Month: October 2018

Japanese “Maya” heavy cruiser (class “Takao”) of the Imperial Navy during sea trials after modernization. On the catapult of the “Maya” cruiser the E13A1 “Jake” float-type reconnaissance aircraft. Location: Pacific…

The Japanese “Tekai” heavy cruiser (class “Takao”), armed with ten 203-mm guns of the main caliber, conducts training artillery firing in the open sea. Location: Pacific Ocean Date: 1938

German infantry of the Nazi Wehrmacht before the attack of the Soviet defensive positions in the Battle of Stalingrad on the outskirts of the city. Sources of information about the…

German soldier of the Nazi Wehrmacht in an occupied Soviet village with a warning sign: “Detour. The street under the machine-gun fire.

German monument to Emperor Wilhelm I in Berlin, the capital of Third Reich captured by the Soviet Red Army. Location: Berlin, Germany Date: 1945 Author photo Natalia Bode

A German woman, a peaceful inhabitant of Berlin city, the capital of Third Reiach, who died or was killed on the river Spree embankment. Location: Berlin, Germany Date: April-May 1945…

Battle of Stalingrad, autumn 1942. The German Unteroffizier sets the combat mission on the territory of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (STZ) to Unteroffiziers from the Wehrmacht 389th Infantry Division in…

An explosion on the American Essex aircraft carrier (USS Essex (CV-9) after a ram by a Japanese kamikaze plane. The photo was taken from the battleship South Dakota (USS South…

A machine gunner from the 115th Infantry Division of the Red Army V. Pavlov with a DP27 light machine gun at the firing line in the Battle of Leningrad. Sources…

The corpse of a German soldier from the Nazi Wehrmacht, who was killed in the Battle of Kursk. Location: USSR Date: 1943 Photo by Mikhail Savin