Some Pictures from the Early NVA

[ChristerD]

Couldn´t keep theese from you!

First one is my favourite

Do anyone know what this is? Looks like an self propellered anti tank gun?
The soldiers do look motivated

Christer

[ChristerD]

Nva Apc

And here some sort of APC

Is it a russian one , or had DDR constructed their one weichles in the early fifties?


Christer

[ChristerD]

Heavy Mortar group NVA

And here is a Mortar team, armed with? it looks like thay have old WH MP40 machine guns?? or am I wrong? Does anyone recognize this weapons...

Christer

[ChristerD]

Last Pic! MIG 15 ?

And here is the new Luftwaffe in the air with MIG 15s ? and what I belive is an
T 34 Tank in the foreground??

All the best from Sweden
Christer

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Christer, the APC is a Soviet BTR 152. For more info see here:

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/ar...es/btr-152.htm

The weapons are not MP40's but folding stock AK 47's I think.

Cheers, Ade.

[Thälmannpionier]

Nice pics Christer

Do you have the pics out of a Book?

1st pic is a mobile 85mm Cannon

Thanks for showing

[ChristerD]

NVA pictures

Hi ,Thanks for the info Ade and Thälmannpioneer

Theese pics iare orginals about 18x12,5 cm bought on German E

They are numbered 3,15,5,16 so I think the belong to some sort of
collection of exercise pics?

Would love to see some more from the same serie


Christer

[iannima]

The APC in the second photograph is a Russian built BTR152. THe DDR produced trucks (IFA etc.) and jeep-likes (P2, P3) but not armour to the best of my knowledge. I suspect the bulk of their armour came from the USSR but some from Poland too (T72s I think...). This is not to say that they might not have upgraded armoured vehicles as I believe it happened with modernising packages for the T55s in the last stages, but not armour built from scratch.

[Thälmannpionier]

I have a the book"Soldaten des Volkes" from 1966 and I found the pic from your 1st post in it.

I will post some nice pics from the book in the next minutes. Have no scanner so I have to take digi-pics from the photos out of the book..it`ll take a little while

cheers Andreas

[Thälmannpionier]

okay,lets start..

not the best quality but I hope still good enough to look at

FLAK

[Thälmannpionier]

[Thälmannpionier]

[Thälmannpionier]

I really have to recommend this book...if you ever come across,,grab it.
Many Camo Patterns..Visors.black Collars.and early helmets

[Thälmannpionier]

[Thälmannpionier]

nice General Tunic..

always connected with the soviet union