Friday, September 24, 2010

WEHRMACHT: Rare Images Of German Soldiers: Part 8

Posted by org at 11:41 PM






Oberleutnant Bruno Kikillus


Voronezh, Summer 1942



German officers examine the Normandy coast.  Tentatively, photo was taken near the city of Granville, Saint Pair sur Mer.

The man is drunk. At the Berlin festival. 1940.

Training Center. April 1942.


Artillery observers at night. 1943

Dental surgery at the front
A German soldier wearing a gas mask with a Panzerschreck RPzB 43. 1944
Germans with magnetic mines ...

Toilet. In France. 1940
Anschluss of Austria. Autumn 1938.


German Naval officers have lunch on the battleship Tirpitz.

In Russia. Gathered at an antenatal clinic ...

Men of Waffen-SS
 A German soldier with a machine gun MG-15


The MG 15 was a German 7.92 mm (0.31 in) machine gun designed specifically as a hand manipulated defensive gun for combat aircraft during the early 1930s. By 1941 it was replaced by other types and found new uses with ground troops.

* Calibre: 7.92 +/- .04 mm
* Cartridge: 7.92x57 mm Mauser
* Round weight: 35.5 grams (cartridge 24 grams, bullet 11.5 grams)
* Muzzle velocity: 755 m/s
* Rate of fire: 1000 (possibly up to 1050) rpm

* Length : 1078 mm (without attachments)
* Barrel length: 600 mm

* Weight unloaded with gunsight and cartridge bag: 8.1 kg
* Weight loaded with gunsight and cartridge bag: 12.4 kg
* 75 round Magazine unloaded: 2.27 kg
* 75 round Magazine loaded: 4.24 kg
* Weight of the 2-part loader: 0.72 kg

 SS soldier with a Mauser K-96 Model 712
Preparing a machine-gun belt
 

A periscope? Summer 1944

CLICK HERE TO SEE MANY MORE IMAGES OF "WEHRMACHT" 

-- German soldiers: Part 1
-- German soldiers: Part 2
-- Rare Images Of The Wehrmacht: Part 3
-- Wehrmacht: Part 4 
-- Wehrmacht: Part 5 
-- Wehramcht (German Soldiers): Part 6 
-- Wehrmacht: Part 7



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