German Soldiers Put Chains on Truck Tires

Two German soldiers put skid chains on Army truck, after heavy snow in Russian battle area, winter of 1941. This photo was published by American press on 22 December 1941.

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/402818039849?hash=item5dc9d38029:g:TucAAOSw6Utgi-1g&_trksid=p5731.m3795

Gebirgsjäger Cleaning Their Weapons

German Gebirgsjäger (Mountain troops) have occupied a village somewhere in southern Poland in September 1939, and are seen cleaning their weapons. This was known to the soldiers as, ‘Clean and patch hour’, which was a period of time allowed in order to clean weapons and repair clothes before resuming operations.

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"Images of War: Hitler's Mountain Troops 1939-1945" by Ian Baxter

Fun at Wilhelmshaven Naval Barracks

The Reichsmarine barracks in Wilhelmshaven around the time when Hitler came to power.‘Lord Muck’, lounging on the chair and being serenaded, claimed he was too hard worked to clean his locker properly prior to an inspection, so his mates are giving him a hand to make sure that the offending piece of furniture is spotless. Some punishment was called for and coping with a wet wooden locker was not terribly congenial because the offender could not lock his clothes away until it had dried out again. Consequently he was confined to barracks for a brief period while the rest of the ‘charmen’ had a run in town.

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Book "Wolfpacks At War: The U-Boat Experience In WWII" by Jak Mallmann Showell

German Soldier Washes a Civilian Car Impressed into Wehrmacht Service

A German soldier in Westende, Belgium, washes a 1937 Opel Super 6 cabriolet by the coachbuilder Hebmüller, civilian car impressed into German military service. The tactical symbol for a motorized Pionier Company has been painted on the left front fender alongside a small letter "K" and above the Wehrmacht Heer prefix (WH). The right fender carries an unknown unit emblem. The car still carries the civilian license plate IZ-226285 where IZ is the prefix for the Rhine Provinz. Once officially incorporated into a German unit, the car would be assigned a military license plate. The German military and government license plate prefixes during WWII were: WH = Wehrmacht Heer (army), WM = Wehrmacht Marine (navy), WL = Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (air force), SS [runes] = Schutzstaffel, OT = Organization Todt, Pol = Polizei, DR = Deutsche Reichsbahn, and RP = Reichspost.

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https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=73232&p=2125953#p2125953
http://www.lonesentry.com/features/f41_german-military-car.html

Gebirgs Engineer Fixing a Telephone Line

Poland 1939: One of the most important aspects of military synchronization was effective communication. Here, in this photograph, a Gebirgsjäger signalman engineer is seen fixing a telephone line so that the various commands could communicate between themselves.

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Book "Hitler's Mountain Troops 1939-1945" by Ian Baxter