German truck column with SS soldiers. The person standing at the center is a Russian POW.


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The photo depicts a Pz.Kfw IV ausf D or E, a first of a 40 batch in Libya, the spring of 1941 of Pz. Regiment 5 or 8 of either the 15th or 21st Panzer Divisions. At the start of the north African campaign, it was effective with its short barreled low velocity 7,5cm gun but by 1942 new long barreled Pz.Kfw IVs ausf F,F2 & Gs arrived with upped 75mm guns dubbed under "specials" and the afrikakorps divisions received the first 10 for #operation_Venezia , Rommel's attack on Gazala( Mai 1942)
taken from fb/Deutsches Afrikakorps

Pz.Kfw IV  DAK

This shows a 15cm Schützen Infantrie Geschütz(s.I.G) 33 mounted on a Pz.Kfw III ausf.H redesignated as Pz.38(t) of the Schützen Regiment 200, the 90 Leichte Infantrie Division in Libya, circa 1941-42.
Taken from fb /Leone Mutai‎/Deutsches Afrikakorps ( Abteilung Schweiz)