Luftwaffe ground force in photo

[AlifRafikKhan]

This was a few weeks before the Germans launched a massive anti-partisan assault in the area south of Bologna

Where's the picture?

[gibbs]

Hello dear friends !!
A very rare shot , fallschirmjager medics fom ebay auc.
Clic on ebay pic

if anyone has a copy can they please upload as it isnt there now

[Peter H]

From ebay,seller appollo133

Flak

[Peter H]

Same source

[A.C.E. van T.]

Same source.

Panzerfaust,Normandy

Oak and fernleaves as camouflage on helmet in Normandy?

[Luftflotte2]

FlaK in Russia

[Stanford9]

Something odd here! Definitely France, the uniforms seem WWII but the tractor lorry and flak gun carriage? they look like WW1 relics.

[Alanmccoubrey]

The truck is a Renault arty tractor which the French were still using in 1940.

[Larry D.]

The process of gathering, examining, sorting and putting to use captured antiaircraft artillery was "big business" for the Luftwaffe's Flakwaffe. The Lw. had a number of Flak-Beutestäbe, Flak-Beuteparke and other specialized staffs and units for this work. Those pieces judged "reusable" were sent to Germany and re-bored to chamber German 8.8-cm rounds. Quite a few of the Flak guns used around German cities 1942-45 were of this type, the majority being originally of Russian origin.

L.

[Stanford9]

That's really useful info Alan, Larry. I wondered if they were old Renaults, they certainly have that look about them.

[Peter H]

From ebay.de,seller spargelbaerchen

[Peter H]

From ebay.de,seller k-r-o-s-a

Looks like Crete--group photo Fallschirmjäger & Gebirgsjäger

[Peter H]

From the Bundesarchiv.

Crete

[Peter H]

Same source.

Italy 1943

[Peter H]

Same source.

Italy again.