On the first day of winter 1942, Japanese fighters attacked the Australian escort ship Armidale. Most of those people who were on the ship died immediately, but some survivors managed to make a raft from the remains of the ship. About 20 people fit on the raft. A seaplane patrol spotted the raft on December 8, taking this photo, but rescuers were unable to splash down due to high waves. Unfortunately, neither the next day, nor ever the raft could not be found ...

2 Punishment for General Dostler

On December 1, 1945, General of the German Infantry Anton Dostler was executed. He led the destruction of the American sabotage group, for which he received a death sentence, the execution of which was carefully photographed and filmed.

In November 1942, in the forests of East Karelia, a Finnish officer shoots Soviet spy who, despite the proximity of death, smiles into the lens. The photo was made public only in 2006.

A selection of color photographs of the Second World War, mainly from the Eastern Front

German staff officers in the field near the aircraft Fi 156 "Storch" (Fieseler Fi 156 Storch)

Hungarian soldiers are interrogating a Soviet prisoner of war. The man in the cap and black jacket is supposedly a policeman. On the left is a Wehrmacht officer

A column of German infantry moves along the streets of Rotterdam during the invasion of Holland

Luftwaffe soldiers from the air defense unit work with a stereoscopic rangefinder Kommandogerät 36 (Kdo. Gr. 36). The rangefinder was used to control the fire of anti-aircraft batteries equipped with Flak 18 series guns.

German assault gun StuG III Ausf. G, belonging to the 210th Assault Gun Brigade (StuG-Brig. 210) is moving past the positions of the 1st Marine Infantry Division (1. Marine-Infanterie-Division) in the Ceden area (currently the Polish town of Cedynia).

German tankers repairing the engine of the Pz. Kpfw. IV with a short-barreled 75 mm gun.

German tank Pz. Kpfw. IV Ausf. H training tank division(Panzer-Lehr-Division), shot down in Normandy. In front of the tank is a unitary high-explosive fragmentation shot Sprgr.34 (weight 8.71 kg, explosive - ammotol) to the 75-mm gun KwK.40 L / 48. The second shell lies on the body of the vehicle, in front of the turret.

German infantry column on the march Eastern Front. In the foreground, a soldier carries a 7.92 MG-34 machine gun on his shoulder.

Luftwaffe officers in front of a car in Nikolsky Lane in occupied Smolensk.

Employees of the organization Todt dismantle reinforced concrete French defenses in the Paris area. France 1940

A girl from the village of the Belgorod region sits with a balalaika on the trunk of a fallen tree

German soldiers rest near an army truck "Einheitsdiesel" (Einheits-Diesel).

Adolf Hitler with German generals inspects the fortifications of the Western Wall (also called the "Siegfried Line"). With a map in hand, the commander of the border troops of the Upper Rhine, Infantry General Alfred Wäger (Alfred Wäger, 1883–1956), third from the right is the chief of staff of the Wehrmacht High Command, Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel (Wilhelm Keitel, 1882-1946). Second right - Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler (Heinrich Himmler, 1900-1945). A cameraman is standing on the parapet in a raincoat.

Church of the Transfiguration in occupied Vyazma.

Pilots of the 53rd Luftwaffe Fighter Squadron (JG53) at an airfield in France. In the background - Messerschmitt Bf.109E fighters.

Artillery officers of the Wehrmacht African Corps, photographed by the corps commander, Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel (Erwin Eugen Johannes Rommel).

Calculation of the Swedish-made 40-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun "Bofors" on the cover of the Finnish airfield Suulajärvi.

Vehicles of the Hungarian army on Vorovskogo Street in occupied Belgorod. On the right is the Polish-Lithuanian church.

The commander of the 6th German Army, Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau (Walter von Reichenau, 10/8/1884–17/01/1942) stands near his staff car. Behind him stands the commander of the 297th Infantry Division, General of Artillery Max Pfeffer (Max Pfeffer, 06/12/1883–12/31/1955).

There is a version according to which, according to the words of the Wehrmacht General Staff officer Paul Jordan (Paul Jordan), when in the first months of the war, during the offensive, the 6th Army collided with T-34 tanks, after a personal inspection of one of the tanks, von Reichenau told his officers : "If the Russians continue to produce these tanks, we will not win the war."

Finnish soldiers break camp in the forest before leaving their group. Petsamo Region

A salvo of 406-mm bow guns of the main caliber of the American battleship Missouri (Missouri (BB-63) during firing practice in the Atlantic.

Pilot of the 9th Squadron of the 54th Fighter Squadron (9. JG54) Wilhelm Schilling in the cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 fighter at the Krasnogvardeysk airfield.

Adolf Hitler with guests at the table in his house in Obersalzberg. Pictured from left to right: Professor Morrel (Morrel), wife of Gauleiter Forster (Forster) and Hitler.

A group portrait of policemen against the backdrop of a temple in an occupied Soviet village.

A Hungarian soldier at the captured Soviet heavy artillery tractor "Voroshilovets".

Dismantled Soviet attack aircraft Il-2 in the occupied Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region

Soviet prisoners of war are repairing the cobblestone pavement of the street before the parade of Finnish troops in the center of captured Vyborg.

Two German soldiers at a single 7.92 mm MG-34 machine gun mounted on a Lafette 34 machine gun in a position in the Mediterranean

Gun crews with their 88-mm FlaK 36 anti-aircraft guns on the German artillery support ferry "Siebel" during the voyage to Lahdenpohja (Lahdenpohja).

German soldier digging a trench in the Belgorod region

Broken and burnt german tank Pz. Kpfw. V "Panther" in the Italian village south of Rome

The commander of the 6th motorized infantry brigade (Schützen-Brigade 6), Major General Erhard Raus (Erhard Raus, 1889 - 1956) with officers of his headquarters.

Lieutenant and Oberleutnant of the Wehrmacht confer in the steppe on the southern sector of the Eastern Front.

German soldiers wash winter camouflage off a Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. C "Hanomag" (Hanomag) at the hut in Ukraine.

Luftwaffe officers walk past cars in Nikolsky Lane in occupied Smolensk. The Assumption Cathedral rises in the background.

A German motorcyclist poses with the Bulgarian children of the occupied village.

MG-34 machine gun and Mauser rifle on German positions near an occupied Soviet village in the Belgorod region (Kursk region at the time of the photo).

A German tank Pz. Kpfw. V "Panther" with tail number "202"

Graves of German soldiers in Ukraine.

German cars at the Trinity Cathedral (Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity) in occupied Vyazma.

A column of captured Red Army soldiers in the ruined locality near Belgorod.
A German field kitchen is visible in the background. Next, the StuG III self-propelled guns and the Horch 901 car.

Colonel General Heinz Guderian (1888 - 1954) and SS Hauptsturmührer Michael Wittmann

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel at the Feltre airfield.

German road signs at the intersection of K. Marx and Medvedovsky (now Lenin) streets in the occupied Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region

Wehrmacht soldier near road signs in occupied Smolensk. Behind the ruined building, the domes of the Assumption Cathedral are visible.
The inscriptions on the plate on the right side of the picture: Bridge (to the right) and Dorogobuzh (to the left).

A German sentry and a soldier (probably the driver) at the Mercedes-Benz 770 headquarters car near the Market Square in occupied Smolensk.
In the background - a view of the Cathedral Hill with the Assumption Cathedral.

Wounded on the Eastern Front, a Hungarian soldier is resting after bandaging.

Soviet partisan executed by the Hungarian invaders in Stary Oskol. During the war, Stary Oskol was part of Kursk region, currently - as part of the Belgorod region.

A group of Soviet prisoners of war sit on logs during a break during forced labor on the Eastern Front

Portrait of a Soviet prisoner of war in a shabby overcoat

Soviet captured soldiers at the assembly point on the Eastern Front.

Soviet soldiers with raised hands surrender in a wheat field.

German soldiers in Koenigsberg next to the MG 151/20 aircraft gun in the infantry version

The bombed-out historic center of the German city of Nuremberg

A Finnish soldier armed with a Suomi submachine gun in the battle for the village of Povenets.

Mountain rangers of the Wehrmacht against the backdrop of a hunting house.

Luftwaffe sergeant near the airfield. Presumably an anti-aircraft gunner.

Jet fighter Messerschmitt Me-262A-1a from the 3rd group of the 2nd combat training squadron of the Luftwaffe (III / EJG 2).

Finnish soldiers and German rangers are sailing in boats along the Lutto River (Lotta, Lutto-joki) in the Petsamo region (currently Pechenga, since 1944 part of the Murmansk region).

German soldiers tune the Torn radio station. Fu.d2 is a backpack VHF infantry radio manufactured by Telefunken.

The crash site of the Re. 2000 Heja pilot István Horthy (István Horthy, 1904-1942, eldest son of Hungarian regent Miklós Horthy) from the 1/1 fighter squadron of the Hungarian Air Force. After takeoff, the plane lost control and crashed near the airfield near the village of Alekseevka, Kursk Region (now Belgorod region). The pilot is dead.

Citizens at the Blagoveshchensk market in the occupied German troops Kharkov. In the foreground are artisan shoemakers repairing shoes.

Finnish troops at the parade at the monument to Swedish Marshal Thorgils Knutsson in captured Vyborg

Three marines of the 1st Kriegsmarine Division (1. marine-infanterie-division) in a trench on the bridgehead in the Zeden area (currently the Polish town of Cedynia - Cedynia).

German pilots look at peasant oxen at one of the airfields in Bulgaria. A Junkers Ju-87 dive bomber is visible behind. On the right is a Bulgarian officer of the ground forces.

Technique of the 6th German Panzer Division in East Prussia before the invasion of the USSR. In the center of the picture is the Pz. Kpfw. IV Ausf. D. An Adler 3 Gd is visible in the background. In the foreground, parallel to the tank, is a Horch 901 Typ 40 vehicle.

Wehrmacht officer whistle gives the command to attack.

German officer on the street of occupied Poltava

German soldiers during street fighting. The medium tank Pzkpfw (Panzer Kampfwagen) III on the right was originally armed with 37,
and then a 50 mm 1/42 cannon.

However, their shots were unable to penetrate the inclined armor protection of the Soviet T-34, as a result of which
the designers re-equipped the machine with a 50-mm KwK 39 L / 60 gun (60 calibers versus 42) with a longer barrel, which made it possible to increase the muzzle velocity of the projectile.

German staff car with a French flag on the hood, abandoned on the coast of France.

The photographs were taken on May 8, 1945 during the retreat of the 6th Wehrmacht Infantry Division in the Neustadt area near Tafelfichte in the Ore Mountains (Bohemia, modern Nové Město pod Smrkem, Czechoslovakia) and the Giant Mountains (Riesengebirge, Silesia, Czechoslovakia).

The photos were taken by a German soldier who still had Agfa color film in his camera. Retreating soldiers at rest. The emblem of the 6th Infantry Division is visible on the cart.

Adolf Hitler and German officers walking their dogs at Rastenburg headquarters. Winter 1942-1943.

German dive bombers Junkers Yu-87 (Ju.87B-1) in flight over the English Channel.

Soviet captured soldiers butcher a horse for meat in a village in the Kursk region.

Adolf Hitler takes the parade of German troops in Warsaw in honor of the victory over Poland. On the podium are Hitler, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, Lieutenant General Friedrich von Kohenhausen, Colonel General Gerd von Rundstedt, Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, General Johannes Blaskowitz and General Albert Kesselring and others. German Horch-830R Kfz.16/1 vehicles are passing in the foreground.

German soldiers at the wrecked Soviet T-34 tank in the village of Verkhne-Kumsky

Oberfeldwebel of the Luftwaffe gives a coin to a gypsy girl on the island of Crete.

A German soldier inspects a Polish PZL.23 Karas bomber at the Okentse airfield

Destroyed bridge across the river Seim in Lgov, Kursk region. In the background is the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Parts of the Koll tank brigade (Panzer Brigade Koll) enter the Soviet village near Vyazma. The column consists of Pz.35(t) tanks.

German soldiers are sorting out letters - they are looking for items addressed to them.

German soldiers at their dugout listening to their comrade play the accordion during a lull during the fighting in the Belgorod region

German dive bombers Junkers Ju-87 (Ju.87D) from the 7th Squadron of the 1st Dive Bomber Squadron (7. StG1) before taking off on the Eastern Front.

A column of German vehicles of the Koll tank brigade (Panzer Brigade Koll) moves along the road near Vyazma. In the foreground is the command tank Pz. BefWg. III brigade commander Colonel Richard Koll. Phänomen Granit 25H ambulances are visible behind the tank. On the side of the road, towards the column is a group of Soviet prisoners of war.

A mechanized column of the 7th German Panzer Division (7. Panzer-Division) drives past a Soviet truck burning on the side of the road. In the foreground is the Pz.38(t) tank. Three Soviet prisoners of war are walking towards the column. Vyazma region.

German artillerymen are firing from the 210-mm Mrs.18 heavy field howitzer (21 cm Mörser 18) at the positions of the Soviet troops.

Oil leak from the engine of a German fighter Messerschmitt Bf.110C-5 from the 7th Squadron of the 2nd Training Squadron (7.(F)/LG 2). The picture was taken at the Greek airfield after the return of 7. (F) / LG 2 from a sortie to cover the landing on Crete.

Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, commander of Army Group South, and Panzer General Hermann Breith, commander of the 3rd Panzer Corps, at a meeting near the map of military operations before Operation Citadel.

Padded soviet tanks in a field near Stalingrad. Aerial photography from a German aircraft.

Polish prisoners of war captured during the Polish campaign of the Wehrmacht.

German soldiers at the assembly point, taken prisoner by the Allies during the Italian campaign.

German command tank Pz. BefWg. III from the Koll tank brigade (Panzer Brigade Koll) in a village near Vyazma. In the hatch of the tank turret - brigade commander Colonel Richard Koll.

A selection of photos from the thematic resource Waralbum.ru, which has collected on its pages a lot of amazing and high-quality images of the Second World War.

1. Bound Jews guarded by Lithuanian auxiliary guards. 1941

2. A column of Jewish women and children under the escort of the Lithuanian "self-defense".

Shooting time: 1941
Location: Lithuania, USSR

3. Jewish residents of the city of Siauliai before being sent to execution near the Kuzhiai station.

Shooting time: July 1941
Location: Lithuania, USSR

4. The famous photograph of the execution of the last Jew of Vinnitsa, taken by an officer of the German Einsatzgruppe, which was engaged in the execution of persons subject to destruction (primarily Jews). The title of the photo was written on its back.

Vinnitsa was occupied by German troops on July 19, 1941. Some of the Jews living in the city managed to evacuate. The remaining Jewish population was imprisoned in the ghetto. On July 28, 1941, 146 Jews were shot in the city. In August, the shootings resumed. On September 22, 1941, most of the prisoners of the Vinnitsa ghetto were destroyed (about 28,000 people). Craftsmen, workers and technicians, whose work was necessary for the German occupation authorities, were left alive.

5. Sending Slovak Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Shooting time: March 1942
Location: Poprad station, Slovakia

6. Rabbis in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

7 Jewish rabbis in the Warsaw ghetto

8. SS soldiers guard a column of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw ghetto. Liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto after the uprising.

Photo from Jurgen Stroop's report to Heinrich Himmler in May 1943. The German original headline reads: "Forcibly pushed out of the shelter." One of the most famous photographs from World War II.

9. Fay Shulman with Soviet partisans in the forest. Faye Shulman was born in large family November 28, 1919 in Poland. On August 14, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the Lenin ghetto, including Fay's parents, sister, and younger brother. They spared only 26 people, including Faye. Faye later escaped into the woods and joined a partisan group composed primarily of escaped Soviet prisoners of war.

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10. Line of prisoners of war of the Red Army.

1941
The propagandist caption to the photograph read: “Among the captured Soviet soldiers, there is a woman - even she stopped resisting. This is a “woman-soldier” and at the same time a Soviet commissar, who forced the Soviet soldiers to fiercely resist to the last bullet.

11. German patrol is caught disguised Soviet soldiers. Kyiv, September 1941

Shooting time: September 1941
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR

12. Killed Soviet prisoners of war on the streets of Kyiv. One of them is dressed in a tunic and riding breeches, the other is in underwear. Both are barefoot, bare feet in the mud - they walked barefoot. The dead have emaciated faces. Eyewitnesses recall that when the prisoners were driven through the streets of Kiev, the escorts shot those who could not walk.

The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kyiv by German military photographer Johannes Höhle, who served in the 637th propaganda company, which was part of the 6th German army who captured the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.

13. Soviet prisoners of war, under the supervision of the SS, cover with earth the section of Babi Yar, where the executed lie. The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kyiv by German military photographer Johannes Höhle, who served in the 637th propaganda company, which was part of the 6th German army that captured the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.

Babi Yar is a tract in Kyiv, which received notoriety as a place mass executions the civilian population and prisoners of war carried out by the German occupation forces. 752 patients were shot here psychiatric hospital them. Ivan Pavlov, at least 40 thousand Jews, about 100 sailors of the Dnieper detachment of the Pinsk military flotilla, arrested partisans, political workers, underground workers, NKVD workers, 621 members of the OUN (A. Melnik’s faction), at least five gypsy camps. According to various estimates, from 70,000 to 200,000 people were shot at Babi Yar in 1941-1943.

Half-covered trees and bushes at the bottom testify that the slopes of the ravine were blown up. Some of the prisoners are in civilian clothes. These are probably those who managed to change clothes, escaping from captivity, but were identified. Along the edges of the yard are SS guards, with rifles on their shoulders, with helmets on their belts.

14. Soviet soldiers who were captured near Vyazma. October 1941.

Shooting time: October 1941

15. Captured Soviet Colonel. Barvenkovsky boiler. May 1942.

In the area of ​​the city of Barvenkovo, Kharkov region, at the end of May 1942, the 6th and 57th Soviet armies. As a result of an unsuccessful offensive, 170 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army were killed and captured, including the commander of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General A. Gorodnyansky, and the commander of the 57th Army, Lieutenant General K. Podlas.

Shooting time: May 1942

16. A captured Red Army soldier showing the Germans commissars and communists.

17. POWs of the Red Army in the camp.

18. Soviet prisoners of war. In the center are two wounded.

19. German guard gives his dogs to play with the "live toy".

20. Soviet workers in forced labor at a mining enterprise in Boyten (Upper Silesia) during a break.

Shooting time: 1943
Location: Germany

21. Captured Red Army soldiers at work in winter.

22. Captive Lieutenant General A.A. Vlasov, the future head of the Russian Liberation Army, being interrogated by Colonel General Lindemann after surrendering to German captivity. August 1942

Shooting time: August 1942

23. Soviet prisoners of war with German officers in Germany. Disposal of unexploded bombs.

24. A Soviet prisoner of war, after the complete liberation of the Buchenwald camp by American troops, points to a former guard who brutally beat the prisoners.

Shooting time: 04/14/1945

25. A US Army doctor examines a Soviet forced laborer with tuberculosis. He was driven away for forced labor in Germany at the coal mines in the city of Dortmund.

Shooting time: 04/30/1945

26. Soviet child next to the murdered mother. Concentration camp for the civilian population "Ozarichi". Belarus, the town of Ozarichi, Domanovichsky district, Polesye region. March 1944

Shooting time: March 1944

27. Released children from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Shooting time: January 1945

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28. Captured German soldiers in Leningrad.

Shooting time: 1942
Location: Leningrad

29. The French from the SS and Wehrmacht units in front of General Leclerc from the Free French

French prisoners from the SS and Wehrmacht units in front of General Leclerc, commander of the 2nd Free French Armored Division.

The prisoners behaved with dignity and even defiantly. When General Leclerc called them traitors and said: "How could you French wear someone else's uniform?" one of them replied: "You yourself wear someone else's uniform - American!" (the division was equipped by the Americans). They say this angered Leclerc, and he ordered the prisoners to be shot.

30. German prisoners of war in line for the issuance of food. South of France.

Shooting time: September 1944
Location: France

31. German prisoners of war are being escorted to the Majdanek concentration camp. In front of the prisoners, the remains of the prisoners of the death camp lie on the ground, and the crematorium ovens are also visible. Outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin.

Shooting time: 1944
Location: Lublin, Poland

32. The return of German prisoners of war from Soviet captivity. The Germans arrived at the Friedland border transit camp.

Friedland.
Shooting time: 1955
Location: Friedland, Germany

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33. Captured young German soldiers from the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" under the escort of the military police of the 3rd US Army. These guys were taken prisoner in December 1944 during the Allied operation in the Ardennes.

Shooting time: 01/07/1945

34. Fifteen-year-old German anti-aircraft gunner from the Hitler Youth - Hans Georg Henke (Hans Georg Henke), captured by soldiers of the 9th US Army in the city of Giessen, Germany.

Shooting time: 03/29/1945
Location: Giessen, Germany

35. Fourteen-year-old German teenagers, soldiers from the Hitler Youth, taken prisoner by units of the 3rd US Army in April 1945. Berstadt, province of Hesse, Germany.

Shooting time: April 1945
Location: Berstadt, Germany

36. Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery awards young members of the Hitler Youth. This is one of the last photographs of Hitler. In the center, awarded with iron crosses of the 2nd class, young natives of Silesia: second from right - 12-year-old Alfred Czech, third from right - 16-year-old Willy Hubner (Wilhelm Hubner), the latter is also known from a photograph with Dr. Goebbels in Lauban.

Shooting time: 03/23/1945

37. Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery awards young members of the Hitler Youth.

38. A boy from the Hitler Youth armed with a Panzerfaust grenade launcher. The so-called "Last Hope of the Third Reich".

39. Sergeant Francis Daggertt with a German soldier, the soldier is only 15 years old. Such in the German city of Kronach caught a dozen and a half.

Shooting time: Kronach, Germany
Location: 04/27/1945

40. A column of prisoners on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground, "Germany's last hope" are boys from the Hitler Youth and the Volkssturm.

Shooting time: May 1945

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41. Soviet children clean the boots of German soldiers. Bialystok, November 1942

Shooting time: November 1942
Location: Bialystok, Belarus, USSR

42. 13-year-old partisan scout Fedya Moshchev. The author's annotation to the photo - "They found a German rifle for the boy"; it's probably a standard Mauser 98K with the stock cut off to make it easier for the boy to handle.

Shooting time: October 1942

43. The commander of the rifle battalion, Major V. Romanenko (center) tells the Yugoslav partisans and residents of the village of Starchevo (near Belgrade) about the military affairs of the young intelligence officer - corporal Vitya Zhayvoronka. Back in 1941, near the city of Nikolaev, Vitya joined a partisan detachment, in 1943 he voluntarily joined one of the units of the Red Army that stormed Dnepropetrovsk, for participating in battles with the Nazis on Yugoslav soil awarded the order Red Star. 2nd Ukrainian Front.

Stars. 2nd Ukrainian Front.
Shooting time: October 1944
Location: Starčevo, Yugoslavia

44. Young partisan Pyotr Gurko from the detachment "For the power of the Soviets." Pskov-Novgorod partisan zone.

Shooting time: 1942

45. The commander of a partisan detachment presents the medal "For Courage" to a young partisan scout. The fighter is armed with a 7.62 mm Mosin rifle.

Shooting time: 1942

46. ​​Soviet teenage partisan Kolya Lyubichev from partisan formation A.F. Fedorov with a captured German 9mm MP-38 submachine gun in a winter forest.

Nikolai Lyubichev survived the war and lived to a ripe old age.
Shooting time: 1943

47. Portrait of 15-year-old reconnaissance partisan Misha Petrov from the Stalin Detachment with a captured German 9mm MP-38 submachine gun. The fighter is girded with a Wehrmacht soldier's belt, behind the boot is a Soviet anti-personnel grenade RGD-33.

Shooting time: 1943
Location: Belarus, USSR

48. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky with comrades in Berlin.

Shooting time: May 1945
Location: Berlin, Germany

49. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky with comrades in Berlin

Lieutenant (?) Nikolai Rubin, senior lieutenant Grigory Lobarchuk, corporal Volodya Tarnovsky and senior sergeant Nikolai Dementiev.

50. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky puts an autograph on the column of the Reichstag

The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky puts his autograph on the column of the Reichstag. He wrote: "Seversky Donets - Berlin", and signed - for himself, the regiment commander and his brother-soldier, who supported him from below: "Artillerymen Doroshenko, Tarnovsky and Sumtsov."

51. Son of the regiment.

52. Sergeant S. Weinshenker and Technician Sergeant William Topps with the son of Regiment 169 Air Base special purpose. Name unknown, age - 10 years old, served as an assistant to a weapons technician. Poltava airfield.

Shooting time: 1944
Location: Poltava, Ukraine, USSR