Soviet machine gunners Vasiliev and Yakutov at the firing line in the Battle of Leningrad
Machine gunners

 

Soviet machine gunners of DP-27 light machine gun of the Red Army N. Vasiliev and A. Yakutov at the firing line at the approaches to Leningrad.

DP machine gun installed in a portable armored shield. Such remedies were used in the defense of Leningrad, the battle of Stalingrad and other battles on the Eastern Front.

 

Source of Soviet machine gunners photo information:

  1. rgakfd.altsoft.spb.ru 

 

 

Location: Leningrad Region, USSR
Date: 1942
Photo by Michael Trakhman

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