Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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A Soviet Hawker Hurricane down, Finland, 1942

 

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SU-76M self-propelled gun from the Bryansk Front crosses the Drissa River near a destroyed bridge

 

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Miscellaneous pics from the Battle of Kursk

 

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BT-7 tank knocked out in someone's living room in 1941

BT-7 along with a pair of T-34/76 tanks abandoned in 1941

 

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Captain 1st rank speaks to the crew of a Soviet submarine, 1943

 

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Modified T-34 without a gun used as a radio tank in service with the 16th Tank Brigade, 1944

 

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Red Army soldier Yevgeniy Dolmatovasky holding a bust of Adolf Hitler, 1945

 

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Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in 1945 after the Battle of Berlin. 1945

 

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A group of young Soviet troops from Uzbekistan drafted to serve the Red Army against Germany in Stalingrad. Sadly, none of them had survived (1942)

 

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July 1938, an order was given to make good use of the Red Army's many obsolete tanks by digging them in as static emplacements. The tanks would be equipped with either 45 mm cannons or machine gun ports. Many were not yet installed by the start of WW2

 

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T-34/76 burned out in Kharkov in 1942

 

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A pair of T-34/76 tanks knocked out in Ukraine in 1943

 

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German soldier peering through the driver's hatch of a burning T-34/76 on the Eastern Front in 1942

T-34/76 tank burned out in Kharkov in 1942

 

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Chief of Artillery Major-General Mashenin with his adjutant. Near Yelnya, 1941

 

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Fleets of Studebaker, Ford and Chevrolet cargo trucks near Moscow, USSR, supplied by the USA through Lend-Lease (1944)

 

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Soviet troops enter the liberated city of Harbin, in Manchuria, on August 21, 1945.

 

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Soviet troops crossing the Vistula river during the Lviv-Sandomir offensive, in August 1944.

 

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Artillerymen with 57mm gun ZiS-2 in Belgrade

 

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soldiers running through trenches in the ruins of Stalingrad, 1942.