Major Baltabek Zhetpysbayev: A Kazakh Officer’s Heroic Stand in Lithuania – WWII

Major Baltabek Zhetpysbayev: A Kazakh Officer’s Heroic Stand in Lithuania – WWII

June 29, 2025 Reading time: 5 minutes

Kazakh officer Major Baltabek Zhetpysbayev and Russian gunner Sgt. Trofim Shalayev man a 122mm M-30 howitzer under fire during the battle for Lithuania. Read more


Shadow Hunters: Soviet Scouts Strike Behind German Lines, Belarus 1944

Shadow Hunters: Soviet Scouts Strike Behind German Lines, Belarus 1944

June 27, 2025 Reading time: 5 minutes

Soviet scouts Mikhail Yeremin and Seitkasim Ashirov of the 331st Rifle Regiment, 96th Rifle Division. Their daring raid behind German lines in July 1944 helped secure a major Red Army breakthrough. Read more


T-34-85 Rolls Into Belgrade: Soviet Liberation of Yugoslavia, 1944

T-34-85 Rolls Into Belgrade: Soviet Liberation of Yugoslavia, 1944

June 27, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes

 T-34-85 tank number 10 of the 36th Guards Tank Brigade in liberated Belgrade. A BA-64 armored car is visible in the background. Read more


Destroyed German StuG III and Fallen Crewman Near Roncey, France – 1944

Destroyed German StuG III and Fallen Crewman Near Roncey, France – 1944

June 24, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes

German StuG III Ausf. G destroyed in battle, likely by heavy Allied artillery. The body of a crewman lies beside the vehicle. Read more


Canadian Sherman M4A4 Rolls Into Caen, France – Operation Overlord 1944

Canadian Sherman M4A4 Rolls Into Caen, France – Operation Overlord 1944

June 24, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes

A Canadian Sherman M4A4 from the 27th Armoured Regiment (Sherbrooke Fusiliers) enters the city of Caen during the Allied campaign in Normandy. Read more


American Convoy With Captured Nazi Kettenkrad in Liberated Cherbourg, 1944

American Convoy With Captured Nazi Kettenkrad in Liberated Cherbourg, 1944

June 22, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes

A U.S. military convoy crosses Cherbourg’s Place du Général de Gaulle in 1944. Visible on the right is a captured German NSU HK-101 Kettenkrad, pressed into Allied service. Read more


Hunters in the Sky: Luftwaffe’s Focke-Wulf FW 190 Soars in 1944

Hunters in the Sky: Luftwaffe’s Focke-Wulf FW 190 Soars in 1944

June 22, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes

German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft of the Nazi Luftwaffe in flight during the later stages of World War II. Read more