Captured Soviet T-34 Model 1940 tank photographed by German troops during the summer of 1941, showing an early-production vehicle with missing hull machine gun and several road wheels. Read more
Yak-3 fighter of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, observed by American servicemen at an airfield near Stuttgart, Germany, before the regiment's return flight to France in June 1945. Read more
Yak-3 fighter of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, photographed at an airfield near Stuttgart, Germany, on June 20, 1945, shortly before the regiment returned to France with its Soviet-built aircraft. Read more
Mikhail Baranov, a Soviet fighter ace credited with 31 individual aerial victories, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union in 1942. He was killed in a flying accident in January 1943. Read more
A Soviet soldier from the Red Army communications receives a telegram on the TAI-43 telephone, a key device for Soviet field communication during WWII. Read more
Soviet 203mm B-4 howitzer under the command of Senior Sergeant S. Shpin, firing at German positions in Sopot during March–April 1945. The Church of the Savior is visible in the background as the Red Army advances toward Gdańsk. Read more
A Soviet woman embraces her husband, a Red Army soldier, at a Moscow railway station in June 1945, shortly after his return from Berlin following the end of the war in Europe. Read more