Month: April 2019

Sitzkrieg (Drôle de guerre): French giant tank Char 2C No.97 Normandy, commander of the 51st Heavy Tank Battalion while serving in the French army. Location: FrancePhoto date: 1939

German Hummel self-propelled gun of the Nazi Wehrmacht destroyed by the Soviet anti-tank artillery of the Red Army in the vicinity of the city of Lviv in July 1944.The 80th…

German Hummel self-propelled gun of the Nazi Wehrmacht, destroyed by Soviet artillery of the Red Army near the city of Lviv in July 1944.The 80th Artillery Regiment from the 8th…

Color photo from the Battle of Guam in World War II: An American soldier poses next to a destroyed Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank on Guam Island. Location: Guam…

Battle of Moscow: Soviet soldiers of the worker’s battalion (people’s militia) engineer V. P. Ivanov and subway driver D. S. Dyachkov. Location: Moscow, USSRPhoto date: October 1941Author photo: Alexander Ustinov

Locksmiths of one of the Soviet defense plants I.T. Migachev, A.M. Voguhvalov and K.S. Romanov pack 120-mm regimental mortars in wooden containers before being sent to the front line for…

American anti-aircraft gunners at the base of the Dutch Harbor Navy are preparing to repulse the raid of Japanese aircraft.Arms of American anti-aircraft gunners: 12.7-mm machine gun Browning M2 and…

The fire at the base of the US Navy Dutch Harbor caused by the Japanese bombing. Burn and explode containers with fuel.The Dutch Harbor picture was taken from the observation…

Explosions of Japanese aerial bombs in the harbor of the US Navy base Dutch Harbor. On June 3-5, 1942, Japanese carrier-based aviation attacked the Aleutian military facilities of the Americans,…

Drying clothes on a Slovak fighter of German production the Messerschmitt Bf.109E fighter aircraft of 13. (Slow)/JG52 (13th Slovak Squadron as part of the 52nd German Fighter Squadron).The Messerschmitt Bf.109E…