A tiger from the 508th heavy tank battalion of the Wehrmacht in Rome, in front of the Vittoriano Palace. This unit, consisting of 45 Tigers, was sent to attack the Allied foothold at Anzio and remained in the defense of northern Italy until the surrender in May 1945.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German soldier buries an unknown English soldier who was killed in a dogfight in the Egyptian desert, 1942.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
German tank Royal Tiger (Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. B Konigstiger) of the 3rd company of the 511th heavy tank battalion, shot down near the bridge in the Kassel area. During the battle, the vehicle was allegedly hit by an American M36 tank destroyer. Tank commander sergeant major Heinz Wilms.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldiers walk past an inscription left by Yugoslav partisans in the city of Hvar. The inscription in Bosnian reads: Long live our allies: the USSR, England, America!4yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
Czech post-war flamethrower tank, made on the basis of the German Hetzer light self-propelled gun, which in turn was made on the basis of a Czech tank pressed before the war, so in fact they took their ...2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
German heavy 600-mm self-propelled mortars Karl (Gerat 040, installation 040). Nearby are Pz.Kpfw ammunition transporters. IV Munitionsschlepper.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
M4A3E8, the most advanced of the truly massive American tanks of World War II. It was on these tanks that the Americans ended the war.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
This photograph shows a unique angle of view from one of Hitler's speeches in Frankfurt on March 16, 1936.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
A Red Army soldier at an anti-aircraft machine gun installation from captured MG-34 machine guns2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
A column of Soviet T-34-85 tanks moves along a bridge over a river in Germany, 1945.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
Canisters for blitzkrieg In fact, the well-known canisters (original German name Wehrmachtskanister) for transporting fuel and lubricants are a German invention created in preparation for the blitzkrieg. The canister had a number of innovations that were especially useful during the blitzkrieg.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
The American support ship LCI (R) provides unguided rocket fire for the landing of Australian troops on the coast of Tarakan Island, Borneo. April 30, 19452yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler (Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, 1900-1945) presents Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945) on the Fuhrer's birthday with figurines from the ALLACH porcelain manufactory. April 20, 19442yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
The tower of the main caliber of the battleship Mutsu (or Mitsu, type Nagato), which died on June 8, 1943 in the Hiroshima Bay as a result of the explosion of the stern cellars.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
Soldiers from the 157th US Infantry Regiment shoot SS guards from the German concentration camp Dachau. In the center of the photo is the calculation of the 7.62 mm Browning M1919A4 machine gun. The photo was taken after the first salvo .2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
British tank Sherman Firefly (Sherman Firefly) with the name Erich (Erich) on the armor in the battle near the landing zone Gold Beach in Normandy, France, 06/07/1944.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
A US Marine gives water to a kitten hiding under a wrecked Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tank from a flask on Tarawa Atoll. 19432yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
German soldiers surrender to the soldiers of the Red Army after a hand-to-hand attack. July 1941, Western Front.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A rare animal or ammunition carrier based on the Nashorn self-propelled gun, abandoned in the area of Fischhausen (now Primorsk), 1945. Why rare? Because it is almost impossible to find references and photos of this tank.4yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/DestroyedTanks
Хумано кафанско удружење ЏБУН (џенабети, баксузи, угурсузи, намћори) основано је 1932. године у Ћуприји. Редовно су држали састанке у ћупријским кафанама и прослављали су 9. торник (девети уторак после Божића, по старом веровању врло баксузан дан) као своју ,,славу.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/serbia
A Bulgarian ambulance train with a German platform carrying a captured Soviet KV-2 heavy tank and its spare engine.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
Two Soviet tankmen pose for a photo, lying in front of a German heavy tank Pz.Kpfw.VI Ausf.B King Tiger, abandoned at the Seelow Heights. 19442yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
German tank PzKpfw VI Ausf.B Royal Tiger of the 507th heavy tank battalion (Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 507), shot down by the allies during the fighting near the city of Osterode.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler (Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, 1900-1945) presents Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945) on the Fuhrer's birthday with figurines from the ALLACH porcelain manufactory. April 20, 19442yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
The Soviet T-34-76 tanks captured by the Germans were put into service by them. It is interesting that the Germans modernized the tanks: they installed commander's turrets from the Pz.III, improving visibility (one of the shortcomings of the original T-34), equipped the guns with a flame arrester,2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
На данашњи дан, 23. априла 1815. године, у Такову, на Цвети, српске старешине одлучиле су да подигну Други српски устанак. Ево мене, ето вас, рат Турцима!2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/serbia
Two German heavy tank destroyers Jagdtiger (Sd.Kfz.186 Jagdtiger) from the 2nd company of the 512th battalion of heavy tank destroyers (schwere Panzerjager-Abteilung 512), shot down in the Letmathe area, a suburb of the city of Iserlohn ) April 15, 1945. The picture was taken in the summer of 19452yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
Canisters for blitzkrieg In fact, the well-known canisters (original German name Wehrmachtskanister) for transporting fuel and lubricants are a German invention created in preparation for the blitzkrieg. The canister had a number of innovations that were especially useful during the blitzkrieg.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects 21 Wehrmacht armored divisions in Normandy. 30 May 19442yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. F2 Wehrmacht in a village in the Voronezh region. USSR, 1942.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler (Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, 1900-1945) presents Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945) on the Fuhrer's birthday with figurines from the ALLACH porcelain manufactory. April 20, 19442yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
In 1942, comparative winter tests of the Valentine, Matilda, Panzer III and T-34 tanks were carried out. Tests showed that a series of thick, trampled snow walls was a serious hindrance to foreign tanks.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
During the Second World War, five schoolchildren under the age of 16 received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union: Sasha Chekalin and Lenya Golikov - at the age of 15, Valya Kotik, Marat Kazei and Zina Portnova - at the age of 14.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Colonel General Erwin Rommel at the command post of the Africa Panzer Army unit. 19422yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Helmets of soldiers of the countries of the Axis, the period of the Second World War.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Tank destroyers Jagdtiger (Panzerjager Tiger Ausf. B mit 12,8 cm PaK 44 L / 55 Jagdtiger (Sd.Kfz. 186) in the assembly shop of the Nibelungenwerke plant (Nibelungenwerke).2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
At the beginning of World War II, the German Coca-Cola bottling factory lost its supply of ingredients from the United States. Then the Germans decided to produce another drink from food waste - apple pomace and whey - and called it Fanta (short for the word fantasy).2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
German tank Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. B Tiger II of the 503rd heavy tank battalion (Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503) in Budapest.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
During the storming of Berlin, Soviet troops lost about 100 thousand people killed. (In the photo, the Soviet Air Force over the capital of Germany, 1945).2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Normandy, the inverted Tiger. Allied battleships bombarded the coast on the day of the landings. The 406mm shells didn't hit the tanks even close, but turned them over.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
An officer of the 16th Wehrmacht Army interrogates a captured Red Army soldier with the help of an interpreter. German Army Group North.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
German troops enter the Czech city of Asch (on the border with Germany in the Sudetenland, the westernmost city of the Czech Republic). The local Germans, who made up the majority of the population of this region at that time, joyfully welcome the unification with Germany.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Girls treat the crew of a Soviet T-34 tank on a rural street. Date and place of filming unknown.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
A crew member washes the undercarriage of an ISU-122 self-propelled gun before the start of the Victory Parade in Moscow on Tverskaya Street.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Tower of the German medium tank Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. F, shot down on the Eastern Front. A vehicle from the 10th Panzer Division of the 2nd Guderian Panzer Group of the Army Group Center. On the gun mantlet is fixed headlight searchlight combat light.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
IS-2 tanks in Moscow on Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) before entering Red Square during the parade in honor of the Victory on June 24, 1945.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
The moment when a grenade from a Bazooka (M1 Bazooka) grenade launcher hit a medium German tank Pz.Kpfw. V Panther. June-July 1944. Normandy2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
“October 3, 1938, immediately after the occupation of the Sudetenland, Adolf Hitler visited Franzensbad. He had breakfast in Antonshohe (Antoninova Vyshina) and drank sour mineral water in the city itself: this photograph became a favorite souvenir of holidaymakers until 1945.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is shown a German heavy tank Pz. Kpfw. Tiger Ausf.E, captured during the fighting in Tunisia, spring 1943. This is the same tank with the tower number 131, which now stands in the tank Museum in Bovington.4yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
An American Marine carrying a baby in the jungle on Saipan. The child was the only one alive in one of the caves of Saipan after the sweep. 19442yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Girls treat the crew of a Soviet T-34 tank on a rural street. Date and place of filming unknown.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
Fifteen-year-old German Flakchelfer anti-aircraft gunner Hans-Georg Henke, captured by soldiers of the 9th US Army in the city of Rechtenbach, Germany. Flakhelfer - assistant anti-aircraft artillery from the Hitler Youth. 19452yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
November 23, 1942 - near Stalingrad, the encirclement of the 6th Army of Paulus was completed, the 330,000th group of German troops was surrounded, and the beginning of the final victory of the USSR in the Battle of Stalingrad was laid.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
We grappled with fascism when almost all of Europe was defeated by it. We remained the last hope for many nations. The world held its breath: will we stand or will the fascists prevail? G.K. Zhukov2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
203-mm B-4 howitzer (Finnish nickname - Stalin's Sledgehammer), Finland, February 1940.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
IS-2 tanks in Moscow on Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) before entering Red Square during the parade in honor of the Victory on June 24, 1945.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
dolf Hitler poses with his close associates in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 1940. On the left is Albert Speer, Hitler's personal architect, future Reich Minister for Defense Industry and Armaments. On the right is the sculptor Arno Becker.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Echelon with new tanks Pz. Kpfw. IV Ausf. G on the way to the Eastern Front. 19432yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
SS soldiers near a German convoy destroyed from the air by Allied attack aircraft. One of the soldiers in the kubelwagen is still apprehensively looking into the sky. Late July - early September 19442yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
An SS man from an SS company with a microphone for recording radio reports from the front. Eastern Front, 19421yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
American prisoners of war captured by the Germans during the Ardennes offensive2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
We grappled with fascism when almost all of Europe was defeated by it. We remained the last hope for many nations. The world held its breath: will we stand or will the fascists prevail? G.K. Zhukov2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Yugoslav general, leader of the Chetnik movement Dragoljub Mikhailovich in the Serbian village of Pranyany with representatives of the American military mission - Captain Nikola Lalich and Colonel Makdaeul. 09/06/1944.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
A column of Soviet IS-2 tanks on a road in East Prussia. 1st Belorussian Front. On the left side of the road are abandoned German Panzerfaust grenade launchers.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
German soldiers walk past an inscription left by Yugoslav partisans in the town of Hvar. The inscription in Bosnian reads: Long live our allies: the USSR, England, America!.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A child in a Soviet uniform surrounded by German soldiers. The boy is most likely a captured son of a regiment of one of the Soviet units.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Tankers of the 1st Baltic Front are resting by the fire near the M4 Sherman tank disguised with branches. October 19442yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
The German self-propelled gun Ferdinand from the 653rd battalion, destroyed by an internal explosion. Kursk Bulge, defense zone of the 70th Army, summer 1943.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
Helmets of soldiers of the countries of the Axis, the period of the Second World War.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Soviet heavy self-propelled artillery mounts SU-152 (ISU-152 in this picture) move in a parade along Volodymyrska Street past the monument to Hetman of Ukraine Bogdan Khmelnytsky on Sofia Square in Kyiv. Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR, 05/01/1945.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
In 1950, the editors of the British magazine London Illustrated News decided to fantasize about creating the so-called perfect tank. The car depicted in the illustration was a combination of American and Soviet units and aggregates used in the tank construction of both countries.4yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
The M24 Chaffee with Sdkfz 8 suspension was developed after the war as an experiment to test performance between American and foreign suspension systems.4yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/TankPorn
Fighter of the 33rd SS division Charlemagne (1st French), April 1945, Berlin. They defended the Reichstag.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A tiger from the 508th heavy tank battalion of the Wehrmacht in Rome, in front of the Vittoriano Palace. This unit, consisting of 45 Tigers, was sent to attack the Allied foothold at Anzio and remained in the defense of northern Italy until the surrender in May 1945.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
The French 370 mm howitzer M1915, manufactured by Schneider and used by the Germans as coastal artillery, was captured by the Americans.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/ww2
In 1942, comparative winter tests of the Valentine, Matilda, Panzer III and T-34 tanks were carried out. Tests showed that a series of thick, trampled snow walls was a serious hindrance to foreign tanks.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
Canisters for blitzkrieg In fact, the well-known canisters (original German name Wehrmachtskanister) for transporting fuel and lubricants are a German invention created in preparation for the blitzkrieg. The canister had a number of innovations that were especially useful during the blitzkrieg.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Саша Ристић из Рутевца купио је 1998. године испред стоваришта секундарних сировина два топа марке Krupp калибра 8cm2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/serbia
