Month: September 2018

American defensive positions, accidentally fell under the “friendly fire” – were bombed by their own aircraft. In preparation for Operation Cobra on July 24, 1944, from 11.15 to 11.30, B-17…

Soviet KV-1 heavy tank of the Red Army Armored Force, captured by the Nazis and used in the 8th Armored Division of the Wehrmacht as a training tank. Source of…

Muscovites joyously meet the front-line soldiers who arrived from the defeated Nazi Germany at the Belorussian railway station in Moscow. Location: Moscow, USSR Date: May 1945 Photo by Georgy Petrusov

Hero of the Soviet Union, captain Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub posing around the La-5FN fighter aircraft of the Red Army Air Force, built on the money of the beekeeper V. V.…

American Boston cruiser (USS Boston, CA-69) and patrol frigate Grand Island (USS Grand Island PF-14) follow a parallel course off the coast of California. Location: Pacific, USA Date: May 20,…

Nevsky Prospekt in winter in the Nazi-besieged Leningrad. In the foreground is a Russian artist who draws a sketch, despite the famine, cold and enemy bombing of the city. Location:…

A German soldier of the Nazi Wehrmacht inspects the captured Soviet BM-13-16 (“Katyusha”) multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) on the chassis of the STZ-5 tractor “Stalinets” of the Red Army…

Colored photo of the Second World War: Soviet officers (captain and lieutenant of the Red Army) from the 158th Guards Division of the 5th Army and US servicemen are Lieutenant…

The black gunsmith loads a machine gun belt with cartridges of caliber 12.7 mm for the wing machine guns of the P-51B Mustang fighter aircraft. In the photo, the P-51B…

Unloading of the Soviet Li-2 military transport aircraft of the Red Army Air Force at the airport. Li-2 (Lisunov model 2-nd) is a Soviet military transport aircraft, the production of…