A German motorized artillery column crossing the Don river by means of a pontoon bridge on July 31, 1942. Wrecked equipment and materiel of all kinds lies strewn around as the crossing is made.

Don river crossing

Luftwaffe airmen setting up an 8.8cm Flak near Kharkov, Ukraine, Soviet Union; 1943.

To be used for ground targets

German soldiers at Stalingrad fire a 5 cm Pak 38 anti-tank gun; 1942.

Target: Oncoming Soviet armor

German anti-aircraft guns in position at the corner of Lövőház utca (street) in Buda side of Budapest. On the right - an 88-mm Flak anti-aircraft gun, on the left - a Bofors L / 60 40-mm anti-aircraft gun; January, 1945.

German artillery on the ready

German gunners are about to fire a Nebelwerfer 41 rocket launcher in the Vosges low mountain range area in eastern  France; January 5, 1945.

Rocket launcher activity

The crew of a German 37-mm FlaK 36 anti-aircraft gun is preparing to open fire on an airial target; 1941.

Looking for the range

Wehrmacht soldiers of Army Group North with a 28-mm heavy anti-tank rifle sPzB 41 (2.8-cm-schwere Panzerbüchse 41).

Anti-tank gun

The crew of the Wehrmacht's Sd.Kfz half-track tractor moves a Flak 18 gun along the street of a Soviet settlement. On the barrel of the gun, there are marks about two shot down planes and a damaged tank; June-August 1941.

Half-track moves an artillery piece

German soldiers move a 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18 (7.5 cm le.IG 18) - light 75-mm infantry support gun to a new position to better reach enemy targets during a fight for Stalingrad; October 12, 1942.

Move to a better firing position

24 cm Theodor Bruno Kanone (E)

From Wikipedia:

The 24 cm Theodor Bruno Kanone (E - Eisenbahnlafette (railroad mounting)) was a German railroad gun used during World War II in the Battle of France and on coast-defense duties in Occupied France for the rest of the war. Six were built during the Thirties using fifty-year-old ex-naval guns. --Corrected...

Quite the Weapon

 A well-camouflaged German 75-mm (7.5-cm) PaK 40 anti-tank gun with a clear view of a straight road and any enemy armor, that may come down on it; Italy. October, 1944.

Camouflaged anti-tank gun

A German 105-mm light field howitzer leFH 18 at a firing position near the city of Smolensk, in western Russia; July 1941.

Battle of Smolensk

A German gun battery in a vineyard during the Allied advance to Naples, Italy: September-October, 1943.

Gun battery firing

German anti-aircraft self-propelled gun Sd.Kfz. 10/4 armed with a 20 mm FlaK 30 anti-aircraft gun; Baltic States, 1941.

Self-propelled AA-gun

A German column of horse drawn field artillery battery of 105-mm howitzers moves along a street of a village during the Polish campaign; September 1939. 

Artillery moves on

A German 10.5 cm light howitzer of the 291st Infantry Division is firing on a Russian target in the Volchov Pocket; Leningrad Front, 1942.


Light howitzer firing

German 75-mm anti-tank gun PaK 97/38 at a position south of Lake Ilmen, USSR, 100 miles south of Leningrad. In the background, a wrecked Soviet T-34-76 tank is visible next to which German soldiers are building a log cabin. 

Anti-tank gun in position

German artillery crew is using the 88-mm FlaK 18 anti-aircraft gun for ground targets - as required in this case - on the Eastern Front.

FlaK 18 in action

A German 20-mm anti-aircraft (Flak 30) battery, located south-east of Lake Ilmen, Novgorod region of the USSR; August 12, 1942.

Anti-aircraft defense

A German 88-mm anti-aircraft gun (FlaK 18) set up to fire at ground targets in Tunisia; North Africa. 

In ground target role

Crew posing with a 17 cm Kanone 18 in Mörserlafette, probably in a training exercise.
The 17 cm Kanone 18 in Mörserlafette (17 cm Cannon 18 on Heavy Gun Carriage), was a German heavy artillery piece used during World War II. 
 It was of the "double recoil" or dual-recoil carriage, the normal recoil forces were initially taken up by a conventional recoil mechanism close to the barrel, and then by a carriage sliding along rails set inside the travelling carriage. The dual-recoil mechanism absorbed all of the recoil energy with virtually no movement upon firing, thus making for a very accurate weapon.

Heavy artillery

German artillery in support of infantry, near the Narva river in Estonia; Army Group North, August 1941.

Gunners in support of infantry

The oil fields and refineries were very well defended by the Romanian and German forces, with multiple Flak batteries. The city of Ploesti and surroundings were  a significant source of oil for Nazi Germany during much of World War II.  U.S. bombers attacked it repeatedly, with more or less success. 

Ploesti storage and refiinery

A battery of Nebelwerfer rocket launchers on the Eastern Front.

Nebelwerfer battery

A Soviet T-34-76 medium tank crushed a German 10.5 cm light field howitzer (leFH 18) from behind. It could not continue further, and was captured by the Germans.

German Artillery

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