Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

[SamWell]

Soviet partisans and rare Bordyukov-SMG

 

[BravoZulu]

Guard Lance Corporal N. Leontiev, 18yo who killed 15 enemies in his first battle, with a captured German MG-34 machine gun.

 

[BravoZulu]

Delivery of BT-5 tank "Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya" and other BT-5 and T-26 tanks from the "Irkutskiy Komsomolets" tank column, spring 1942

 

[BravoZulu]

SU-76M crew at rest en route to Berlin, April 1945

 

[BravoZulu]

Polish civilians in Łódź greet an ISU-122 crew and its riders

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Heroes of the Soviet Union, portraits.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

The column of the Soviet infantry unit on the march.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Filimonov Nikolai Alexandrovich, captain. Northwestern Front. 1941

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Medical instructors of the Soviet 17th Tank Regiment of the 10th Mechanized Brigade at the T-70 tank on the Kalinin Front.

December 1942

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet tank crews are refining their combat mission near the captured Panzerjäger I self-propelled guns.
Presumably the 31st Army of the Western Front. The machine is equipped with a Soviet-made headlight.
August 1942

 

[BravoZulu]

Infantry dismounting from Valentine tanks before battle, Rzhev direction, 1942

 

[BravoZulu]

Captured Soviet female soldier, 1941. Captured female soldiers were treated even more harshly than Soviet male soldiers. Her life would have been short and terrible after this point

 

[NebrHogger]

Desperate fighting and close combat.

 

[NebrHogger]

Lend lease Harley with 37mm gun.

Guarding grain harvest in the Kuban 1943

 

[SamWell]

 

[NebrHogger]

I can't read the name but I'm pretty sure the plane is an La-7. Pilot is possibly Hero of the Soviet Union.

Fighter from earlier in the war - I-16 "Rata".

Tank crew taking a well earned break.

 

[BCNTM]

I can't read the name but I'm pretty sure the plane is an La-7. Pilot is possibly Hero of the Soviet Union.


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Fighter from earlier in the war - I-16 "Rata".
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Tank crew taking a well earned break.
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1st photo might be this guy

Aleksey Alelyukhin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[NebrHogger]

1st photo might be this guy

Aleksey Alelyukhin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That's consistent with what I can see painted on the plane. Thanks!

 

[BravoZulu]

Operation August Storm (Battle of Manchuria). A Soviet tank unit crossing the Great Khingan Mountain in Manchuria. August 1945.