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The Wehrmacht In Pictures: A Look At One of History's Legendary Fighting Force

Secondary Weapons of Wehrmacht

Pistole (Pistol) Walther P-38 and Luger P-08.
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freaking love lugar :smitten:

Flare Pistol: Leuchtpistole (Flare Pistol), Kampfpistole (Combat Pistol)
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Rifle Grenade Launcher: Gewehrgranatengerät (Rifle Grenade Launcher), Scheißbecher (Shooting Cup)
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Grenade: Stielhandgranate (Stick Grenade), Eihandgranate 39 (Egg Grenade)
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Anti-Tank Weapons: Minen (Mines), Panzerfaust (Armored Fist), Panzerschreck (Armored Terror), Raketenpanzerbüsche (Rocket Armored Rifle), Geballte Ladung (concentrated charge)
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Next Post will be of Gebirgsjäger :agree:
@Nilgiri @Bundeswehr @Psychic what do u guys say should i post pics of Gebirgsjäger or Fallschirmjäger first?
Thank you,i hope you wouldn't mind if i take pictures from this thread in future?
Ja it's completely fine :D btw i have seen ur threads on WW2 and napoleonic wars nice work m8
 
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Foredeck of the Royal Navy's most famous warship, 15 in battle-cruiser HMS Hood who was for many years the world's largest warship, pictured between the wars. After 3 battle cruisers were lost to magazine explosions at Jutland in 1916 further construction was halted, but Hood was already at an advanced stage. In May 1941, 25 years later almost to the day, she suffered an identical fate at the hands of modern German battleship Bismarck. She was sunk by the German battleship Bismark.

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Pocket Battleship Admiral Graf Spee with Kreigsmarine Navy Flag!

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Unsinkable Sam (aka Oskar/Oscar) - German ship’s cat who saw service in both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War, serving on board three vessels (the Bismarck, the HMS Cossack and the HMS Ark Royal) and surviving the sinking of all three. Lucky cat??:cheesy:

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A member of the German Navy poses with a Canadian machete next to a disabled British Churchill tank on the beaches of Dieppe after the 19 August 1942 Dieppe Raid. Although the attack was a disaster for the Allies, they obtained valuable information about German radar and learned important lessons about required equipment and combined arms techniques for successful amphibious landings that would be applied to later landings such as Operation Torch and Operation Overlord.

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German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
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The U-302 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 2 April 1941 at the Flender Werke yard at Lübeck as 'werk' 302, launched on 25 April 1942 and commissioned on 16 June under the command of Kapitänleutnant Herbert Sackel. During her career, the U-boat sailed on eight combat patrols, sinking three ships, before she was sunk in April 1944 in mid-Atlantic by a British frigate. She was a member of 10 wolfpacks.

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An Italian newspaper shows German planes swooping over the Thames during the Blitz. The river area was heavily targeted by bombers in the Second World War, with the Docklands hit by over 2,500 bombs. It took until the 1960s for the damage to be repaired.This was the first time in history a foreign power had succeeded in bombing Great Britain.
 
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Young German holding Panzerfaust, one of the first anti-tank weapons which took great bravery to use!

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German soldiers, Stalingrad, 1942

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German soldier running during city fighting

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Schwerer Gustav was one of two German 80 cm K (E) ultra-heavy railway guns. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp as siege artillery. The gun weighed nearly 1,350 tonnes and could fire shells weighing seven tonnes to a range of 29 miles. It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat and fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece.

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NOW THIS IS WAR: A 406mm (16 inch) SK C34 German coastal defense cannon.

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This German soldier carries the Sturmgewehr 44, the first "assault" (battle) rifle to come into mass production. The StG 44 was far superior to anything the Allies had to deploy, but endemic industrial shortages prevented its full implementation throughout the German army. In the end, its appearance in the battlefield came too late to influence the outcome of the conflict.
 
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Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk against Germany, July 1943 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

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German soldiers who froze to death, winter 1941. The German Army was ill prepared for the harsh Russian winter. Almost half as many Germans were killed by the winter elements as by enemy bullets. Nazi Germany would have certainly defeated/captured Moscow/Russia if not for the harsh Russian winter.

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WWII. German Waffen-SS Regiment
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A young German soldier with an MP40 in the Russian winter snow. *Note that he has been awarded the Iron Cross (1st Class), a Close Combat clasp, and the Eastern Front medal. (January-February 1944).
 
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Sig Heil! :)

LOL Indeed. Victory salute. :police:

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Deadly 800mm Schwerer Gustav Railway Gun.

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A German soldier in a trench with a captured soviet PPSH-41 submachine gun on the eastern front.

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German rail gun

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One of the German's Cross-Channel artillery guns installed off the French coast. 1942/43

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German forces arrive in Dunkirk. The sea front at Dunkirk photographed immediately after the completion of the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force earlier in the day. Vehicles and troops of the German mobile assault unit Motorensturm 13, drawn up on the sea front at Dunkirk near one of the unit's light anti-tank guns
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Sd.Kfz. 10/4 anti-aircraft half-track with 2 cm Flak 30 gun during the Baltic offensive Operation Barbarossa,1941

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German artillery calculations-150 mm rail guns getting ready to open fire at the Polish Army May 1940, the 150-mm guns were in service with the 1st two-Cannon battery 655


The big three who shaped the world after the second world war.
 
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Our German brothers had impressive honor guards, as well. Handsome , crisp, clear, sharp looking boys!


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Permit me to share also a picture of 1st Imperial Guard's of the Emperor's Division.

Taken in 1933, before the invasion of China ; into Manchukoku.



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German paratroopers

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The German 280mm railway gun of the "Bruno" series en route to the front, invasion of Poland, 1939.

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German 88's firing at allied aircraft.
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One of four 12.8 cm 'Flak 40' anti-aircraft twin guns on the Berlin-Humboldshain flaktower
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German Sturmgeschütz (assault gun) column in Russia.
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An armoured train with artillery and anti aircraft guns – operated by the Germans in the occupied territories of the East during 1942
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German ferry artillery support 'Siebel", at anchor carrying four 88 mm Flak 36 anti-aircraft and two 20 mm FlaK 38 anti-aircraft guns. Used in coastal waters, the Siebel ferry could carry heavy firepower.
 
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Some more Eastern Front photos:

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Men towing car through mud during the Russian Rasputitsa (autumn rain), Eastern Front, 1941:

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PAK Anti-Tank gun team:

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Operation Market Garden: Captured British soldiers walk past a German self-propelled gun StuG III in Arnhem, 1944.

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German 88mm (FLAK) Artillery

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German World War 2 Colour Puma Armoured Car

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Hummels in position. Hummel (German: "bumble bee") was a self-propelled artillery gun based on the Geschützwagen III/IV chassis, armed with a 15 cm howitzer. It was used by the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War from early 1943 until the end of the war.

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8,8 cm FlaK 36 auf Fahrgestell T-34 747(r). Another rare shot, this time of a T-34 captured by the Germans and mounted with an 88 gun.

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The German 88mm anti-aircraft gun mounted on a prime mover. It was the most effective all purpose artillery of the war. It was an excellent anti-aircraft gun but unlike others of its kind in Allied armies, it also could fire at 0 angle, allowing it to engage ground targets. It was ideal for dealing with tanks and other vehicles and caused much trouble for the allies, destroying 1000s of vehicles. It's range far exceeded any opposing gun. The gun was also mounted on tanks. It was unstoppable.

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These three enormous flak towers guarded a German Marine base near Angers, France. Each tower would have been armed with several large caliber and small caliber anti-aircraft guns, including the much feared 88 mm Flak gun. The towers were destroyed by Allied air attacks as General Patton’s 3rd Army advanced East
 
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This is an amazing photograph of German vehicles attempting to escape from the closing noose of the Allied armies. They are attempting to cross one of the remaining bridges outside of Aachen in 1945. This photo was taken by a Royal airforce recon plane.

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German V2 Rocket being prepped for launch in 1945. The photo was found on a roll of film captured from a German POW taken by the British Army on April 13, 1945.

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The launch of a Vergeltungswaffe-2 ("Vengeance Weapon-2", the V-2 rocket) toward England in 1945. The V-2 was the world's first long-range ballistic missile. The liquid-propellant rocket was developed and designed during World War II in Germany to attack Allied cities as a form of retaliation for the ever-increasing Allied bombing effort against German cities.

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Luftwaffe pilots during the Battle of Britain - 1940

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Germany was developing a four engined long distance bomber, the Messerschmitt 264. It was intended to enable the Luftwaffe to bomb New York.

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famous image of the bombing of London, a Heinkel III bomber over the Thames, taken from another German bomber at 6.48pm on the 7th September 1940

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Fourth of a group of pictures taken from a a German pilot Heinkel He-111 chronicling his dogfight with a Supermarine Spitfire during the Battle of Britain.

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Panzer IV German Panzerkampfwagen IV tank hiding in an ambush position
 
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German Troops in the Caucasus, 1942:


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FLAK 20 mm Canon manned by German mountain infantry (Gebirgsjäger), Caucasus Mountains, Soviet Union, 1942:

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German scouts on the lookout, Caucasus Mountains:

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German Mountain Infantry (Gebirgsjäger ) plant German Flag on Mount Elbrus, tallest mountain in Europe, Caucasus Mountains, 1942:

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@DesertFox97 @Psychic @Nihonjin1051 @Foxtrot-Bravo @Arryn
 
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