M24 Chaffee of the 9th Armored Division in Germany

M24 Chaffee

The M24 Chaffee was an American light tank that was used in the later stages of WWII, intended to replace the Stuart light tank.  Sadly too few of these arrived, and too late to have any significant impact on the war.

The main advantage was the 75mm gun over the 37mm of the Stuart, however it was still lightly armored and was vulnerable to all forms of anti-tank weaponry.

A half track passing a knocked-out Soviet Churchill tank

Knocked out Soviet Lend-Lease Churchill

Significant numbers of British Churchill, Matilda and Valentine tanks were shipped to the USSR along with the US M3 Lee after it became obsolete on the African Front, ceasing production in December 1942 and withdrawn from British service in May 1943. The Churchills, supplied by the arctic convoys, saw action in the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Kursk, while tanks shipped by the Persian route supplied the Caucasian Front. Between June 1941 and May 1945, Britain delivered to the USSR:

• 3,000+ Hurricanes
• 4,000+ other aircraft
• 27 naval vessels
• 5,218 tanks
• 5,000+ anti-tank guns
• 4,020 ambulances and trucks
• 323 machinery trucks
• 2,560 Universal Carriers
• 1,721 motorcycles
• £1.15bn worth of aircraft engines
• 600 radar and sonar sets
• Hundreds of naval guns
• 15 million pairs of boots

In total 4 million tonnes of war materials including food and medical supplies were delivered. The munitions totaled £308m (not including naval munitions supplied), the food and raw materials totaled £120m in 1946 index. In accordance with the Anglo-Soviet Military Supplies Agreement of 27 June 1942, military aid sent from Britain to the Soviet Union during the war was entirely free of charge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#British_deliveries_to_the_USSR

Soviet T-26 Tank sits abandoned in a field of sunflowers

From entering active service in 1932 with the Red Army; the T-26 participated in many conflicts through the 1930's up until it's final engagement against the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria in August 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-26

Solothurn 31.M Golyószóró

Also known as the MG30 

Colorized image below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_30

Panther on the Eastern Front 1944

One source has cited the cost of a Panther tank as 117,100 Reichmarks (RM). This compared with 82,500 RM for the StuG III, 96,163 RM for the Panzer III, 103,462 RM for the Panzer IV, and 250,800 RM for the Tiger I. These figures did not include the cost of the armament and radio. Using slave labour on the production lines greatly reduced costs, but also greatly increased the risk of sabotage. French army studies in 1947 found that many Panthers had been sabotaged during production.

The main gun was a Rheinmetall-Borsig 7.5 cm KwK 42 (L/70) with semi-automatic shell ejection and a supply of 79 rounds (82 on Ausf. G). The main gun used three different types of ammunition: APCBC-HE (Pzgr. 39/42), HE (Sprgr. 42) and APCR (Pzgr. 40/42), the last of which was usually in short supply. While it was of a calibre common on Allied tanks, the Panther's gun was one of the most powerful of World War II, due to the large propellant charge and the long barrel, which gave it a very high muzzle velocity and excellent armour-piercing qualities — among Allied tank guns of similar calibre, only the British Sherman Firefly conversion's Ordnance QF 17-pounder gun, of 3 inch (76.2mm) calibre, and a 55 calibre long (L/55) barrel, had more potential hitting power.

Zrinyi II SPG

Following up from the previous post, a Hungarian manufactured Zrinyi II 105mm assault artillery unit.

Hungarian Operated StuG III's in Action

Hungarian Stug III in action

Initially planning to use the Hungarian built Zrinyi assault gun, the newly created Assault Artillery Battalions were stocked with German manufactured StuG III's.