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The Commander in Chief, General Auchinleck, inspecting Bren gun carrier crews of the Indian Tenth Army in Iraq, 18 April 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 10780) |
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Two Sikh members of an Indian camouflage unit in Baghdad, with a dummy Stuart tank mounted on a car chassis, 25 March 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 9697) |
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Aboard a transport bringing Army troops from New Guinea to the Philippines. The early model 2½-ton truck has the insignia of the Chemical Corps on its hood and a personal insignia on the door. |
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DUKW loading onto LST 543. |
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A Valentine tank making its way up the beach after being unloaded from a landing craft, 9 February 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 8174) |
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A Matilda tank coming ashore from a tank landing craft, 9 February 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 8173) |
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Infantry advance in the distance, past the wreck of a German PzKpfw III tank, North Africa, October 1942. (Imperial War Museum photo E 18787) |
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17 pdr firing APCBC at 2900 F/S against Tiger and Panther tanks. |
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75mm firing APCBC (M.61`) at 2030 F/S against Tiger and Panther tanks. |
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Rheinmetall-Borsig Panzer III turret design. |
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Panzer III interior section view. |
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Lt. Gen. Erwin Rommel and his staff confer during Africa Korps operations in North Africa. |
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German bunker Type S414. |
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German bunker Type S414 painted to look like a house. |
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Albert Kesselring (center) and Erwin Rommel (left), both senior German field commanders, confer during a meeting at El Alamein in North Africa in August 1942. |
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The PzKpfw III Ausf G turret direction indicator was later copied on the Soviet T-50 light tank. |
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The PzKpfw III Ausf G machine gun mount itself was not very interesting, but the idea of a dual machine gun was used on the Soviet T-50 light tank. |
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A captured German soldier from the Hermann Göring Division fills out paperwork in a temporary Moroccan prison camp before being shipped to the United States or Britain. |
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General George S. Patton, Jr. |
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Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf B Tiger II “11”, France. |
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Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger II, France. |
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Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger II, France, 1944. |
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Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger II, Germany, 1945. |
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Polish TK3 tankette that has had its armor cut out and a windshield installed by the Germans. |
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Captured American M4A3 medium tank, Ardennes, January 1945. It was used by 5th Paratroop Jäger Division, along with five more. |
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The same M4A3 as in the above photo, knocked out during the Ardennes Offensive, Esch-sur-Sûre, Luxembourg, seen later in 1945. |
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Captured British Sherman VC “Firefly” (armed with 17-pounder gun), Normandy, 1944. |
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Captured British Sherman VC “Firefly” (armed with 17-pounder gun), Normandy, 1944. |
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M4 medium tank captured and used by the Germans. |
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Aboard a transport bringing Army troops from New Guinea to the Philippines. The early model 2½-ton truck has the insignia of the Chemical Corps on its hood and a personal insignia on the door. |
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American jeeps and a captured Kübelwagen in a North African city. |
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American M4 medium tanks with a GMC CCKW truck and soldiers sitting in a poppy field in Italy, August 1944. |
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The Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle ever fought — with each side employing nearly 3,000 tanks. |
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German Z.W.40 tank. |
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German Z.W.40 tank. |
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German Z.W.40 tank. |
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German Z.W.40 tank. |
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German Z.W.40 tank. |
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German Z.W.40 tank. |
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Early production PzKpfw VI Ausf E “Tiger I” moving past a French farmyard, 1944. |
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Tiger I being towed by three SdKfz 9 half-tracks. |
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Tiger I moving past a burning Russian farmhouse. |
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Tiger I tank crew cleaning the barrel. |
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Refueling a Tiger I. |
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PzKpfw 38(t). |
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Tiger I tanks from 501 sPzAbt. |
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Marder near Stalingrad. |
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Alkett schwere Minenräumer (Vs.Kfz. 617) “Alkett-Raümgerät.” |
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Alkett schwere Minenräumer (Vs.Kfz. 617) “Alkett-Raümgerät.” |
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Alkett schwere Minenräumer (Vs.Kfz. 617) “Alkett-Raümgerät.” |
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Minenraumpanzer III, a.k.a. Minenraumgerat mit PzKpfw Antrieb. |
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Gepanzerte Munitionsschlepper (VK 3.02) (Borgward). |
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Hungarian troops standing on and next to a knocked out Soviet KV-1 Model 1942 heavy tank. |
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T-34-T armored recovery vehicle. The T-34-T was a World War II conversion of T-34 medium tanks into armored recovery vehicles. The turret was removed and the mobile hull was used to tow vehicles. |
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ZIS-42M half-track (an improved version of the ZIS-42). |
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T-34-85 Model 1944 with 85mm ZiS-S-53 cannon and cast and smoother barrel housing on the gun mantlet. |
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T-34-85 Model 1943 and 1944 tanks of the 51st Brigade, 9th Guards Tank Corps, August 1944. |
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ZiS-42 half-track (introduced in 1942; a variant of the famous ZiS-5 truck). |
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A flurry of Chevrolets G7107 ceded to the USSR under the Lend-Lease program. These trucks played a decisive role in improving the Red Army's logistics, from 1942. |
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T-34/85 of the Third Guards Tank Army, Germany, 1945. |
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Knocked out M3 light tank in Soviet service towing artillery, near Kharkov, Soviet Union, May 1942. |
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The only known photograph of a SU-76i on the front lines show it in German hands, where it was a trophy of the 23rd Tank Division. |
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One of the biggest issues with the SU-76i was lack of a user's manual. One was only published in 1944, when the vehicle's career was coming to an end. |
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The first SU-76i prototype on a Panzerkampfwagen III chassis. Sofrino proving grounds, March 1943. |
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A German Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. J medium tank was used as a chassis. |
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View from behind, rear hatch is closed. |
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The escape hatch could also be used for ventilation. |
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Inside the fighting compartment. The commander's station is in the upper right corner. |
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The driver, gunner, and loader were located in a line on the left side of the fighting compartment, just like in the StuG III. |
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Mobility trials in snow. |
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The right track slipped off and the right drive sprocket crown was bent while driving on a dirt road. The first production SU-76i were nearly identical to the prototype. |
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A mass production SU-76i, September 1943. This vehicle had the serial number 3155. |
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One of the most distinctive features of the production SU-76i was the extra plate on the gun shield. |
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Extra fuel tanks on the rear plate and the firing port for the PPSh in the left hatch flap can be seen. |
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SU-76 self-propelled gun in Berlin on April 30, 1945. |
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Soviet armored train captured by German forces in the summer of 1941. |
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U.S. M3 light tank driver at Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942. |
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American infantryman with a M1 Garand rifle alongside a halftrack, Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942. |
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M7 self-propelled howitzer moves up the Appian Way during the drive towards Rome. |
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American soldiers marching up the Appian Way during the drive towards Rome. On the road at the left is an amphibious jeep. Note what appears to be unexploded shells in the foreground. |
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Italians watching American armor, including this M8 armored car, pass during the drive towards Rome along the Appian Way. |
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U.S. 10th Mountain Division medical unit, Italy, 1944. |
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American soldiers and their vehicles rest in a courtyard during the drive towards Rome. |
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American troops with a variety of vehicles, including M8 armored cars and command cars, camping by the roadside during the drive towards Rome, 1944. |
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American troops landing at Anzio. The two vehicles in the foreground are gasoline tankers (note the "GASOLINE" signs on the front of the vehicles) each pulling two gasoline tank trailers. |
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American servicemen drive in jeeps through an unidentified and nearly completely destroyed town, Italy, May 1944. |
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American Army trucks parked next to the St. Lucia fountain in 1943. |
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An American soldier from 7th Armored Division mans the machine gun of his M4 medium tank while on maneuvers, circa 1943. |
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An American soldier with M1 rifle next to a halftrack trains at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in June 1942. |
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M4 medium tank crew at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in June 1942. |
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A driver operates a M3 medium tank at Fort Knox in Kentucky in June 1942. |
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The driver of a Marine truck, New River, North Carolina, in May 1942. |
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A soldier operates a light tank at Fort Knox in Kentucky in June 1942. |
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Two African American recruits in a M3 light tank during training in mechanized warfare at Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, April 1943. |
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Turret assembly on M3A3 light tank, showing turret basket. |
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M5 light tanks pass through the wrecked streets of Coutances, circa July 1944. |
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M5 light tanks move through Avranches (Manche), France. |
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African American crew of M5 light tanks from Company D, 761st Tank Battalion, stand by awaiting call to clean out scattered German machine gun nests in Coburg, Germany, 25 April 1945. |
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M2A3 light tank in Annual Army Day Parade, Washington, D.C., 6 April 1939. |
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M2 Half-track (W-4011894). |
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M16 Gun Motor Carriage being used for direct fire, 209th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, supporting the 32nd Infantry Division, Villa Verde Trail, Philippines, August 1945. |
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M4 medium tanks with a M26 heavy tank (second from left) of 2nd Armored Division, Germany, 1945. |
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M18 Gun Motor Carriage "Hellcat". |
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A soldier mans the M2 .50 caliber machine gun on an M18 GMC (40145323) during a training maneuver. |
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During a lull in the fighting in Brest, France, on 12 September 1944, crewmen of an M18 GMC (40145153) nicknamed “Big Gee” inspect their vehicle. |
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M18 GMC crewmen from the 603rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, 6th Armored Division, relax around their vehicle in Marnach, Luxembourg, 21 February 1945. |
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A group of M18 GMCs attached to the 6th Armored Division halt before a disabled German PzKpfw VI King Tiger tank somewhere in Germany, 28 February 1945. |
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An M18 GMC from the 603rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, Combat Command B, 6th Armored Division, guards an intersection in Luneville, France, 22 September 1944. |
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M18 GMC featuring an unusual placement of sandbags along the upper hull sides. |
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M4A1 76(W) medium tank, left, and M26 heavy tank, right, of the 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, Cologne, Germany, March 1945. A German family returns from collecting water. |
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The same family carrying buckets of water as they continue past the two tanks. |
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The same family continues their excursion to get water, passing by another M4 medium tank. |
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These Axis prisoners were taken during the Allied assault on German positions near Sened, Tunisia, 1943. Note US M3 Medium tank in background. |
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M25 Tank Transporter moving a PzKpfw. V “Panther” tank, Germany, post-war. |
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M31 tank recovery vehicle with German pre-built bunker. |
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Dodge VF-404 1.5-ton truck. The VF-404 was built during 1940 with a total of 1,956 trucks built. The vehicle was part of the U.S. Army G-621 series. |
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T29 Heavy Tank. Only eight T29s were produced, beginning in April 1945. This particular vehicle is owned by the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection at Fort Benning in Georgia. |
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76mm Gun Motor Carriage T70, August 23, 1943. |
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T49 Gun Motor Carriage prototype (a distant predecessor to the famous M18 Hellcat tank destroyer). |
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