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.

Defenders of the Motherland - Moscow, 1941.

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.

The result of a direct hit by a German bomb on St. Thomas' Hospital in London. In the background - the Houses of Parliament and the Big Ben.