A Ferdinand heavy tank destroyer of the 653rd Heavy Panzerjäger Battalion; Kursk, Russia 1943.


Enemy tank destroyer

A StuG III (fully tracked armored fighting vehicle)  of the Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 210 (Assault Gun Division) and German Infantry near Novorossiysk, USSR, on the northern coast of the Black Sea; 1942

Stug and German Infantry

The 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", many of whose soldiers are wounded, slog through Russian mud to rear positions; spring 1942.
During the Soviet winter counter-offensive, the Division was encircled for several months near Demyansk in what became known as the Demyansk Pocket. In April 1942, the division broke out of the pocket, but about 80% of its men were killed, wounded or missing in action.