WWII in high resolution photographs. Archival photos of the Second World War

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My friends, I congratulate you all on Victory Day! Let us bow to the soldiers of that Great War - our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. I wish everyone a new May 45th, when we will again have to cleanse the Earth of fascism that is raising its head.

And for the Great Holiday, friends, a selection of photographs depicting the May days of 1945, how our grandparents, soldiers of the Red Army and the entire Soviet people celebrated the Victory.


1. Ceremonial meeting at the main base Northern Fleet in Polyarny, dedicated to the victory over the enemy in the Great Patriotic War. Town-class destroyers are moored to the pier: on the left is Zharkiy, on the right is Zharkiy, between them is the Project 7U destroyer Gremyashchiy, in the background is on the right the Daring, on the left is the Worthy. 05/09/1945


2. Group portrait of soldiers and officers of the counterintelligence department SMERSH NKVD of the USSR 70th Army against the background of the Reich Chancellery on Victory Day. 05/09/1945

3. Soviet soldiers in Berlin they drink wine in honor of the Victory. 05/09/1945

4. Victory Banner on the defeated Reichstag on May 1, 1945. The photo was taken by war correspondent of the Pravda newspaper V.A. Temin from the Po-2 plane.

5. Soldiers of the 150th Infantry Idritsko-Berlin, Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree division at the Reichstag.

6. Victory salute over the Moscow Kremlin. 05/09/1945

7. Victory salute in Moscow. View of the Kremlin chimes. 05/09/1945

9. Fireworks in honor of the Victory on the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroyev.

10. Victory salute in the village of Detershagen on the Elbe. 134th Rifle Verdinskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. The salute is fired from 76-mm ZiS-3 divisional guns. 05/09/1945

11. Soviet Submarine L-22 and light cruiser "Murmansk" at the Victory Parade in the Kola Bay. 05/13/1945

12. Canteen workers in Arkhangelsk roll out a barrel of beer in honor of the Victory. Trinity Avenue. The Obelisk of the North is visible on the left. 05/09/1945

13. Arkhangelsk Bishop Father Seraphim at the Victory celebration. 05/09/1945

14. Residents of Arkhangelsk go to Trade Union Square for celebrations in honor of the Victory. 05/09/1945

15. Soviet soldiers with an accordion on one of the streets of Berlin. The inscription on the wall of the house: “Berlin will remain German!” (Berlin bleibt deutsch!)

16. Soviet artillerymen listen to their comrade play the accordion on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground is a 122 mm M-30 howitzer. May 1945

17. A column of soldiers of the Soviet 5th Shock Army at a parade in Lusgarten Park in Berlin. May 1945

18. A column of soldiers of the Soviet 5th Shock Army at a parade in Lusgarten Park in Berlin.

19. Parade of units of the Soviet 5th Shock Army in Lusgarten Park in Berlin. 05/04/1945

20. Soviet soldiers applaud their dancing comrade at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. May 1945

21. Victory salute in Moscow. View of Red Square. Festive fireworks began on May 9, 1945 at 22.00. Thirty salvoes followed from a thousand guns into the sky, illuminated by searchlights. 05/09/1945

22. Officers of the 98th separate adjustment and reconnaissance air regiment (from right to left): deputy commander of the guard regiment, Major Valery Aleksandrovich Verkholantsev (1916-2001), navigator of the guard regiment, Major Ilya Prokofyevich Lesnoy (1920-1989), chief of staff Boris Misakovich Avzhiyan (1910- ) with fellow soldiers celebrating the Victory in the vicinity of the German town of Fürstenwalde. The photo was taken on the night of May 8-9, 1945, at 1:25 am. On May 15, 1945, Guard Major Valery Aleksandrovich Verkholantsev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

23. Soviet submarine L-22 at the Victory Parade in the Kola Bay. 05/13/1945

24. Soviet tanks sts are photographed for memory against the backdrop of the broken Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, standing on the armor of the IS-2 heavy tank. May 1945

25. A Soviet officer dances with an Austrian girl on the Karl-Renner-Ring square in Vienna. 05/09/1945

26. Soviet citizens congratulate an officer on the Victory against the background Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. 05/09/1945

27. On Strelka Vasilyevsky Island in Leningrad during the fireworks in honor of the Victory. 05/09/1945

29. Group portrait of pilots of the 102nd Guards Vyborg fighter regiment. In the top row, fourth from the left (slightly behind) is Sergei Ivanovich Smirnov, Andrei Petrovich Bredik is sitting in the center.

30. Leningraders on Nevsky Prospekt listen to the message about Victory over Germany. 05/09/1945

31. Soviet photojournalists and cameramen near the Reichstag building. From left to right, first row: G. Samsonov, A. Morozov, F. Kislov, L. Zheleznov, I. Shagin, O. Knorring; second row: S. Alperin, A. Kapustyansky, G. Petrusov, R. Carmen; third row: A. Arkhipov, M. Redkin, N. Finikov. May 1945

32. Fireworks in honor of the Victory on the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroev.

33. Soviet tank crews and the soldiers celebrate the Victory. May 1945

34. Festive feast officers 143rd Mortar Regiment on May 9, 1945. In the foreground on the left is Captain Skarupski. 05/09/1945

35. First day of peace in Berlin. Soviet soldiers communicate with civilians. May 1945

36. Soviet soldier near German banners captured in Berlin. The author's title of the photograph is “Winner”. May 1945

37. Group of political workers of the 385th rifle division led by the head of the political department, Colonel Mikhailov, at the Reichstag.

38. Military personnel of the 88th separate guards heavy tank regiment taking pictures at the Bismarck monument in Berlin. After the announcement of Germany's surrender, fellow soldiers went for a walk around Berlin, and among the photographs taken was a photograph at a landmark monument for Germany. 05/09/1945

39. Soldiers of the 88th Separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment celebrate Victory in Berlin park. 05/09/1945

40. Victory salute in Moscow. View of Red Square. The festive fireworks began on May 9, 1945 at 22.00. Thirty salvoes followed from a thousand guns into the sky, illuminated by searchlights. 05/09/1945

41. Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army. 05/04/1945

43. Soviet military personnel celebrate the Victory. May 1945

44. Soviet soldiers in a Berlin tram car. The author's title of the photo is “The first passengers of the Berlin tram.” May 1945

45. Residents of Leningrad at the fireworks in honor of the Victory. May 1945

46. ​​Residents of Leningrad at the fireworks in honor of the Victory. May 1945

47. Soviet soldiers on the streets of Berlin. May 1945

48. Soviet soldiers drink to Victory - on general construction parts announced Victory over Nazi Germany May 9, 1945. The bottle is poured by Private Vladimir Alekseevich Milyutin, a reconnaissance officer in the brigade of self-propelled guns of the First. Ukrainian Front. V.A. Milyutin, born in 1914, has been at the front since June 23, 1941. He walked the battle path from Moscow to Potsdam. 05/09/1945


49. Soviet soldiers and an officer drink with the Americans for the Victory. 1945

50. Poet Evgeny Dolmatovsky with a sculptured head of Hitler in Berlin. May 1945

51. Soviet soldier in Goebbels’ apartment in Hitler’s bunker under the Reich Chancellery. May 1945

52. The famous Soviet singer Lidia Ruslanova performs “Katyusha” against the backdrop of the destroyed Reichstag. May 1945

53. Soviet soldiers, resting on the steps of the Reich Chancellery, look at German awards that were never awarded. Berlin. May 2, 1945.

54. Soviet officers floating in a boat along a destroyed embankment in Berlin.

55. Pile Soviet trophies- symbol of defeat Hitler's Germany. Rifles, MP-40 submachine guns, machine gun, awards and banners. In the center is the standard of the SS division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler”.

56. Soviet soldiers rest on the banks of the Spree River in Berlin. May 1945

57. Poet Evgeny Dolmatovsky speaks at the Brandenburg Gate. 1945

58. Rally of Red Army soldiers at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. May 1945

59. Reconnaissance platoon of the 88th separate guards heavy tank regiment with its commander Vladimir Ivanovich Kuznetsov (third from right). As the caption on the back of the photo says, taken in Berlin in Humboldt Park on May 8, 1945.


60. Reconnaissance platoon of the 88th separate guards heavy tank regiment with its commander Vladimir Ivanovich Kuznetsov (in the center with two orders). Berlin. 05/08/1945

61. Soviet military - a private and a lieutenant - with a banner in Berlin against the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate. 1945

62. Soviet soldiers with an accordion on one of the streets of Berlin. 1945

63. Red banners on the quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate. May 1945

64. Red banner on the quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate. May 1945

65. A column of German troops without an exact destination. The surrender of Germany has already been announced. Czechoslovakia, May 1945

66. Officers of the 3rd Belorussian Front accept Germans who surrender along with armored vehicles, including those from the 4th Tank Division. Spit Frisch-Nerung, May 9, 1945

67. Soviet soldiers on a T-34-85 against the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. May 1945

68. Fireworks in honor of the Victory on the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroev. May 1945

69. Soviet mortar soldier Sergei Ivanovich Platov leaves his autograph on a Reichstag column. 05/10/1945

70. Maria Timofeevna Shalneva (Nenakhova), corporal of the 87th separate road maintenance battalion, regulates traffic military equipment near the Reichstag in Berlin. 05/02/1945

71. Near a passenger vehicle of the 88th separate heavy tank regiment. 05/09/1945 Thanks to the driver Tyutin, the car traveled from Stalingrad to Berlin. On windshield the awards of the 88th separate tank regiment are drawn - the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner, and Suvorov III degree, Kutuzov III degree, Bogdan Khmelnitsky II degree. From right to left: regiment commander P.G. Mzhachikh, driver of regiment commander Tyutin, deputy. regiment commander F.M. Zharkoy, adjutant to regiment commander Molotkov.

72. Command staff 88th separate guards heavy tank regiment in Berlin. The regiment took part in the assault on Berlin, and on May 9, after Germany surrendered and the fighting ended, the officers went on a tour of the city. From left to right: deputy technical engineer of the regiment N.P. Romanchenko, deputy chief of staff of the regiment I. German, chief of staff of the regiment N.V. Shiroky, regiment commander P.G. Mzhachikh, deputy regiment commander F.M. Zharkoy, deputy chief of staff of the regiment Komarovsky. Top left: Timchenko. 05/09/1945

73. Commander of the 88th separate heavy tank regiment P.G. Mzhachikh against the backdrop of Reistag, in the assault of which his regiment also took part. 05/09/1945

74. Fellow soldiers of the 88th separate heavy tank regiment at the Reichstag. 05/09/1945

A selection of rarely seen photos, some of them are associated with interesting stories.

In March 1974, 29 years after the end of World War II, an intelligence officer and officer Japanese army Hiro Onoda surrendered on Lubang Island, Philippines. After being relieved of his duties by his commander, he surrendered a samurai sword, a rifle with 500 rounds of ammunition, and several hand grenades. Onoda was sent to Lubang in 1944 with the task of joining the reconnaissance group operating on the island and leading guerrilla warfare against the Americans. The Allies captured the island, three of Onoda's comrades died in the battle, and the four surviving members of the group went into the jungle and carried out raids from there. Several times they received leaflets and letters from relatives, but they did not believe the “propaganda.” In 1950, one of Onoda's comrades surrendered. By 1972, two more soldiers were killed in clashes with Philippine patrols, leaving Onoda alone. In 1974, Onoda came across the Japanese naturalist Norio Suzuki, from whom he learned about the end of the war and through whom Onoda was found by his commander and ordered to surrender. Over the years, the guerrilla group killed 30 Filipinos and wounded about a hundred, but President Marcos pardoned Onoda, and he returned to Japan. Hiro Onoda died on January 17, 2013 at the age of 91.

A shell hit a boat with Australians.

The result of a 152-mm ISU-152 projectile hitting the Pz.IV turret.

German Ju-87D dive bomber on an assembly line.

British Beaufighter attack aircraft attack German destroyers with missiles at the mouth of the Gironde River.

A homemade mirror mounted on the canopy of a German Bf-109E fighter is a British solution that allows pilots of German fighters to control the rear hemisphere. So, by the way, for some reason it did not go into production until the end of the war.

The falling torpedo bomber B5N2 "Kate" is captured by the gunner of a naval bomber PB4Y "Liberator" over the sea near Truk. In the rear cockpit you can see the gunner of the torpedo bomber, who, according to the Liberator pilot, Lieutenant Commander William Janeshek, first tried to get out of the burning car, then suddenly returned, sat down in his seat and died along with the plane.

Gunner of the tail point of a heavy German bomber He-177.

The tail cone of the German Fw-189 reconnaissance aircraft.

German technicians are servicing the heavy twin-engine fighter Me-410. A remote-controlled barbette with its casing removed and a heavy 13-mm MG 131 machine gun installed is clearly visible.

The cockpit of the largest transport aircraft of that time - the German Me-323.

A Japanese bomb explodes on the deck of the aircraft carrier Enterprise during the battle off the Eastern Solomon Islands. The author of the photo, Robert Reed, died the second he pressed the shutter button.

Lieutenant A.I. Gridinsky (far left) and his comrades in the 144th Guards assault air regiment the Il-2 attack aircraft.
Deputy commander of the guard squadron, Lieutenant Alexander Ivanovich Gridinsky (09/14/1921 - 06/07/1944) on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since June 1942. In less than 2 years at the front, Gridinsky made 156 combat missions, saved the life of his commander, personally destroyed 20 enemy aircraft, 35 tanks, 3 anti-aircraft batteries, 90 vehicles, 4 gas tanks with fuel, and crossed the Dnieper.
06/07/1944 Gridinsky’s lone plane was attacked over its airfield by four German fighters. As a result of the battle, having shot down one of the attackers, Gridinsky himself was shot down and his attack aircraft fell on the edge of the airfield. By Decree of the Presidium Supreme Council USSR dated May 6, 1965 for exemplary performance During the combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown, Alexander Ivanovich Gridinsky was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Flagship (regiment commander's aircraft) air gunner Soviet attack aircraft IL-2 foreman P. Shulyakov. In the foreground is a 12.7 mm UBT (universal Berezina turret) machine gun.

Inside the hull of the Geschutzwagen (GW) VI Tiger self-propelled gun (World of Tanks players pee with boiling water).

Hull of Geschutzwagen (GW) VI Tiger.

Technicians are firing the wing cannons on the tropical version of the Emil.

Pearl Harbor, 1945

Actor Damian Lewis ("Band of Brothers") and Major Richard Winters.

Inside a B-17.

An aerial view of bomb explosions during a bombing raid over Poland in September 1939.

One of the few photos of a really shot down B-29. The plane was attacked by a Japanese Ki-45, lost two engines, on the way to the base over the ocean the wing tank caught fire, and the crew bailed out and were rescued in full.

Preparing the Comet for departure.

B-24J-150-CO Liberator, 854th BS, 491st BG, 8th AF, September 18, 1944. Dropped food and ammunition to the 82nd and 101st paratroopers airborne divisions and was hit by anti-aircraft guns. The pilot tried to land the plane on its belly, but at the last moment both right engines failed and the plane hit the ground. The pilot managed to level it, but the plane hit the trees at the end of the field and exploded. One person survived, all the others died.

A battery of Soviet guards mortars fires at enemy positions in Budapest. 1945

The cruiser "Mikuma" after an American air raid.

The sinking of the aircraft carrier Zuikaku.

A bomb hits the battleship Yamato.

"Haruna" under bombs.

Direct hit by a B-25 bomb on a Japanese patrol ship.

Western Ukraine.

Damaged and dismantled for spare parts "Royal Tiger".

A leaflet issued in the USA with possible changes Hitler's appearance.

38 cm RW61 auf Sturmmörser Tiger.

Hungarian soldiers captured by units of the 144th rifle regiment 49th Guards Rifle Division. Veteran of this division V.V. Wojciechovich in his interview mentions an exceptional case that occurred at the beginning of 1945 in Hungary. According to him, units of the 144th Infantry Regiment captured a group of about sixty Hungarian soldiers and officers who turned to the regiment command with an unusual request. In exchange for being immediately released, these Hungarians offered ... to recapture from the Germans either a village or a town that was located in front of the positions of the 144th regiment.
The proposal was so unusual that even division commander Vasily Filippovich Margelov, known for his independence in decision-making (later the legendary commander Airborne troops USSR) did not dare to approve this, and turned to the command. The request went up the chain, and only the commander of the 46th Army, Petrushevsky, personally gave permission for this. And these Hungarians really took over this locality, destroying a lot of Germans... I had to keep my word, and these Hungarians were immediately sent home.
The photograph shows these same Hungarians before that battle.

P-47D-10 (No. 42-23038) from 73 Squadron 318 Group 7 air fleet (pilot l-t Eubanks Barnhill) takes off from the deck of the Manila Bay to intercept 4 Japanese dive bombers attacking a group of ships. January 23, 1944. Thanks exclusively to a fortunate combination of circumstances (headwind, half-empty deck, practically empty tanks and only a few dozen rounds of ammunition in the outermost machine guns of the vehicle), the Thunderbolt managed to take off and even shoot down one D3A and damage the second. Under normal circumstances this would be impossible.

Trophy "Ferdinand".

On February 14, 1945, 62 B-17 bombers of the American Eighth Air Force "accidentally" dropped 152 tons of bombs on Prague.

Consequences of ammunition detonation.

Jet Jumo-004, installed on the Me-262.

Main battery salvo from the battleship Missouri. The fired shells are visible.

Dornier Do 217 with Henschel Hs-293 ​​glide bomb.

A Soviet self-propelled gun completely destroyed after an ammunition explosion artillery installation ISU-152. The self-propelled gun was destroyed during the battle of Tali-Ikhantala (June 25 - July 9, 1944) on the Karelian Isthmus.

A torpedo hit the British escort destroyer Berkeley.

Soviet soldier with a Czech child in his arms. The kid examines the Order of Glory on the soldier’s chest. Prague, May 1945

"Royal Tiger" with a 75-mm gun from the "Panther" installed, in the absence of an 88-mm cannon.

The ceremonial formation of the personnel of the 144SP 49SD, May 1945. The photograph is notable for the fact that many of the soldiers are wearing German helmets, because their own were lost in battle.

Replacing the rollers of the Panther chassis. Most accurately, this operation can be described as violent and prolonged sex, accompanied by loud and, characteristically, completely sincere wishes to the designer.
"Nevertheless, the Tigers were an extremely dangerous opponent, but fortunately they still had one weakness. This place was theirs chassis... There are countless epithets that the brutal German mechanics awarded engineer Kniepkamp while changing the rollers on the monstrous colossus. Since it took up to a day to replace one roller from the inner row, many could not stand it, foamed at the mouth and rushed at the Tiger with a crowbar, beating the innocent car with anything necessary. It is known that the tankers who fought on the Tigris could not only eat from the plates, but also see them until their deaths. The sight of a stack of plates could give a seasoned warrior who had lived through the Russian campaign and prison camps a heart attack. A fight, monstrous in size and cruelty, between Luftwaffe and Panzerwaffe officers, which took place in May 1944 in the Drei Ferkels und Sieben Gnomen Bar in Berlin, a fight that put two Geschwaders and one Schwerepanzerabtelung out of action for three months, happened because of a seemingly completely innocent joke. The SS Standartenführer, who was drinking with the pilots, sent on their behalf a pile of plates stacked in a checkerboard pattern to the tankers' table... The investigation did not establish the identity of the Standartenführer. The Luftwaffe officers in the hospital recalled that his name was Otto, Otto von... they could not remember further. However, everyone agreed that he reminded them of someone. As a result, the tankers and pilots were separated with the help of fire hoses, and the fighters did not even notice the raid of thousands of American bombers.

A little more "German porn".

American 914 mm (36-inch) recoilless mortar "Little David". Created to fight Japanese fortifications. Firing was carried out with 1678 kg shells at a range of up to 8.7 km. It passed the tests successfully, but was not used in real combat.

Transport Junkers under attack by an allied bomber.

The Allies used German prisoners to clear minefields, which was contrary to the Geneva Convention. We have In a similar way they did not do anything to the prisoners, although, it should be noted, not at all because of considerations of humanity.

A Japanese prisoner of war listens to a broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's speech announcing Japan's surrender.

And again some real German porn.

Nibelwerfer salvo in Warsaw.

V-1 reached the target.

The Japanese "pecked" an American tank.

"Tirpitz" on its side. The picture was taken from a British reconnaissance aircraft.

"Betties" come in for a torpedo attack.

Firing the wing armament of a Ju-87 "Stuka" dive bomber.

Captured Red Army soldiers. 1941.

A captured Red Army soldier from an assault detachment.

Non-111 at the exit from a torpedo attack.

A captured Pe-2 in the Finnish Air Force, purchased from Germany.

The death of the British landing fire support ship LCG (M) 101. 1944.

American mast ships sink a Japanese Kaibokan S-class patrol ship.

Cruiser "Red Caucasus", December 29, 1941
A 150-mm shell pierced the frontal armor of the 2nd main battery turret and exploded inside. Despite the death of the crew and the resulting fire, the cruiser remained in battle. The tower returned to service after an hour and a half.

A burnt out and dismantled German Pz.Kpfw.III tank on Tigris Street in Budapest.

A 600 mm Karl Gerät 040 "Ziu" mortar shell hit the Prudential building, Warsaw, 08/28/1944. The shell exploded outside, otherwise the skyscraper would have collapsed. After the war, the building was rebuilt and since 1954 it has been known as the Warsaw Hotel.

The Sherman crew desperately wants to live by welding pieces of Panther armor onto their tank. The car became monstrously heavy.

In fact, one would be enough. But the Germans, apparently, were just training.

In the photograph, a Lithuanian self-defense fighter finishes off wounded Jews with a crowbar. A young man, approximately 16 years old, with his sleeves rolled up, was armed with an iron crowbar. They brought a man to him from standing nearby groups of people, and he would kill him with one or several blows to the back of the head. Thus, in less than an hour, he killed all 45–50 people... After everyone was killed, the young man put the crowbar aside, went for the accordion and climbed onto the bodies of the dead lying nearby. Standing on the mountain, he played the Lithuanian national anthem. Behavior of those standing around civilians, among whom were women and children, was incredible - after each blow with a crowbar they applauded, and when the killer played the Lithuanian anthem, the crowd took him up.

A prisoner from the assault squads. The protective breastplate shows traces of bullets fired from a submachine gun. Protected me from bullets, but didn’t save me from captivity...

The photo shows General Patton angry about his conversation with the tank commander. Patton was against mutilation appearance tanks with foreign objects, they say, everything should be uniform in the army. And the tank commander answered him that, with all due respect, sir, it’s up to me to fight on it. Patton had nothing to say and this infuriated him.

Wow. We continue to look at extremely rare photographs and fascinating stories associated with them. The post is long, there are a lot of photos. Enjoy!

1. Searchlights over Gibraltar during a drill. November 20, 1942
2. Board heavy cruiser HMS Sussex with a print left after a Japanese kamikaze hit a Ki-51

3. Captured Japanese equipment on the deck of the aircraft carrier Barnes (CVE-20)


4. A tug pulls the USS Barnes (CVE-20) through Panama Canal. Captured Japanese equipment is displayed on the flight deck.




In the foreground is the experimental J5N Tenrai naval interceptor.




5. On the restored border of the USSR
Corporal Gureev I.A. on the border with East Prussia. 1944.

6. German submarine U-156 dies under attack by an American Catalina flying boat.
The boat completed 5 combat cruises, during which it sank 20 ships with a total cargo capacity of 97,504 GRT.


7. British light bomber Fairey Battle


8. German aircraft technicians examine holes in the side of the Bf-109 fighter
The pilot was very lucky: between the place where the aircraft number was written and the cockpit of the Messer there was the main fuel tank.


9. German heavy tanks are crossing a shallow river


10. A group of “fortresses” blindly bombs a German radar near Bremen


11. Reconnaissance aerial photograph showing a group of transport aircraft at a German airfield
The photo is notable for what kind of aircraft they are: a twin He-111Z (marked with the letter A), a Me-321 glider (letter B) and six heavy transport aircraft Me-323 “Giant”.


12. Waffen SS infantryman with a Panzerwaffen grenade launcher in his hands. A Soviet T-34 is burning in the background. 1944

13. Explosions of phosphorus Japanese anti-aircraft bombs over a formation of American B-24 bombers in the Iwo Jima area, 1944
The bombs turned out to be completely useless. Structurally, in addition to the phosphorus filling, they were equipped with a high-explosive fragmentation part. The effective radius of destruction with phosphorus was only about 20 meters, with a land mine - even less, and the fragments themselves were ineffective due to the small caliber of the bomb. But you still had to approach the group and accurately drop bombs on the planes, which in itself is very difficult. However, the Japanese, with their characteristic senseless persistence, continued to use these bombs from the moment they were put into service in 1942 until the very end of the war.




14. A battery of German 88-mm anti-aircraft guns fires at an illuminated target
I don't know how real the photo is. The target is very low, and the gun was somehow very successfully caught at the moment of the shot...


15. Life of fighters 2nd Guards Army in the arrangement of its parts. Operation to liberate Crimea, 1944


16. Killed German machine gun crew. The helmet didn't save...


17. Soviet soldiers kindly return the weapons they lost to the Wehrmacht


18. "Comet" in the parking lot


19. Warrior


20. Dead soldiers of the Red Army.

21. Post-war photo. Artist on the ruins of Stalingrad. 1945

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23. Corporal Bodger reads a poster warning of the possibility of coming under enemy fire. April 1945
The photograph is notable for the fact that it was taken against the backdrop of the famous Panther, which was shot down on Komödienstraße in Cologne. And this car became famous thanks to the battle with American tanks, which was captured on film by Sergeant Bates.


24. Soviet sappers are establishing a crossing across the Oder River. 1945


25. American B-24 “Liberator” from the 15th Air Army A synthetic fuel plant in Bratislava is bombed. January 1945


26. Soviet troops crossing Sivash. Liberation of Crimea, 1944.


27. Tanks of the 6th Guards Motorized Corps at the railway junction. Dresden, 1945


28. American paratroopers with a group of prisoners of war. 1944
The camouflage uniform attracts attention. Due to the similarity with the equipment of SS units, after some time the Americans were forced to abandon it.


29. Soviet tanks with troops on board in attack


30. Bf-110C from the 6th group of the 76th heavy fighter squadron over the English Channel during the Battle of Britain. 1940


31. Still respect
The inscription on the cross in German: “Here lies an unknown Russian soldier.” Summer of 1941.

32. 7th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht fights Russian roads


33. Soldiers of the 82nd US Airborne Division train on cats. The damaged Royal Tiger No. 213 is under distribution


34. Part of the cockpit with windshield and hood of the Il-2 attack aircraft, demonstrating the “boot-by-boot” targeting system


35. T-34, crushing a German light tank Pz.II


36. Janusz Korczak with children before execution in the gas chamber
Janusz Korczak - an outstanding Polish teacher, writer, doctor and public figure. On August 6, 1942, he entered gas chamber in Treblinka, telling fairy tales to unsuspecting children.


37. Canadian Air Force Supermarine Strander flying boat with survivors on the left wing.
During a rescue operation while landing in the open sea, the boat lost its right float. Trying to balance the plane, several people positioned themselves on the left plane.


38. Equipment of a German soldier from the Afrika Korps

39. M3A1 tanks from the 241st tank brigade in attack. Don Front, September 1942
In a few hours the brigade will be completely destroyed.


40. Antonina Lebedeva (1916-1943), fighter pilot


41. A pilot of the 332nd Guards Transport and Combat Helicopter Regiment is photographed against the background of the remains of a German Ju-87 bomber. Murmansk region, 80s
Not a military photo, I know, but still...


42. The crew of the IS-2 tank from the 62GvTTP fires from safe distance according to revealed calculations with faust cartridges. Danzig, 1945


43. Ceremony for accepting the surrender of the Empire of Japan on board the battleship Missouri. September 2, 1945


44. The first and only successful landing of an amphibious seaplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier. 1940
In the photo, the Swordfish floatplane from the English battleship Valiant, which did not have time to return to the ship (Valiant went after the French Strasbourg when the British attacked the French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir so that it would not fall to the Germans), is not having the opportunity to be picked up from the water, makes an emergency landing on the deck of the Ark Royal. Pilot John Edward Breeze.


45. British experimental analogue of the German Schrage Muzik multiple launch rocket system, installed on the fuselage of the Mosquito heavy fighter


46. ​​German paratroopers parachute from a DFS-230 glider


47. American A-20 light bomber parked at a field airfield
Judging by the bow section, which has been converted to accommodate 12.8 mm machine guns, this is an assault version of the vehicle.


48. “A little

Second World War (September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945) - two world wars military-political coalitions, which became biggest war in the history of mankind. 61 states out of 73 existing at that time participated in it (80% of the population globe). Fighting were conducted on the territory of three continents and in the waters four oceans. This the only conflict, in which nuclear weapons were used.

At the top: 1941. Belarus, a German reporter eats a cucumber offered by a peasant woman

1941. Artillerymen of the 2nd battery of the 833rd heavy artillery battalion of the Wehrmacht are preparing to fire a 600-mm self-propelled mortar “Karl” (Karl Gerät 040 Nr.III “Odin”) in the Brest area.

1941. Battle of Moscow. Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism or LVZ (638 infantry regiment Wehrmacht)

1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers dressed for the weather during battle

1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers captured Russian prisoners of war in a trench

1941. Waffen-SS

1941. Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili among prisoners of war during the battle for Smolensk

1941. Leningrad, Colonel General Erich Hoepner and Major General Franz Landgraf

1941. Minsk, German soldiers in an occupied city

1941. Murmansk, Mountain shooters made a stop along the way

1941. German artillerymen inspect the remains of the heavy artillery tractor “Voroshilovets”

1941. German prisoners of war guarded by Russian soldiers

1941. German soldiers in position. Behind them in the ditch are Russian prisoners of war.

1941. Odessa, Romanian soldiers inspect captured property of the Soviet army

1941. Novgorod, awarding of German soldiers

1941. Russian soldiers inspect trophies taken from the Germans and discover potatoes in a gas mask case

1941. Red Army soldiers studying war trophies

1941. Sonderkraftfahrzeug 10 tractor and soldiers of the Reich SS division drive through the village

1941. Ukraine, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler talks with peasants

1941. Ukraine, column of Russian prisoners of war including women

1941. Ukraine, Soviet prisoner of war before execution on charges of being an agent of the GPU

1941. Two Russian prisoners of war talk with German soldiers from the Waffen-SS

1941.Moscow, Germans in the vicinity of the city

1941.German traffic controllers

1941.Ukraine, a German soldier accepts an offered glass of milk

1942. Two German sentries on the Eastern Front

1942. Leningrad region, a column of German prisoners of war in a besieged city

1942. Leningrad region, German troops at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city

1942. Leningrad region, one of the first Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger

1942. German troops cross the Don

1942. German soldiers clear the road after a snowfall

1942. Pechory, German officers are photographed with clergy

1942. Russia, corporal checks documents of peasant women

1942. Russia, a German gives a cigarette to a Russian prisoner of war

1942. Russia, German soldiers leave a burning village

1942. Stalingrad, the remains of a German He-111 bomber among the city ruins

1942. Terek Cossacks from self-defense units.

1942. Non-commissioned officer Helmut Kolke of the 561st Wehrmacht Brigade with the crew on his Marder II self-propelled gun, the next day he received the German Cross in gold and the Honor Buckle

1942. Leningrad region

1942. Leningrad region, Volkhov Front, a German gives a piece of bread to a child

1942. Stalingrad, a German soldier cleans a K98 Mauser during a break between battles

1943. Belgorod region, German soldiers talk with women and children

1943. Belgorod region, Russian prisoners of war

1943. Peasant woman talks Soviet intelligence officers about the location of enemy units. North of the city of Orel

1943. German soldiers have just caught a Soviet soldier

1943. Russia, two German prisoners of war

1943. Russian Cossacks in the Wehrmacht during a blessing (priests in the foreground)

1943. Sappers neutralize German anti-tank mines

1943. Snipers of the unit of senior lieutenant F.D. Lunina fire volleys at enemy aircraft

1943. Stalingrad, a column of German prisoners of war on the edge of the city

1943. Stalingrad, column of German, Romanian and Italian prisoners of war

1943. Stalingrad, German prisoners of war pass by a woman with empty buckets. There will be no luck.

1943. Stalingrad, captured German officers

1943. Ukraine, Znamenka, the driver of the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger looks through the hatch of the car at a tank stuck in the mud on the river bank

1943.Stalingrad, city center on the day of the surrender of German troops

1944. Commander of the 4th Air Command, Luftwaffe Colonel General Otto Desloch and commander of II./StG2, Major Dr. Maxsimilian Otte (shortly before his death)

1944. Crimea, capture of German soldiers by Soviet sailors

1944. Leningrad region, column of German troops

1944. Leningrad region, German prisoners of war

1944. Moscow. Passage of 57,000 German prisoners of war on the streets of the capital.

1944. Lunch of prisoners German officers in Krasnogorsk special camp No. 27

1944. Romania. German units evacuated from Crimea

1945. Poland, a column of German prisoners of war crosses the bridge over the Oder towards Ukraine

Without date. Two Soviet partisans inspecting a captured German MG-34 machine gun

Without date. German soldiers clean their personal weapons. One of the soldiers has a captured Soviet PPSh submachine gun

Without date. German court martial

Without date. The Germans are taking away livestock from the population.

Without date. A Luftwaffe non-commissioned officer poses with a bottle while sitting on the head of a bust of I.V. Stalin