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Eastern Front
Cranston Military Prints  By Subject Military Art World War Two  Eastern Front |
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Feldwebel Heinz Gartner - Where is Hill 128 by David Pentland. Mor, Hungary, 1st January 1945. Feldwebel Heinz Gartner and Oberleutnant von Rosen, plus a handful of other King Tigers of Heavy Tank battalion 503, searched for the units objective, Hill 128. Despite heavy snow and poor visibility, the Tigers found and took the hill, routing the strong Soviet defences present. By the end of the war Feldwebel Gartner had destroyed 103 enemy tanks. |
Tigers - 505th at Kursk by David Pentland. Kursk, Russia, 5th July 1943. Tiger I's of the 505th Heavy Tank Battalion attacking towards Podoljan, and on to Butyrki. By the end of the day the assault had destroyed the Soviet 15th Infantry Division, and thrown the whole 70th Army into crisis! |
Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th - 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. Wachtmeister Fritz Amling was a gun commander in 3rd Battery, Sturmgeschutz Battalion 202, in the Wajsma sector of the front at the start of the Soviet Operation Mars. During the first days fighting Amling, along with his gunner Bruno Guskowski, accounted for 24 enemy tanks, five of these in one minute! By the end of the second day, despite being wounded they had destroyed a further 18 tanks, a total of 42 in 48 hours. |
Pather Tank - Fight for Kowel, Poland, March / April 1944 by Jason Askew. (P) Although in the process of regrouping after their escape from the Cherkassy Pocket, Panthers and Panzer Grenadiers of the crack 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking are part of the relief force hastily assembled and thrown in to free the strategically important city of Kowel in the Pripet Marshes. By April 10th the Soviet encirclement of the city was broken and Wiking were pulled out of the line to continue refitting. |
Lying in Wait by David Pentland. Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 14th August 1944 - Jagdpanzer IV of Jagd Pz Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. |
Seeking the Way by David Pentland. Don River, Russia, 17th January 1943. Alpini scouts spearhead the 40,000 strong mass of stragglers retreating from the Don front in the wake of the Soviet Little Saturn offensive. Two columns of Alpini and Italians from other commands, plus various Germans and Hungarians fought twenty-two battles and covered 200 km on foot in fifteen days to regain their own lines. |
Barvenkovo by David Pentland. Gerhard Fischer. Russia, 25th February 1943. Marder II, PzJager Battalion 5,SS Panzer Grenadier Division Wiking. |
Race to Frankowka, Ukraine, 10th February 1944 by David Pentland. Panthers of 2nd Battalion 23rd Panzer Regiment, Heavy Tank Regiment Bake led by captured T34s race to capture a vital bridge at Frankowka across the Gniloi Tilitsch. The daring coup de main was successful bringing the relief column one step closer to the besieged pocket at Tscherkassy. |
The Long Road to Kharkov by David Pentland. Kharkov, Russia, February - March 1943. After abandoning Rostov and Kharkov in the face of the Soviet Winter Offensive, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein set about the recapture of both. Among those taking part in the ensuing counterattack was the newly promoted tank gunner Ernst Barkmann, of 2nd Company 2nd SS Panzer Grenadier Division, who had just been given command of his own Panzer III. |
Rubbel and Rippl, Kursk, Central Russia, July 1943 by David Pentland. Ist Company Heavy Tank Battalion 503 Tiger Is of Alfred Rubbel and Hannes Rippl (whose crew included gunner Kurt Knispel) battering through the dense Red Army defences at Kursk. |
Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian. The Germans launched their attack on the Kursk salient on 5th July 1943, and for both sides this was maximum effort. The Soviets, however, informed by intelligence of the impending German attack, had ample time to prepare huge defensive works with hundreds of planned anti tank belts. They deployed 10 Tank Corps, 5 Tank Armies, 1 mechanised Corps and 14 Field Armies equipped with 4000 anti tank guns and 6000 tanks. The Soviet Air Forces were equally impressive - 2600 aircraft. The Germans, outnumbered in every department, were forced to scrape together whatever serviceable tanks they could from their badly under strength Panzer formations. Most of the tanks deployed were old Panzer IIIs or IVs, with only 147 Tigers available for action. The northern German attack made very little headway, but, in the south, the Germans had grouped all of the SS Panzer forces into the II SS Panzer Corps and these units, despite the enormous Soviet forces ranged against them, began to smash their way through the Soviet defences. The Luftwaffe too had brought together 1200 aircraft and these made an immediate impact on the fighting - on the first day alone German fighters broke up massive formations of Soviet aircraft, over 400 victories being claimed. |
Looking for Trouble by David Pentland. Kursk, Russia, July, 1943. T-70 light tanks of 2nd Tank Army on a reconnaissance patrol near Ponyri-Goreloje. |
The Rearguard by David Pentland. Preussisch Stargard, East Prussia, February 1945. Following the departure of the platoon's two other vehicles, after expending all their ammunition, the single Jagdpanther of Oberfeldwebel Hermann Bix remained to cover the withdrawal of all supporting infantry in the area. Hidden behind a muck heap, with only twenty armour piercing and five high explosive shells remaining he made the attacking Soviet Shermans pay a heavy price, destroying sixteen of their number before he too fell back out of ammunition. |
Holding Hosszupaly, Hungary, 17th October 1944 by David Pentland. With a mixed unit of 4 Panthers, 1 anti tank gun, and 25 men from Feldersatz Battalion 128 Hauptmann Gerhard Fischer held the important village for a full day against overwhelming Soviet attacks before being ordered to retreat. |
Springing the Trap, North of Malinava Latvia, 22nd July 1944 by David Pentland. Six Tiger I tanks including Albert Kersher and Lt. Otto Carius, of 2nd Company. Heavy tank Battalion 502, prepare to take up ambush positions for the soon to arrive soviet tank brigade. In the ensuing encounter, the Tigers destroyed the entire column of 28 Josef Stalin IIs. |
Captain Hans Bölter - Struggle in the Snow by David Pentland. Lake Ladoga, Leningrad 17th February 1943. Oberfeldwebel Hans Bölter and his platoon leader Lt.Meyer, supporting Kampfgruppe Sudau during the Second Battle of Lake Ladoga. In a day long engagement the two Tiger Is of 1st Company, Heavy Tank battalion 502 destroyed a succession of anti-tank guns, tanks and infantry attacks. Lt Meyer knocked out 10 KV1s in as many minutes and by the wars end Hans Bolter had accounted for at least 144 enemy tanks, making him one of the great Panzer aces. |
Containing the Baranow Bridgehead, Ukraine, 1st-2nd August 1944 by David Pentland. Leutnant Heinrich Kohlers Stug IIIs of 1st section, 3rd Battery, 322 Stumgeschutz Abteilung, push back repeated Soviet attempts to break out of their bridgehead at Baranow. Within only 2 days they destroyed for 23 enemy tanks. |
Jagdverbande Mitte, Pomerania, Germany, March 1945 by David Pentland. In early 1945 Obersturmfuhrer Walter Girg was given command of a small unit of SS commandos whose task was to operate Russian tanks behind enemy lines. One such mission took him to the area of the enemy-encircled Kolberg garrison. The German forces there however believed Girg and his men to be Seydlitz agents (German soldiers working for the Soviet forces) and they were taken to be shot. Luckily the mistake was discovered a short time later and Girg remained in Kolberg until 18 March 1945 when the garrison was evacuated by sea. |
Breaking the Gran Bridgehead by David Pentland. Hungary, 18th February 1945. The Soviet bridgehead across the lower river Gran threatened the important oilfields at Komorn. To deal with it, Heavy tank battalion 503 was attached to the elite Hoch und Deutschmeister Division. Then in conjunction with the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Division to the north the operation was launched and the bridgehead successfully crushed. |
In the shadow of Elbrus by David Pentland. Central Caucasus, August 1942. Against a background of Mount Elbrus, the Panzer IVs of 9th company, panzer regiment 4, 13th Panzer division, race south from Rostov to attempt to take the oilfields of the Caucasus. |
Cross of Iron, Russia, Summer 1942 by David Pentland. German infantry take cover in a shell hole during the blitzkrieg through Southern Russia towards Stalingrad. |
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