Historic 1945 archival photograph showing Soviet test pilot and engineer Lt. Col. Andrei Kochetkov piloting a captured German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter during flight trials at GK NII VVS in Chkalovsky. Read more
Striking 1945 aerial photograph documenting the total devastation of Cologne, Germany, following Allied strategic bombing raids, with the surviving Cologne Cathedral standing amid the ruins along the Rhine. Read more
Poignant historical photograph by Georgy Lipskerov capturing two exhausted Red Army soldiers sleeping alongside a small dog following the liberation of Czechoslovakia in May 1945. Read more
Dramatic historical photograph capturing a burning Boeing B-29 Superfortress of the 29th Bombardment Group plummeting after a Japanese fighter attack in 1945. Read more
Dramatic photograph of a USAAF B-24M Liberator heavy bomber standing vertically on its nose after a fatal takeoff brake-failure accident at San Giovanni Airfield, Italy, April 1945. Read more
US infantrymen and an M3 Half-track of the 9th Armored Division advance along a snowy Belgian road during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945. Read more
The story behind a knocked-out US M4A3 Sherman tank named "GALLERO", featuring unique Hispanic crew artwork, disabled during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Read more