Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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Gleb Vladimirovich Baklanov (August 1, 1910 - January 16, 1976) - Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General. The brother of actress Olga Baklanova. In the Red Army since November 1932. Since June 1942, he commanded the 299th Infantry Division, which, as part of the 66th Army, participated in the Battle of Stalingrad. From May 1943 - commander of the 13th Guards Rifle Division. Participant of the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of the Dnieper, Umansko-Botoshansk and Lvov-Sandomierz offensive operations. Major General G.V. Baklanov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 29, 1945 for his skillful leadership of the troops in the battles for Dresden and displayed heroism. At the 1945 Victory Parade, he commanded the combined regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Front.

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Partial list of his awards -

• Hero of the Soviet Union
• Order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner (3)
• Order of Kutuzov, 1st class
• Order of Suvorov, 2nd class
• Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class
• Order of Alexander Nevsky
• Order of the Red Star
• Distinguished Service Cross (United States)
• Commander of the Legion of Merit
• Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945
  
  

 

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Gleb Vladimirovich Baklanov (August 1, 1910 - January 16, 1976) - Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General. The brother of actress Olga Baklanova. In the Red Army since November 1932. Since June 1942, he commanded the 299th Infantry Division, which, as part of the 66th Army, participated in the Battle of Stalingrad. From May 1943 - commander of the 13th Guards Rifle Division. Participant of the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of the Dnieper, Umansko-Botoshansk and Lvov-Sandomierz offensive operations. Major General G.V. Baklanov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 29, 1945 for his skillful leadership of the troops in the battles for Dresden and displayed heroism. At the 1945 Victory Parade, he commanded the combined regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Front.

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Looks like somewhere along the way he was awarded the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross on his left breast!! That's just below the MOH

 

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Soviet pilots play billiards with American servicemen. Alaska, 1944

 

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Red Army soldiers inspect the destroyed German Bf.109F2 fighter (from Squadron 3 / JG3). West of Kiev, July 1941

 

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Light tank M3 "Stuart" and the C-60 "Stalinets" tractor in the village Sinitsino. Kalinin front. 07/05/1942

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Early April 1945. In the forest near Kustrin.
From left to right: the chief of staff of the regiment N.V. Shirokiy, deputy regiment commander for political affairs L.A. Glushkov, regiment commander P.G. Mzhachih, deputy. regiment commander F.M. Frying, replacement of the regiment of N.P. Romanchenko.
On a tank in a cap - deputy. the chief of staff of the regiment I. German.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Commander of the Leningrad Front Colonel-General L.A. Govorov examines captured German guns.
In the foreground is the German Pak 36 (r) anti-tank gun, 1943.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet fighter pilot, Captain Pavel Kutakhov in early 1942

Future Chief Marshal of Aviation and Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force in 1969-1984.

Kutakhov was remembered not only by the fifteen-year-old command of the Air Force, which, moreover, fell during the period of the greatest leap in the technologies of domestic aviation, but also by the fact that, as commander-in-chief, he flew on modern fighters up to the age of sixty.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Romanian plane Henschel 129B-2 (German production), hit by Soviet anti-aircraft artillery fire. October 30, 1943

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Partisan V. Korolkov from the partisan unit S.A. Kovpak. March 1943.
I have an association with the main character of the film "Come and See" - a man without age.

 

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Soviet soldiers inspect the captured Finnish BT-42. July 1944

 

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The German column goes past the destroyed T-34 tank.

 

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The Soviet unit attacks with the support of the T-34 tank. Battle for Rzhev.

 

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Summer 1941.
Destroyed or abandoned Soviet tanks.

 

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The Red Army soldiers inspect the horseshoe on the StuH 42 armor.1943
Apparently, the talisman did not help.

 

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Stalingrad, autumn 1942.

Damaged KV-1 tank at the intersection of Krasnoznamenskaya and Sovetskaya streets.

 

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The Red Army soldiers inspect the horseshoe on the StuH 42 armor.1943
Apparently, the talisman did not help.

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The tradition in the UK and Ireland is the shoe should be upwards in a "U" shape to hold the luck in, in the case of the supermench the luck fell out!!

 

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Soviet radiomen near blindage, 1941.

 

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Soviet radiomen near blindage, 1941.
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On the right is a civilian tourist backpack? Or a trophy?