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

[The Sandman]

Rest of it
Bayonet & Frog

Gas Mask Can

M1938 Gas Mask (Gasmasken)

 

[Nilgiri]

Combat gear of Wehrmacht

Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet)

Belt

Belt Buckle it says GOTT MIT UNS (God with us)

Combat Harness (Y-straps)

Bread Bag

Canteen

Kar 98k ammo pouches

Entrenching Tool and Carrier

@Desert Fox @Nilgiri @Arryn @Psychic @Foxtrot-Bravo @Khafee @Nihonjin1051 dividing this in two posts bcoz of limit of 8 images per post btw next post i will do on weapons

Stahlhelm was the best helmet out there at the time, and influenced modern post war designs. I bought one and a German army issue dagger at a trade show a few years back. One of my prized possessions is a Gebirgsjager field winter jacket that I got (along with some other stuff) which I traded one of my lugers for. I'll upload some pics when I got some time. I hope to start a kriegsmarine collection next year as well.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Wehrmacht Armor :

Panzer 1's in parade

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Panzer III

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Panzer IV

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Panzer VI (Tiger)

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Panzer V Panther

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Tiger II (Konnigstiger)

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@persona_non_grata @WAJsal @Mahmoud_EGY @flamer84​

They were indeed a formidable adversary even for the Royal navy, Army and Air force who back then before the second world war basically ruled the world.
My favorite battle was the North African front where the Royal navy/Army(with SAS) and airforce faced Germany's most talented general Rommel alias the desert fox.

A German Wehrmacht Afrika Korps tank, with a swastika flag. This tank is a Pz.Kpfw.III.

German Afrika Corps. DAK forces with a captured British Crusader MK VI tank.

General of Panzer Troops Hasso von Manteuffel was one of the most strategically gifted German general officers during WW2.As a colonel on the Eastern Front he led his men within 50 miles of Moscow. He also fought in North Africa and during the Ardennes Offensive.In March 1945, commanding the 3rd Panzer Army,he succeeded in reaching the British lines and saved 300,000 soldiers from Soviet captivity.Postwar, he was involved in politics and visited the US as an official guest of the USG (died 1978)

A Tiger of the schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501 in North Africa during the spring of 1943. The fighting here showed the absolute superiority of the Tiger over any Allied tank. schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501 destroyed more than 150 Allied tanks in North Africa while losing only eleven Tigers (only three were destroyed by enemy fire) for a kill ratio of 13.6 enemy tanks destroyed for every Tiger lost

Armoured command car of Generaloberst or Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, North Africa, 1942. He was promoted during 1942

North Africa November, 1941. An 88mm Flak gun of a German Luftwaffe ground unit was hit on the shield by a British 40mm tank grenade.

German machine gun nest, North Africa, circa 1941-1943.This either the MG 34, firing 850 rounds per minute or the MG 42, firing 1550 rounds per minute.Deadly beast!

 

[mike2000 is back]

My favourite German general of all, and the one i respect/admire the most. Guys meet.........

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), popularly known to both sides as the Desert Fox (Wüstenfuchs), somewhere in North Africa. (ca. 1942). standing beside members of his Afrika Korps, N. Africa. Date taken: 1942.. Rommel is regarded as having been a humane and professional officer. His Afrikakorps was never accused of war crimes, and captured Allied soldiers were reported to have been treated humanely. In all theaters of his command, he ignored orders to kill captured commandos, Jewish soldiers, and civilians

A British Flying' Cromwell Mk. VIII Royal Armoured Corps Covington,, 1944 gearing up for battle against German forces/tanks in North Africa


captured British tank Matilda II "Dreadnought" with German Afrika Korps markings

King Tiger II. The Tiger II Or the King Tiger tank was produced sometime around 1944. But only a few of these were produced. 500 King Tigers were produced during the war.

A British Sherman 'brewed up' by German tiger I tank in Caen, France 1944

1944

 

[Icarus]

Stahlhelm was the best helmet out there at the time, and influenced modern post war designs. I bought one and a German army issue dagger at a trade show a few years back. One of my prized possessions is a Gebirgsjager field winter jacket that I got (along with some other stuff) which I traded one of my lugers for. I'll upload some pics when I got some time. I hope to start a kriegsmarine collection next year as well.

I'd like to see your collection, do tag me when you put it up!

 

[The Last of us]

Nice thread

 

[LowPost]

German machine gun nest, North Africa, circa 1941-1943.This either the MG 34, firing 850 rounds per minute or the MG 42, firing 1550 rounds per minute.Deadly beast!

The barrel clearly indicates that this has got to be the MG 34.

 

[Jäger]

Troops in Norway

 

[The Sandman]

Nice to see more ppl are contributing positively in this thread i think my idea worked out than i was afraid a bit @Desert Fox that's why i asked u to start it cuz ur a senior member here thx m8 i am thinking of doing other threads like this on axis armies for example Japan @Nihonjin1051 what do u say?

 

[mike2000 is back]

The barrel clearly indicates that this has got to be the MG 34.

Thanks bro. wasn't sure which one it was.

Battleship Bismarck of the German Navy, one of the biggest battleships used during World War. It was finally sank by the Royal Navy.

A German Wehrmacht Afrika Korps tank, with a swastika flag. This tank is a Pz.Kpfw.III

Colonel General Erwin Rommel and General Siegfried Westphal helping with pushing a stuck vehicle, North Africa, early 1941.

German panzer III tank with burning British lorry

Afrika Korps - Panzer III are unloaded from the ship in Africa

British Lt General Bernard Montgomery, GOC 8th Army, standing in front of his personal Grant tank, 5 November 1942. He had commanded the first major victory against the Germans and was about to become world famous.

TOTAL WAR: The British Special Air Service (SAS) in North Africa, 1943.These were the first of the SAS (the world's first special forces), they played a main role in taking down Rommel's army in North Africa.

German Panzer IV Ausf H. Russia 22 December 1943

 

[Jäger]

Luftwaffe DO-17

 

[mike2000 is back]

Panzer IV (with 7,5cm KwK L/48 cannon). Greece circa 1943

British Churchill Crocodile Tank facing the Germans

Panzer III

A British soldier examines a destroyed German Panzer IV tank

German soldiers in position near a destroyed Russian T-34 tank. South Russia 1943

Panzer IV commander with an MP40

13 October 1941 - Germans attempt another drive toward Moscow as the once muddy ground hardens - 14 October - Temperatures fall further on the Moscow front; heavy snows follow and immobilize German tanks - 15 October - The Germans drive on Moscow. - German soldiers examine a Russian trench during the advance towards Moscow.

 

[mike2000 is back]

The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) was a heavy British infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour, large longitudinal chassis with all-around tracks with multiple bogies, and its use as the basis of many specialist vehicles. It was one of the heaviest Allied tanks of the war. It fought an uphill battle against German tiger tanks it both suffered and inflicted heavy casualties against the Germans.

27 May 41: The great German battleship BISMARCK, crippled by RAF Fairey Swordfish bi-planes, is bombarded repeatedly by the Royal Navy until the crew scuttles her. The sinking of the HMS HOOD three days earlier was avenged.

Crew Members of Submarine U 50 (March 2, 1940) Of all the branches of the German military, the navy [Kriegsmarine] was the least prepared for the start of the war in September 1939. Despite intensified rearmament from 1935 on, the German navy was no match for Great Britain’s far superior Royal Navy. In addition to securing the Baltic Sea and the coasts of the North Sea, the German navy’s main task was cutting off the supply routes of the Allies, mostly Great Britain.

 

[The Sandman]

Weapons of Wehrmacht

Primary Weapons

Kar 98k

Gewehr 43

Maschinenpistole (Machine Pistol)

Sturmgewehr (Storm Rifle)

Maschinengewehr (Machine Gun) MG-13, MG-26, MG-34, MG-42 and MG-53.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

Thank you,i hope you wouldn't mind if i take pictures from this thread in future?