[Pzt_Wruff]

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)
1



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.
2


The Kholm Pocket.
MG34 crew. Burned out russian T26 behind them.
3


Infantry section..
4


5




Kursk and the Dniepr:
Working cautiously forward through tangled ruins. The German army was now fighting inmmense odds.
6


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.
9


Enduring an extremely nasty-looking head wound, a Russian officer continues to direct his men.
10

[ANZAC_Tack]

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.

[Dima]

Wruff,

cool photos .

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.

[RedScorpion]

good ones, dont hesitate to show us more!

[Pzt_Wruff]

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.

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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.
11



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.
16


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.
18

[Nembo]

In the 6th photo with the Me 262 the rounds would be 30mm.

Nice photos.

[Dima]

13 Pic:

that's StuH 42 on foreground .

14 Pic:

imo that KV1 is KO.

17 pic:

More looks like Eastern Front...

[dgfred]

Simply fantastic : , thanks.

[Pzt_Wruff]

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. :

[Troger]

I think I see spaceships in the first picture, clearly a picture of the German invasion of mars.

[Pzt_Wruff]

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[Pzt_Wruff]

Africa
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Russia
Hitlers blindness as depicted by this Russian poster
21


Stalingrad
22


T34's
23


A battle group of the 20th Panzergrenadier Division near Smolensk.
Pulling some of their equipment on a russian sledge.
24

[Pzt_Wruff]

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
26


Exposed to french mortar or artillery fire.
27


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.
28


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.
29


These two nice pics are taken from the internet.
Market Garden.
30


Abbaye d'Ardenne
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[ANZAC_Lord4war]

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.

[Pzt_Wruff]

[ANZAC_Lord4war]

yer i was just clarifying its a Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. F/2
not as Dima said PzIVG(late) or PzIVH

[Mr_Nuke]

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!

[Pzt_Wruff]

Yes Nuke. Published 1972, 78.

[Dima]

Awesome pics, Wruff!

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