A pensive American sergeant standing near the body of a German soldier who was killed on the road near Chambois ,France. By the roadside,a German multiple rocket launcher (MRL) 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 (Sd.Kfz.4 / 1).

greetz,brummbar 


Chambois,France  21/08/1944 

A German light tank Pz.Kpfw.38 (t) (Czech production) of the 7th Armored Division got stuck trying to pass a repaired overpass.Damage to the right track.Crewmen are preparing a towcable for a second tank to pull the damage one off the overpass.
Invasion of Belgium 1940.
greetz,brummbar 

Stuck!

Tank crew of the 11th Panzer Division take a break.  Their PzKpfw IV carries both the "broken circle and bar" and the "Ghost" emblems of the 11th Panzer.  The Bundesarchiv caption says only that the photo was taken in Yugoslavia.

11th Panzer was formed on 1 August, 1941, utilizing elements of the 5th Panzer Division and a number of infantry and specialist units.  This was part of a general reorganization of the panzer divisions at this time, the principal objective of which was to reduce the number of panzer regiments in a division from two to one.  Commentators tend to differ as to whether this was a vanity change (increasing the nominal rollcall of panzer divisions) or whether it was a sensible response to lessons learned in France as to the proper balance between infantry and tanks in such a division.  

The 11th was almost immediately engaged in the Balkans Campaign of August, 1941 (presumably, where this photo was taken), and subsequently served on the Eastern Front, suffering near-annihilation in the Cherkassy Pocket encirclement.  They were then sent west, and fought on that front for the remainder of the war, eventually surrendering to the US Army.