This Russian anti-aircraft battery, commanded by Senior Lieut. N. Sosynov, had shot down five enemy aircraft. Accurate marksmanship of such men as...
A small calibre anti-aircraft gun sheltered by makeshift sandbags, guarding part of the Channel coast of France. This type of scene was repealed...
Before the introduction of the standard {Einheit) vehicles, the German army made extensive use of commercial cars as a means of motorizing the...
The Luftwaffe in Russia was said to be so deficient in fighter planes in 1943 that bomber formations operated with little fighter escort; the...
A Nazi leader in Hamburg, Germany, seen standing in front of a huge swastika in 1933. He was telling the assembled citizens that they must...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Heinkel He 111 Role Medium bomber Manufacturer Heinkel Flugzeugwerke Designed by Siegfried and...
Petlyakov Pe-2 [ATTACH][ATTACH] Role Bomber Manufacturer Petlyakov Designed by Vladimir Petlyakov First flight 22 December 1939...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]Arado Ar 234 Role Reconnaissance Bomber Manufacturer Arado Flugzeugwerke Designed by Walter Blume First flight 15...
Role Heavy fighter / strike aircraft Manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company First flight 17 July 1939 Introduction 27 July 1940 Retired...
Enemy secrets were sometimes laid bare when aeronautical experts, held post mortems on captured aircraft. Here was an ingenious apparatus found in...
A machine gun post in a front line trench during the retreat to the Siegfried Line, February 1917. As German infantry companies received more...
In the great battles on the Russian front millions of German soldiers died. But very few had their obituary notices in the German newspapers, and...
Werner Pluskat was a German Major who died in 1996, commander of the 352nd Artillery of the German 352nd Infantry Division during Allied invasion...
After lieutenant general Mark W. Clarkâs U.S. Fifth Army captured Rome on June 6, 1944, Field Marshal Albrecht Kesselring, the German commander in...
Drifting in the North Atlantic after their ship had been torpedoed by a German U-boat; these three exhausted survivors were picked up by a...
Armed with a tommy-gun this Russian Girl helps guard German prisoners near Veliki Luki. [img]
Captured German aircraft, a large number of which fell into Allied hands in Libya, were often made serviceable whenever possible, and given test...
Australians posing around an abandoned German 15cm artillery piece after the battle of EI Alamein; note the variety of clothing and headgear. [img]
Battleships in miniature, as corvettes had been aptly termed, were among the 600 warships and auxiliaries which were engaged in the grim struggle...
Schoolboy Victims of a German Raider were buried with their headmaster Mr. Charles Stephenson and a woman teacher in a common grave on Oct 3rd...