Flak Tower 'Zoo', Berlin.The amount of bombs that Allies dropped over and around this building was staggering !! Still standing after all those years.
taken from fb/Gerard Horgan

Flak Tower 'Zoo', Berlin.

Parisiennes celebrate their liberation, 1944, waving US and French flags on a grand boulevard.  Note that the "Stars and Stripes" is an improvised, home-made version.  One suspects that this flag was in inadequate supply in Paris at the time .... JR.

La Liberation ! Paris, 1944.

Comrades of a Women's Labor Battalion dig in (into an enormous antitank ditch), before Moscow, 1941.  The initial, rather chaotic Soviet mobilization swept just about the entire male population of primary military age (other than Commissars and policemen, I suppose), leaving valuable defense tasks almost entirely to women, old men and children in the early days of the "Great Patriotic War".  Best regards, JR.