Month: August 2018

The English unit, consisting of ethnic Arabs and Jews, is trained in one of the training camps in Palestine. Some of these military formations took part in the Battle of…

Soldiers of the Arab Legion, armed with English 7.7-mm rifles “Lee-Enfield”, marching against the background of the fortress Qasr al-Haran, 1940-1941. The Arab legion is the name of the Jordanian…

Lieutenant Alexander Vorobyov of the Red Army Infantry, wounded in battles against Finnish troops. 1939. Lieutenant Alexander Vorobyev served in the Railway Troops and the Military Communications Service (VOZO) of…

The crew of the Soviet Pe-2 dive bomber in 1945: the commander was Lieutenant Sorokov, the radio operator-sergeant-Sergeant Savchuk, the navigator-Senior Lieutenant Mahonko. On the fuselage of Pe-2 aircraft there…

English Army are entering Florence, liberated from the Nazi invaders. The city included soldiers of the 8th British Army on August 13, 1944 after his release by the Italian Resistance.…

Soviet ZIS-30 self-propelled gun (57-mm ZiS-2 anti-tank gun on the chassis of the A-20 “Komsomolets” artillery tractor) and the team of the Red Army Artillery on the firing position. Location:…

German Panzer III Ausf. E medium tank from the 7th Panzer Regiment of the 10th Panzer Division of the Nazi Wehrmacht (image of the bison on the turret), destroyed in…

Italian admiral Giulio Graziani among the soldiers of the Tenth MAS Flotilla (X Flottiglia MAS). A small saboteur in the center of the photo is armed with Beretta M1938A submachine…

A group of Italian partisans-antifascists from the Emilia-Romagna region. The Italian partisans are armed with the Breda M30 machine gun, STEN Mk.II and the Beretta M938A submachine guns, the 6.5…

A group of English school children in gas masks. To ensure the population with gas masks the British government was taken very seriously. In the summer of 1941, exercises were…