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

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.