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AFV #2: German

PzKpfw IV Ausf F2, Russia. A column of StuG IIIs in the Caucasus, summer 1942. PzKpfw III. StuG. StuG. StuG. StuG with cement armor. Pz.Kpfw. IV with zimmerit. Captured StuG's in Soviet hands. Captured German materiel transferred to the US for examinations and tests. Schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 653 Elefant. Various destroyed German vehicles. The Pak 40 auf Raupenschlepper Ost was a fast conversion of tracked artillery tractors used on the Eastern front into tank hunters. SdKfz 222 armored car, Das Reich Division, Waffen-SS, Eastern Front, summer 1941. SdKfz 222 light armored car, Russia, summer 1941. SdKfz 223 radio vehicle in foreground, then an SdKfz 261 Kleiner Panzerfunkwagen, another SdKfz 223, and some SdKfz 222 light armored cars, awaiting rail transport to the front, summer 1942. SdKfz 222 of the 69th Panzergrenadier Regiment, 10th Panzer Division, France, 1942. Four SdKfz 222 and one SdKfz 232 (8-rad) (Fu) armored cars, North Africa. Leichter Panzerspähwagen (SdKfz 261) ...

Land War #1: British

Men of ‘A’ Company of the 5th Battalion, Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment advance along a road past an abandoned German 7.5 cm Pak 40 anti-tank gun in the Rapido bridgehead, Italy, 16 May 1944. Men of the Royal West Kent Regiment in a dugout on Monastery Hill at Cassino, 26 March 1944. Second Phase 15 February - 10 May 1944: Men of the 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment man a 3-inch mortar on Monastery Hill. Men of the 5th Royal West Kents in an olive grove, Italy, 16 December 1943. Headquarters of the Royal West Kents at Pyimbongi, Burma, at a Burmese temple in driving monsoon rain. 1945. A 3-inch mortar crew from the Queens's Own Royal West Kents in action, Tunisia, 31 January 1943. Men of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment making an armed patrol during the Battle of the Sittang Bend, Burma, 1945. Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment enjoy a tot of rum in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', 4th Division near Roubaix, France, 3 Ap...