WW2 Pictures and Videos

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On the eve of the Battle of Kursk . Running infantry tanks. The soldiers in the trenches and the T-34 tank , which overcomes the trench , passing over them . 1943.

German machine gunner with the MG- 42

"Panther" preparing for "Operation Citadel ."

Self-propelled howitzers «Wespe» 2nd Battalion Artillery Regiment "Gross Deutschland" on the march . Operation "Citadel" , July 1943 .

German tanks Pz.Kpfw.III before operation "Citadel" in the Soviet village

The crew of a Soviet tank T- 34-76 "Marshal Choibalsan " (from the tank column " Revolutionary Mongolia ") and gives the rest to the troops . Kursk , 1943 .

The break in the German trenches

Peasant tells Soviet scouts on the location of enemy units . To the north of the city of Orel , 1943

 

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German 105 - mm self-propelled guns , " Vespa » (Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe) of the 74 th Mobile Artillery Regiment 2nd Panzer Division , passes next to the abandoned Soviet 76 - mm gun ZIS- 3 near the town of Eagle . German offensive operation "Citadel" . Orel region, in July 1943 .

"Tigers" are going to attack .

A press photographer of the newspaper " Krasnaya Zvezda" O. Knorring and cameraman Ivan Malov are shooting the prisoner interrogation Obergefreiter A. Baushhofa voluntarily defected to the Red Army. Interrogation is Captain SA Mironov (right) and translator Jonas (center) . Orel- Kursk sector , July 7, 1943.

German soldiers on the Kursk Bulge . Top visible part of the body radio -controlled tank B-IV.

Soviet artillery destroyed German tanks ,tanks Pz.Kpfw. III ( one of the tanks has a number F 23 ) . N. FAS Kursk Bulge ( the village Glazunovka ) . July 5, 1943

Tank assault sappers - demolition (sturmpionieren) of SS Division " Das Reich " on the armor assault gun StuG III Ausf F. Kursk , 1943 .

Destroyed Soviet tank T -60 .

Destroyed " Ferdinand"

 

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" Ferdinand " destroyed by a direct hit from a Soviet dive bomber Pe- 2 . Tactical number is unknown . District station and Ponyri farm " May 1 "

" Ferdinand " tail number " 723 " from the 654 Battalion, padded in the area of the farm " May 1st " . Shell impacts destroyed caterpillar and jam the gun. The car was part of the " assault group Major Kal " consisting of 505 th Heavy Tank Battalion 654 th Division.

"Tiger " The tank belongs to the 503 -th a heavy tank battalion , filmed July 15, 1943

Tank column moving to the front.

"Tigers" from the 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion .

Katyusha firing .

The tanks "Tiger" SS Panzer Division " Das Reich " .

 

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American tanks M3s " General Lee " comes in the Soviet Union under the Lend -Lease Act , extends to the front edge of Defense of the Soviet 6th Guards Army . Kursk , in July 1943 .

Soviet soldiers have lined the "Panther " . July 1943. ( historian Aleksei Isayev said that this picture is likely in 1944 , as this modification Panthers produced no earlier than 1944 )

" Ferdinand " tail number " 731 " , chassis number 150090 from the 653rd Division , struck a mine in the defense zone of the 70th Army . Later, the car was sent to the exhibition of captured enemy equipment in Moscow.

SU- 152 Major Sankovski . His crew killed 10 enemy tanks .

T- 34-76 support the infantry attack on the Kursk direction

Soviet infantry in front of destroyed tanks "Tiger" .

A column of German tanks Pz.Kpfw. III moves to the battlefield . Kursk Bulge , July 17, 1943 .

T- 34-76 near Belgorod . July 1943 .

 

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German observers monitoring the progress of the battle .

Soviet infantrymen are covered by destroyed "Panther" .

Soviet mortar firing position calculation changes . Bryansk Front , Orel . July 1943 .

Grenadier SS looks at just a padded T-34 . Probably it was destroyed by one of the first modifications " Panzerfaust " , which was first widely used in the Kursk Bulge .

Destroyed German tank Pz.Kpfw. V modification D2, crippled during the operation "Citadel"

Unit 285 th Infantry Regiment, 183rd Infantry Division are fighting with the enemy captured German trenches . In the foreground - the body of the murdered German soldier. The Battle of Kursk , July 10, 1943

SS Division " Leib standard of Adolf Hitler " had downed the T- 34-76 . July 7, the area of the village Pselets .

 

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German medium tank Pz III Ausf J - 12-15 July Ponyri village .

Destroyed tank Pz IV and Pz VI of Kursk.

The pilots of the squadron " Normandie-Niemen " .

Tank attack . Neighborhood Village Ponyri . July 1943 .

" Ferdinand ." Near strewn corpses of his crew .

Gunners are fighting .

The infantry counterattacks under the cover of heavy tank KV-1 . July 1943 .

 

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Soldiers near the dive bomber Ju-87 .

"Panther"

The machine-gunners at the Kursk Bulge . July 1943 .

Marder III and pantsergrenadery to the starting line before the attack . July 1943

Destroyed "Panther"

Burning German" Ferdinand " from the 656 th regiment Orlovsky fase Kursk Bulge , July 1943 .

"Panther "

 

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Burned tanks column "For Soviet Ukraine " . On explosion ripped tower visible inscription "For Radyans'ka Ukraïnu "

Killed German tanker . In the background Soviet tank T -70

Soviet soldiers inspect Ferdinand.

Stug III

"Ferdinand " after the detonation of ammunition .

Antitank gun firing at the enemy tanks . July 1943 .

Kursk ,July 1943

Dive frontline bombers Pe- 2 on the combat course . Orel- Belgorod direction . July 1943 .

 

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Towing " Tiger "

T-34

Marder III on the march . Operation "Citadel" , July 1943 .

"Tiger" and T-34

Soviet soldiers inspect blown up German tank Pz IV ausf G

Supported by artillery offensive conduct . July 1943 .

German prisoner of war at the Kursk Bulge sitting on a broken 150-mm gun sIG.33.

Soviet Lieutenant treats German prisoners cigarettes. July 17, 1943

 

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Orel . Soldiers under the cover of tanks going into the attack . July 1943

German units , which include those captured Soviet tanks T- 34-76 , prepared to attack during the Battle of Kursk . July 28, 1943 .

Soviet tank T - 34-76 -village of Kursk. August 1943

Under enemy fire tankers pull the T-34 from the field.

German tank "Tiger " №211 in the Belgorod area . August 1, 1943 .

Soviet soldiers in the attack.

The officer division " Greater Germany " in the trenches . Late July - early August.

Soldiers removed wounded colleague . August 1, 1943 .

 

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Belgorod direction , in August 1943 .

A column of German prisoners of war captured in the Orel direction. August 1943 .

German soldiers from the Waffen-SS in a trench with a machine gun MG- 42 during the operation "Citadel" . Kursk Bulge , July- August 1943 .

Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon Sd.Kfz. Kursk Bulge , August 3, 1943

The priest blesses the Soviet soldiers. Orel , 1943 .

Destroyed in Belgorod area Soviet tank T - 34-76 and killed soldiers.

A column of German prisoners of war in the region of Kursk.

Captured at the Kursk Bulge , German anti-tank gun PaK 35/36. In the background is the Soviet ZIS- 5 truck towing a 37- mm anti-aircraft gun 61 -K . July 1943 .

 

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Soldiers of the 3rd SS Division " Totenkopf " discuss the plan with the commander of defensive action "Tiger" from the 503th battalion of heavy tanks. Kursk Bulge , July- August 1943 .

German prisoners near Kursk.

Tank commander, Lieutenant BV Smelov shows the hole in "Tiger" tank

Senior Lieutenant Ivan Shevtsov next to German tank "Tiger" .

Trophies from Battle of Kursk.

" Ferdinand ",captured in good condition. August 1943 .

Residents of Belgorod welcomed the Soviet soldiers,August 1943 .

 

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