Destroyed American M4 Sherman tank in the Battle of Iwo Jima
The destroyed American M4A2 Sherman medium tank from the United States Marine Corps in the Battle of Iwo Jima Island. Location: Iwo Jima, Japan Date: March 1945
German and Romanian prisoners of war in Stalin’s camp
German and Romanian prisoners of war (captured in the Battle of Stalingrad and Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh Offensive in January 1943) buy food at a store in Stalin’s Gulag in Siberia. Location: USSR,…
B-25 bomber takes off from the deck of the Hornet aircraft carrier
Bomber North American B-25 Mitchell of American Air Force takes off from the deck of the “Hornet” aircraft carrier to the bombing of Japan. Date: April 18, 1942 Source of…
B-25 Bombers start taking off from the deck of the Hornet aircraft carrier to Japan
North American B-25 Mitchell Bombers start taking off from the deck of the “Hornet” aircraft carrier to the bombing of Japan. Date: April 18, 1942 Source of the B-25 Bomber:…
B-25 bombers on the deck of the Hornet aircraft carrier on the way to Japan
American B-25 bombers taking part in the “Doolittle raid” on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8) aircraft carrier on their way to Japan. The photo also shows the destroyer…
Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle bolts Japanese medals to the bomb for the Japanese
Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, the commander of the historic “Doolittle raid”, attaches Japanese medals to the 225-kg bomb to “return to the Japanese with interest” for attacking Pearl Harbor. Date:…
Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle with B-25 bomber crews
Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle poses with the crews of the B-25 bombers who were selected for the historic bomber raid on Japan. In the hands of James Doolittle, a Japanese…
Prisoners of war from the 11th Army Corps of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad
Prisoners of war from the 11th Army Corps (XI. Armeekorps) of the Wehrmacht, under the command of Colonel-General Karl Shtrecker, who surrendered on February 2, 1943. District of the Stalingrad…
Stalingrad militiamen Klimov brothers with a German MG-34 machine gun
Militiamen of the Stalingrad factory “Red October” Klimov brothers with the captured German MG-34 machine gun in the territory of the worker’s village Red October. On the right is the…
Soviet sailors-radio operators under artillery fire
Soviet Sailors-radio operators (portable short-wave radio station V-100) from Marine unit of the Red Navy under heavy German artillery fire.