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uli
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Re: Then and now photographs

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Post by uli » 17 Aug 2012, 18:43

Jagdtiger "102" from sPzJgAbt 653 near Klingenberg (near Heilbronn, Germany)

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Post by Geoff Walden » 09 Oct 2012, 15:50

Thanks, uli, those are GREAT then-and-now shots! Especially Saal an der Saale - I love that one!


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Post by Piotr Mikołajski » 30 Apr 2013, 15:22

There are not many identified photos from East Prussia and just few from Allenstein, today Olsztyn. One of the best known and most published is abandoned Marder II.
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Marder II in Allenstein - 1945
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With recent Google Street View update I was able to make this compilation.
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Marder II in Allenstein - 1945/2012
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Re: Then and now photographs

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Post by GregSingh » 22 May 2013, 04:11

Thanks to the Internet, some photos from Polish Campaign 1939.
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Opatow 1939-2012
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Warsaw 1939-2012

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Re: Then and now photographs

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Post by GregSingh » 24 May 2013, 06:09

And more from September 1939...
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Kielce 1939-2012

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Re: Then and now photographs

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Post by uli » 16 Jul 2013, 10:59

Panther at Bamberg

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Post by Geoff Walden » 16 Jul 2013, 15:51

Great comparison, Uli! Another early Panther, like the one that was nearby on Zollnerstrasse. I guess there must have been a Panther training unit at the Kaserne there.

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Post by uli » 05 Aug 2013, 12:31

Panther from PzReg 15 (11. Panzer Division) retreat from Southern France at Lure (Haute-Saône), Avenue Carnot - D64

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Post by ain92 » 25 Aug 2013, 21:38

Hello all.
Sorry, I don't know year, but here's ''Krasnoarmeyskaya pravda'' editorial office during the WW2 with an unknown truck:
G125 Russland Schilderwald Haus mit Reklame Kennung + Beute LKW.jpg
http://www.ebay.de/itm/G125-Russland-Schilderwald-Haus-Reklame-Kennung-Beute-LKW-/370878609449?pt=Militaria&hash=item565a167829
Now the building is used as a polyclinic and it condition leaves something to be desired:
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Post by SIS 5 » 26 Aug 2013, 17:00

Hi ain92,

thank You very much for the photographs. That´s very interesting, but can You tell me, please, in which town I can find this building.
Thanks in advance.

Bert

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Post by ain92 » 26 Aug 2013, 18:27

SIS 5 wrote:Hi ain92,

thank You very much for the photographs. That´s very interesting, but can You tell me, please, in which town I can find this building.
Thanks in advance.

Bert
You can click on the second photo and see that this is Smolensk, I also added a link to Wikimapia at the third photo. By the word the building is placed at Dzerzhinskogo Street, 3.
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Re: Then and now photographs

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Post by Tony R » 25 Nov 2013, 16:44

Some scenes from the Dodecanese. All images feature in the book Swastika over the Aegean.

http://www.deutsches-afrika-korps.de/vi ... 152&t=6281

On 3 October 1943, German forces landed on Kos and by the next day had defeated British and Italian forces defending the island. In this photograph, German troops can be seen in an otherwise deserted Kos town early on 4 October. The same location is shown sixty-six years later. This is now Plateia Eleftherias (Freedom Square).
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Re: Then and now photographs

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Post by Tony R » 25 Nov 2013, 16:48

On 18 October 1943, Fallschirmjäger of 15. Kompanie/4. Regiment ‘Brandenburg’ were tasked with securing the island of Levitha and rescuing German prisoners of war. One of the objectives was Segnale, site of a wireless station (according to German intelligence), or a meteorological station (according to the British). The battle-damaged building still exists, although the observatory has collapsed, partially filling the ground floor with rubble.
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Re: Then and now photographs

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Post by Tony R » 25 Nov 2013, 16:53

The following eight images are of Leros. German forces invaded the island on 12 November 1943.

This is one of four 102/35 guns at the Italian battery P.L. 211 on Rachi, a much-contested feature during the five-day battle, which ended in a German victory.
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Re: Then and now photographs

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Post by Tony R » 25 Nov 2013, 16:54

Meraviglia, not far from Allied Fortress Headquarters. In the middle distance: a 40mm Bofors; to its right, P.L. 127 battery command post.
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