A grim photograph from occupied Soviet Karelia showing local civilians forced to collect and transport the bodies of fallen Red Army soldiers for burial following the battles of 1941. Read more
A horrifying 1941 photograph showing dead Soviet civilians and soldiers beside a destroyed convoy during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. 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
Destroyed Soviet BA-10 armored car with the burned remains of a Red Army crewman during the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front in 1941. Read more
Destroyed Soviet XT-133 flamethrower tank and fallen Red Army soldiers during the catastrophic fighting of summer 1941 on the Eastern Front. Read more
German fighter pilot Albert Espenlaub’s Bf 109F-2 Trop after a forced landing in Libya, 1941. A dramatic WWII image of survival, capture, and fate. Read more