Picture of the Day

[nysä]

Bomber nose art, a post-war picture from Denmark (September 1945) but in real colors:

[Leopardi]

Tienhaara 25.6.1944

[Seth_Soldier]

[Matthew_Baker]

[nysä]

8.5cm Flak M.39 (r). Herrlisheim, January 1945

[Leopardi]

[Seth_Soldier]

[nysä]

Pz IV and Valentine wrecks at Dukla Pass

[Leopardi]

Finnish major observes final stages of capturing a village from a german command tank.

[Seth_Soldier]

[Matthew_Baker]

Pz IV and Valentine wrecks at Dukla Pass

Seems to have been a whole slew of weird tanks at Dukla Pass

[nysä]

Pz IV and Valentine wrecks at Dukla Pass

Seems to have been a whole slew of weird tanks at Dukla Pass

True, there was always a good amount of diversity in the armored vehicles. This applies to almost every single battle of the WWII, and the strength/allocation tables were not always that reliable; especially some front line units (Soviet and German) wrote off the old and obsolete vehicles from their official inventories, even though these veteran/donated machines were still, more or less functional 




Capitulation in Denmark, early May 1945

[Seth_Soldier]

[Leopardi]

[Matthew_Baker]

I think this image is originally in color, very cool to see non-desert colored tanks in the desert.


Osprey's Italian Medium Tanks '39-'45 says that they are M13/40s of VII M tank battalion in Libya, March 1940. They were probably transferred from the Balkans since they're still in their green/grey paint (I assume they were soon over painted with desert yellow).

The side markings show it's the first tank of the first platoon of the first company.