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, Japanese intelligence officer and officer Hiro Onoda surrendered on Lubang Island, Philippines. Having been relieved of his duties by his commander, he surrendered 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 waging 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. Behind long 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 Attack Aviation Regiment near 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 on May 6, 1965, for the exemplary performance of 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 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. He was dropping food and ammunition to the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st 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.
Soviet battery 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".
February 14, 1945 62 B-17 bombers of the Eighth American air army"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 personnel of the 144SP 49SD, May 1945. The photograph is notable for the fact that many soldiers 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 addressed 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 did not treat prisoners in this way, 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 penetrated frontal armor 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 person from a nearby group of people to him, and he killed 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. The behavior of the civilians standing around, including 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 disfiguring the appearance of tanks with foreign objects, saying that 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.
Second World War (September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945) - the war of two world military-political coalitions, which became the largest war in human history. 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 of four oceans. This is 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 The Wehrmacht is 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 Wehrmacht Infantry Regiment)
1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers during battle, dressed for the weather
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 Riflemen 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. Lunin is being led salvo fire against 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 captured 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 inspect a captured German MG-34 machine gun
Without date. German soldiers clean their personal weapons. One of the soldiers has a trophy Soviet submachine gun PPSh
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
The results of World War II led to major political changes in international arena, the gradual development of a tendency towards cooperation between states with various social systems. In order to prevent new world conflicts, create in post-war period system of security and cooperation between countries at the end of the war, the United Nations Organization (UN) was created, the Charter of which was signed on June 26, 1945 in San Francisco by 50 states (USSR, USA, Great Britain, China and others).
The Second World War was the largest military conflict in human history. More than 60 states with a population of 1.7 billion people took part in it; military operations took place on the territory of 40 of them. The total number of fighting armies was 110 million people, military expenditures were $1,384 billion. The scale of human losses and destruction was unprecedented.
More than 46 million people died in the war, including 12 million in death camps:
The USSR lost more than 26 million, Germany - approx. 6 million, Poland - 5.8 million, Japan - approx. 2 million, Yugoslavia - approx. 1.6 million, Hungary - 600 thousand, France - 570 thousand, Romania - approx. 460 thousand, Italy - approx. 450 thousand, Hungary - approx. 430 thousand, USA, UK and Greece - 400 thousand each, Belgium - 88 thousand, Canada - 40 thousand. Material damage estimated at $2,600 billion.
The terrible consequences of the war have strengthened the global tendency to unite in order to prevent new military conflicts, the need to create more effective system collective security than the League of Nations. Its expression was the establishment of the United Nations in April 1945.
Photo archive:
SS soldiers during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. They are armed with an MP-40 submachine gun and shortened Mauser 98K rifles. 1944 Warsaw Poland
A Soviet civilian convoy bombed by German aircraft. The photo was taken in the area of the Khutor Mikhailovsky railway station (now the town of Druzhba, Yampolsky district, Sumy region of Ukraine). Ukraine, USSR
Setting a combat mission for a German infantry squad near Moscow. 1941
The first Soviet commandant patrol in Berlin. May 1945 Berlin, Germany.
A Soviet soldier walks past the murdered SS Hauptsturmführer in Berlin at the intersection of Chaussestrasse and Oranienburgerstrasse. April-May 1945 Berlin, Germany
A Hungarian tanker next to a 38M wedge (CV35 from the Italian company Ansaldo, purchased by Hungary).
One of the Japanese coastal bunkers covering the Kataoka naval base on Shumshu Island. It houses a 76mm Type 41 naval gun. The photograph was taken in August 1945, after the Japanese surrender. Shumshu Island, Kuril Islands
Soviet soldiers before the attack at Stalingrad. 1942 Author: Emanuil Evzerikhin
An underground plant for the production of mortar mines in Sevastopol. 1942 Sevastopol
Marines Black Sea Fleet read newspapers. 1942 Sevastopol
German heavy tank Pz.Kpfw. VI "Tiger" with tactical number "211" from the 503rd Tank Battalion, in the Belgorod area. German offensive"Citadel". 08/01/1943 Author: Bernd Lohse
German soldiers and a damaged (missing roller) Pz.Kpfw tank. IV 15th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht in the Mersa Matruh area. June 1942
Night attack of Soviet T-34 tanks. Flares are used for lighting.
German soldiers next to a burning Soviet village. 1941
Soviet officer (captain) near a shot down German tank Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. H "Tiger". April 1945
Soldiers of the Leningrad Front after a difficult battle. January-February 1944
Victory Parade of the Allied Forces in Berlin on September 7, 1945, dedicated to the end of World War II. Column of 52 Soviet heavy tanks IS-3 from the 2nd Guards tank army runs along the Charlottenburg Highway.
In the Victory Parade on September 7, 1945, in addition to Soviet troops American, British and French troops who were in Berlin to ensure the occupation of Germany took part. The parade was hosted by Marshal G.K. Zhukov.
A front-line cameraman films a column of German prisoners in Stalingrad. The column moves along the bank of the Volga. 1943 Stalingrad
American B-17 bombers in flight against the background of the evening sky.
Senior political instructor Yolkin reports on the current military situation to the tank crews of the 3rd Tank Division. In the background two T-28 tanks with L-11 cannons are visible. July 1941
Residents of the Bulgarian town celebrate liberation from the Nazis. The name of the man in the foreground is Kocha Karadzhev, a Bulgarian partisan. September 1944 Bulgaria. Author: Evgeniy Khaldey
Fireworks at the grave of fellow pilots who died near Sevastopol on April 24, 1944.
The inscription on the tombstone from a fragment of the plane's stabilizer: “Here are buried those who died in the battles for Sevastopol, Guard Major Ilyin - attack pilot and air gunner of the Guard, Senior Sergeant Semchenko. Buried by comrades on May 14, 1944.” The photo was taken in the suburbs of Sevastopol.
Machine gunner V. Pavlov with light machine gun DP at the firing line near Leningrad. October 1942 Author: Vsevolod Tarasevich
An American B-25 "Mitchell" bomber from the 500th Squadron of the 345th Bombardment Group, having thrown a bomb (the bomb is visible in flight), leaves the attack on the Japanese hunter for submarines CH-39. 02/16/1944 Three Island Harbour, New Hanover, New Ireland
Lunch of Soviet soldiers on the street of a German city. 1945
Volley of the Guards rocket launchers BM-13 “Katyusha”, on the chassis of American Stedebaker trucks (Studebaker US6). Carpathian region, western Ukraine. 1944 Author: Arkady Shaikhet
Partisans of the Kotovsky detachment return from a combat mission. 1943 Author: Mikhail Trakhman
Human remains in the oven of the crematorium of the Stutthof concentration camp. Filming location: surroundings of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). May 1945 Author: Mark Markov-Grinberg
A Soviet machine gunner covers the infantry attacking near Tula. November 1941
A group of flamethrowers from the unit of Major I.D. Skibinsky moves to a firing position. The fighters are armed with ROKS-3 backpack flamethrowers. 1st Ukrainian Front. 1945 Breslau, Germany
Soldiers of the assault battalion from the unit of Colonel Zalichansky, on the ruins of a tram depot in the capital of lower Silesia - the city of Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). 1st Ukrainian Front. March 1945 Breslau, Germany. Author: Rafail Mazelev
Former Reich Minister of Aviation Hermann Goering in the hall of the Nuremberg Tribunal. 1945 Nuremberg, Germany. Author: Evgeniy Khaldey
During the liberation of the city of Karachev, Private Shirobokov met his sisters who had escaped death. Their father and mother were shot by the Germans. 1943 Karachev, Bryansk region. Author: Arkady Shaikhet
After battle. Shooting a German tank column soviet tank KV-1C (fast) and its dead tank crewman. Voronezh Front. January-February 1943
Attack of Soviet soldiers of the Southwestern Front with the support of BT-7 tanks. 1942
Princess Elizabeth, future queen Elizabeth II at the christening ceremony (rechristening) of a B-17G bomber of the 306th Bomb Group. The bomber was renamed "Rose of York" in honor of the House of York, one of the branches of the English royal dynasty Plantagenet, who reigned from 1461 to 1485: White Rose is their family coat of arms.
The aircraft was later lost in the North Sea after a raid on Bremen. July 1944
Soviet soldiers on a Berlin tram. The author's title of the photo is “The first “passengers” of the Berlin tram.” May 1945 Berlin, Germany.
Liberated child prisoners of Buchenwald leave the main gate of the camp, accompanied by American soldiers. 04/17/1945 Buchenwald, Germany
A British soldier leaves his autograph among the autographs of Soviet soldiers inside the Reichstag. 1945 Berlin, Germany
American soldier with various US Army weapons.
In the picture (counterclockwise):
1. Self-propelled howitzer NMS M7. Considering the prefabricated bow piece (not one piece) and the lack of folding sides of the wheelhouse, this cannot be a later model M7B1. The familiar name "Priest" is not suitable, since it was used in the UK, not in the USA. On the turret is a 12.7 mm (50 caliber) Browning M2HB machine gun.
2. 37 mm anti-tank gun M3.
3. Easel 7.62 mm (30 caliber) Browning M1919A4 machine gun.
4. Thompson M1928A1 submachine gun.
5. Automatic rifle Browning M1918A2 (BAR).
6. "Browning" M1917A1. Like the M1919, heavy machine gun caliber 7.62 mm.
7. 60 mm M2 mortar.
8. 81 mm M1 mortar.
In the inner circle - self-loading carbine M1, Springfield M1903 rifle and Colt M1911 A1 pistol; in the soldier’s hands is a Garand M1 self-loading rifle.
The liberation by Soviet soldiers of the surviving prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz). Above the gates of the camp you can see the famous sign-slogan “Arbeit macht frei”, which means “Work sets you free”. The concentration camp was occupied on January 27, 1945 by units of the 100th Infantry Division of General F.M. Krasavina (1st Ukrainian Front). February 1945 Author: Boris Ignatovich
Sniper of the 203rd Infantry Division (3rd Ukrainian Front), senior sergeant Ivan Petrovich Merkulov at a firing position. In March 1944, Ivan Merkulov was awarded the highest award - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union; during the war years, the sniper destroyed more than 144 enemy soldiers and officers. 1943 Ukraine, USSR. Author: Dmitry Baltermants
Anti-aircraft gun (85-mm model 1939) against the backdrop of St. Isaac's Cathedral in besieged Leningrad. Author: Nikolay Khandogin
A column of German prisoners of war escorted by Soviet soldiers.
Arrival of prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The guards form a column of prisoners. In the distance, an already formed column is moving towards crematoria 2 and 3. Behind the column closest to the viewer, the prisoners' belongings are being loaded into a truck.
Night anti-aircraft fire from an American airfield in Okinawa. The silhouettes of F4U Corsair fighters are visible in the foreground. 1945 Okinawa, Japan
Soviet female soldiers at the firing line. The girls are armed with 7.62 mm Mosin rifles with attached tetrahedral needle bayonets and a 7.62 mm PPSh-41 submachine gun.
London children look at their home, destroyed after a German raid on the city on September 15, 1940.
British Beaufighter attack aircraft from the 236th and 404th squadrons Royal Air Force attack German destroyers Z-24 and T-24 with missiles at the mouth of the Gironde River, near the port of Le Verdon (France). As a result of the attacks, both destroyers were sunk. Z-24 and T-24 at the time of the attack were the last two large ships remaining with the Germans in the West. 08/24/1944 France
A Soviet officer checks the documents of surrendered German soldiers. Berlin, April-May 1945
Another solid portion of retro photos in the project 20th century in color photographs.
Today we will look at what the world was like many years ago. More precisely, not the world, but .
In general, there are a lot of color photographs from 1941. The Germans shot on Agfa film (Agfacolor), the Americans and British - on Kodachrome. Soviet color photographs of the Great Patriotic War are not known.
As you know, the German attack on the USSR was immediately preceded by a blitzkrieg against Yugoslavia. The operation lasted from April 6 to April 17, 1941 and ended on April 17 with the surrender of this Balkan kingdom.
Units of the 14th Motorized Corps of the Wehrmacht in the Serbian city of Nis, April 1941:
At the same time, the Germans captured Greece in April 1941. Raising the Nazi flag over the Acropolis:
In 1941, the so-called “ Battle of Britain" - air war between Luftwaffe and Royal air force(RAF).
Some scenes of this war were captured by the famous photographer Robert Capa.
Here we see the damaged British Blenheim bomber, which managed to make an emergency landing on its territory:
The Anglo-German war also took place at sea.
The German battleship Scharnhorst at the end of Operation Berlin, during which 8 British transport ships were sunk in the North Atlantic, March 1941:
Outside of Europe, from the very beginning of 1941, fighting took place in the African theater. Back in December 1940, the British from Egypt went on the offensive against the Italian group in Libya and inflicted a significant defeat on it.
During February 1941, German troops under the command of General Rommel were transferred to Libya, which led to a halt in the further advance of the British. And already at the end of March, Rommel’s units went on the offensive.
Column of German troops in Paris, 1941. photographer Andre Zucca:
The Germans are organizing a parade on trophy French tanks in Paris, 1941:
Hitler and the generals inspect the 800 mm Fat Gustav gun in 1941:
The Fat Gustav gun weighed 1344 tons and to move it around railway tracks some parts needed to be dismantled. The gun was the height of a four-story building, had a width of 6 meters and a length of 42 meters. The maintenance of the Fat Gustav gun was carried out by a team of 500 people under the command of a high-ranking army official. The team needed almost three days to prepare the gun for firing.
A high-explosive shell from this cannon could hit a target at a distance of 45 kilometers.
May 1941. Equipment of the 6th German Panzer Division in East Prussia before the invasion of the USSR:
German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, at a press conference in Berlin, announces the start of war against the Soviet Union:
In 1941, the Wehrmacht had something like one and a half million cameras in its backpacks.
German soldiers, officers and photojournalists meticulously recorded every step on Soviet soil. Of course, they especially liked to take pictures of trophies and broken equipment of the Red Army.
Soviet T-28 tank:
The Nazis inspect the Soviet T-34 tank:
Soviet KV-2 tank destroyed in the battle for the city of Ostrov, July 1941:
Battlefield near Ostrov, early July 1941:
Damaged Soviet fighter I-16:
Damaged soviet fighters I-153 "Chaika":
The Finns also filmed in their sector of the front, often in color.
Burnt out Soviet armored car on the Karelian Isthmus, 1941:
Germans in Grodno, June 1941:
Germans in Lithuania, June 1941:
The bell tower will be restored only in 1973.
July 41st:
Soviet prisoners of war:
In September 41, the Germans captured Kyiv:
In the 20th of September the enemy took Peterhof:
On October 2, 1941, Petrozavodsk was occupied by the Finnish Karelian Army and renamed Äänislinna:
Advanced German units of the 11th Panzer Division near Volokolamsk, November 1941:
Here came the end of their Blitzkrieg.
Now a small gallery of satellites of Nazi Germany in 1941.
Soldiers of the Spanish “Blue Division”, which fought against the USSR near Novgorod and Leningrad, 1941:
Soldiers of the French Volunteer Legion, 1941:
Having defeated Yugoslavia, the Germans created a puppet “ Independent state Croatia,” whose army became one of Hitler’s most zealous satellites.
In this photo, the commander of the Croatian ground forces General Slavko Shtanzer, 1941:
December 7 Japanese army launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. World War II opened a new theater on the Pacific Ocean.
A light boat takes part in the rescue of the crew of the battleship West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941:
According to Hawaiian tradition, American sailors honor the memory of their fallen comrades after the shelling of Pearl Harbor, 1941: 
Since December 41, the Japanese waged a simultaneous war against the Americans, British and Chinese. The war with the latter began back in 1937.
The Japanese didn’t have color film, so you’ll have to be content with colored pictures.
Japanese light tank Type 97 Te-Ke against the backdrop of a burning house in China, 1941:
Operating over an unimaginably vast area, the Japanese captured French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies (now the territory of Indonesia) in 1941.
Soldiers of the Japanese 5th Infantry Division in occupied Saigon, December 1941:
Japanese battleship Hiei2 at sunset in Saeki Bay, 1941:
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