Public domain World War II pictures

Belgorod area: Battle of Kursk, August 1, 1943. German SS soldiers of a panzer division rescue a severely wounded Soviet soldier.

She has been awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Great Patriotic War (either the 1st or 2nd class.)

This KV-1 tank is a Model 1939 recognizable by the short L-11 76 mm. gun with the recuperator above the barrel. It fired the BR-3502 armor piercing round with a muzzle velocity of 612 meters/second. This was sufficient enough to penetrate 66 mm. of armor at a range of 500 meters. The following Model 1940 KV-1 had the longer F-32 gun. Despite its drawbacks (including a weak transmission, very narrow driver's vision slot which quickly fogged up and an unwieldy weight) the KV-1 remained in service and participated in the campaign against the Japanese Kwantung Army in August, 1945.

8.8 cm. Panzerabwehrkanane 43/41. The powerful L/71 length barrel was mounted on a 10.5 cm. leichte Feldhaubitze carriage with the wheels of a 15 cm. schwere Feldhaubitze carriage. It fired two types of armor piercing rounds: the Panzergranate 39/43 and the Panzergranate 40/43. These had a muzzle velocity of 1,000 and 1,130 meters/second respectively. It could also fire a high explosive round, the Sprenggranate 43, which had a muzzle velocity of 950 meters/second. The 8.8 cm. L/71 gun was also mounted on the Jagdpanther tank destroyer, Nashorn tank destroyer and the King Tiger tank. Because of its latge size, the gun was nicknamed the "Scheunentor" (barn door.) Some guns were also used in coastal defense positions.

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In reality the Bismarck was fairly conventional in layout and at best, equal to contemporary US and British battleship in terms of main gun firepower - eight 15-inch guns compared to 14, 15 and 16-inch guns on US and British ships. In automatic antiaircraft guns, the Bismarck was at a disadvantage It's twin 37 mm. guns were manually loaded, single shot and it had only a few automatic 20 mm. guns. In comparison US and British battleships had a greater quantity of guns (40 mm. and 20 mm.) and all were automatic. The Bismarck's modest number/type of guns along with insufficient AA gun crew training, ultimately led to its demise as seen in the Swordfish torpedo-bomber attack.