German troops advance on Kharkov-Rostov front during World War 2. German Wehrmacht soldier uses binoculars behind a trench. Explosion behind burned trees on a battlefield. German soldiers watch explosion from behind trenches while standing on muddy puddle. A German soldier crouches in the trench. A German soldier uses a field telephone while looking at a map with two colleagues. German troops move an 88mm Flak. German soldier loads shell into a Flak. Artillery fires in the forest, hitting the battlefield. German artillery troops firing artillery, covering their ears. Mushroom clouds form over battlefield. Shirtless German soldier smokes a pipe while firing an artillery. A German soldier observing mushroom cloud in the horizon. German artilleryman pulls the firing lever on a Flak gun. A soldier uses binoculars as his head peers from a tank hatch. A Wehrmacht soldier driving a tank, controls can be seen. Gun barrel of a tank. Soldiers walking on foot. A soldier hides behind the branches with an artillery gun sticking out. Allied aircraft flying. A Flak anti-aircraft gun fires at Allied planes. Explosion on a field after a plane went down. A German tank rolling. Shirtless German troops adjust the position of Flak gun barrel. Flak guns firing at enemy planes. A German soldier looking up the sky. A soldier fires machine gun upwards. A German soldier moves. A German soldier fires with a MG 42 machine gun. Firing in the battlefield. A German soldier firing with a machine gun at Soviet troops. A German soldier aims and fires with a rifle. A German soldier toss a stick hand grenade (Stielhandgranate). German troops briefly run before lying down in prone position. German troops walk past soldiers in trenches.
German Wehrmacht troops advance on Kharkov-Rostov front during World War 2. Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 Stuka fighter aircraft in flight. A mushroom cloud forms after explosion. Junkers Ju 87 fighters flying over clouds. A fighter flying as seen from below. A group of Stuka fighters flying in unison. Large clouds form from smoke in field. A German officer shouts from the field telephone. 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42 rocket launchers fire Wurfgranate (thrower-shell) rockets at Soviet soldiers. Rockets fire upwards from Nebelwerfer rocket launchers. Smoke covers the battlefield. A dead Soviet soldier lying down. Soviet troops lying face down after being killed. Soviet vehicles and materiel are scattered after the onslaught of German attack. A German soldier inspects a destroyed Soviet tank. Damage in tank body sustained from bombings. Men carrying casualties on stretchers while crossing a makeshift bridge. Men take patients to a clinic. Sign reads “Haupt verbandplatz 51” (“Main first aid station 51” in English). Inside the German first aid station, General Gerhard von Schwerin awards the Iron Cross medal to injured German troops. German patient receives his Iron Cross medal on his bed. General von Schwerin holds the hands of a patient after awarding the medal. German soldier wearing an Iron Cross medal smiles in tank.