A German mechanized column advances through Ukraine during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa in July 1941. The photograph shows the everyday machinery behind the Wehrmacht's advance, including Tatra V809 trucks, Horch 901 vehicles, and Zündapp motorcycles from the 298th Infantry Division. Read more
CANT Z.1007bis Alcione bombers of the Italian Royal Air Force fly over Greece on March 3, 1941, during the final phase of the Greco-Italian War, documenting one of the last major Italian air operations before Germany intervened in the Balkan campaign. 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
Soviet KV-1 heavy tank destroyed in 1941, featuring the rare L-11 76.2 mm gun with a shell remaining inside the barrel, showing an early version of Soviet heavy armor. Read more
Destroyed German tanks and fallen German soldiers near Panskoye, Kursk Region, after the defeat of the 16th Motorized Division during the Soviet winter counteroffensive, December 20, 1941. Read more
Major Nikolai Syromyatnikov, Chief of Communications of the 127th Rifle Division, briefing Red Army signalmen near Dorogobuzh, 1941. Read more