US marines on Iwo Jima island celebrate Japan’s surrender
US marines from the 5th Division of American Navy celebrate the surrender of Japan by climbing onto a military off-road vehicle with musical instruments, the flag of the USA and…
British soldiers guard a convoy of military off-road vehicles on Hell’s Highway
The 5th day of Operation Market Garden: The advance of the Allied forces slowed to a full stop as the Nazis cut the road from Eindhoven to Nijmegen, nicknamed Hell…
French gunners of PaK 35/36 anti-tank gun in the Battle of Moscow
French gunners from the Legion of Volunteers against Bolshevism (Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme, LVF, French unit in the German army) about a 37 mm anti-tank gun 3.7…
Soviet soldiers at work in the rear of the Red Army
Soviet soldiers of the Red Army Infantry (shoemaker and tailor) at work, the repair uniforms for their comrades — in the rear of the Soviet Army. Location: USSRImage Date: 1943Photo…
Czechoslovak gunners are preparing to shoot a 152-mm gun vz. 15/16
Czechoslovak gunners are preparing to shoot a gun vz. 15/16 (M. 15/16) during pre-war military exercises.152-mm guns vz. 15/16 (M. 15/16) of the times of the First World War went…
Czechoslovak anti-aircraft gunners with (VKPL) vz. 36 automatic anti-aircraft gun
Czechoslovak anti-aircraft gunners with (VKPL) vz. 36 automatic anti-aircraft gun (20-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun model 1934 Oerlikon).This weapon was imported to Czechoslovakia from Switzerland. By September 1938, their number in…
Heroes of the Soviet Union Majors Endel Pusep and A. Shtepenko in a Pe-8 bomber
Heroes of the Soviet Union, Majors Endel Karlovich Pusep (Puusepp) (left) and Alexander Pavlovich Shtepenko at the Pe-8 bomber (TB-7). In May 1942, a Pe-8 bomber under the command of…
Soviet DShK anti-aircraft machine guns of Zheleznyakov armored train
Anti-aircraft gunners of the Soviet Zheleznyakov armored train (armored train No. 5 of the Coast Defense of Sevastopol) are about 12.7-mm heavy machine-gun DShK (machine guns are mounted on sea…
Soviet Maxim machine gun under the command of A. Lebedev on the firing position in the defense of Moscow
The team of the Soviet Maxim machine gun model 1910 of the Red Army Infantry under the command of A. Lebedev in a defensive position in the Battle of Moscow.…
Soviet ORKP-2 convoy of locomotives at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow
Soviet ORKP-2 convoy of locomotives at the time of formation at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow. October 1942. During the Great Patriotic War, the People’s Commissariat of Railways of…