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Briefing of pilots of American bombers Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress before the combat flight. The airfield of the 169th airbase of special purpose near Poltava. Operation Frantic. Location: Poltava, Ukraine,…
A Soviet soldier is a sentry near the American bomber Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, which was burnt as a result of the bombing on the night of June 22, 1944…
Soviet fighter pilot, commissar of the squadron, future Hero of the Soviet Union Vyacheslav Bashkirov. Vyacheslav Filippovich Bashkirov (1915-2001). He was born in the village of Ivanin, Lgovsky (now Kurchatov)…
Marines from the American 6th Marine Division are riding the US M4A3 Sherman medium tank along the western coast of Okinawa island. Location: Okinawa, Japan Date: April 1945 Author: Robert…
Color photo of the Second World War: An American soldier posing on the armor of the destroyed German heavy self-propelled gun “Jagdpanther” from the 654th heavy battalion of tank destroyers…
German tank crew from the 11th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht on vacation on armor of the Panzer IV Ausf. E on the street of a village captured by the…
German Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter of the Nazi Luftwaffe in flight. At the helm of the aircraft pilot Hans Fay, previously surrendered to the American Army. On March 31, 1945…
In the photo, the destroyed armored vehicles in Berlin are the skeletons of Soviet, American and German tanks. In the background are two “King Tiger”, “Panther”, also SU-76 self-propelled guns,…
Color photo of the Second World War: Königsberg Castle after the bombing, autumn 1944. At the end of August 1944, British aircraft attacked Koenigsberg. The historic center of the city…
Color photo of the Second World War: German fortified city Königsberg (now Kaliningrad city, Russian Federation), 1942. View of the Königsberg Castle (Königsberger Schloß). Location: Koenigsberg, East Prussia, Germany Date:…