WWII photos

post your ww2 related pics here and lets have a discussion on which country had the coolest shit


heres the wirbelwind, a german mobile anti-aircraft vehicle which featured an open top and 1 or a set of 4 guns. they were short range and were never produced in sufficient numbers to make any great impact but were very efficient at taking down low flying aircraft.
i think if they produced around 20 mauses and supplemented them with 2/4 wirbelwinds each the maus project could have been a somewhat great mobile bunker role for taking the place of destroyed fortifications on the front lines.

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sturmtiger

good one of a Mk III (?)

this is the sturer emil (stubborn mule. they named it that because of frequent breakdowns.)

only 2 were made, both fought on the eastern front and one was destroyed, the other was captured in stalingrad (with an impressive 31 kill marks on the barrel.)

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panzer iv ausf g looks like

Soviet heavy tank Kliment Voroshilov, nicknamed "Russischer Koloss" by German troops.

this is a really interesting one. the focke-wulf triebflugel

the first vtol project.
didnt make to the prototype phase as it only got to wind tunnel testing before the base being captured but what they had influenced our vtol concepts a decent amount.

what a fucking beast of a tank.
shame it wasnt as effective as the t34 or other soviet tanks. they lost more than half of kv-2s in the same year they were pumped out to the front.

focke-wulf 190

pretty good fighter.
better cockpit view for the pilot than a bf-109 and was better armored iirc
a tad slower than the bf although, and not as widely produced.

Hmm I wonder if it was just the state of the Red Army in between when the kv-2 came out and when the t34 came out, with the Germans having the jump on them and so much required for that beast of a tank

Here is a Soviet self-propelled gun on t34 chassis

a messerschmitt me-163 komet getting shot down

lol fuck these things they blew up trying to land if you so much as had a drop of fuel left in the tanks.

first rocket powered interceptor though. a booty cheeks first rocket powered interceptor...even though it was the fastest german plane if i recollect correct

chilled out

the man the legend bernard montgomery

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definitely Pz. III, easy way to know is to count the Bogey wheels and divide by two.

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cheeky little cunt camping hard

wouldn't the giant flat surface on the side of the turret be really vulnerable to shells?

I'm pretty sure that armour is also sloped despite the boxy look

how many of you know about the bell project?

the nazis were trying to fuck around with anti-gravity

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The only flying 109 today.

It's an early war tank, when it rolled out there was barely anything that could knock it off.

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sometimes bombing a structure can make an even better defensive position.

the fallschirmjagers especially were doing real well in their bombed out hill bunkers in italy 1943.

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British TOG best tank

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Tzis is a wirbelwind.
It wirbels wind.

That tank is sexy

G10?

american soldiers in france

tough act for american troops in the hedgrows of france.
too many jerrys hiding in them with panzerfausts being niggers

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nice shot

Drache is first.

And sucksesfull.

Helicopters are nazis.
Pure hate keeps them in the air.

Story behind that?

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It was pretty damn effective; see Raseiniai. The German weapons at the time were shit and could barely dent the armor on the KV series. The losses were largely due to mechanical failure and a lack of recovery vehicles to handle it.

The T-34/57, conversely, was an absolute shit tank that made itself successful with ease of production. The T-34/76 was pretty bad too. T-34/85 was okay.

Since we're on the subject, here's a (modernized) T-34 being used in the ongoing Yemeni civil war.

I'm guessing those funerals were for bomber pilots shot down over enemy territory

They have to be given proper Christian burials after all, the Western Front was courteous like that

The queen ready to pick off some krauts

the Rheinmetall-Borsig waffentrager

special artillery carrier with a fully traversable turret. looks hella sexy but wasnt very good because it weighed a fuckton and was obviously a very complicated design

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I hate the shell drop on that tank in war thunder. For a naval gun it doesn't have much power

>kv2
>effective
pick one

Kvs were garbage once tigers and panthers hit the battlefield. especially the Kv2. it was never mass produced because it had terribad anti infantry capability and was much slower, and vulnerable to aircraft as well as more expensive than the t34 varients

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nicknamed 'Goliath' and 'beetle tank' by the allies, the Leichter Ladungsträger anti-tank weapon was an R/C mini-tank loaded with 200+ pounds of explosives

RC kamikazes, pretty advanced for the time.

It was well armored but the turret was so heavy and displaced that non-penetrating hits could easily knock it off the turret ring.

The weight also made it so the turret couldnt traverse unless on even ground.

thats an anti tank gun, not artillery. the Borsig was actually much lighter compared to the panther. Its purpose was to be a cheap light on resource transport unit for large or preferably the 128mm anti tank gun wich can also be found on tanks such as the maus.

It was never produced because the war was over and it was much easier to tow the guns behind trucks

The King

Russians simply trained dogs to do kamikaze bomb attacks on tanks instead

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here is a cool pic of a german artillary transport vehicle the GW tiger. same concept as borsig but for actual artillary.

its rekt in this pic but cool

>KV-2 entered service in 1939
>Tiger didn't enter service until 1942
>Panther didn't enter service in 1943
No shit KVs were garbage once Tigers and Panthers hit the field, it was already obsolete by that time. It was effective because its contemporaries were largely shitty Pz IIs and IIIs, and the occasional Pz IV that didn't even have the KwK 40 yet.

>it was never mass produced because it had terribad anti infantry capability and was much slower,
What are you on about? There were thousands of KV-1s produced, and several hundred KV-2s which were primarily intended to blow up fortifications.

Actual things that were never mass-produced but still used with moderate success during the war related.

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Porsche prototype of the Tiger II.

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it's a shame we didn't have those earlier in the war. Summer of 44 would have been nice.

and it backfired amazingly cause the dogs were used to the smell of the gazoline the russian used

yeah true it is anti tank.
im grinding up to it in world of tanks right now

Emil is a german male name, not mule.
Mule = Maultier

Panther

I'm building a scale model from timber of one at the moment if anyone cares.

Ki200 J8m "shusui". Japanese imitation of the rocket powered German vehicle, the Me163

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Interesting, I never would have thought of that

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dude same

Hank Hill on the left

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fierce troops. gotta respect the indian soldiers in both the world wars

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We all played our part, interesting how big dust-ups between the major powers gave smaller powers a chance to win some sovereignty just by proving they can kick ass

Not trying. It worked but very unreliable.

Look up Neu Schwabenland and the Ahnenerbe Divison. And what happened to russian expedition to the arctic after ww2 when they were looking for the about 20 missing german submarines.

its quite spooky

Panzer VIII Maus

oh thats neat. i didnt know ferdinand made a prototype konigstiger

i really like the nashorn, the tank hunter based on all the porsch tiger 1 prototypes sitting around

Fallschirmjäger.

Das already singular and plural, we dont put the S behind.

>They have to be given proper Christian burials after all, the Western Front was courteous like that

It became German policy to allow German civilians to find downed AngloAmerican bomber crewmen because the mob would often kill them. Or even to escort them through town squares, especially if said town had been recently bombed. There are monuments in Germany today for some of them.

There was also a German military doctor tried and convicted at Nuremberg for boiling and bleaching the skull of an American bomber pilot and sending it back to Germany as a trophy.

Super rare image of the noble American tank destroyer Wolverine in action.

I hate to be that guy but this thread kind of belongs on

word. i was going on what the description said on world of tanks. im playing the st emil right now actually

the gun they had on this thing is massive

>tried and convicted at Nuremberg
lol

So much for the supposed chivalry with enemy pilots I've hear so much about...

thats not a nashorn, thats a Ferdinand TD later renamed to Elefant.

pic related is a nashorn

>The KV tanks were practically immune to the 3.7 cm KwK 36 and howitzer-like, short barreled 7.5 cm KwK 37 guns
Jesus christ.

Why timber

Montgomery was a hack with no talent for command and/or warfare. He was cold to his soldiers and as Market Garden shows he was weak when it came to warfare.

He only beat back the Desert Fox, because he had several times the equipment and manpower.

Zerg rushing doe not a good commander make.

Rommel >>> shit >>> Monty

DELETE THAT PICTURE!

Thats what the jews tell you? sad.

I'm certain that if the Soviets had been able to properly fuel and maintain them those tanks could have turned the tide in 1941

Because I had some lying around. Here's a pic

This is the Mk.2 J. Enoch Powell

Although it never saw combat it became instrumental in intelligence gathering in North Africa.

Shortly before being deployed in the Raj, The Mk.2 J.Enoch Powell reported that covert American war goals may not be in the interests of the British Empire and the total destruction of Germany and the Japanese Navy would spell the Empires demise. These reports went unheeded

After the war the model was updated to the Mk.3 Enoch Powell (High Tory) but was shortly taken out of service as Ted Heath decided common sense was incompatable within British Politics

G14

>There will never be conventional warfare on this scale ever again
>Every major war fought from here on out will be long range drone strikes, artillery bombardment, and aerial assaults
>Any ground force engagements will be between small clusters of technologically over-burdened soldiers with guns that count every shot fired and require authorization to switch firearms or ammunition
this is not a happy feeling

Here you go Eetu this should make it all better

>Drache is first.
No, that's an autogyro, not a helicopter.