A column of tanks of 6th Panzer Division awaits the order to advance, 1940. The lead vehicle is a Pzkpfw 35(t), one of many captured from the Czech army and pressed into service. Behind are three Pzkpfw IVs and behind them a line of Pzkpfw II light tanks.
On this day 79 years ago the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, encircling the city of Stalingrad and destroying the 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army
M4 Sherman tanks line up in a snow-covered field in St Vith, Belgium as the town is liberated during the Battle of the Bulge. The town was the boundary between the 5th and 6th Panzer Armies and the US 8th Corps. Victory or defeat depended on individual soldiers and small unit actions. December 1944.
The Red Army soldiers inspect the destroyed German tank Pz. 35 (t) from the 6th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht near the town of Raseiniai. 23.07.1941.
21 May 1942: German 6th Army and 1st Panzer Army nearly surrounded Izium, Ukraine. ww2db.com/battle_spec.phpโฆ
Soldiers during a mission briefing, Hungary, 1945. A grenadier of the Waffen SS (right) and tankers bend over a map before their mission. The photo was taken during the combat of the last German offensive on Lake Balaton in Hungary in 1945 and shows the soldiers of the 6th SS Panzer Army in Hungary.
A Panzer IV Ausf. F of the 6th Army and it's crew rest near a church in the outskirts of Stalingrad, September 1942
A Panzer IV Ausf. F of the 6th Army and it's crew rest near a church in the outskirts of Stalingrad, September 1942
Russian soldiers braves the German offensive to capture Stalingrad using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. Intense Luftwaffe bombing reduced much of the city to rubble, leaving soldiers no choice but to use what weapons were available to them. (c. August 1942)
Soldiers from the U.S.'s 2nd Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division and France's 6th Tank Company, 14th Panzer Battalion operate a French Leclerc together during the Strong Europe Tank Challenge, held at 7th Army Training Commandโs Grafenwoehr Traini
A Panzer IV Ausf. F of the 6th Army and it's crew rest near a church in the outskirts of Stalingrad, September 1942
Two King Tigers of the 6th SS Panzer Army driving past destroyed IS-1's in rural Hungary, March 1945 (custom battle)
21 May 1942: German 6th Army and 1st Panzer Army nearly surrounded Izium, Ukraine. ww2db.com/battle_spec.phpโฆ
The 6th Panzer Army is well namedโwe have just six tanks left
German soldiers of the 12th Volksgrenadier Division, 6th Panzer Army, strip boots and other equipment from the bodies of several dead U.S. Army soldiers killed during an ambush at the northern end of the Losheim Gap, a day after the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. December 17th, 1944.
21 May 1942: German 6th Army and 1st Panzer Army nearly surrounded Izium, Ukraine. ww2db.com/battle_spec.phpโฆ
The 16th Panzer Division driving towards Stalingrad as part of the doomed 6th Army, ca., July 1942 imgur.com/laEF4QP
TIL On Dec 16, 1944, 22 Allied Soldiers single-handedly killed 92 Nazi Paratroopers and held back the entire 6th Panzer Army en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batโฆ
The 16th Panzer Division driving towards Stalingrad as part of the doomed 6th Army, ca., July 1942. [1200x635] imgur.com/laEF4QP
A Pz.Kpfw. 35 (t) of the 6th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht (6. Panzer-Division) passes by a wrecked Soviet KV-1E tank near the village of Gaura in Latvia.
21 May 1942: German 6th Army and 1st Panzer Army nearly surrounded Izium, Ukraine. ww2db.com/battle_spec.phpโฆ
"We call ourselves the 6th Panzer Army because we've only got 6 Panzers left" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6thโฆ
[Military] 6th SS Panzer Army Panthers knocked out at lake Balaton. March, 1945
A Flammpanzer III (Number 651) of the 6th Panzer Division near Kursk. July 1943.
6th SS Panzer Army Panthers knocked out at lake Balaton. March, 1945
The 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army withdraw from Stalingrad right when Operation Uranus is launched. Does it change anything on the Eastern Front?
So, let's assume that both those formations are able to fall back from Stalingrad, escaping the encirclement and subsequent surrender. What would then happen?
Tiger II turret number 332 of 501st SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung. This vehicle was recovered near La Gleize on the 26/12/1944 by the US 463rd Ordnance Evacuation Company and eventually transported to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. It is now in the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection
Instead of being sent to North Africa, Rommel is given a panzer army for Barbarossa instead of Leeb. How does he do?
Does he commit war crimes? Shoot commissars?
War correspondent Jean Marin looks at the body of a little girl who was massacred with 111 other civilians by the 6th SS Panzer Army during the Battle of the Bulge, Stavelot, Belgium, 1944 - [1387x928... /u/namraka
Iโm new to Bolt Action and these are my first WWII miniatures. Iโm unsure how to paint camouflage with a brush so that it looks good, so I painted the Sd.kfz. in panzer grey. I want to start a mixed army of grenadiers, Fallschirmjรคger and tanks for mid/late 44 in Normandy.
Tiger II turret number 332 of 501st SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung. This vehicle was recovered near La Gleize on the 26/12/1944 by the US 463rd Ordnance Evacuation Company and eventually transported to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. It is now in the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection
Jagdpanzer IV of the 6th Panzer Division
British 7th Armoured Division officers and a Canadian captain inspect a German PzKpfw IV Ausf H tank of Panzer Lehr Division, one of two knocked out by a 6-pdr anti-tank gun of the 6th Durham Light Infantry, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, near Douet, on 10 June 1944.
An abandoned Tiger II of the 506th Heavy Panzer Battalion, Sixth Panzer Army, is inspected by US Troops of the 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, Battle of the Bulge, December 19th, 1944
British 7th Armoured Division officers and a Canadian captain inspect a German PzKpfw IV Ausf H tank of Panzer Lehr Division, one of two knocked out by a 6-pdr anti-tank gun of the 6th Durham Light Infantry, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, near Douet, on 10 June 1944.
Tiger II turret number 332 of 501st SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung. This vehicle was recovered near La Gleize on the 26/12/1944 by the US 463rd Ordnance Evacuation Company and eventually transported to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. It is now in the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection
U.S. Army Infantrymen approaching Omaha beach, Normandy, France on June 6th 1944. (Photo: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)
Panzer 35t from the 6th Panzer Division captured by the crew of a BT-7 of Ivan Lomakin (ะะฒะฐะฝ ะคะตะดะพัะพะฒะธั ะะพะผะฐะบะธะฝ) (KIA July 17 1941) during fighting for the village of Yurki (ะฎัะบะธ) on the Luga Bridgehead (ะัะถัะบะธะธฬ ะฟะปะฐัะดะฐัะผ) on July 15 1941 reddit.com/gallery/qqtzcp
The meme would be better if it was the 6th panzer vs the bob semple.
Tiger II turret number 332 of 501st SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung. This vehicle was recovered near La Gleize on the 26/12/1944 by the US 463rd Ordnance Evacuation Company and eventually transported to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. It is now in the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection
U.S. Army Infantrymen approaching Omaha beach, Normandy, France on June 6th 1944. Photo: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images
Captured Panzer 83(t)'s in service with the Red Army being moved on a train
