WW2 pictures from the Eastern Front in Estonia, Poland, 1944

The first picture from the Eastern front at a road junction in Estonia.

Sleigh with horse and truck at the Eastern front in Estonia.

Somewhere on the Eastern front with a truck loaden with wood.

The company lined up in combat readiness.

It seems that there is not much to repair anymore at this in Poland destroyed German heavy armoured car SdKfz 231.

Changing a track on a medium five tons tractor.

Extracts from the daily diary entries of the grandfather of the author:
Friday, September 28th, 1944: Ivan (the Russians) has shot straw to a fire, because of this I.G. (German infantry guns) firing. 4 1/2 hours sleep, at night mutual shooting.
Saturday, September 29th: fetch coffee, grenade launcher fire, at night artillery fire. Elfi (a woman or girl in Germany) has birthday. Soldier Bach from Giessen from next (?) group killed at 7 p.m. by head shot.
Sunday, October 1st: Fog, Ivan (the Russians) is constructing field fortifications without cover. Machine gun fire, at 2:30 many artillery shells in less than 90 yds. At night rifle fire, a D. (?) is speaking.
Monday, October 2nd: at night varying shooting. At 8 pm message about the day of relief (for this day, there is a printed information in the calendar: 1938, the day of liberation of the German Sudeten territories [at the border to Czecheslovakia] ).

A field kitchen on a antiquated truck.

A funeral in Poland.

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