World War 2 photo: The Soviet team of the 12.7-mm DShK heavy machine gun on the leader of the destroyers “Tashkent” is preparing to repel the enemy’s air raid. Running bridge, a view to the stern on the chimneys. The Eastern Front.
In the center of the picture near the DShK anti-aircraft machine gun is Russian military sailor Mamontov Vasily Fedorovich.
DShK heavy machine gun is a Soviet machine-gun heavy machine gun for a cartridge of 12.7 × 108 mm. It was developed on the basis of the design of a large-caliber machine gun DK.
In February 1939, the it was adopted by the Red Army under the designation “12.7 mm large-caliber Degtyarev-Shpagin machine gun of the 1938 model”.
Location: Black Sea
Date of the photo: 27 June 1942