Interesting photo of two soldiers (maybe brothers ?), one still have the gym35 and the other the gym35 with shoulder straps for turning int into a gym43, picture taken the 12 December 1943.

Soviet soldiers winter 1945

Starshina of soviet airforce, intersting details about this picture in fact, first the jacket is made of US fabrics, also the cap has a simple iron star and you can different models of plastic buttons ... photo taken in 1945, written at the back : 

"On the long memory of my friend Boris.
Remember the front life.

From Michael Beresnev

City of Brno (Czech Republic)"

Starshina soviet airforce 1945

British Sherman tanks and 6-pounder anti-tank guns of the (British) 11th Armoured Division advancing through the small village of Saint-Charles-de-Perry in Calvados, Normandy, France; 2 August, 1944.