Month: April 2021

German MG-34 machine-gun crew of the Nazi Wehrmacht infantry on the corner of a house in the Battle of the Belarusian town of Rogachev. Location: Rogachev, Belarus, USSRPhoto time: 1941

Chinese General Chen (陳長捷, 1892-1968), Chief of Staff of the Chinese Army, shakes hands with American General Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883-1946) at an Allied conference in Delhi. Background center: British…

British and American officers pictured from left to right: Representative of China under the US administration T. V. Soong, American generals Wheeler, Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883-1946), Henry Arnold, Clayton Bissell…

Canadian Barrie corvette (HMCS Barrie) goes to sea. The photo was taken in 1943-1944. Barrie corvette, hull number K138, class – Flower.The Barrie corvette was built at the Collinwood shipyards…

Canadian sailors Maxwell Martin and Dick Elkington paint the unofficial emblem of the Corvette Barrie (HMCS Barrie) – Martin holds a brush while Ackingston mixes colors.An unidentified Canadian sailor holds…

Fedor Andreevich Slisarenko, born in 1896, an active participant in four wars: the First World War, the Civil (Polish Front), the Soviet-Finnish 1939-1940 and the Great Patriotic War.During the First…

Soviet footballers of the Leningrad Dynamo team after a match against the team of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF) in Nazi besieged Leningrad.The football match of Soviet footballers were…

Manufacturing of Soviet medals “For the Defense of Leningrad” at the Leningrad Mint. Source of information about the photo: V. Levtov “Victory of Leningrad. From the blockade – by the…

Red Army soldiers inspect the captured German trench on the Panther defensive line.At the bottom and breastwork of the trench under the feet of the soldiers of the Red Army…

Lunch of captured German officers from the Nazi Wehrmacht in the Soviet Krasnogorsk special operational transit camp No. 27. Krasnogorsk special camp number 27 was established on March 7, 1942.…