Nice pics!
Tank looks to me to be a Panther !? (from an SS panzer Div)
Most of the Smocks look like early type 2 step-ins in plain green and not type 3 splinter
Natty white silk scafe on the seated guy at the front.
Its hard to tell for sure but there seems to a distict lack of ammo pouches on any of the FJ's! There are a few K98 bandoleers in evidence but you would expect the guy with the sten and also the guy sat at the front who seems to have an MP40 to have pouches for those! (its hard to tell with the guy sat at the front if he has pouches or not)
Second thing, the standing guy in the second photo with the cig in his mouth has his pistol on his right side and not the usually prescribed left side! I wonder if he is a south-paw?
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942



























Another very interestion pic from the same site. These FJ's are all wearing standard lufty double decal Infantry helmets and jackboots! If they didnt all have pistols you would think maybe they were FD and not FJ. And in this pic, at least 3 of them are wearing their pistols on the right side of the belt!

“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942



























I wonder when this was, after '44 would be my guess.




I wonder when this was, after '44 would be my guess.
Maybe, could be recruits drafted in from the lufty FD's or rear-echelons, maybe from ex-lufty artillery or AA units?. Its an interesting mix of mainly early war kit, early type 2 smocks, double decal helmets, jackboots. they all only have one k98 pouch which could be indicative of them having been rear-echelon troops?
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942



























And yet another unusual one: FJR2 fallschirmjagers in SS smocks
Also anyone recognise what mortar that is? its definitely NOT a 5cm leichter Granatenwerfer 36!

“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942



























Nice pics, the lack of mag pouches is probably due to the large front pockets on the jumpsmocks, you can get a lot more in them than in a couple of pouches. The mortar could be the 8cm-34 without the baseplate. Looks like it has some kind of carrying strap on it? ![]()
First pic, sten guns were uncommon in the German army, but i would like to add the brits had a factory in Belgium making them, when the country was occupied instead of refitting the factory they carried on making then and some were issued to the German forces in small numbers, but more than likely this one may have been taken from a allied trooper.
Nice pics, the lack of mag pouches is probably due to the large front pockets on the jumpsmocks, you can get a lot more in them than in a couple of pouches. The mortar could be the 8cm-34 without the baseplate. Looks like it has some kind of carrying strap on it?
Nah, no way is that a jerry 8cm mortar. The 34 has a barrel over 1.1M long, even the lightweight K version built for the FJ had a barrel around the 80cm mark. To me, that looks like a US M2 mortar with its short barrel and bipod.

















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Good call, never thought about a captured mortar, could explain the lack of baseplate if they grabbed it quick. ![]()
