Soviet 82-mm mortar team is firing round after round at German Forces in Stalingrad; October 20, 1942.

Fighting the enemy in the ruins

 Soviet 50-mm company mortar, model 1940 during the battles in Stalingrad; December 18, 1942.

Light Infantry Mortar

Red Army soldiers on the march with horse-drawn 76-mm ZiS-3 divisional cannons. Presumably, the picture was taken during the Balaton operation in Hungary; March 1945.
The ZiS was a factory designation, that stood for "Zavod Imeni Stalina" (Plant named after Stalin), the honorific title of Artillery Factory No. 92, which first constructed this gun.

Relying on animal power

A column of armored vehicles of the 1st Ukrainian Front is moving along the road on the outskirts of Berlin. In the column are  ISU-152 self-propelled guns and T-34-85 tanks;  April, 1945.

Armored vehicles with firepower

Battery of 152-mm ML-20 howitzer-guns of the 1st Belorussian Front in position on the outskirts of Berlin; April, 1945.

Heavy artillery pieces

Two soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front examine the impact of artillery rounds on the captured bunkers of the German fortified area on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany; March, 1945.

Hardly made a dent

A Soviet 82-mm mortar team covers the advancing machine gunners northwest of Stalingrad; December 17, 1942.

Mortar helping machine gun

Soviet artillerymen fire from a 122mm A-19 corps field gun on a Danzig (German city  from 1939-45) street; March 1945.

Target - German Forces

Civilians in the city of Tula (south of Moscow) take up arms and prepare for a German assault. Many of the defenders were factory workers who, just hours earlier, had been making weapons for the Red Army; October 1941-January 1942.

From factory to battlefield

A wounded Russian soldier (probably a higher ranking officer/commander) being loaded onto a U-2 / Po-2 "Kukuruznik" ambulance plane by nurses, to be flown to a field hospital.

Combat wounded

Red Army soldiers with wind instruments abandoned by German troops during the retreat from the village of Demkino near Rzhev
23.08.1942

Central Front 1942

A wounded Soviet soldier is placed on a U-2/Po-2 ambulance plane (a modification of the U-2 plane for transporting the wounded), Eastern Front; 1942.

 

Airlift the seriously wounded

Third Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. Fighters take off on a combat mission. 1943

Fighters take off on a combat mission. 1943

Coastal defense of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. Fort "P". Lavensaari Island: Tank crew. Captain Zaslavsky's Marine Corps Detachment.

Lavensaari Island: Tank crew. 1942

Artillery crew of a Soviet 152-mm howitzer model 1910/37 makes the first shots at the Finnish troops at the border post; Soviet-Finnish War, November 30, 1939.

Soviet howitzer put into action

Soviet marines, Northern front 1942

A Red Army soldier appears to be casually watching - not guarding, (his weapon is just hanging off his back) - a group of Hungarian soldiers and officers on Kinizsi utca (street) in Budapest. February 1945.

Posing for a photo op

A Red Army soldier escorting a column of German soldiers captured near Moscow; December 29, 1941.

Smiling for the camera - he has the gun

Battery of Soviet 76-mm F-22 (USV) cannons on the Kalinin front; 1942-43.
  The Kalinin Front was a major formation of the Red Army active in the Eastern Front of World War II, named for the city of Kalinin.

Battery in position

A Red Army mobile 82mm Mortar on a Harley Davidson motorcycle.  It was an ingenious and effective mode of rapid firepower deployment...

Sidecar Mortar!

A battery of Soviet 122mm M-30 howitzers firing at the enemy (=Germans) in Budapest, Hungary; January 2, 1945.

Artillery action in the city

Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev (1897-1973), in the center of the picture, gives a horse to the American general Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981), in the picture, wearing a helmet.
General Bradley's reciprocal gift for Konev was a Willys army jeep; May 1945.



A jeep for a horse

Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev (1897-1973) and American General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) at a meeting in Germany; April 1945. 

Get-together of two Generals

Leningrad, 1943

Female Tank Repair Team
taken from fb/D.Del Moral

Repair shop

A Soviet non-com shakes hand with an American soldier, who with his comrade manning a Browning quad anti-aircraft machine gun in Torgau, a town on the Elbe river in Germany; April 1945.

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