Soviet artillery takes aim at a target on the Buda side of the Danube river, from the vicinity of the demolished Elizabeth bridge on the Pest side. Gellert Hill is visible in the background; Budapest, Hungary, January 1945.


Prepare to fire cannon

Soviet combat engineers (sappers) clear the road from land mines and barbed wires, as an American made (Studabaker US-6) truck drives by on the road next to them.

Clearing mines

Red Army soldiers inspect the captured Finnish artillery systems and small arms; Karelian Isthmus, north-western Russia, Winter War, 30 November 1939-13 March 1940.
   The weapons from left to right: M/09-21 machine gun, 37-mm anti-tank gun PstK/36, 45-mm anti-tank gun 53-K (Soviet, previously captured by the Finns), 37-mm anti-tank gun PstK/36 without a shield, several 150 mm howitzers H/14j (150 mm howitzers of the Krupp system of Japanese manufacture) previously armed with the 2nd Separate Heavy Artillery Division of the Finnish army.

 