Residents of a liberated Czech town burn a Nazi flag before Red Army soldiers during celebrations marking the end of German occupation in the summer of 1945. Read more
Soviet infantry entrenched along the Eastern bank of the Western Dvina River fires a Maxim machine gun toward German positions during the liberation of Vitebsk in June 1944. Read more
A Soviet Maxim machine gun crew struggles to haul its heavy weapon across a steep riverbank during the August 1945 offensive against the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria. Read more
A camouflaged Soviet armored train equipped with a twin Maxim anti-aircraft machine gun mount during the desperate fighting on the Eastern Front in 1941. Read more
Red Army infantry armed with Mosin–Nagant rifles advance alongside T-26 light tanks during fierce fighting against German defensive positions in the summer of 1941. Read more
German submariners rescued after the sinking of U-175 sit wrapped in blankets aboard the American Coast Guard cutter Spencer during the Battle of the Atlantic in April 1943. Read more
British recovery crews remove a damaged German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter after a forced landing in Windsor Great Park during the Battle of Britain in October 1940. Read more