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German AFVs in View

  The contradictions of the German Army in the blitzkrieg period. In the foreground are 8-ton SdKfz 7 half-track prime movers towing 15cm guns, but in the background teams of horses and limbers can be seen with 10.5cm le FH 18 howitzers. SdKfz 8 half-track prime mover towing artillery, Russia. A damaged German SdKfz 6/3 (7.62 cm Russian anti-tank gun 296 (PaK 36) mounted on a SdKfz 6 half-track) of the 605th Panzerjäger-Abteilung near El Alamein, Egypt, in November 1942. Another view of the damaged German SdKfz 6/3 (7.62 cm Russian anti-tank gun 296 (PaK 36) mounted on a SdKfz 6 half-track) of the 605th Panzerjäger-Abteilung near El Alamein, Egypt, 1 August 1942. German transport of heavy crane used in various places during World War II. This particular crane is on its way up to Fjell festning, or MKB 11/504, a German coastal fortress on Sotra, outside Bergen, Norway. The crane was used for construction and fitting of the B-tower from the battleship “Gneisenau.” Three vehicles (two...