Captured Soviet BA-10 armored car inspected by a German soldier on the Eastern Front in 1941. The vehicle is armed with a 45 mm 20-K gun and DT machine guns, standard equipment for this type of Soviet armored car.
This photograph shows a captured Soviet BA-10 armored car during the first months of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. A German soldier stands beside the vehicle after its capture, illustrating one of the many Soviet armored vehicles abandoned or seized during the rapid advance of German forces.
The BA-10 was one of the Red Army's standard armored cars at the beginning of the war. It was equipped with a 45 mm 20-K cannon and DT machine guns, giving it considerably heavier armament than most armored cars of its period.
Rather than documenting a battle, the image records the aftermath of combat and the capture of Soviet equipment during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa.
Technical photo data
📝 Source of information: Unknown
📍 Location: USSR
📅 Date of photo: 1941
📷 Photographer: Unknown
Recommended literature
- Steven J. Zaloga – Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two
- Maksim Kolomiets – BA-10 Armored Car
- David Glantz – Barbarossa 1941
Tags
- BA-10 armored car
- Captured Soviet vehicles
- German soldier
- Eastern Front
- Operation Barbarossa
- 1941
- Red Army armored cars
- 45 mm 20-K gun
- World War II
- Soviet military vehicles
- Military history
- Historical wartime photography