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KWK-Stand (Kampfwagenkanone) – Vintage Wall Art

KWK-Stand (Kampfwagenkanone), [1944] — historic photograph
KWK-Stand (Kampfwagenkanone), [1944]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of KWK-Stand (Kampfwagenkanone). Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A German caption names this picture as a "KWK-Stand," shorthand for a Kampfwagenkanone, or tank gun, set into a fixed defensive position. The photograph is number 11 of 17 in a 1944 caption album covering the Atlantic Wall in Normandy and Brittany. Germany built the Atlantic Wall along occupied France's coast from 1942 onward to repel an Allied landing, and the concrete gun positions in such pictures show how heavily the coast was fortified before the Normandy invasion that June.

Created / published[1944]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreSnapshots 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesIn album: Foto-Bildliste, Atlantik-Wall, (Normandie und Bretagne), 1944, no. 11/17. Caption list with album.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Military facilities--German--France--Normandy. Bunkers--France--Normandy--1940-1950. Atlantic Wall (France and Belgium)--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213666

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