American sailor with AN-M2 machine gun
American sailor from the twin Browning AN-M2 twin machine gun, in a PT-type boat, near the coast of New Guinea. Location: New Guinea Date of filed: July 1943 Source of…
German infantrymen on a captured Soviet armored train
German infantrymen on armor from the captured Soviet armored train. The Soviet armored train belonged to the 57th Regiment of the 4th Division of Railway Troop Protection of the NKVD…
Soviet Scouts of the 27th Guards Division two days before the death
Divisional Soviet scouts of the 27th Guards Rifle Division. February or March 1945, Küstrin, Germany. Soviet scouts from left to right: in the foreground Vasily Kozatzuk and Lieutenant Aksenov. Behind…
Soviet anti-aircraft gunners in the fallen Berlin
Recreation of Soviet artillerymen from a 37-mm antiaircraft gun of the 1939 model (61-K, GAU index – 52-P-167) in the fallen Berlin after the end of World War II in…
Soviet infantry of the Red Army receive mail on the frontline
Soviet infantry of the Red Army receive mail with letters from home in the trenches on the Soviet-German front line. Location: USSR Date: 1942
Military parade of the 96th Guards Rifle Division in Bobruisk
Military parade of the Soviet 96th Ilovaiskaya Guards Rifle Division of the Red Army in Bobruisk. With Bobruisk this division was associated with fighting in June 1944, when during the…
Traffic Controller A. Batjanova in Küstrin, Germany
Traffic controller A. Batjanova works on the street in the German city of Küstrin (now Kostrzyn-on-Odre, Poland). Landsberger Platz, now Rondo Unii Europejskiej (Gwiazda), intersection with Zorndorfstrasse, now Sikorskiego street.…
Soviet officers in Fort XI Dönhoff in Koenigsberg
Soviet officers of the Red Army inspect one of the forts (Fort XI Dönhoff) in the fortified city of Koenigsberg (now the Russian city of Kaliningrad), liberated from the Nazis.…
Soviet PTR-team and machine-gunner in the North Ossetian village of Gisel
The team of the PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle and the DP-27 machine gunner on the bank of the Gizeldon River in the North Ossetian village of Gisel. Battle for the Caucasus.…
German Gebirgsjäger in the Battle of the Caucasus
German Gebirgsjäger in the Battle of the Caucasus, Soviet Russia. Gebirgsjäger (Alpini) – the specialized formations (units) of the ground forces (Wehrmacht), prepared for conducting military operations in the highlands.…