A group of heavy-armed Waffen-SS grenadiers. They are equipped with the special canvas ammo pouches for the long, bent magazines of the StG 44, additional MG ammo belts and stick grenades. France, December 1944.

Waffen-SS grenadiers 1944

Somewhere at the road of advance to Poltava/Central Ukraine. Three members of a german heavy MG crew were killed in action. German casualties in the first months of Operation Barbarossa exceeded the apprehensions. The losses of the Heer only in October of 1941: 25717 men and officers KIA, 91606 WIA, 4058 MIA.