Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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IS-2 and T-34/85 tanks in Berlin, 1945

 

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KV-I knocked out by 6th Pz Div, Lithuania, summer 1941

 

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SU-76M crossing a river, Poland, 1945

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Lieutenant and his helmet. It was not possible to establish the identity.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Tank landing on the march, 1941.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Transition of T38 amphibious tanks over a water barrier, June 1941

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Night attack of T-34-85 tanks near Razdelnaya station. Photographer Dmitry Baltermants. Ukrainian SSR. May 1944

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Large-caliber machine guns DShK, mounted on floating Ford GPA vehicles, support the crossing of the river by one of the separate motorized special forces battalions of the 1st Belorussian Front in 1944.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

The sniper of the 739th rifle regiment of the 163rd rifle division Semyon Danilovich Nomokonov (08/12/1900 - 07/15/1973) presents the rifle of his deceased partner Togon Sanzhievich Sanzhiev (1904 - 06/17/1942) to the sniper Boris Kaspolatovich Kanatov (1921 - 1948). August 2, 1942

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Checking documents at the entrance to the reception of the Soviet military commandant of Berlin. 1945 year.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Norwegian girls from the sabotage and reconnaissance group on the island of Sørøya, Northern Norway. The training of Norwegian saboteurs took place under the leadership of the Soviet command on the territory of the Murmansk region.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

NKVD naval border guard during tactical exercises. Probably Crimea, 1941.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Kolobanov Leningrad Tank Museum

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

The crew of the 45-mm gun is firing at Japanese positions. 1945

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

In 1944, a powerful and light airborne gun ChK-M1 with a caliber of 37 mm was created. The military liked the weapon, but the native wheels of the gun were only suitable for rolling over positions, and were no longer suitable for towing. A non-standard decision was made - to put the gun on the motorcycle. A Harley Davidson motorcycle was chosen as the vehicle and was preferred for its exceptional power. The result is a full-fledged self-propelled artillery installation - a moto-ACS. The motorcycle was not only a means of transporting a gun, the gun could fire on the move. The gun crew was equipped with two motorcycles for each gun. One housed a gun, gunner, loader and driver. On the second - the commander, the carrier of the shells and the driver. After the war, the ChK-M1 gun and, accordingly, the moto-self-propelled guns were abandoned in favor of light, low-ballistic recoilless guns with cumulative rounds and RPGs.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Girl from the Zhitomir partisans milks a cow in the forest. August 1943.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]