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Soviet tanks BT-5 in the fall of tactical maneuvers in 1939.
Soviet tank gunner looks out the hatch of his tank during the Battle of Berlin. (April, 1945.)
A German soldier with a grenade and 7 92-mm machine gun MG-34 in the near Eagle
Chief of Staff of the 6th Infantry Corps of the Red Army, Major-General Boris Stefanovic Richter in German captivity.
Caught Richter agreed to cooperate with the enemy, he worked in Abwehr intelligence school in Warsaw and Vaygelsdorfe under pseudonyms - ore and Musin.
The body of a German soldier from the bunker on the coast of Normandy in the landing of Utah.
Destruction of the Soviet tank.1941g.
Hauptmann Friedrich Winkler (Friedrich Konrad Winkler) (center) poses the problem of the soldiers fighting the 305th Infantry Division in the area of Stalingrad factory "Barricades". First left is armed with captured Soviet gun PPSh-41. It is worth noting broken "infantry assault badge" on his chest Hauptmann.
In February 1943, Hauptmann (captain) Winkler was captured and died shortly afterwards in a POW camp in Beketovke.
Captive Lieutenant-artelerist Red Army ... (battles for Leningrad)
Guard Sergeant Ilya Amelin from the 15th Guards Rifle Division captured a German grenade "Panzerfaust". 1st Ukrainian Front.
From premium leaf: "18 March 1945, Comrade Ameline took German jet gun and the third shot set fire to one of the two German self-propelled guns at the village niklasdorf, Silesia».
Portrait of the navigator of the 40th Long-Range Aviation Division (ADD) Major Vasily Malygin (1905-1976).
Vasily Malygin in the Red Army in 1927, in 1932 at his own request transferred to the Air Force. In 1933 he graduated from the Orenburg Pilot School observer, in 1934 - the courses navigators.
Member of the Soviet-Finnish War, the Great Patriotic War - from June 1941. By September 1941, he made 8 sorties, of which four - the bombing of Berlin. September 16, 1941 decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Major VI Malygina was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Petrovich Gavrilov, lieutenant, deputy commander of Squadron 2 568 Attack Aviation Regiment. He was shot down and disappeared without a trace in 1942. 68 years later, the lieutenant Gavrilov and Il-2, has fallen into the swamp, searchers found the group "Demyansk».
During the April 30, 1942 at the front of something significant has happened. For April 30, parts of our aircraft destroyed or damaged 95 German vehicles carrying troops and cargo, 12 guns, 7 mortars, anti-aircraft machine-gun 5 points Exploded several warehouses with ammunition, dispersed and partly destroyed and two companies of infantry of the enemy. For April 30, destroyed 38 German aircraft. Our losses - 9 aircraft.
From the reports of the Soviet Information
Our combat losses that day were legendary Il-2. In the cockpit of one of these single machines he went to his last sortie Mikhail Petrovich Gavrilov, lieutenant, deputy commander of Squadron 2 568 Attack Aviation Regiment. And lost ...
In 1942, Lieutenant Gavrilov was already an experienced pilot. He had the account for at least 27 sorties, 20 of which were strafing manpower, tanks, artillery and enemy airfields. According to incomplete, but vindicated escort fighters and ground units data, he destroyed 6 tanks, 45 vehicles carrying troops and cargo, 10 artillery pieces, anti-aircraft artillery battery 4, 12-15 fortified points and more than 500 Nazis. Once again I emphasize that the data confirmed, but incomplete.
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Soviet tank gunner looks out the hatch of his tank during the Battle of Berlin. (April, 1945.)
A German soldier with a grenade and 7 92-mm machine gun MG-34 in the near Eagle
Chief of Staff of the 6th Infantry Corps of the Red Army, Major-General Boris Stefanovic Richter in German captivity.
Caught Richter agreed to cooperate with the enemy, he worked in Abwehr intelligence school in Warsaw and Vaygelsdorfe under pseudonyms - ore and Musin.
The body of a German soldier from the bunker on the coast of Normandy in the landing of Utah.
Destruction of the Soviet tank.1941g.
Hauptmann Friedrich Winkler (Friedrich Konrad Winkler) (center) poses the problem of the soldiers fighting the 305th Infantry Division in the area of Stalingrad factory "Barricades". First left is armed with captured Soviet gun PPSh-41. It is worth noting broken "infantry assault badge" on his chest Hauptmann.
In February 1943, Hauptmann (captain) Winkler was captured and died shortly afterwards in a POW camp in Beketovke.
Captive Lieutenant-artelerist Red Army ... (battles for Leningrad)
Guard Sergeant Ilya Amelin from the 15th Guards Rifle Division captured a German grenade "Panzerfaust". 1st Ukrainian Front.
From premium leaf: "18 March 1945, Comrade Ameline took German jet gun and the third shot set fire to one of the two German self-propelled guns at the village niklasdorf, Silesia».
Portrait of the navigator of the 40th Long-Range Aviation Division (ADD) Major Vasily Malygin (1905-1976).
Vasily Malygin in the Red Army in 1927, in 1932 at his own request transferred to the Air Force. In 1933 he graduated from the Orenburg Pilot School observer, in 1934 - the courses navigators.
Member of the Soviet-Finnish War, the Great Patriotic War - from June 1941. By September 1941, he made 8 sorties, of which four - the bombing of Berlin. September 16, 1941 decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Major VI Malygina was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Petrovich Gavrilov, lieutenant, deputy commander of Squadron 2 568 Attack Aviation Regiment. He was shot down and disappeared without a trace in 1942. 68 years later, the lieutenant Gavrilov and Il-2, has fallen into the swamp, searchers found the group "Demyansk».
During the April 30, 1942 at the front of something significant has happened. For April 30, parts of our aircraft destroyed or damaged 95 German vehicles carrying troops and cargo, 12 guns, 7 mortars, anti-aircraft machine-gun 5 points Exploded several warehouses with ammunition, dispersed and partly destroyed and two companies of infantry of the enemy. For April 30, destroyed 38 German aircraft. Our losses - 9 aircraft.
From the reports of the Soviet Information
Our combat losses that day were legendary Il-2. In the cockpit of one of these single machines he went to his last sortie Mikhail Petrovich Gavrilov, lieutenant, deputy commander of Squadron 2 568 Attack Aviation Regiment. And lost ...
In 1942, Lieutenant Gavrilov was already an experienced pilot. He had the account for at least 27 sorties, 20 of which were strafing manpower, tanks, artillery and enemy airfields. According to incomplete, but vindicated escort fighters and ground units data, he destroyed 6 tanks, 45 vehicles carrying troops and cargo, 10 artillery pieces, anti-aircraft artillery battery 4, 12-15 fortified points and more than 500 Nazis. Once again I emphasize that the data confirmed, but incomplete.
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