WWII in Focus: Daily Photos from the Frontlines
Soviet Sergeant Awarded the Order of the Red Banner, Spring 1943
June 24, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
A Soviet sergeant receives the Order of the Red Banner — a rare honor for an enlisted man — for exceptional valor on the Eastern Front. Read more
Destroyed German StuG III and Fallen Crewman Near Roncey, France, 1944
June 24, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
German StuG III Ausf. G destroyed in battle, likely by heavy Allied artillery. The body of a crewman lies beside the vehicle. Read more
Wehrmacht Refueling Operation: Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. B Reloaded in Smolensk, July 1941
June 24, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
German 12th Panzer Division tankers use Soviet POWs to roll barrels of fuel onto a Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. B during early stages of Operation Barbarossa. Read more
Wehrmacht Motorcyclists Near Leningrad – 1st Panzer Division, Summer 1941
June 24, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
Wehrmacht motorcyclists on a BMW R12 enjoy a pause near Leningrad during the initial phase of Operation Barbarossa. Read more
Canadian Sherman M4A4 Rolls into Caen, France — Operation Overlord, 1944
June 24, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
A Canadian Sherman M4A4 from the 27th Armoured Regiment (Sherbrooke Fusiliers) enters the city of Caen during the Allied campaign in Normandy. Read more
American Convoy Rolls Through Liberated Cherbourg, 1944 — With Captured Nazi Kettenkrad
June 22, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
A U.S. military convoy crosses Cherbourg’s Place du Général de Gaulle in 1944. Visible on the right is a captured German NSU HK-101 Kettenkrad, pressed into Allied service. Read more
Rare Soviet SU-T-26 Improvised Self-Propelled Gun Defends Besieged Leningrad, 1941
June 22, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
Military inspector V.O. Shpakovsky examines a rare 76mm SU-T-26 self-propelled gun during its final inspection at the Kirov Plant in besieged Leningrad. Read more