Photos from the Second World War. Photo chronicle of the Great Patriotic War
A series of documentary photographs for Victory Day in the Second World War 1941-1945. A selection of 95 rare photographs of military equipment and participants in the Second World War. A unique photo from the scenes of events of 1941-1945, military actions in the history of black and white photography. We look at online documentary photos of the Second World War 1941-1945.
German self-propelled gun "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.
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Junior Sergeant Konstantin Aleksandrovich Shuty (06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shuty, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.
Junior sergeant, mortarman - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kiev. 1st Ukrainian Front.
A US 5th Division Marine killed by a Japanese sniper, shot in the head (a bullet hole is visible on his helmet).
Sailors of the Soviet destroyer Project 7 “Crushing” with the ship’s pet, area of the bow torpedo tubes, bow view.
The German dive bomber Junkers Ju-87 "Stuka" being repaired at a field airfield.
The beginning of a counterattack by one of the units of the 270th Rifle Division of the Soviet 7th Guards Army on the Kursk Bulge.
The head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front, Major General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center), the future leader of the USSR in 1964-1982, during the Victory Parade.
Head of Communications of the 51st MTAP V.V. Bykov instructs gunners-radio operators before the flight Kolberg (Germany) - Pernov (Estonia). From left to right Mikhalev, Karpov, Archakov, Shishkin, Volkov, Chekanov, Bykov.
Unknown partisans of the 1st Proletarian Brigade of the NOAU, armed with Czech light machine guns ZB vz. 26. The village of Zharkovo near Belgrade on the eve of the battles for the city.
Unidentified Soviet female snipers near the dugout. They are wearing sergeant's shoulder straps and holding a Mosin rifle with a PU optical sight (Short Sight).
An unknown American soldier of the US 87th Infantry Division, killed by a German sniper in the spring of 1945 in the city of Koblenz, Germany. The soldier's weapon is the BAR automatic rifle.
The German 105-mm self-propelled gun "Wespe" (Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe) from the 74th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 2nd tank division of the Wehrmacht, passes next to an abandoned Soviet 76-mm ZIS-3 gun in the area of the city of Orel.
German self-propelled gun "Vespe" after being hit by a large-caliber projectile.
German self-propelled gun "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.
German self-propelled gun "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.
German self-propelled gun Marder II in an ambush, between houses, in a Ukrainian village.
German quad 20-mm anti-aircraft self-propelled gun (ZSU) "Werbelwind" based on the Pz.Kpfw tank. IV, destroyed by a direct hit from a large-caliber shell.
German rangers at an MG-34 machine gun on the Eastern Front.
German officers captured by French soldiers during the liberation of Paris. Hotel Majestic, favored by the Wehrmacht during the occupation.
German infantrymen and tank crews select bottles of alcoholic drinks in a warehouse.
German soldiers in a captured Soviet T-34 tank. The car is ready to be sent to Germany for testing. On the front sheet the inscription “O.K.H.Wa. Prvf. 6" (military acceptance 6).
German soldiers inspect the captured positions of Soviet troops.
Friends and readers of the site about the most interesting facts in the world is approaching 70th anniversary of the victory V . In 2011, it was published on our portal A series of rare photographs dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. This year we decided to supplement this series with several dozen, and maybe hundreds of interesting photographs taken during the war. In this article we publish 37 rare photographs.
Lieutenant Sergei Vasilyevich Achkasov (1919 - 03/14/1943), which carried out two air rams on the Voronezh front, against a MiG-3 fighter.
Lieutenants Pyotr Andreevich Adkin (far right) and Alexander Andreevich Guivik (second from left) with colleagues.
Leonid Utesov on the wing of a La-5F fighter, built with funds from his ensemble “Jolly Fellows”. The moment the vehicle was handed over to the troops.
Flying boat PBY-5A "Catalina" (PBY-5A Catalina) US Coast Guard for repairs in a frozen bay on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Pilot Boris Eremin on a Yak-1B fighter with a dedicatory inscription “To the pilot of the Stalingrad Front of the Guard, Major Eremin, from the collective farmer of the Stakhanovets collective farm, comrade. Holovaty."
Pilot Semyon Sibirin congratulates his French colleague Albert Littolf on another victory.
Pilots of the separate aviation squadron "Normandy" and the 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment near the Yak-1B aircraft.
Aces pilots of the 9th Guards Aviation Division from the Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter G.A. Rechkalova.
Battleship Arizona (USS Arizona), sunk by Japanese aircraft on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
A London boy on the ruins of his house, where his parents died after being hit by a German V-2 rocket.
A boy of about seven years old at the site of the last battle, near the exploded Soviet T-34-85 tank. Two more of the same tanks are visible behind.
Maria Dementyevna Kucheryavaya, born in 1918, medical lieutenant. At the front from June 22, 1941. In September 1941, during the fighting on the Crimean Peninsula, she received a shell shock.
Maria Dolina, Hero of the Soviet Union, Guard captain, deputy squadron commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Division.
Maria Timofeevna Shalneva (Nenakhova), a corporal of the 87th separate road maintenance battalion, regulates the movement of military equipment near the Reichstag in Berlin.
March of captured Germans across Moscow - ahead of thousands of columns of soldiers and officers are a group of 19 German generals.
Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov and General D. Eisenhower in Leningrad. D. Eisenhower's visit to Moscow and Leningrad took place in mid-August 1945 after the personal invitation of G. K. Zhukov.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov photographed outdoors.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev(1897-1973) and American General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) at a meeting in April 1945.
Marshal of the Soviet Union, commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, getting out of the car on the street of Budapest, receives a report from a subordinate.
A medic from the 48th Medical Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, bandages a wounded German soldier.
Less than six months later, during the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad, this army would be surrounded and defeated. On February 2, 1943, the 6th Army surrendered.
Mikhail Egorov and Meliton Kantaria come with a banner to the roof of the Reichstag. Although this was not the first red banner installed on the Reichstag, it was the one that became the Victory Banner.
Japanese Intelligence Junior Lieutenant Hiro Onoda surrenders to Philippine authorities.
Junior Sergeant Konstantin Aleksandrovich Shuty(06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shutoy, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.
Junior sergeant, mortarman - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kyiv. 1st Ukrainian Front.
The grave of an American pilot made from 12.7 mm caliber cartridges from the machine guns of his P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. The grave was made on August 8, 1944 by a French refugee couple.
The grave of Soviet soldiers (judging by the three Soviet helmets) and the Maxim machine gun. In the background you can see more than a dozen graves - already German (the helmets on the posts are German).
A series of documentary photographs for Victory Day in the Second World War 1941-1945. A selection of 95 rare photographs of military equipment and participants in the Second World War. A unique photo from the scenes of events of 1941-1945, military actions in the history of black and white photography. We look at online documentary photos of the Second World War 1941-1945.
German self-propelled gun "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.
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Junior Sergeant Konstantin Aleksandrovich Shuty (06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shuty, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.
Junior sergeant, mortarman - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kiev. 1st Ukrainian Front.
A US 5th Division Marine killed by a Japanese sniper, shot in the head (a bullet hole is visible on his helmet).
Sailors of the Soviet destroyer Project 7 “Crushing” with the ship’s pet, area of the bow torpedo tubes, bow view.
The German dive bomber Junkers Ju-87 "Stuka" being repaired at a field airfield.
The beginning of a counterattack by one of the units of the 270th Rifle Division of the Soviet 7th Guards Army on the Kursk Bulge.
The head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front, Major General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center), the future leader of the USSR in 1964-1982, during the Victory Parade.
Head of Communications of the 51st MTAP V.V. Bykov instructs gunners-radio operators before the flight Kolberg (Germany) - Pernov (Estonia). From left to right Mikhalev, Karpov, Archakov, Shishkin, Volkov, Chekanov, Bykov.
Unknown partisans of the 1st Proletarian Brigade of the NOAU, armed with Czech light machine guns ZB vz. 26. The village of Zharkovo near Belgrade on the eve of the battles for the city.
Unidentified Soviet female snipers near the dugout. They are wearing sergeant's shoulder straps and holding a Mosin rifle with a PU optical sight (Short Sight).
An unknown American soldier of the US 87th Infantry Division, killed by a German sniper in the spring of 1945 in the city of Koblenz, Germany. The soldier's weapon is the BAR automatic rifle.
The German 105-mm self-propelled gun "Wespe" (Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe) from the 74th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 2nd tank division of the Wehrmacht, passes next to an abandoned Soviet 76-mm ZIS-3 gun in the area of the city of Orel.
German self-propelled gun "Vespe" after being hit by a large-caliber projectile.
German self-propelled gun "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.
German self-propelled gun "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.
German self-propelled gun Marder II in an ambush, between houses, in a Ukrainian village.
German quad 20-mm anti-aircraft self-propelled gun (ZSU) "Werbelwind" based on the Pz.Kpfw tank. IV, destroyed by a direct hit from a large-caliber shell.
German rangers at an MG-34 machine gun on the Eastern Front.
German officers captured by French soldiers during the liberation of Paris. Hotel Majestic, favored by the Wehrmacht during the occupation.
German infantrymen and tank crews select bottles of alcoholic drinks in a warehouse.
German soldiers in a captured Soviet T-34 tank. The car is ready to be sent to Germany for testing. On the front sheet the inscription “O.K.H.Wa. Prvf. 6" (military acceptance 6).
German soldiers inspect the captured positions of Soviet troops.
22.11.2016
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Wars should have no place in a civilized society, but they, large or small, are fought continuously. We have all seen many photographs from the Great Patriotic War. Photojournalists, risking their lives along with the military, were able to leave us a lot of evidence, thanks to which we can plunge into history...
Russian prisoners of war. Lithuania, Vilna, June 1941.
War correspondent. Summer, 1941.
But how many of us have seen military evidence from the other side? Are we interested in this? Are we ready to see how the invaders of our land perceived this war? Still, no matter how painful it may be to look at some of these photographs, studying them can provide a lot for understanding that page of our history.
Captured Russian officer. Summer, 1941
Soldiers on a landing boat. Summer, 1942
Prisoners during Operation Citadel. Summer, 1943
Motorized squad. Summer, 1943
SS officer. 1944
SS troops at rest. 1944
Rocket mortars. Summer, 1942
Tracked tractors and guns. March-April 1944.
German SS cavalry. July 16, 1941.
Column of Russian prisoners. July 1941
Tank officer. Summer 1941.
Tankers. Summer 1941.
Conversing soldiers. Summer 1941.
Himmler in Kharkov. 1942-1943
Himmler with officers. 1942-1943
Soldiers from the ditch fire from a grenade launcher. Summer 1941.
A column of German StuG III assault guns on the march to the Caucasus.
Column of Soviet prisoners of war. In the center there is a running soldier - perhaps trying to escape.
A column of tanks from the SS division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” near Kharkov. The third battle for Kharkov.
The commander of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, Standartenführer Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp with a fox terrier in the Kovel area.
The commander distributes cigarettes to his soldiers. Pomerania, late February 1945.
Red Army commander before execution. August-September 1941, Ukraine
Tankers examine the mark of a Soviet shell on the armor of their tank.
The commander of the Finnish squadron at the Utti airfield near the Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 fighter
German soldiers inspect the Soviet Ar-2 dive bomber shot down near Demyansk. A very rare car (only about 200 were produced).
German soldiers cross the state border of the USSR.
German soldiers pose against the backdrop of the French giant Char 2C tank.
Continuation of a series of documentary photographs dedicated to Victory Day in the Second World War 1941-1945. The WWII photo archive contains rare photographs with the participation of Soviet and German troops, military equipment from the Second World War, photos of bombers and fighters, unique photos from the scenes of the Great Patriotic War. Dedicated to the memory of participants and witnesses of hostilities, to the memory of those who spoke and did according to the principle “It’s better to die than to go back!”, to the memory of those who fought to the death and ran towards the whistling bullets. The Motherland remembers its Heroes, we remember and thank you for the Victory. Documentary photo of WWII 1941-1945 for viewing online.
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Continuation of a series of documentary photographs dedicated to Victory Day in the Second World War 1941-1945. The WWII photo archive contains rare photographs with the participation of Soviet and German troops, military equipment from the Second World War, photos of bombers and fighters, unique photos from the scenes of the Great Patriotic War. Dedicated to the memory of participants and witnesses of military actions, to the memory of those who spoke and did according to the principle ">
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“Kazakhstanis are fighting to the death.” The deceased gunner was replaced by the deputy commander of the artillery regiment for political affairs, Major N. Zhetsybaev
On May 1, Krebs arrived at the location of Soviet troops with the aim of involving the High Command in the negotiation process. On the same day the general shot himself
The 2nd Guards Rifle (future Taman) Division holds the defense in battles in the North Caucasus. For courage and military valor, the entire division's personnel were awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus"
The 2nd Guards Rifle Division storms the German Blue Line fortifications on the Taman Peninsula
On March 19, 1943, Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer (right) and other dignitaries arrived at the Rügenwald training ground, where they were presented with the super-heavy 800 mm Dora railway gun.
On August 25, 1942, Antonov, while carrying out a mission to cover the attack on a German airfield near Mozdok, was shot down
Soviet partisans with a Maxim machine gun in battle
Soldier of the 5th SS Viking Division Arhild Hamsun - son of the famous Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun - after being awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class
TBM-3 Avenger from VC-15, which fell into the water during an unsuccessful takeoff from the escort aircraft carrier Tulagi
A. Hitler in a carriage with Wehrmacht soldiers wounded during the invasion of Poland
Emergency landing of an American heavy bomber. Consolidated B-24M-5-FO Liberator
Australian pilot with a young kangaroo
Car "Horch-901" (Horch 901) of the headquarters of the 71st Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht on the road
Adolf Hitler and his generals celebrate Christmas in 1941
Adolf Hitler talking to Benito Mussolini (Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, 1883-1945) through a train window at Brennero station in Italy.
Actress V.V. Serova and war correspondent K.M. Simonov on the Leningrad Front
American movie star (German by birth), actress Marlene Dietrich surrounded by members of the US Women's Army Corps (WAC) in France
American extreme artillerymen
American military girls give a military salute to a Soviet traffic controller in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate
American pilots demonstrate the size of the hole in the wing of a B-17 bomber received during a raid on the German city of Ludwigshafen as a result of anti-aircraft fire
American pilots show the natives the F4U Corsair carrier-based fighter
American pilots are rescued from the TBF-1C Avenger torpedo bomber from squadron VT-26, which fell into the water during takeoff from the aircraft carrier USS Bataan.
American soldiers in a trench during shelling. The soldier in the foreground brings a cracker or biscuit to his mouth
American soldiers tend to a wounded German soldier
American soldiers dig out their comrade, buried as a result of a German bombing in an Italian city.
American soldiers with a bazooka grenade launcher and a burning German Panther tank, possibly shot down by them
American soldiers who came to the Tiergarten to exchange wristbands communicate with German girls. In the background is a group of Soviet soldiers
American transport aircraft C-54 "Skymaster" (Douglas C-54 Skymaster) at the Berlin Gatow airfield during the Potsdam Conference
American A-20 Havoc bomber attacks Japanese transport
American war correspondent Lee Miller takes a bath in Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment on the day of the latter's suicide
The American fighter Grumman F6F-5P “Hellcat” of fighter squadron VF-23 crashed when landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CLV-23) and was broken into two parts
American pilot Edwin King on the wing of his P-47 aircraft, covered with a layer of oil
A US Marine pets his dog, mortally wounded by a Japanese sniper on Bougainville Island (Solomon Islands)
American flamethrower tank M3 "Stuart" (flamethrower modification M3A1 with E5R2-M3 Flame-gun) fires on the island of Saipan (Mariana Islands)
The American carrier-based torpedo bomber TBF Avenger (Grumman TBF Avenger), damaged by enemy anti-aircraft fire, is landing
An American crew of a Browning M1919 machine gun fires at the enemy in the German city of Aachen
American F-5B reconnaissance aircraft (No. 42-67383) of the 8th reconnaissance squadron after an accident at Tadji airfeild in New Guinea
American M4A1 Sherman tank named "Honky-tonk" of the US 1st Armored Division, destroyed by explosion in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
American heavy bomber B-17G “Flying Fortress” (Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress), damaged over Germany
Americans inspect damaged German self-propelled guns "Hummel" and an armored personnel carrier from the SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"
Americans near a captured German attack aircraft Junkers Ju-87 (Ju-87G) at an airfield in Czechoslovakia
English ace Douglas Bader climbs into the cockpit of his Spitfire fighter using prosthetics.
An English soldier and a wounded German officer in North Africa. Photo taken during the British advance
Antoine Saint-Exupéry in the cockpit of his P-38 "Lightning" reconnaissance aircraft "No. 223"
Artillerymen fire from a German 75-mm PaK 40 anti-tank gun
Artillerymen of the Guard of Captain I. Bogomolov ford the Sheshupe River - the border with East Prussia
Artillerymen of the guard of Lieutenant Sofronov are fighting on Avaider Alley in Konigsberg (now Alley of the Brave)
Artillerymen from the Soviet 6th Tank Brigade inspect damaged German tanks. Southwestern Front
Artillerymen of one of the infantry regiments of the American 4th Infantry Division fire from a 105-mm M3 howitzer
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