Month: April 2021

Canadian Morden corvette during tests for acceptance into the Royal Canadian Navy.The Canadian Morden corvette (HMCS Morden) was hull number K170 and belonged to the Flower class corvettes.The Morden corvette…

The camp of the Red Army in Krasnoe Selo.In the foreground of the Red Army camp there are two SU-85 self-propelled guns. Behind them is a military truck and another…

Dutch aviators from the 5th Bomber Squadron (BombVA) pose in front of a Fokker T.V bomber from the Dutch Air Force. In 1938-1939, Fokker handed over 16 Fokker T.V medium…

Prague rebels erect a barricade on the approach to Old Town Square during the uprising against Nazi occupation in May 1945. Location: Prague, CzechoslovakiaPhoto time: May 1945Photo: Emil Fafek

German Junkers Ju-87A dive bomber of one of the flight schools of the Nazi Luftwaffe in a training flight.By 1939, the obsolete Junkers Ju-87A dive bombers were removed from the…

Soviet team of 14.5-mm anti-tank rifle PTRD-41 (Anti-tank single-shot rifle model 1941 of the Degtyarev system) from the squad under the command of senior sergeant N. Sokolov ambushed enemy armored…

Soviet member of the Red Army’s mortar team, Ivan Yablokov, awarded a medal “For Courage”, fires from his 50mm mortar. Leningrad front. Sources of information about Ivan Yablokov photo: David…

Soviet female traffic controller of the Red Army N. Klimenko on the outskirts of Vienna, Battle of Austria. In the background of N. Klimenko, a Soviet ZiS-5 truck with infantry…

Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev (1897-1973) and American General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) during a meeting of the Allies in April 1945. Location: GermanyPhoto time: April 1945

US Army Private 1st Class Armand Rindone, armed with an M1 carbine, seeks cover from enemy fire on the platform of the train station in the German city of Hamm.…