

[THeTA0123]

awch


Is it me, or does that turret looks kinda....weird?

[siben]

No, early war tiger.

[THeTA0123]

A rare but nice T34/57. It is very stupid of the soviets to not introduce these tanks alongside the T34/76 or 85

With the standard AP round early war, it could penetrate 90mm of armor
In the later part when APCR rounds where common, it could penetrate 150mm of armor.

Imagine the amounts of tanks saved...... and wiped out on the german side  

[Sgt.Radman]

Russians were smart, they "stayed in the shadows" and developed in greatness and delivered.


JagdTiger - Bazooka hit, then the ammo racks exploded.

[Torenico]

Gun camera footage from a Spitfire MkI fighter of No.609 Squadron RAF,showing its tracer ammunition hitting a German HE III over Filton,Bristol England,25 sept 1940.





German Infantry on the move. The man on the right is carrying the mount for a Mg34, to be used in the sustained fire role.

[Rawhide]

[VonMudra]

German Infantry on the move. The man on the right is carrying the mount for a Mg34, to be used in the sustained fire role.

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You mean my lafette?

[THeTA0123]

German Infantry on the move. The man on the right is carrying the mount for a Mg34, to be used in the sustained fire role.

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You mean my lafette?

JEERRMMAAN STOLE MY LAFETTE

[silian]

C-87 Liberator Express.

[THeTA0123]

The sole penetration of the 6 Churchill tanks MKIII of King force happend on this one. THe six churchills engaged panzer forces of the 21th panzer regiment at "Kidney ridge"(Yes the kidney ridge of our FH2 El elamein).
In the battle, the churchills where hit numorous times. The most being 90 times. Only one penetration occured. 2nd Lt. Appleby and 3 of his crew members where killed. They believe it was a Flak 18 of the defenses on the kidney ridge hill. The churchills claimed 4 kills on panzers.

Kidney ridge was captured because of this unit. And they withstood the counterattack on the hill because of this unit.

http://www.northirishhorse.net/articles/7.html   <<the full story.

Much better to read then all ye fancy dandy Michael wittman stories!

[Thorondor123]

Algoth Niska. Finnish football player, smuggler, adventurer, hero, soldier and general bad-ass.

In his youth, Niska played football in the year 1912 Olympics. Right at the eve of the first world war he went to navigation school. In 1919 when the prohibition started in Finland, Niska got his own boat and started smuggling alcohol to Finland. One of his most famous stunts was unloading his illegal cargo in the middle of Helsinki, whilst the King of Sweden arrived for a visit and the are was full of people. The prohibition ended in 1932 forcing Niska to continue adventuring in different fields.

1938 he returned to smuggling, and this time he had to avoid the gestapo instead of Finnish and Swedish coastal guard. By the September '39 he had rescued over 150 Jews to Finland.

During the winter war, he fought in the are of the Ladogan Karelia.

[Sgt.Radman]

The sole penetration of the 6 Churchill tanks MKIII of King force happend on this one. THe six churchills engaged panzer forces of the 21th panzer regiment at "Kidney ridge"(Yes the kidney ridge of our FH2 El elamein).
In the battle, the churchills where hit numorous times. The most being 90 times. Only one penetration occured. 2nd Lt. Appleby and 3 of his crew members where killed. They believe it was a Flak 18 of the defenses on the kidney ridge hill. The churchills claimed 4 kills on panzers.

Kidney ridge was captured because of this unit. And they withstood the counterattack on the hill because of this unit.

http://www.northirishhorse.net/articles/7.html   <<the full story.

Much better to read then all ye fancy dandy Michael wittman stories!

+1, Rep, signed, sealed and delivered ... EVERYTHING!

[Torenico]

The Germans made excellent use of captured equipment of all types. The Marder self-propelled anti-tank gun, for example, was the Germans own 75mm Pak 40 anti-tank gun on a limited traverse mounting, on the hull of the Czechoslovak LT-38 tank, which had been used as a gun tank earlier in the war with the designation PzKpfw 38 (t)