Month: October 2017

The Soviet 181th special reconnaissance detachment of the Marine Corps of the Northern Navy of the Red Army. 1944, after the capture of the Krestoviy cape. On October 12, 1944,…

The Politruk reads political news for the crews of Soviet JS-2 heavy tanks on the streets of Berlin after the end of hostilities and World War 2 in Europe. Location:…

Destroyed Russian military equipment of the Red Army at Cape Chersonese near Sevastopol – the last frontier of the Soviet defense, from here on advancing German army fire was fired…

English Mk.II Matilda II Infantry Tank (supplied from Great Britain to the USSR under the Lend-Lease Act) during the military tests in the Soviet Union in 1942. Location: USSR Date:…

MG.42 Machine-gun team commanded by an Unteroffizier from the German division of Great Germany (Großdeutschland) during the army exercises.

German prisoners of war – soldiers and officers of the Nazi Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, captured during the assault on Koenigsberg, under the escort of Soviet infantrymen. Location: Koenigsberg, East…

Convoy of Soviet medium tanks of T-34-85 model. T-34-85 – the military designation of the latest modification of the Soviet medium tank T-34 with a gun of 85-mm caliber. Adopted…

The German officer and soldiers of the Nazi Wehrmacht inspect the destroyed Soviet medium tank T-34 with 76.2mm L-11 gun from the 22nd Mechanized Corps of the Red Army (presumably).…

Japanese Akagi Aircraft carrier and Nagato battleship. In the photo of the Ships before their modernization, it was made before 1933-1934. Akagi aircraft carrier was modernized in 1935. The ships…

Soviet High Commanders – People’s Commissar of Defense Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko and commander of the Kiev Military District, Army General Georgy Zhukov in the pre-war military…