Picture of the Day

[Aniallator]

Humanity shines through even in war's darkest places. Here, a Waffen-SS soldier gives water to a mortally wounded Soviet tank crewman, 1943.

 

[drummer93]

Two wrecked tanks outside the villa Sfacciata, on the road between Giogoli and Galuzzo, south of Florence, Italy. Shows a German Tiger tank from schwere Panzer-Abteilung 508, and a New Zealand Sherman tank, probably from 20th Armoured Regiment.

 

[drummer93]

150 mm German rail guns getting ready to open fire at the Polish Army. May, 1940

 

[Aniallator]

Hitler speaks during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

 

[Aniallator]

A German soldier inspects a French Char B1 bis knocked out in Belgium, 1940.

 

[Leopardi]

Finnish T-26 speeding past a knocked out Soviet BT-7, which was trying to run away.

 

[drummer93]

American soldiers inspect a German machine gun position. Hürtgen Forest

 

[Leopardi]

Finnish position during Battle of Tali-Ihantala, June 1944. The attacking Soviet force was an estimated 450,000-460,000 men, three times as large as the D-Day landings in Normandy at the same time.

 

[FlyingR]

Graf Zeppelin flying above Buenos Aires, 1934.

 

[drummer93]

does that count as a WWII picture?

 

[FlyingR]

does that count as a WWII picture?

What are you? The Picture of the Day police?

 

[drummer93]

What are you? The Picture of the Day police?

The Picture of the Day delator

 

[VonMudra]

Seems to me like we need a Picture of the Day- Other Eras thread

 

[Aniallator]

Seems to me like we need a Picture of the Day- Other Eras thread

Cue Civil War pics

 

[FlyingR]

A general Picture of the Day would be great

 

[Aniallator]

The other Graf Zeppelin. A German aircraft carrier that was in construction throughout the war, never to be fully completed.

 

[Leopardi]

Battle of Tali-Ihantala, July 1944. ISU-152 didn't make it past these guys.

 

[Aniallator]

Clearly TW needs to portray the Winter War

 

[FlyingR]

[MENTION=1125]Leopardi[/MENTION], we get it, you Finns are indestructible, no need to show off!

 

[Leopardi]

indestructible

Not completely indestructible

Soviet officers inspecting a knocked out Finnish StuG III. The Sturmi's achieved a kill ratio of 10 to 1 during summer 1944 battles, with 8 StuG's lost to at least 87 destroyed Soviet tanks.