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

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