Junkers Ju 88C V1, the first prototype of the Ju 88 heavy fighter series, photographed in 1940, equipped with Jumo 211B-1 engines and MG 15 machine guns, marking an important step in the evolution of German military aviation. Read more
Vickers Wellington Mk.IA bomber N2887 of the Royal Air Force Central Gunnery School in flight over Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, on June 24, 1943. Read more
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10/AS of the Italian National Republican Air Force returns from a combat mission in April 1945, flown by Lieutenant Oddone Colonna during the final weeks of World War II in Europe. Read more
Soviet mountain troops led by Lieutenant A.S. Efremov defend the Marukh Pass in the North Caucasus, 1942, carrying PPSh-41 submachine guns during the mountain battles of the Eastern Front. Read more
Destroyer Leader "Tashkent" evacuates wounded soldiers and civilians from besieged Sevastopol, June 1942, after surviving repeated German air attacks. Read more
Destroyed Soviet aircraft at a captured airfield in the Latvian SSR, summer 1941, including a damaged UTI-4 trainer aircraft and a German Henschel Hs-126 reconnaissance plane in the background. Read more
Captured Soviet KV-2 heavy tank near Ostrov, USSR, on July 5, 1941, showing battle damage after an engagement with German forces during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa. Read more