Photo of the family of Soviet hero Sergeant Nikolai Khitrykh visiting his artillery brigade after his death near Orel in 1943, with historical context and biography. Read more
The German PzKpfw IV Ausf. G medium tank with its long-barreled 75 mm gun stands in a captured Soviet settlement during the winter of 1942–1943. The photograph illustrates the evolution of Germany’s most important wartime tank, as well as the increasingly difficult conditions faced by Wehrmacht armored units on the Eastern Front. Read more
A German driver rests on the fender of a FIAT 500-type light car serving with the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front during the summer of 1943. Read more
U.S. Army 37mm GMC M6 tank destroyer on a Dodge WC-51 during training maneuvers in Tennessee, June 1943. Read more
The B-17 Flying Fortress attacks the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Marienburg during one of the most famous daylight bombing raids of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Read more
The Henschel Hs 129 was Germany’s specialized anti-tank attack aircraft, designed as a heavily armored low-altitude weapon for destroying Soviet armored vehicles on the Eastern Front. Read more
The Dornier Do.335 Pfeil was the fastest operational piston-engined combat aircraft of World War II, featuring an innovative push-pull engine layout that made it one of the most advanced aircraft ever built by Nazi Germany. Read more