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The commander of the 303rd fighter air division, Major General George Nefedovich Zakharov, Lieutenant Joseph Risso from the Normandie-Neman air regiment and Soviet officers at the Yak-3 fighter.The fighter in…

Battle of Normandy: Major of the Medical Service of the US Army Nicholas E. Keseric holding a newborn French child. Location: FranceDate: July 14, 1944

The French “Lion” destroyer was scuttled on November 27, 1942 by order of the Admiralty of the Vichy regime, in order to avoid Nazi Germany seizing ships that were stationed…

Colonel-General Alfred Jodl (center) signs the German surrender at the headquarters of the Allied forces in Reims at 02.41 local time on May 7, 1945. The photo also shows Grand…

French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier (second from right) and his cabinet of ministers returned from the Elysée Palace on September 2, 1939, after the decision on general mobilization was made.…

The destroyer “Mogador” under the fire of the British squadron, leaving the harbor, got hit by a 381-mm projectile in the stern. This led to the detonation of depth charges…

Battle of France 1940: Unburied body of a murdered black soldier in French uniform. Location: France Date: 1940

Chief of the Reich Main Security Office and State Secretary of the Imperial Ministry of the Interior of Germany SS-Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner at the Nuremberg Trials. Location: Nuremberg, Germany Date:…

The allies of the USSR in World War II liberated from German captivity — the French are returning home. On the road west of Berlin, hundreds of people liberated by…

Shameful page in the history of France: French volunteersfrom “Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism” (Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme (LVF)) before leaving the train to the German-Soviet…