The beginning of the battle for Stalingrad,the first bombings - Soviet Anti-Aircraft are put in position to fire on German planes

The Beginning 

Heavy German shelling,photo taken by Soviet photographer 

Stalingrad Autumn 42

General Malinovsky's Soviet armies reaching the eastern outskirts of Budapest by December, 1944, consisted of infantry, tank, artillery, and even cavalry units.  The opposing German forces were composed of  both Heer and Waffen SS divisions, while the Hungarians  were a mixture of  regular Honved units, auxiliary formations, and Arrow-Cross volunteers. Here Soviet infantry, dismounting from T-34 tanks,  moves into action in the vicinity of Budapest in the fall of 1944.