Month: September 2018

German 88-mm Hornisse heavy anti-tank self-propelled gun (Hornet) with its own name Puma of the Nazi Wehrmacht Artillery. This 88-mm heavy anti-tank self-propelled gun Hornisse belongs to the 519th Tank…

Soviet music teacher Nina Mikhailovna Nikitina and her children Misha and Natasha share a meager blockade ration in Nazi-besieged Leningrad. Location: Leningrad, USSR Date: February 1942 Photo by A. Nikitin

Russian schoolchild Misha Nikitin is cooking food on the stove in his house in Leningrad besieged by the Nazi armed forces. Location: Leningrad, USSR Date: January 1942 Photo by A.…

The ace pilot of the Japanese Air Force Saburo Sakai at the airfield of the Hankow airbase in central China. Saburo Sakai (1916 – 2000) – Japanese fighter pilot, junior…

American sailors play volleyball on the deck of the Wasp aircraft carrier (USS “Wasp” (CV-18) of the US Navy. In the air above the aircraft carrier two F4U “Corsair” fighters.…

American pilots from the Women Airforce Service Pilots, (WASP) during trainings with an instructor. The airplane in the background of WASP pilots is a double training Fairchild PT-23 “Cornell” model…

The Leningrad schoolboy Andrei Novikov gives an air-alert signal to surrounding civilians in the Nazi-besieged city. Location: Leningrad, USSR Date: September 10, 1941

Kirill Mikhailovich Karabanov, the Russian gunner of the Soviet anti-aircraft gun, awarded the medal “For Courage”. The gun in the Kirill Karabanov picture is a 37-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun of…

Soviet anti-aircraft gunners are fleeing to their gun (a 37-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun of the 1939 model (61-K) to repel the Luftwaffe air raid. The author’s name of the photo…

Leningrad schoolgirls Valya Ivanova (left) and Valya Ignatovich, who extinguished the fire from two incendiary Luftwaffe bombs that fell to the attic of their home. Location: Leningrad, USSR Date: 13…