Motorized German troops, motorcycles with sidecar, are resting in a town; France,1940.


Overrunning France

A column of Panther tanks (Pz.Kpfv. V Panther) of the German 21st Panzer Division on the move along a road in the forest of Haguenau, eastern France, during the Alsace-Lorraine Offensive; January, 1945.

Tanks roll on

German soldiers on a camouflaged armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. 251 against the backdrop of smoke from the burning oil wells of Maykop, Russia, 50 miles north of Sochi, set afire by defenders in the retreat of Soviet troops. 
The Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track was a WW2 German armored fighting vehicle designed to transport the panzergrenadiers (German mechanized infantry) into battle. 
