interesting WWII photos

I'm glad someone checked and like them. Thx :)

Well these things are free of charge, we're comrades anyway right? ; )'

Found this rare photo today lying around in my histroy stuff folder


I thought only 2 pictures of the kugelblitz existed, but heres one of its turret up close

Where the kugelblitz turret operated with pedals ? I dont mean like a bikecycle XD It were powered by a engine of some sort but did the shooter control it with pedals ?

Sommarkatze wrote:
Where the kugelblitz turret operated with pedals ? I dont mean like a bikecycle XD It were powered by a engine of some sort but did the shooter control it with pedals ?

Im not sure actually. I think the turret was too small for someone to fit inside. My guess is maybe they developed a remote control system, and maybe pedals were used. I know pedals were used to fire the guns for the M15a1 CGMC, one to fire the .50 cals and one to fire the 37mm, so its definitely a possibility a similar system was used on other vehicles of other countries

Also some otheer intresting pictures i found. We all know how the sherman chasis was flexible enough to allows to perform 1000+1 different roles, well here are a few other variants i found

1st picture- A sherman variant tested with a stubby 155mm howitzer

2nd picture- A sherman variant tested with a 7.2 inch rocket launcher instead of a main gun


and unrelated

3rd picture- A 90mm AA gun with some kill markers on the barrel, from either tanks or aircraft

4th picture- panzernest removal

5th picture- Another photo of the very rare ostwind. The second historical photo ive found of one

Here is an interesting soviet weapon I found.

it was a 37mm airborne anti-tank gun. I cant find much more info on it because all the info I find on it is in russian, but it served during the last few years of the war, and was capable of being transported by glider or paradropped. Its main feature was its recoiess design, though I dont completely understand how it worked it seems like it had some of the aspects of an anti-tank gun and a recoiless rifle

Using sub-caliber rounds it could penetrate 86mm of armor at a range of 500 meters

Finnish Defense Forces have released 800 pictures from ww2 if anybody's interested

http://sa-kuva.fi/neo?tem=webneoeng#

Thanks for sharing, man! Those are awesome! :D

Here is how you assemble a single track link of a kettenkrad. I can o ly imagine how complicated the treads of a tiger or panther were

Tiger and Panther were less complicated  ;D
As far as i know the Kettenkrad was called the most complicated vehicle of ww2. And perhais this tracks were one of the reasons for this reputation. Nightmare to fix ^^

A neat picture of a captured StuG III G in full mobile concrete bunker mode and mounted MG replaced with an StG44.



I believe the Finns bunkered up their Sturmi's in a similar fashion.

Last edited July 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM by Steve 'Burro' M.

That's interesting... >:D.

Hi everyone,

I've found a most peculiar photo (see attached).

No, it's not the worlds weirdest car crash, but rather an ingenious camouflage technique -- This Sonderkraftfahrzeug 250/1 was in a 'hull down' position with a civilian car perched on top. Brilliant!

Credit where credit is due: This picture is taken from 'German Armoured Cars and Reconnaissance Half-Tracks 1939-45' by Bryan Perret.

Cheers, CoHtaku.

As far as i know it is one of this famous "Market Garden" picture. The german army tried to save as much as possible. I have a couple of fotos where cars were put on halftracks, trucks or car that were pulled by halftracks, ect ect. 

Hello Gerrit,

The book states that the photograph was taken in Italy in 1943. I wasn't aware of this being done before, so feel free to post some of your own photos if you like. :)

Thanks, CoHtaku.

The german retreat during Operation Market Garden; The Wehrmacht tried to save everything they can.

Thanks, they're most interesting. ;)

Again diving into the weirder parts of the internet, I stumbled across this...



Apparently Soviet Infrared goggles from the early 40's, I can't find additional information to confirm wether or not this image is bullshit :-X

http://vrtifacts.com/night-vision-goggles-of-red-army/

The original source of this information is at the bottom of the page, but the images have expired. The only source the 'source' gives is "Military Literature", which is vague as fuck ;D

Super necromancer resurrection of this thread but, I have an old book at home with pictures. One shows a marine with almost identical infrared googled with the description that they were used on Okinawa in 1945. So, it might not be to impossible that the soviet had something as well? ;P I gonna find a picture of it!

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Last edited November 10, 2015 at 8:07 PM by Sommarkatze

That's weird XD... but thanks for the contribution. I guess they didn't want to lose the tech race against the Germans.

I wonder how useful were these weapons to them, perhaps it made no difference :-\.

NP, who knows. According to the text underneath the picture it says those googles played a considerable role on Okinawa.

I never even knew this before, but apparently the IS-2 has a hull machine gun. It was not in a ball mount, and was in a fixed position. On early hull models the barrel stuck out from the hull slightly and could be seen if you looked close. On models with the newer hull design the barrel was not visible, but if you looked closely you could see a little hole in the left side of the hull where the gun fired through. You can see the hole clearly in this picture if you zoom in.

IS 2. it s a feature that exist at WT even mg are not functional (camo is 5 mm and fantaisist)

As far as i know the hull MG was added when the IS-2 were modernised into the IS-2M cold war standard.

The machinegun placement on the hull of the IS-2 never made much sense to me. It would have had only been periodically manned by the loader, and if the XRay mode in WT is right, it would have had the powder charges for the shells blocking access most of the time. So yeah, not the most comfortable gun position ever, but I suppose Soviet tanks weren't exactly 5 star hotels :P

Found this interesting one the other day. A Yugoslavian M4 mounting a soviet 122mm gun

How the hell did they even manage to fit that. Goddamn Yugoslav Tardis Sherman.

They had more projects where they tried to put heavy weapons on outdated tanks.
E.g. the Vozilo A:

or the M-320 tank:

or this T-54 with Hellcat turret for training:

Last edited June 5, 2016 at 2:20 PM by Gerrit 'Lord Rommel' G.

Last 2 pic are dead :(

PS: Nice pictures  :)

Last edited July 8, 2016 at 3:46 PM by Dann88

New pics added  ;)

Found a picture of the Hungarian Nimrod AA tank with its giant anti-tank 'grenade' fitted on the gun

Jeah. A rare picture of the hungarian 42M "Kerngranate"  ;)

Those crafty Hungarians.

Not sure whats going on here  :P

Last edited February 17, 2017 at 3:52 AM by Jeff 'Robotnik' W.

They are studying enemy tanks, their shape for fast recognition, maybe weak spots in armor.

"Waffen SS machine gunner and sniper during the third battle of Kharkov 1943"

Found this photo of an attempt to upgun the T-60. Its a new 37mm gun, but it uses the same ammo as the 37mm AA gun in use by the army, so it wasnt too bad for its size. Unfortunately it was still too big for the turret

so you will include it in the game?

mackerbryanee13 wrote:
so you will include it in the game?

Because he is posting a photo of a prototype?
This is a thread for interesting pics - and not a "next ef content update thread" ;)

To add more pics:

Matilda II tank. The turret was removed and replaced with a 5cm gun. Used by training units in the Netherlands. Fate unknown.


Field improvisation of a german field repair shop USed by the 18. and 3. Panzer-Division during the heavy winter fights in 1941/42 near Kharkov.

Last edited January 16, 2018 at 8:14 AM by Gerrit 'Lord Rommel' G.

Was just a joke. Lol you germans are overly serious!!!!

Sorry but i cant differ between a normal sentence and a joke when there is no help (e.g. emoticon or something else)  :-\

Soviets were ordered to use any weapon to fights against low level close attack aircrafts.
Even anti tank rifles had to fire on planes.

Think this one is kinda cool, its an Japanese military observer with an Hungarian Officer!

Found a picture of a T-70 tank upgraded with a VT-42 45mm gun, based on the long barreled 45mm anti tank gun.

About 10 were converted and may have saw combat. 1 T-80 also was upgraded with the gun but it remained a prototype\

Looks like a WoT-tank.