Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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Soviet and Mongolian soldiers inspect the Japanese Ki-21 bomber shot down over Mongolia. The year is 1939.

 

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Sergei Ivanovich Gritsevets (1909-1939) and Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Zabaluev (1907-1971) at the airfield on Khalkhin Gol. 1939
On the chest of V.M. Zabaluev Mongolian Order For Military Valor.

In an air battle on June 25, 1939, Zabaluev's plane was shot down, and the pilot landed by parachute in the territory occupied by the Japanese, but was rescued by Sergei Gritsevets, who landed his fighter next to the steppe and raised it together with Zabaluev in the air next to the Japanese soldiers.

 

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The commissar of the 22nd Aviation Regiment, senior political instructor Vladimir Nikolaevich Kalachev, near the I-153 "Chaika" fighter at the field airfield during the fighting on the Khalkhin-Gol River.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Kalachev (1910-1942) in the Red Army since 1932. After graduating from the Engels School of Military Pilots - in the 22nd IAP, junior pilot, flight commander, deputy squadron commander. In December 1938 he was appointed commissar of the regiment. From May 23 to September 16, 1939 he took part in battles with Japanese troops in the area of the Khalkhin-Gol river, in total during the conflict he conducted 20 air battles, personally shot down 6 enemy aircraft and 2 in a group with comrades. On August 29, 1939, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the Mongolian Order For Military Valor.

He took part in the campaign of the Red Army troops in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. In 1939 - 1941 he was the commissar of the 35th Aviation Regiment and the inspector for piloting techniques of the 72nd Aviation Division of the Transcaucasian Military District. From August 1941 he commanded the 17th Aviation Regiment of the Ural Military District. In 1942, Major V. N. Kalachev fought on the Bryansk Front as commander of the 15th Aviation Regiment. In air battles, personally shot down 4 enemy aircraft and 2 as part of a group. On June 28, 1942, in an air battle over his airfield near the village of Mokrets-Staro rammed an enemy plane and died.

 

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A photographer is taking pictures of a Soviet lieutenant, most likely for a party card or registration card for a new officer's rank. Khalkhin-Gol, 1939.

 

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A Red Army colonel examines a Japanese Type 97 20mm anti-tank rifle captured on the Khalkhin Gol River, August 21-30, 1939.

 

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A female soldier covers an overcoat on a wounded soldier lying on a stretcher next to the door of a camouflage transport plane as the wounded are loaded onto the plane. Transport planes were used to deliver wounded soldiers to the USSR for treatment.

 

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The headquarters of the forward command post of the Air Force of the 1st Army Group of the Red Army on the Khamar-Daba mountain. The photo shows a group of Soviet aviators in a yurt at a brightly lit table with field telephones. Some of the servicemen are in flight uniforms. Household items are visible on the table, above the table there is an electric lamp without a lampshade. The year is 1939.

 

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Soviet aviators and Marshal Khorlogiin Cholbaisan (1895-1952) at a reception at the Soviet embassy in Ulan Bator. The year is 1939.

In the photo: the far left is Major Grigory Panteleevich Kravchenko (1912-1943), the third from the left is the Deputy Chief of the Red Army Air Force Commander Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich (1902-1941), in the center is the USSR Ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic Ivan Alekseevich Ivanov (1906-1948), the second on the right - Major Sergei Ivanovich Gritsevets (1909-1939).

 

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The crew of a Soviet SB bomber at their plane at an airfield in Mongolia, 1939.

In the photo from left to right: pilot, senior political instructor K.S. Shvetsov, minder A.N. Kovalev, navigator senior lieutenant S. B. Isaev, gunner-radio operator A.Ya. Mylnikov, technician K.N. Balakin.

 

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Navigators of Soviet aircraft Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Dushkin (1905-1976) and Major Ivan Pryanishnikov at the Ulan Bator airfield, June 1939.

 

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An I-16 fighter of the 1st Squadron of the 70th Fighter Aviation Regiment that made an emergency landing in the Bain-Tumen area (now the city of Choibalsan). May 1, 1939.

 

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Soviet-Japanese conflict in the area of the Khalkhin-Gol river. Mongolia, July 1939.

The Red Army soldier is armed with a Simonov automatic rifle of the 1936 ABC-36 model.