During the Battle of the Bulge , allied soldiers decorated their helmets with lace curtains, after realizing it provided excellent camouflage in the snow - December 1944.1yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
In this photo, Corporal Allan Bartlett scans the ruins through the scope of his Lee-Enfield No.4 MkI (T). Every time he was questioned about the number of enemy soldiers he had killed, Corporal Bartlett simply replied: “Several...”1yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
«You have to understand that it took me nearly forty years before I could look at our 1942 company picture and not break into tears, particularly if it was December or January». Continued in the comments.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldier with a “Zielgerat 1229” night-vision scope, on an StG 44 assault rifle. Code Name: “Vampir” (Eastern Front - 1945)3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Marine with a Browning Automatic Rifle. Note on back reads “May 17 1942, New River NC - some pop gun. Excuse the cigarette, guess I was nervous.” A sympathy card to a Gold Star mother was found with this photograph.1yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
“Band of Brothers” German Style. German Luftwaffe Paras having a break and some rest in Heraklion after the battle for Kreta. 1941.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An 8.8cm FlaK 36 gun crew poses for the camera during a lull in the fighting during the early winter of 1945. Note the guns splinter shield boasting a vast array of painted tanks denoting kills.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Remember that famous photo on the left? “Wait for me, dad!”, 5-year-old Warren Bernard, breaking free from his mother's hands, ran to his father, Private Jack Bernard, 1940. Well, Jack survived the war and returned home in October 1945.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A local woman and her dog look strangely out of place on the beach at La Panne (De Panne) just across the French-Belgian border from Dunkirk (Dunkerque) shortly after Operation Dynamo - June 1940.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
On April 20, 1945, during an air battle over Germany, Eduard Schallmoser Messerschmitt Me.262 collided with the American Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber. Schallmoser still managed to jump out by parachute. He landed in the garden in front of his parents house right in front of his amazed mother.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Hitler and generals review armored fighting vehicles Jagdpanzer, Hetzer on his 55th birthday. 20 april 1944.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
On April 20, 1945, during an air battle over Germany, Eduard Schallmoser Messerschmitt Me.262 collided with the American Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber. Schallmoser still managed to jump out by parachute. He landed in the garden in front of his parents house right in front of his amazed mother.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
USMC war dog “Caesar von Steuben” is x-rayed by Navy corpsmen after being wounded on patrol during the fight for Bougainville. More information in the comments2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
November 1942. Hauptmann Friedrich Konrad Winkler (center) assigns a combat mission to the soldiers of the 305th Infantry Division in the vicinity of the Barricades Stalingrad plant. More information in the comments.1yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
“Band of Brothers” German Style. German Luftwaffe Paras having a break and some rest in Heraklion after the battle for Kreta. 1941.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Heer Lt. Walther Oberloskamp sits on his StuG III with 40 kill rings on the barrel. While commanding a platoon of StuG Brigade 667 on the Eastern Front Oberloskamp knocked out 40 Soviet armored vehicles in a single battle. More information in the comments.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Germany 1945. These four Wehrmacht soldiers await an allied attack. The soldier far left is aiming with sniper-rifle-His k98. Two others are passing Handgrenades.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
MG-34 on the german positions. The Soviet Union, 1943. Franz Grasser.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Christian Tychsen born the December 3th 1910 and died the July 28th 1944 (aged 33) he was Obersturmbannfuhrer in the Waffen SS. More information in the comments...2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Fritz Rentrop. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross on October 13, 1941 for taking a railway bridge across river Desna near Makoshino/Russia with only four soldiers of his unit (2nd Battery/SS-Flak-Abteilung 2 “Das Reich”).2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Aftermath of Stalingrad - January 30, 1943. Two soldiers arm in arm who just fought a senseless fight. Feelings of fear is largely felt in this photo.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Adolf Hitler visits the old front line trenches of his Bavarian 16th Reserve Regiment near Fromelles in 1940. Hitlers regiment held this line for 18 months.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German paratroopers resting in a courtyard during the second phase of the Battle of Cassino, 1944.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
«Sleeping dogs should not be woken up». A signed photograph taken on the Eastern Front.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Gefreiter Christian Lohrey : the youngest holder of the Knight’s Cross, awarded on march 11-1945 at the age of 17 years and 7 months. He destroyed 8 Soviet tanks using Panzerfaust.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Joachim Peiper on the cover of the magazine «Stuttgarter Illustrierte». 1941.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
An Allied soldier keeps watch over German prisoners during the liberation of Paris, France - 26 August 1944. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An injured German soldier who was separated from his unit surrenders to Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. Humain (Marche-en-Famenne), Province of Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium. 28 December 1944.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Wehrmacht Unteroffizier petting the unit’s mascotte. Eastern Front 1941.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Field Marshal Walter Model took command of the retreating German armies in France in mid-August 1944. “Did you see those eyes?” Hitler once said of Model. “I wouldn’t want to serve under him.”2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Original photo of a Panther tank climbing a ridge on the Eastern Front.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
My great-grandfather, a sniper of the 127th border regiment of the NKVD troops. Details in the comments.1yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
View from an American A-20 Havoc aircraft during a bomb run against a Japanese airfield, 1943-1945.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Chetniks kill the captured communist partisan. More info in the comments.1yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Arnhem, after the war. Two Dutch boys playing with a British rapid-fire 6-pounder cannon, 1945.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
British paratroopers of the 1st Parachute Regiment (who had been known as the Red Devils since 1942) taken prisoner in Arnhem, September 1944.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Horst Prebster of the 4th Armored Division riding a wooden toy horse beside a Panzer III.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Oberstleutnant der Reserve Wilhelm Schoning. Note the highest Romanian military decoration - Ordinul Mihai Viteazul / The Order of Michael the Brave 3. class; as well as some nice Mensur scars.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German Wehrmacht soldiers rest in the sweltering summer heat during a lull in the Battle of Belgorod. The sign states “The shortest way home is as a Russian war captive.” July 1943. Image take by Franz Grasser.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German soldiers of the 6th Parachute Division (6. Fallschirmjager-Division) who had surrendered to Canadian forces march past curious Dutch civilians on their way to the port city of Den Helder. North Holland, Netherlands. May 1945.2yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Refuelling for the German tanks Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. J on the eastern front, 1944.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Giuseppina Gersi, murdered at the age of 13 by Italian communists. Giuseppina's only crime is that at school she was awarded for a panegyric composed in honor of Duce. More information in the comments!3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
