Month: November 2018

Japanese fighters-interceptors Mitsubishi J2M Raiden captured by the British in flight. Mitsubishi J2M Raiden among the Allies had the codename “Jack.” On board the aircraft abbreviation – ATAIU (Allied Technical…

A group of German prisoners of war in winter conditions captured by the Red Army in the Ukrainian village. Location: Ukraine, USSR Date: January 1944 Photo: Alexander Guyvik

Jewish partisans from the city of Vilnius pose with well-known Soviet writer-journalist Ilya Ehrenburg after the liberation of Lithuania from the Nazi occupation. Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Date: 1944

German “Puppchen” rocket launcher captured by the US Army in the Battle of Normandy, France. Despite the “toy” look, “Puppchen” was a simple and effective anti-tank tool. At a range…

US military inspect the captured German 88-mm Raketenwerfer 43 “Puppchen” heavy rocket launcher (“Puppchen” is “Pupa”); in the hands of military personnel – “shots” to the rocket launcher. Despite the…

German artillery positions of the Nazi Wehrmacht to the south-west of Rzhev. In the center there is an installed 88-mm anti-aircraft gun (8.8 cm FlaK 36/37) for direct fire at…

German 88 mm anti-aircraft guns (8.8 cm FlaK 36/37) of 26. Wehrmacht’s Infanterie-Division on a railway platform in occupied Russian Rzhev city. Location: Rzhev, Kalinin region, USSR Date: January-February 1942

The German 37-mm FlaK 37 anti-aircraft gun protects the bridge across the Volga in occupied Rzhev from a raid by Soviet aviation. In the background of FlaK 37 is the…

Japanese “Haruna” battleship under the bombs of American bombers in the harbor of the naval base in Kure. On July 28, 1945, raids by American aircraft from aircraft carriers on…

Soviet Russia’s leader Joseph Stalin, USSR Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov (right) and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (left) in the Kremlin after signing the Non-Aggression Pact between…