Month: April 2018

The Soviet cavalryman of the Red Army galloping on horseback past the abandoned German Panzer III medium tank of the Nazi Panzerwaffe in the Battle of Moscow. Location: Moscow region,…

Practical training of soldiers of the Red Army in the Far East. The machine-gun team of the “Maxim” heavy machine gun. On the fighters are wearing SSH-36 steel helmets –…

German prisoners of war from a defeated unit of the Nazi Wehrmacht on the Omaha Beach, waiting to be sent to England. Location: Normandy, France Date: June 1944

Abandoned by his crew a Soviet medium tank T-34-76 of the Red Army Armoured Force with number 251. Presumably the Smolensk region. Summer of 1941. Location: Smolensk, USSR Date: June-August…

The Japanese kamikaze pilot in the A6M Zero fighter crashes into the American Missouri battleship (USS Missouri (BB-63) during the Battle of Okinawa.) The Japanese Zero fighter hit the ship…

Bomber B-24D (B-24D-1-CO, serial number 41-23711) with its own name “Jerk’s Natural” from the 93rd bomber group of the 328th Bomber Squadron at Gambut Airfield in Libya. “Jerk” in the…

The crew of the American M4A2 Sherman medium tank with the name “La Moscowa” (“Moscow”) from the French Second Armored Division of General Leclerc (2e Division Blindee). Crew of the…

Prisoner of the Nazi concentration camp Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen) demonstrates to the American soldier a crematorium in which the dead bodies of dead prisoners were burnt. Location: Nordhausen, Germany Date: April…

German General Erich Fellgiebel congratulates the members of the research group Werner von Braun on the successful launch of the V-2 rocket. General Erich Fellgiebel (left) shakes hands with General…

The German V-2 rocket exhibited at the Groenplaats in Antwerp city. V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe-2) – weapon of retribution; another name is A-4 – Aggregat-4, the unit is the world’s first long-range…