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#1: WWII Illustrated. Nice new scans here Author: Pzt_Wruff, Location: Pzt Befehl Hauptsitz

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:38 pm
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Shared these this week over at Pzt.
I found a full 24 volume set of brand new WWII encyclopedias at an old widows garage sale.
They'd never even been opened. Some great images throughout. Some uncommon. Thought I'd finally share a few with you.
I'll add more from time to time.

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The Panzer spearheads of the German invasion, always probing ahead, by-passing pockets of resistance, disrupting enemy communications. (Russian front)
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A Pzkw III, its turret draped with a swastika flag, and loaded with an extra stowage bin, moves forward with infantry support during the battle for Bulchevo, a village near Moscow.
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The Kholm Pocket.
MG34 crew. Burned out russian T26 behind them.
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Infantry section..
4

Kursk and the Dniepr:
Working cautiously forward through tangled ruins. The German army was now fighting inmmense odds.
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A German 8.1cm mortar troop in action. They're loading the standard H.E. bomb.
7

A "Marder" self-propelled anti-tank gun passes a group of S.S. men who have occupied an abandoned Russian trench near Belgorod.
Two captured Red soldiers can be seen in the middle of the group.
8

A Tiger burns. Ponderous and hard to manoeuvre, they were vulnerable to anti-tank fire from the flank and rear.
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Enduring an extremely nasty-looking head wound, a Russian officer continues to direct his men.
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#2: nice picks Author: ANZAC_Tack, Location: Australia

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:33 am
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in my scanner, i try 'descreen' it reduces the fibre or the paper or glossiness so to speak.

awsome picks, ive not seen them before.

#3: Author: Dima,

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:29 pm
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Wruff,

cool photos Smile

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Some comments:

4th and 5th shows same Gruppe. Just from diferent ranges.

Marders is Jagdpanzer 38(t) ausf H (Marder IIIH).

That's not a Tiger but PzIVG(late) or PzIVH.

#4: Author: RedScorpion, Location: Neverland

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:09 pm
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good ones, dont hesitate to show us more!

#5: Author: Pzt_Wruff, Location: Pzt Befehl Hauptsitz

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:38 am
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Yes dima, the 4th and 5th pic are same gruppe.
Looks like things were getting hot and photographer pulled back behind the panzer for some security.

Thanks for the I.D. on the burning MkIV on the east front.

Here's somemore. Smile

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France
Glow of victory: passing German gunners survey a lolling group of French prisoners
during the Wehrmacht's decisive drive into central and southern France.
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Danzig
Marching in.
12

Long-barrelled Sturmgeschutz III on the Eastern Front, 1944.
The German Army increasingly relied upon self-propelled guns of this type,
being desperately short of main battle tanks.
13

Russian infantry advancing with armor.
14

In the West
American armour rumbles through the streets of Monchengladbach in the Ruhr industreal area.
15

American soldiers examine a Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter-bomber.
20-mm cannon shells in the foreground.
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Victims of superior Allied firepower:
Pzkw MkIV and a MkV.
17

An interesting contrast in expressions between a German Luftwaffe officer P.O.W.
and his British Intelligence Corps sergeant escort.
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#6: Author: Nembo,

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:46 am
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In the 6th photo with the Me 262 the rounds would be 30mm.

Nice photos.

#7: Author: Dima,

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:36 am
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13 Pic:

that's StuH 42 on foreground Smile

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14 Pic:

imo that KV1 is KO.

17 pic:

More looks like Eastern Front...

#8: Author: dgfred, Location: N.C., USA

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:19 pm
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Simply fantastic : Cool

, thanks.

#9: Author: Pzt_Wruff, Location: Pzt Befehl Hauptsitz

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:05 pm
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You're welcome. As long as people are enjoying these images I'll continue adding more.

@ Nembo. You're right. Caption in book stated 20mm, but indeed the ME262 is armed w/ four 30-mm MK 108 cannon in nose.

@ Dima. That KV1 in #14 does look a little rough. Tough to tell for certain.
I think #17 is West front.
Keep on with your expert tank I.D. skillz. Thanks. : Cool

#10: Author: Troger, Location: L4W's place, Australia

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:40 am
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I think I see spaceships in the first picture, clearly a picture of the German invasion of mars.

Very Happy

#11: Author: Pzt_Wruff, Location: Pzt Befehl Hauptsitz

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:38 am
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#12: Author: Pzt_Wruff, Location: Pzt Befehl Hauptsitz

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:53 am
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Africa
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Russia
Hitlers blindness as depicted by this Russian poster
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Stalingrad
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T34's
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A battle group of the 20th Panzergrenadier Division near Smolensk.
Pulling some of their equipment on a russian sledge.
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#13: Author: Pzt_Wruff, Location: Pzt Befehl Hauptsitz

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:07 am
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These scanned from the book "Blitzkrieg. In Their Own Words, First-hand accounts from German Soldiers 1939-1940".
This in Poland I believe. Or France.
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Champagne region. France, May 1940
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Exposed to french mortar or artillery fire.
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Panzerwaffe. A mass of German armour, including the Czech-built PzKpfw 38(t), PzKpfw II and some of the rare PzKPfw IV's that fought in France.
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A PzKpfw III blasts a British position in France. Seen from the viewing hatch of a PzKpfw 38(t).
In the foreground is the muzzle of a 7.92mm Czech CZ38 MG.
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These two nice pics are taken from the internet.
Market Garden.
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Abbaye d'Ardenne
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#14: mmm Author: ANZAC_Lord4war, Location: Sydney Australia

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:33 am
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ill go out on a limb here
and say the wrecked PZ4 which is described in book as a tiger.(on 1st page)
is a Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. F/2.

#15: Re: mmm Author: Pzt_Wruff, Location: Pzt Befehl Hauptsitz

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:05 am
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ANZAC_Lord4war wrote:

ill go out on a limb here
and say the wrecked PZ4 which is described in book as a tiger.(on 1st page)
is a Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. F/2.

Yes. Image #9. Dima also pointed that out. The profile of that burning panzer does appear to be an PzIVG or some sort. Not a Tiger.

Dima wrote:

That's not a Tiger but PzIVG(late) or PzIVH.

#16: mmm Author: ANZAC_Lord4war, Location: Sydney Australia

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:55 pm
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yer i was just clarifying its a Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. F/2
not as Dima said PzIVG(late) or PzIVH

#17: Author: Mr_Nuke,

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:00 pm
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Thanks for the awesome photos! These remind me the ones from a WW2 enclopaedia my parents have at home and that I used to read frequently when younger and sometimes even now when I visit them. So thanks for the nostalgia you've created!

Is yours from the 70's too?

All in all, a great topic! Smile

#18: Author: Pzt_Wruff, Location: Pzt Befehl Hauptsitz

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:54 pm
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Yes Nuke. Published 1972, 78.

#19: Author: Dima,

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:12 pm
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Awesome pics, Wruff!

Anyone has noticed that on 1940 pics most of them carry G98?

Quote:

A PzKpfw III blasts a British position in France. Seen from the viewing hatch of a PzKpfw 38(t).

looks like they shot smoke shells there...

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