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. 


Smoke far ahead

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


Overrunning France

A PzKpfw IV Ausf. H tank destroyer of the 12th Panzer Division, Wehrmacht, carrying Schürzen skirting, operating on the Eastern Front, in a village in the USSR, 1944. 
