old thread reached image limitpost some /k/ool WW2 photos
This semi-famous photo from the Stroop report gives a good example of the variety of weaponry used by SS security and Police units during WW2: two of the men have MP-41 SMGs, one has a MP-28 SMG and two others seem to have Suomi SMGs.
>>65237374the raised wreck of the dutch destroyer 'Van Galen' in Rotterdam, on her way to the breakers (October 1941)a year earlier, on May 10th, she was bombed on her way down the Nieuwe Waterweg to bombard the german paras which had taken the Waalhaven airfielddespite none of the bombs hitting her, the near misses caused enough damage for her commander to abandon the mission and seek shelter in the Merwehavenit was decided she was no longer combat effective and scuttled in the harbor, roughly a mile and a half from the Wilton-Fijenoord yard where she was laid down 13 years earlierVan Galen was the only of her class to perish in dutch waters, the other Admiralen destroyers would meet their ends in the Dutch East Indies
This German MG42 gunner has been through some shit.
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Not sure if this is Akagi or Kaga
Hungary stronk!
>>65237587one of the most famous tank duels of the war
STUG DOZER
>>65237589The car at :26 was civilians trying to flee that got stuck between both lines of fire.Book is Spearhead by Makos, supposedly getting a movie.
Maaaaan, I already posted like 75% of what I have in the last thread.
>>65237931It’s appreciated twice then. Thanks anon
>>65237485>ayo this war is not bussin no cap
>>65237589Holy shit.At 0:37 you can see that the Panther crew is bailing out, right when another round hits or the ammo start cooking off. You can see the flash pushing past the turret ring in one frame.The Panther TC and gunner had never seen a Pershing before, and held fire.
155mm gun of 53 Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery on the Caen Front, Normandy July 44
same as above
El Alamein 42, near miss on a British tank
RA 25-pdr. during the opening barrage of the Second Battle of El Alamein, 23.10.42
More artillery at El Al, British crew working under enemy counter-fire.
>>65238830Looks like a Crusader II based on the mantlet
A Bren gun team of 2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion support an attack on Mount Shiburangu, near Wewak in Papua New Guinea. 1945.
A 25-pounder field gun of 8 Battery, D Troop, 2/4th Australian Field Regiment laying down a barrage on Japanese positions from their position on the Vasey Highway some 200 yards from Green Beach during the landings on Balikpapan, Borneo.
The Campaign in Mandalay February - March 1945: Men of a Sikh regiment clear a Japanese foxhole at Mandalay with machine gun fire after throwing in a phosphorus grenade.
Two British soldiers on patrol in the ruins of the Burmese town of Bahe during the advance on Mandalay.
A soldier of 19th Division holds at Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, 20 March 1945.
The Campaign in Mandalay February - March 1945: Japanese dead lie on the ground after an unsuccessful counter attack at Meiktila, March 1945.
Battle of Crete, near Heraklion. A Ju-52 shot down.
Men of 1 PARA take cover in a shell hole in Arnhem, 17 September 1944.
famous photo and posed but posting it anywayBritish airborne troops moving through a shell-damaged house in Oosterbeek near Arnhem during Operation 'Market Garden', 23 September 1944.
The driver of Major General Friedrich Kussin lies dead next to the genral's car near Arnhem during Operation Market Garden. Commander of the local Feldkommandantur, Kussin and his aide, his driver and his bodyguard were killed during the early hours of the operation when they ran into a group of British paratroopers who immediately opened fire.Interestingly the driver, Gefreiter Jozef Willeke, appears to have been armed with a Dutch Mannlicher M95 No. 4 bicycle riders carbine.
1941, Soviet POWs clearing the rubble at Viipuri railway station, which was blown up by the Red Army as they retreated from the city. Their Finnish guard is armed with a bunker version of the Suomi SMG, and a few of the POWs still have their budenovkas, even though the Red Army had begun to phase out this headgear already in the mid 1930's.
Finnish L-41 "Sampo" machine gun mounted on a tripod. Designed by Aimo Lahti, the Sampo was a Finnish attempt at creating a general-purpose machine gun in the same style as the German MG34 and MG42. Atogether 35 of these machine guns were made between 1941-42 and sent to frontline testing, where it was found to be at best a mediocre weapon.Any further development of the L-41 was dropped in favor of potentially adopting the MG42 for Finnish use, but that also went nowhere.
>>65238985Lahti designed like 70% of all finnish small arms didn't he?
>"Observed enemy soldiers manning machine gun nest on hill to eastward of landing beaches. Fired three salvos, men and gun emplacement destroyed." - action report, USS DoyleAn unknown Gleaves-class destroyer of DESRON 18, possibly USS Frankford, delivers direct-fire 40mm and 5" support from less than 1000 yards off Omaha beach, temporarily what might be considered the world's mightiest infantry fighting vehicle. Though occasionally struck by german artillery and often touching bottom throughout the day, none went hard aground.
>>65239038I don't think the Finnish army operated a single small arm of domestic design that didn't have Aimo Lahti involved in one way or another.
>Commissioning ceremonies on the USS Iowa's after deck, at the New York Navy Yard, NY, 22 February 1943. Note: Mark 38 main battery director with Mark 8 fire control radar on top, 16"/50 triple gun turret, freshly raised National Ensign, and incomplete condition of some features of the ship's after superstructure.
>Soldiers of the Red Army on the armor of the tank "Tiger" Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. E, knocked out at Kursk. The tank belonged to the German 503-th battalion.
>A sailor of USS S-31 holding the submarine's mascot, 1940s ww2dbase
>The consequences of a kamikaze attack on the American light cruiser Nashville.(USS Nashville; CL-43).>A Japanese bomber with two bombs attacked the cruiser during a battle off Negros Island on December 13, 1944. The plane was flying from the side of the port side and exploded at an altitude of about 3 meters from the deck in the area of the central part, the resulting fuel caused a fire on the battery of 127-mm artillery guns (5′′/25 caliber gun). As a result of the explosion and fire, 133 crew members were killed, 190 were injured.
>>65239423Gruesome.
Mo about to tank a Zero
>>65237374I will be posting some I'd posted in the last thread. If you don't like it, please consult this anon:>>65238637LolFormer German supply column, Belarus summer 1944
Soviet Tachanka tactics used with a lend lease jeep.
>>65238639Fuck you, my hair NATURALLY does the zoomer/alpha hair thing.
Rare photo of anti-tank rifle usage by Germans.
>>65239629What is this, a picture for ants?
>>652375890:31 dude is crossing a street while tracers are zipping through? jesus
The most chad Japanese man in existence in Burma.
>>65239635Those are Magyars
Japanese dual 25mm AA gun position on Guam.
>>65239637I'm nearly sure those are his tracers as he hip fires his HG. If you slow it down the tracers are outgoing. >proto Captain America
USAAF Bell P-39 Aircobras at Ladd airfield in Alaska.
>>65239636Thank you for bringing that to the attention of the staff
>>65239875Aircobra my beloved
>>65238880my grandfather fought at arnhem
>>65237530Whenever I see pictures of the De-mil operations I always fantasize about what kinda neat things I could have saved from the scrapyard if i was a private coming back from the war with money saved. Im sure I wouldn't have enough money to outright buy a tank or a plane, but a field kitchen trailer or a used jeep could be had for cheap I bet.
Any pics of the Japanese army?
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Not sure what the story is behind this one, but its one of my favorite pics
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>>65241055If you want to be technical this is IJA
>>65241115scary>>65241120kino
>Crew and British BL 18 inch railway howitzer at Ashbury Station prior to firing into Okehampton Artillery Range.
>The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 15-inch coastal gun of the Wanstone Battery, under construction at St Margarets near Dover, 18 May 1942.
>>65239155These fuckers were nuts. Read that Nacy brass wss terrified they would run aground and clog up the teansport lanes and that at least one destroyer expended its entire compliment of 5" shells.
>Panzer IV destroyed in Mszczonów in the morning on 11th of September 1939 by direct fire of Polish 75mm type 02-26 field gun from infantry artillery platoon of 31 Kaniowski Rifle Regiment.
>>65241239>a tank for ants
>>65237589>see the flames though the penetrating hits Kino
>>65241055yh m8 >>65238865so much for banzai attacks
>A 4,000lb 'Cookie' bomb goes off after a Lancaster bomber crashed shortly after take-off at the Croft Aerodrome in 1945
Black Widow is my favorite plane
>Three soviet tanks, including two T-34s and a T-70, after being abandoned by Soviet troops in an unusual situation. The first T-34 drove into a stream and got stuck, the T-70 drove on top of the first T-34, and the second T-34 fell off of the bridge and onto the T-70. Eastern Front, date unknown
>>65237374Classic flammenwerfer shot
whoops
Am I the only person who's sad that color photograph wasn't perfected a few decades earlier?
>>65245582Kodachrome was already pretty close to perfect, sadly the Germans never developed their own equivalent.
German Agfa-color seems much more faded in comparison, even when you account for age or improperly stored photographs.
>>65241113two tankers are assembling paper models of Russian tanks to be used in training from a bookletprobably somewhere in the East, the tank in the background looks to be an IV J going by the stowage boxes but could be anything from a field-modded F onwards
Mussolini invited not only Hitler but also a group of American journalists to the naval review, leaving behind color photographs and videos for posterity.
I love the life buoy shaped fuel tank for the British flamethrower.
>>65237477what the fuck is a Suomi SMG doing in Warsaw...
>>65240263>>65239875if I may interject, it's "Airacobra"
>>65245905Early on the SS didn't share logistics with the regular German military.The SS were originally an armed wing of the party, NOT a part of the national military.The army didn't want to hand over their equipment to the SS, and the SS couldn't buy things like MP40s directly from the manufacturers if the manufacturers were at full capacity making guns for the army.So the SS bought a lot of random shit from the open international market.The SS also issued a lot of captured foreign weapons and gear. Those could be guns bought directly from Finland.They could also be Finnish-made guns captured from the French.Or they could be Danish-made guns captured from the Danes.No way to really know without having a closer look at them.
