German paratroopers on the grounds of Tapijnkazerne barracks in the city of Maastricht, in the southern tip of the Netherlands; 1940. 


Tapijn barracks

A German paratrooper fires his MG 42 machine gun from hand-held position.
The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") is a 7.92×57mm Mauser general purpose machine gun, used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II.

Paratrooper in action

German Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) manning a 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun on a street in an unknown Italian town; 1943. 
