 Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a marksman on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting moving enemy personnel and making doublets (two target hits by two rounds fired in quick succession). On 27 January 1945 Shanina was severely injured while shielding a wounded artillery officer. Despite attempts to save her, Shanina died the following day. 

Roza Shanina

T-34 crossing the Khandas-Gava River. 1945

Gun-crew of the Soviet 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K) is monitoring the air situation in Berlin 1945

Berlin 1945

Hadjimurza Mildzikhow - commander of the 177th separate reconnaissance company of the 163rd Infantry Division of the 34th Army of the North-Western Front, Sergeant, Ossetian.

WWII hero

Soviet alpines

Mikhail Koshkin young - Soviet tank designer, chief designer of the famous T-34 medium tank

Mikhail Koshkin

Female Captain in Medical Services of the Soviet army, 1945

Female Captain in Medical Services

Evdokia Pasko - a legendary woman-aviator from the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment ("Night Witches").
She went to the war from the 3rd year study at Moscow State University, Mechanic-Mathematic faculty. During the war years she made 800 sorties!
After the war she graduated Moscow University, became PhD in mathematics and taught for over forty years in the famous Bauman University. 
On December 30, The Hero of the Soviet Union Evdokia Pasko celebrated her 95-year anniversary.

Evdokia Pasko

Panzer 4 in Russland

Female pilots of the Aviation Regiment E. D. Bershanskaya after the award of the Committee of Soviet Women, among those present the Heroes of the Soviet Union R. S. Gasheva (2nd left), E. A. Zhigulenko, I. F. Sebrova and photographer Ya.N.Halip (3rd from left).

"Night witches"

German soldier WWII 

Pilots from No. 303 (“Kościuszko”) Polish Fighter Squadron with one of their Mk II Spitfires, resting from the strain of heavy fighting during the ‘Battle of Britain’ in the late summer of 1940.

(From left): Sgt Kustrzynski, Sgt Popek (KIA 1944), Sgt Szlagowski, F/O Feric (KIA 1942), P/O Daszewski (KIA 1942) and F/O Zumbach.

Poles

The Vinnitsa area of the Ukraine in November 1943. 

At the wheel is SS-Hauptsturmführer Gustav Knittel, the commander of the 1st SS Aufklärungs-Abteilung LSSAH. 

SS Leibstandarte

P-51 Mustang “Fools Paradise IV” of the 380th Fighter Squadron, 363rd Fighter Group, 9th USAAF at Maupertuis Airfield near Cherbourg in France. July/August 1944.

USAAF

M-29 Weasel of ‘C’Coy, 121st Combat Engineer Battalion, 29th US Infantry Division.
 
Notice the dense vegetation on this photo from Normandy, July 1944. Perfect for ambush.

US engineer

Rommel inspecting the 21.Panzer Division in Normandy on the 30th of May 1944.

Rommel

USAAF Capt. Dewey E. Newhart from the 350th Fighter Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group, 8th Air Force posing With his P-47 Thunderbolt.

He was killed in action on the 12th of June 1944 during a mission over Northern France.


Thunderbolt pilot

 Engins blindés allemand exposés en tant que trophées de guerre soviétiques sur Tiergarden park à Berlin  à partir de juin 1945.
Le Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B Kingtiger  n°101 appartenait à la Schwere  SS Panzer-Abteilung 503. Son combat à Berlin prend fin à proximité de la Posdammer Banhof. Il porte le  camouflage embuscade crée au printemps 1944  (parmi d’autres motifs) mais généralisé en novembre 1944 et effectué au sein de l’usine HENSCHEL.Cet engin parmi les derniers sortis d’usine est du modèle tardif avec en particulier la double fixation des jupes latérales sur les cotés avant.
A proximite ce trouve un Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. A.
C’est le tigre n°323 de la Schwere Panzer-Abteilung KUMMERSDORF, incorporée à la division MUNCHEBERG.Il serait l’un des derniers tigre à combattre à Berlin. Il sera abandonné le 1er Mai près de la porte de Brandebourg.



BERLIN 1945

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German WWII Soldier

Sniper Yevgenia Makeeva – 68 confirmed kills

Stalin

1st Squadron of the 15th Guards Ground Attack Aviation Regiment. Before the line - Squadron Guard Captain Alexander Manokhin (later Hero of the Soviet Union). Leningrad front, the airfield Kasimovo, Vsevolozhsk district, Leningrad Region, July 1944.

1st Squadron

Romanian Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 "RICA", interesting detail, on the wings upper surface the yellow bands of pre May 1941 markings are still present (underside seems completely repainted blue), on the left no. 23 of 7th Fighter Group. Karpovka, Stalingrad - November 1942

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