German soldier on a BMW motorcyle about to deliver warm food in a thermal container to the forward troops, during the battle of Moscow.


Warm food on the way

The 6th Panzer Army was the best equipped among the three German armies that participated in Operation Herbstnebel.’ Among many things, it had a battalion of the huge 70-ton Königstiger tanks, which, with its 88mm KwK43 L/71 Kampfwagenkanone had an almost unmatched firepower. A Königstiger could knock out a Sherman frontally at a distance of up to two miles, whilst its own frontal armor was almost invulnerable to the fire of a Sherman at basically any distance. 

Operation Herbstnebel

A German Panther and a truck pass each other with care on a narrow forest road in the Ardennes, Belgium; December, 1944