Month: January 2021

A black American fighter pilot, First Lieutenant Lee Rayford in the cockpit of a North-American AT-6A Texan trainer aircraft in the United States after returning from Italy, where he served…

New Zealand soldiers from the 27th Machine Gun Battalion fire from a Vickers heavy machine gun in the Minkwar Kwaim area of Egypt. Source: US Library of Congress.Sources of information…

The funeral of a Russian child who died of starvation at the Volkovo cemetery in Nazi besieged Leningrad city. Source of information about The funeral of a Russian child photo:…

German soldiers of the Nazi Wehrmacht on the streets of the occupied capital of Greece – the city of Athens.In the center of the German soldiers photo are a Wehrmacht…

Zeroing the machine guns of the American P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft of the US Air Force (USAF). Every fifth 12.7 mm bullet was a tracer.

British Spitfire fighter mounted on the catapult of the Soviet cruiser Molotov.In 1944, Spitfire fighters were based on the Molotov cruiser to work out the problems of using naval aviation…

A female soldier from the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) with a dog oversees the suspension of bombs on the Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB fighter-bomber at the airfield.

Air gunner of the Soviet Il-10 attack aircraft from the Red Army Air Force before a combat sortie to attack the Wehrmacht Ground Forces.

Soviet medium tanks T-34-76 from the 63rd Regiment of the 32nd Tank Division of the 4th Mechanized Corps of the Southwestern Front of the Red Army, destroyed during a counterattack…

Soviet light tanks BT-7M and BT-7A from the 46th Tank Regiment of the 84th Motorized Division of the 3rd Mechanized Corps of the North-Western Front of the Red Army destroyed…