Dug in 5cm Panzerabwehrkanone 38 (L/60) in Italy

Two Red Army soldiers ride through the liberated city of Odessa surrounded by destroyed German army vehicles, 1944

German "Elefant" tank destroyers on the assembly line.

These Schwerer Panzerjäger ("heavy tank-hunter") of the Wehrmacht during World War II, built in small numbers in 1943 under the name "Ferdinand" after its designer, Ferdinand Porsche, using tank hulls that had been produced for the Tiger I tank requirement, but which were rejected in favor of the competing Henschel design.

German soldier cleaning his Karabiner 98k with 4x Zeiss ZF42 telescopic sight

10.5cm leFH-18/40 auf GW Lorraine Schlepper(f) knocked out in Rouen - August 1944

Royal Observer Corp plotting room, Kent, 1943

Soviet troops fighting in the ruins of the factory 'Red October', Stalingrad, Russia, October 1942

Tiger burnt out on the roadside in Normandy

Me-163 A-V4 - Prototype Komet interceptor aircraft in a field

The Me 163A V4 was shipped to Peenemünde to receive the HWK RII-203 engine in May 1941. By 2 October 1941, the Me 163A V4, bearing the radio call sign letters, or Stammkennzeichen, "KE+SW", set a new world speed record of 1,004.5 km/h (624.2 mph), piloted by Heini Dittmar, with no apparent damage to the aircraft during the attempt.

USS Texas BB-53 underway March 1943

MG 42 and Camouflaged PaK 40 in Position on the Eastern Front

King Tiger from Schwere Panzer Abteilung 507 that defended the woods around Padeborn 1945

During World War II, Paderborn was bombed by Allied aircraft in 1944 and 1945, resulting in 85% destruction, including many of the historic buildings. It was seized by the US 3rd Armored Division after a pitched battle 31 March - 1 April 1945, in which tanks and flamethrowers were used during combined mechanized-infantry assaults against the city's southwestern, southern and southeastern approaches

8.8 cm Flak 36 camouflaged in the ground role sporting a good number of kill rings

U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus (SS-168) Sinking the Japanese destroyer Yamakaze on on 25 June 1942

Shattered running gear on an early T-34-76 - Winter 1941

A Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger being stuffed with 88mm ammunition prior to Operation Zitadelle - July 1943

Men of the Hermann Göring Division both wearing "Palm Forest" SS camo smocks, one with leaf camo stenciled Helmet

Flipped Over Shermans - Monte Cassino Italy 1944

Ilyushin Il-4 gun turret being loaded

8.8cm Pak 43/41 "Scheunentor" towed by an Sd.Kfz. 7 on the Eastern Front

Scheunentor translates to barn door, this was not due to the size of the gun shield but instead a reference to the guns manoeuvrability!

A P-51D Mustang fighter taking off from Iwo Jima. 1945