SS191 - Standing Firing D-Day Corporals helped maintain discipline

Corporals helped maintain discipline

SS113 - Soldier Carrying Mortar Tube - SS Mortar Team

A well-trained crew could maximise the effectiveness of even a heavily damaged or outnumbered vehicle

Designed for stealthy anti-tank ambush warfare

and extreme temperatures

SS191 - Standing Firing D-Day Corporals helped maintain disciplineThe 6th SS Mountain Division was formed in February 1941 as the SS Battle Group North (SS Kampfgruppe Nord) in southern Norway before being upgraded and renamed the SS Division Nord in preparation for Operation Barbarossa and holds the unique distinction of being the only German SS unit to have fought in the Artic Circle. Initially the unit had low combat effectiveness, in the second half of 1941 the division was effectively destroyed by the Russians