General Sir Bernard Montgomery shows Prime Minister Winston Churchill the battle situation on a map held by the commander of II Canadian Corps, Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds, during Churchill's visit to Normandy, 22 July 1944. Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey, the commander of the British Second Army, looks on.

Battle situation map

 Vitéz (is a title given to members of the Hungarian Knightly Order) István Horthy de Nagybánya, Deputy Regent of Hungary, World War II fighter pilot. (1942) Killed in action in 20th August 1942.

Istvan Horthy, Son of the Regent

Scout radio operator, 1942

71st Aviation Regiment. Pilot Junior Lieutenant Viktor Pavlovich Sigalaev, 1942
Born 1922, died 07.01.1943
Photo by Kremnev

Pilot Junior Lieutenant Viktor Pavlovich Sigalaev, 1942

Patrol on the Gorky street near the telegraph building, Moscow, 1941 

Somewhere in Germany 1945

Berlin. Scouts, participants in the storming of the Reichstag. May 3, 1945. At the entrance to the Reichstag. Ahead is Zhorka. From the collection of N. Belyaev

Berlin, Reichstag, 03.05.1945

Moscow. N-sky plant. Examiner Baibakova checking 76-mm armor-piercing shells, 1941-1943

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Munition factory in Moscow

Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Szembek (left) greets Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop during a banquet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the center the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Józef Beck.

 
Opis obrazu: Wiceminister spraw zagranicznych Polski Jan Szembek (z lewej) wita się z ministrem Joachimem von Ribbentropem podczas rautu wydanego w MSZ. W środku widoczny minister spraw zagranicznych Józef Beck.

Data wydarzenia: 1939-01-25 - 1939-01-27
Miejsce: Warszawa

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Warsaw 1939

Warsaw, January 1939 | Варшава, январь 1939 г.
Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (left), accompanied by the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Józef Beck, leaves the train station in Warsaw.
Date of the event: 1939-01-25
Place: Warsaw

Opis obrazu: Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (z lewej) w towarzystwie ministra spraw zagranicznych Polski Józefa Becka opuszcza dworzec w Warszawie. Widoczne flagi ze swastykami, którymi udekorowano dworzec.
Data wydarzenia: 1939-01-25
Miejsce: Warszawa
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Warsaw, January 1939

Photo by Ivan Shagin

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River crossing, 1944

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Rufina Gasheva, Hero of the Soviet Union

1944

Unknown female soldier, Landing on Bornholm 1945

Mortar gunners

Vasily Martekhov was born on April 1, 1917 in the USA, Ohio, in the family of an emigrant miner from Russia. In 1921 the family returned to the homeland.

In the Red Army since 1939. In 1941 he graduated from the Kharkov Tank School. Since July 1941 he participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War. In September, he was seriously wounded, but soon returned to the front.

Participated in the battles at Stalingrad. At the station Morozovka, as part of a group of 5 tanks, broke into a German airfield and at point-blank range shot the enemy's aircrafts. November 19, 1942, his company after a quick attack was the first to break into the location of the enemy's defense. January 26, 1943, Marthekhov was the first in his tank to join the tankmen of the 62nd Army.

Participant of the battle on the Kursk Bulge near Belgorod. From July 5 to July 12, 1943, a tank company under his command in the Shebekinsky district of the Belgorod Region destroyed 3 tanks, 6 self-propelled artillery units, 3 mortars, 8 cannons and 300 enemy soldiers and officers.

Vasily Martekhov was killed in action on July 12, 1943 near the village of Voznesenovka, having ambushed and entered into battle with several enemy tanks. He was buried on the battlefield, later his ashes were transferred to a common grave in the village of Voznesenovka.

Vasily Martekhov destroyed 14 tanks, 22 guns, 19 mortars, 16 motor vehicles, 7 machine-gun points and over 800 enemy soldiers and officers.

Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Martekhov

Red Army soldiers near the German 150-mm heavy field howitzer (15 cm sFH 18), captured near Rzhev, 1942
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Rzhev 1942

Sniper

ZiK-37 

Stalingrad 1942

Photo by Raskin

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Dog sleds at the front, 1943

The artillery battery of Senior Lieutenant Koblev changes its firing position after shelling the enemy

Photo by Raskin

1943

Major General George Patton aboard the USS Augusta before Operation Torch, invasion of North Africa; November 1942. 

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