Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

by Steve Carter

Battle of Britain, 1940, a downed German Messerschmitt Bf-109E put on display outside St. Nicholas church in Durham, in order to help raise funds for the war effort.

Captured Soviet KV-1 tanks from the 8th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht

The German MG42 heavy machine gun was intended to replace the earlier MG34. The design proved to be a highly reliable weapons platform with a very high cyclic rate of fire averaging 1,200 rounds per minute compared to 850 for the MG34. The weapons system itself was so robust and effective, it is still in service with several armed forces around the world, some seventy nine years after its conception.

Somewhere in Manchuria. Japanese tankers resting in front of a Type 89 I-Go medium tank.

四式中戦車 チト

The Vought SB2U Vindicator was built by Vought as the first carrier-based monoplane dive bomber intended for the United States Navy during the 1930s. It first flew in January 1936 and was introduced in 1937. The aircraft was retired in 1945 with a total number of 260 Vindicators built.

Production line 1943. This star was officially used only from June to September of 1943. Since these are on the production line I would assume it this is the time frame of the photo.