Soviet pilot Major Filip Tveryozoy posing beside a Yak-9 fighter bearing the inscription “MALY THEATRE — TO THE FRONT”, USSR, 1944. Read more
Soviet cavalry reconnaissance scouts Lieutenant Moiseenko and Senior Sergeant Karpov observing German positions during the defense of Tula, November 1941. Read more
A postwar portrait of Soviet fighter ace Nikolai Pinchuk, Hero of the Soviet Union, whose combat career included more than 300 sorties, an aerial ramming attack, and 24 aerial victories during World War II. Read more
A rare wartime photograph showing Soviet fighter ace Semyon Sibirin congratulating French pilot Albert Littolf after his aerial victory while serving with the famous Normandie squadron on the Eastern Front in June 1943. Read more
A wartime portrait of Pyotr Dmitrievich Stemasov, Hero of the Soviet Union, who became an artillery gunner during the Battle of Moscow after serving as a radio operator, 1942. Read more
Loading frontline mail onto a Soviet Po-2 (U-2) biplane at a forward airfield during World War II, USSR, 1943. Read more
Soviet fighter ace Guards Major Boris Yeremin in the cockpit of a Yak-1B fighter aircraft built with funds donated by collective farmer Ferapont Golovaty, USSR, 1943. Read more