New Photo Pick-Ups - Please Share

**don_kihotis7** · 04-17-2011, 03:32 PM

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**Espenlaub Militaria** · 04-17-2011 03:32 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**don_kihotis7** · 04-17-2011, 03:44 PM

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**don_kihotis7** · 04-17-2011, 03:50 PM

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**don_kihotis7** · 04-17-2011, 03:57 PM

Now some photos from graves and a funeral.

**don_kihotis7** · 04-17-2011, 04:08 PM

This is a great picture and a large one. 12x12
Reverse has no writings.

**don_kihotis7** · 04-17-2011, 04:15 PM

more KM photos of the lot!

**don_kihotis7** · 04-17-2011, 04:23 PM

........more

**don_kihotis7** · 04-17-2011, 04:31 PM

last ones

**ian** · 04-17-2011, 04:38 PM

by Panzer1031

Oh Wow, thats pretty neat HPL! It says the Bundeswehr still uses it for training, but I guess it was bombed pretty good by allied air raids in ww2 tho. I would have never guessed the kradmeleders were just training in that photo! As usual, many thanks for the info, photo, and translation. Please know, I do try and work out the words before just asking for a translation, but I dont do very well. haha

Thanks VonBond, I have been searching for a long time to find a HJ flak crew with gun photo. I have some without the gun, but they arent as interesting. I would love to see anymore photos you might have or come across!

Thanks for looking and commenting Kristalriss! It makes it worth keep posting these photos when people enjoy them.

graf was only bombed twice
ist time they hit the training area but missed anything of importance
2nd time they bombed the town but again did no real damage this was in 1944

**big ned** · 04-17-2011, 05:30 PM

by donkihotis7

This is a great picture and a large one. 12x12
Reverse has no writings.

The picture is of a 1934 class Zerstorer (Destroyer).

Only four were built because the design was restricted in weight and armament by the Versailles Treaty. Furthermore the design was flawed, they were top heavy, under powered and suffered structural cracking due to the poor bow and stern configuration.

They were :- The Richard Beitzen, Lebrecht Maass, Georg Thiele and Max Schultz. Two were lost in a horrendous blue on blue whilst mining the mouth of the Thames estuary when one was mistaken as British and bombed by the Luftwaffe and then struck a mine, the other, coming to it's rescue, also struck a mine and was lost with all hands.

A third was scuttled by the crew off the Norwegian coast in action with British ships when it ran out of ammo for it's main guns, (Another flaw, they carried 60 less main armament shells than any comparable British ship.)

Only the Richard Beitzen survived the war, captured in 1945 by the British in Norway and taken as a prize back to the U.K. It was broken up for scrap in 1949.

Regards, Ned.