Luftwaffe supply bombs on the Volkhov, April–May 1942

Bomb-shaped supply canisters dropped by the Luftwaffe are being stacked by a German soldier and a Russian prisoner.

The Luftwaffe likely dropped these supply bombs either because of the difficulty of transporting sufficient supplies to the front along poor roads, or because the troops had been briefly cut off. Here, a captured Red Army soldier is helping to pack the parachute of one such bomb.

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