ww2 photos II

"A British freighter, picture taken from the U-boat that torpedoed her"

 

Sevastopol 1942, Russian pics

http://foto.sevastopol.info/gallery/war/ewar01.htm





Russian destroyer Svobodnyj in Sevastopol destroyed by Ju 87´s.

 

Troops of SS-Heimwehr Danzig in Danzig 1939.

 

More Photos below
http://stalingrad_1943.tripod.com/stalingrad/id16.html

 

Something for Martin perhaps...



Final moments - A SN-2 equipped 110G-4 under attack, possibly by a DH Mosquito

 

Kai, I could be wrong but I think this Bf 110G is being blown away by US P-47/P-51 esocrts on a day time mission in the spring of 44 ?

~E

 

Hey Kai--thanks for the Sevastopol site link. Cool pics as well. Look at the one with the Soviet Marines--tough-looking bunch of grapes wouldn't you say?

 

Indeed Herr Oberstleutnant!

The Russian Marines were quite famous and hard to beat!

 

Prelude To Peace by Ronald Wong
Early in 1945, German Occupation Forces flooded large areas of Holland to slow down the advance of the advancing Allied Troops into the Low Countries. This had the catastrophic effect on the civilian population, who by April were on the brink of starvation as their farms were under water. Faced with inevitable defeat, the German forces extended an amnesty to the Allied forces who wished to drop food supplies to the Dutch, and event that has gone down in history as Operations Mann (by the RAF) and Chow Hound (by the USAAF). Traditionally Manna has been associated with the Lancaster heavy bombers of Bomber Command, but a significant contributioin was made by the Pathfinder Force whose OBOE-nosed Mosquitos flew in advance of the main force to identify and mark the drop zones. On many of these pathfinding missions, the Mosquitoes of the Pathfinder Force carried a worthwhile amount of supplies that were dropped to the Dutch people.



Deadly chase




The lost squadron

On July 15, 1942, a squadron of six P-38 Lightnings and two B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers was flying from Greenland to Iceland when they ran head-on into an Artic blizzard. As conditions deteriorated they decided to turn back, only to then discover that the base there was socked in. Running desperately low on fuel the two bombers and six fighter planes crash-landed on the ice cap in the largest forced landing in history.

http://gtalumni.org/news/alummag/spr95/squadron.html

 

Im not sure this picture works, but if it does what kind og tank is it on the picture? (T34?)

SMJ

 

I think so too, a T-34...

 

Remember this tank previously...



British Mark III Churchill, captured after the Raid at Dieppe on August 19th of 1942.
It was originally commanded by Corporal Jordan and nicknamed "Blondie".

 

This is quite a unique picture of a M36 Tank Destroyer:

 

Tirpitz capsized with a Tallboy bomb crater in the front

http://www.warships1.com/GERbb08_Bismarck_pics.htm

 

Italian site on North Africa war- pics of Italian units



http://digilander.libero.it/avantisavoiait/Foto%20bersaglieri%20Africa%201.htm

 

Nice 88 view :

 

Hey Kai, any hint on where this 88 might be in the picture. Looks like Russia terrain but I'm not sure.

 

Hi OTF, this is a DAK picture in North Africa. Notice the putees (leggings) they are wearing. They only wore those in the DAK at that stage of the war with the exception of Gebirgejagers.

 

Yes, I found it on a DAK side!

 

August 2nd 1944, 1632 hours. Eric Sommer photographs the artificial harbor at Arromanches from his Arado 234 at an altitude of 11,000 meters. This photo which was transmitted to the German high command reveals the floating docks and more than three hundred ships.

http://aerostories.free.fr/events/juvin/page2.html