Soviet I-16 fighter, probably a Type 10 or Type 17, destroyed at a Soviet military airfield and inspected by German soldiers after the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, June 1941. Read more
German soldiers pose on a captured Soviet T-35 heavy tank in Western Ukraine, 1941. One of the largest multi-turreted tanks of the interwar period, the T-35 became a rare trophy during the first months of the German invasion. Read more
A Soviet U-2 biplane after a forced landing or crash during the summer of 1941. A German soldier examines the aircraft in this rare photograph from the opening months of the German-Soviet War. Read more
Rare World War II photograph showing an Sd.Kfz.247 Ausf.B command vehicle of the German 3rd Panzer Division during the 1941 campaign on the Eastern Front. The image originates from a Nazi propaganda film. Read more
Senior Lieutenant Gilel Avseyevich Mirlin, commander of an artillery battery of the 644th Corps Artillery Regiment, photographed during the difficult months of 1941. Before the war, he was a professional geologist whose scientific career was interrupted by the German invasion. Read more
Frozen bodies of German Wehrmacht soldiers near Moscow during the winter of 1941, illustrating the severe conditions faced during the Battle of Moscow. Read more
Soviet KV-1 heavy tank abandoned after becoming immobilized near Romny during the German advance into Ukraine in September 1941. Read more