Captured Soviet KV-2 heavy tank near Ostrov, USSR, on July 5, 1941, showing battle damage after an engagement with German forces during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa. Read more
Soviet KV-1 heavy tank destroyed in 1941, featuring the rare L-11 76.2 mm gun with a shell remaining inside the barrel, showing an early version of Soviet heavy armor. Read more
Major Nikolai Syromyatnikov, Chief of Communications of the 127th Rifle Division, briefing Red Army signalmen near Dorogobuzh, 1941. Read more
Mikhail Baranov, Soviet fighter ace, photographed in Stalingrad in 1942. He would later become one of the highest-scoring Soviet fighter pilots of the war with 31 confirmed aerial victories. Read more
Destroyed Pz.Kpfw. IV tanks of the German 20th Panzer Division after the Bobruisk Offensive, Belarus, June 1944. The photograph documents the aftermath of fighting during Operation Bagration. Read more
Captured Soviet T-34 Model 1940 tank photographed by German troops during the summer of 1941, showing an early-production vehicle with missing hull machine gun and several road wheels. Read more
Yak-3 fighter of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, observed by American servicemen at an airfield near Stuttgart, Germany, before the regiment's return flight to France in June 1945. Read more