Messerschmitt Bf.109E fighters of the Luftwaffe parked at a field airfield on the Eastern Front during the opening months of Operation Barbarossa, 1941. Read more
Captured Soviet BA-10 armored car inspected by a German soldier on the Eastern Front in 1941. The vehicle is armed with a 45 mm 20-K gun and DT machine guns, standard equipment for this type of Soviet armored car. Read more
Soviet pilots, known as "Stalin's Falcons", attend a pre-flight briefing before a combat mission during World War II, circa 1941–1943. Read more
Soviet ground crew prepares an Il-2 Sturmovik attack aircraft for a combat mission on the Southwestern Front in August 1942. Read more
Soviet fighter ace Fedor Shikunov flew the P-39 Airacobra, completed more than 200 combat missions, and became one of the outstanding Red Army pilots of World War II. Read more
Destroyed German Messerschmitt Bf 109G-5 fighter aircraft photographed on the Eastern Front. The burned-out wreck was preserved in the personal wartime archive of Soviet artillery reconnaissance officer Gilel A. Mirlin. Read more
Officers and personnel of the Artillery Instrumental Reconnaissance Department of the 1st Ukrainian Front during the final stage of World War II. Read more