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
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 tank number 10 of the 36th Guards Tank Brigade in liberated Belgrade. A BA-64 armored car is visible in the background. Read more
German StuG III Ausf. G destroyed in battle, likely by heavy Allied artillery. The body of a crewman lies beside the vehicle. Read more
A Canadian Sherman M4A4 from the 27th Armoured Regiment (Sherbrooke Fusiliers) enters the city of Caen during the Allied campaign in Normandy. Read more
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
German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft of the Nazi Luftwaffe in flight during the later stages of World War II. Read more