German paratroopers during the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy; May-June, 1944.


In the ruined town

German machine gun crew from the 3rd Luftwaffe Parachute Division, armed with a captured American M1919A4 Browning machine gun, at a position in Oosterbeek, a suburb of Arnhem, Holland; 1944.

Paratroopers with machine gun

Soldiers of the 9th Wehrmacht Fallschirmjäger-Division (Parachute) in a defensive position on the Seelow Heights. They are armed with an MG 42 machine gun (center), and an StG 44 assault rifle (on the left) and a Panzerfaust grenade launcher(on the right), 90 kilometers east of Berlin, Germany; 16-19 April, 1945. 