Japanese Hiei battleship goes at maximum speed
The Japanese “Hiei” battleship of the Imperial Navy is at its maximum speed during the trial tests after repairs. Location: Tsukuba Bay, Japan Date: December 5, 1939
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The Japanese “Hiei” battleship of the Imperial Navy is at its maximum speed during the trial tests after repairs. Location: Tsukuba Bay, Japan Date: December 5, 1939
Damaged Japanese submarine I-70 of the “Kaidai 6a” type at the berth in Yokosuka after a collision with the same type I-69 on May 12, 1941. Location: Yokosuka, Japan Date:…
Bomb-assault strike of the Il-2 aircraft group at the Kazlų Rūda (Kozlova-Ruda) railway station in Lithuania. On the left is a shadow of Soviet IL-2 aircraft of the Red Army…
The burning and drowning American Mississinewa tanker (USS Mississinewa (AO-59)) with a displacement of 11,116 tons, attacked by a Japanese man-controlled torpedo on Ulithi Atoll (Karolinsky Islands). November 20, 1944…
Finnish soldiers with 7.62-mm “Maxim” M/32-33 heavy machine gun in the snow-covered forest during the Finnish-Soviet Winter War of 1939-1940. Location: Finland Date: 1939
Japanese Fubuki-class destroyers (“Sagiri”, “Amagiri” and allegedly “Asagiri”) during naval exercises before the start of military operations against the Allied navy in the Pacific. Location: Sea of Japan Date: 1941
Meeting of Soviet marshals Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Rokossovsky with British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Behind the left of Constantine Rokossovsky – deputy commander…
A young Soviet soldier from the infantry of the Red Army in a birch forest writes a letter home during a break between fights. The Soviet soldier is armed with…
Chevalier of the Order of Suvorov, the commander of the 167th Guards Air Regiment, Major D. Lomovtsev, poses against the backdrop of his Il-2 “Alexander Suvorov” attack aircraft of the…
A fire in a Nazi-occupied Soviet village and a Russian peasant woman. The scene of action is the temporarily occupied territory of the USSR.