The three Army Film and Photographic Unit Photographers who took the graphic still and cine pictures of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. The photo, which shows them with their cameras, was taken at the AFPU Centre at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire on 28 September 1944, the day that they arrived back. Smith was wounded in the shoulder. Left to right: Sgt. Dennis M Smith, Sgt. Gordon "Jock" Walker and Sgt. C M "Mike" Lewis.
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German ‘Heer’ grenadiers tactically advance through a drainage ditch in the Arnhem Area, September, 1944, The Netherlands.
Source: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S73822. Photo by Kriegsberichter Pospesch.
German anti-aircraft gunners of a 2 cm FlaK 38 gun smoke cigars and have a chat with war correspondent Lieutenant Erich Wenzel (pictured with a bottle of wine) during the battle for Arnhem on Boulevard Heuvelink, during Operation Market Garden. 19 September 1944.
This picture was taken in Arnhem on the morning of Tuesday 19th September by a Luftwaffe photographer, or Kriegsberichter, named Jacobsen, who, with Erich Wenzel, were from a Propaganda Kompanie attached to Luftlotte 3. They arrived in Arnhem on this day and began to document the battle with this 2cm Flak 38 gun, sited on the corner of Johan de Wittlaan and Boulevard Heuvelink.
This was one of four guns, another can be seen in the background, from Deelen Airfield which were transferred to the 9th S.S. Panzer Division's Flak Abteilung on Sunday 17th September to assist with anti-aircraft cover but also to guard against a possible break-out from the Bridge by the British troops there. Jacobsen and Wenzel spent the next 48 hours in the area and shot several rolls of film, of which six have survived more or less intact.
A Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) type 'G' of Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 280 stops at the junction of the Utrechtseweg and Onderlangs in Arnhem, The Netherlands as the soldiers from the 9. SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen search the last of the buildings for British troops on 19 September 1944.
Oberwachtmeister Josef Mathes, commander of the 3rd battery of StuG Brigade 280, is the helmeted man standing in the conning tower. Sturmgeschütz Brigade 280, was temporarily attached to the 9. SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen. Mathes' StuG III was hit by a British PIAT round early in the day, making a small dent upon impact on the left armor plating by the gun. Note the clearly visible Zimmerit layer and the 'Saukopf'. The Zimmerit coating was a barrier that prevented direct contact of magnetic mines with metal surfaces of vehicles.
From October 1943, G versions were fitted with the Topfblende pot mantlet (often called Saukopf "Pig's head") gun mantlet without a coaxial mount. This cast mantlet, which had a sloped and rounded shape, was more effective at deflecting shots than the original boxy Kastenblende mantlet that had armour varying in thickness from 45 mm to 50 mm.
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A young German SS Soldier is photographed near the corner Bovenbergstraat / Utrechtsestraat in Arnhem by Kriegsberichter Erich Wenzel, 19 September 1944, Operation Market Garden.
On the morning of September 18, 1944, four captured soldiers, believed to be from the SS-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 9 of the 9th SS-Panzer-Division "Hohenstaufen," awaited transfer to the Military Police at Wolfheze. They had been taken prisoner during Viktor Graebner’s disastrous attempt to break through British defenses at Arnhem Bridge. Among them, one stood out as just seventeen years old, all clad in the distinctive pea dot 44 camouflage pattern. Standing behind them were their guards—glider pilots from 'F' Squadron No.2 Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment. From left to right, Staff Sergeants Joe Kitchener, L.E. "Duffy" Edwards, and George Milburn kept a watchful eye. Kitchener and Milburn would survive the war, passing away decades later, while Edwards was later captured and taken as a prisoner of war. These prisoners may have been among the 150 released by the Germans when the British forces withdrew across the river on September 26.
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