Month: January 2018

The crew leaves the burning and tilted American aircraft carrier Lexington (CV-2) after attacks by Japanese carrier aviation on May 8, 1942 in the Coral Sea. The Lexington aircraft carrier…

The American aircraft carrier Lexington (CV-2) burns after falling into it five aerial bombs and two air torpedoes on May 8, 1942 in battle in the Coral Sea. The Lexington…

American Marines pass by the corpse of a dead Japanese soldier at the Battle of Okinawa. Location: Okinawa, Japan Date: 1945

Soviet VOV RB (3-R) radio operators of Red Army during their combat work on the front line. Location: USSR Author: Natalia Bode

A Japanese soldier who was left by his comrades in the jungle on a stretcher and died of wounds. The islands of Arundel and Sagekas (Solomon Islands). Location: Solomon Islands…

A captured wounded Japanese soldier surrounded by American Marines from the US 4th Marine Division at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. The Pacific Theater of the Combat Operation, Second World War.…

American bomber B-24 “Liberator” after the forced landing. B-24J-80-CO “The Chambermaid”, serial number 42-100227, belonged to the 38th Bomber Squadron of the 30th Bomber Group. The B-24 was damaged by…

The team of the Soviet 130-mm B-13 naval gun from the coastal battery No. 39 fires at the Romanian positions in the Battle of Odessa. Location: Odessa, USSR Date: 1941

Red Army soldiers from the 51st separate motorcycle battalion of the 22nd Tank Corps of the 38th Army of the Southwestern Front with Soviet children. The photo shows M-72 Soviet-made…

Japanese unfinished aircraft carrier “Kasagi” at anchorage. The Kasagi carrier began to be built at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki on April 14, 1943, was launched on October 19, 1944,…