Commander Ivan A. Ivanenkov (right) of the 728th Fighter Aviation Regiment listens to pilot Denisov's combat report after a mission flown in a Polikarpov I-16 fighter during winter operations on the Kalinin Front. Read more
Burned-out German Panther (Ausf. A) tank abandoned in a Belarusian field after Operation Bagration. Geese wander around the wreck as nature gradually reclaims the battlefield. Read more
Four Yak-9D fighters of the 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment patrol over Sevastopol during the final stage of the Crimean Offensive. The formation includes pilots Grib, Belozyorov, Voronov, and Akulov. Read more
U.S. soldiers fire a 105-mm M3 howitzer on German positions near Carentan during the Allied advance through Normandy. Read more
German prisoners of war, captured during Operation Bagration, march through central Moscow in one of the largest public displays of enemy defeat in WWII. Read more
Soviet 152-mm D-1 howitzers of the 110th Howitzer Regiment shell German positions during Operation Bagration. In the foreground: Lt. Vyacheslav S. Tsarapkin, commander of a firing platoon. Read more
Captured Hungarian soldiers, possibly taken during the Soviet counteroffensive around Voronezh, after the collapse of the 2nd Hungarian Army. Read more