Photos of people who fought in the war. Rare photos of the Great Patriotic War and World War II (37 photos)

05.05.2020

Second World War (September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945) - the war of two world military-political coalitions, which became the largest war in the history of mankind. It involved 61 states out of 73 that existed at that time (80% of the world's population). fighting conducted on the territory of three continents and in the waters of four oceans. This is the only conflict in which nuclear weapons have been used.

On the top: 1941. Belarus, a German reporter eats a cucumber offered by a peasant woman

1941. Artillerymen of the 2nd battery of the 833rd heavy artillery battalion of the Wehrmacht are preparing to fire a 600-mm self-propelled mortar "Karl" (Karl Gerät 040 Nr.III "Odin") in the Brest area.

1941. Battle for Moscow. Legion of French volunteers against Bolshevism or LVZ (638 Wehrmacht infantry regiment)

1941. Battle for Moscow. German soldiers dressed for the weather during the battle

1941. Battle for Moscow. German soldiers captured Russian prisoners of war in a trench

1941. Waffen-SS

1941. Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili among prisoners of war during the battle for Smolensk

1941. Leningrad, Colonel General Erich Goepner and Major General Franz Landgraf

1941. Minsk, German soldiers in the occupied city

1941. Murmansk, Mountain shooters made a stop on the way

1941. German gunners inspect the remains of a heavy artillery tractor "Voroshilovets"

1941. German prisoners of war guarded by Russian soldiers

1941. German soldiers in position. Behind them in the ditch are Russian prisoners of war

1941. Odessa, Romanian soldiers inspect the captured property of the Soviet army

1941. Novgorod, rewarding German soldiers

1941. Russian soldiers inspect the trophies taken from the Germans and find potatoes in a gas mask case

1941. Soldiers of the Red Army study war trophies

1941. Tractor Sonderkraftfahrzeug 10 and soldiers of the SS Reich division passing through the village

1941. Ukraine, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler talks with peasants

1941. Ukraine, column of Russian prisoners of war including women

1941. Ukraine, a Soviet prisoner of war before being executed on charges of being an agent of the GPU

1941. Two Russian prisoners of war talk with German soldiers from the Waffen-SS

1941. Moscow, German in the vicinity of the city

1941. German traffic controllers

1941. Ukraine, a German soldier accepts an offered glass of milk

1942. Two German sentries on the Eastern Front

1942. Leningrad region, a column of German prisoners of war in the besieged city

1942. Leningrad region, German troops at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city

1942. Leningrad region, one of the first Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger

1942. German troops cross the Don

1942. German soldiers clean the road after a snowfall

1942. Pechory, German officers are photographed with the clergy

1942. Russia, corporal checks documents from peasant women

1942. Russia, a German gives a cigarette to a Russian prisoner of war

1942. Russia, German soldiers leave the burning village

1942. Stalingrad, the remains of the German bomber He-111 among the city ruins

1942. Terek Cossacks from self-defense units.

1942. Non-commissioned officer Helmut Kolke of the 561st brigade of the Wehrmacht with a crew on his self-propelled guns "Marder II", the next day he received the German Cross in gold and the Honorary buckle

1942. Leningrad region

1942. Leningrad region, Volkhov front, a German gives a piece of bread to a child

1942. Stalingrad, a German soldier cleans K98 Mauser in between battles

1943. Belgorod region, German soldiers talking to women and children

1943. Belgorod region, Russian prisoners of war

1943. A peasant woman tells Soviet intelligence officers about the location of enemy units. North of the city of Orel

1943. German soldiers have just caught a Soviet soldier

1943. Russia, two German prisoners of war

1943. Russian Cossacks in the Wehrmacht during the blessing (priests in the foreground)

1943. Sappers neutralize German anti-tank mines

1943. Snipers of the division of Senior Lieutenant F.D. Lunin conduct salvo fire on enemy aircraft

1943. Stalingrad, a column of German prisoners of war on the edge of the city

1943. Stalingrad, a column of German, Romanian and Italian prisoners of war

1943. Stalingrad, German prisoners of war pass by a woman with empty buckets. Good luck will not.

1943. Stalingrad, captured German officers

1943. Ukraine, Znamenka, the driver of the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger examines a tank stuck in the mud on the river bank from the hatch of the car

1943. Stalingrad, city center on the day of the surrender of German troops

1944. Commander of the 4th Aviation Command, Colonel General of the Luftwaffe Otto Desloh and commander of II./StG2 Major Dr. Mahsimilian Otte (shortly before death)

1944. Crimea, the capture of German soldiers by Soviet sailors

1944. Leningrad region, a column of German troops

1944. Leningrad region, German prisoners of war

1944. Moscow. Passage of 57,000 German prisoners of war on the streets of the capital.

1944. Dinner of captured German officers in the Krasnogorsk special camp No. 27

1944. Romania. German units evacuated from Crimea

1945. Poland, a column of German prisoners of war crosses the bridge over the Oder in the direction of Ukraine

Without date. Two Soviet partisans inspect a captured German machine gun MG-34

Without date. German soldiers clean their personal weapons. One of the soldiers has a captured Soviet PPSh submachine gun

Without date. German court martial

Without date. The Germans take cattle from the population.

Without date. Non-commissioned officer of the Luftwaffe posing with a bottle sitting on the head of the bust of I.V. Stalin

A series of documentary photographs dedicated to the Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. A selection of 95 rare shots military equipment and participants in the Second World War. A unique photo from the scenes of 1941-1945, military operations in the history of black and white photography. Watch online documentary photo of the Second World War 1941-1945.

German self-propelled guns "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.

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Junior Sergeant Konstantin Alexandrovich Shuty (06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shutoy, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.

Junior sergeant, mortar - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kyiv. 1st Ukrainian Front.

Marine of the US 5th Division, shot in the head by a Japanese sniper (you can see the bullet hole on the helmet).

Sailors of the Soviet destroyer of project 7 "Crushing" with a ship's pet, the area of the bow torpedo tubes, a view of the bow.

German Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber under repair at a field airfield.

The beginning of the counterattack of one of the units of the 270th Infantry Division of the Soviet 7th Guards Army on the Kursk Bulge.

Major General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center), head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front, future leader of the USSR in 1964-1982, during the Victory Parade.

Unidentified female partisans of the 1st Proletarian Brigade of NOAU, armed with Czech light machine guns ZB vz. 26. The village of Zharkovo near Belgrade on the eve of the battles for the city.

Unknown Soviet female snipers at the dugout. On overcoats are sergeant's shoulder straps, in the hands of a Mosin rifle with a PU optical sight (Shortened Sight).

An unknown American soldier of the US 87th Infantry Division, killed by a German sniper in the spring of 1945 in Koblenz, Germany. The soldier's weapon is a BAR automatic rifle.

German self-propelled guns "Vespe" after being hit by a large-caliber projectile.

German self-propelled guns "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.

German self-propelled guns Marder II in ambush, between houses, in a Ukrainian village.

German quad 20-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (ZSU) "Werbelwind" based on the tank Pz.Kpfw. IV, destroyed by a direct hit by a large-caliber projectile.

German huntsmen at the MG-34 machine gun on the Eastern Front.

German officers captured by French soldiers during the liberation of Paris. Hotel "Majestic", chosen by the Wehrmacht during the occupation.

German infantrymen and tankers choose bottles of alcoholic beverages in a warehouse.

German soldiers in a captured Soviet T-34 tank. The machine is ready for shipment to Germany for testing. The inscription “O.K.H.Wa. Prvf. 6" (military acceptance 6).

German soldiers inspect the captured positions of Soviet troops.

Friends and readers of the site about the most interesting facts in the world approaching 70th anniversary of victory in . In 2011, our portal published a series of rare photographs dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. This year we decided to supplement this cycle with several dozens, maybe hundreds interesting photos made during the war years. In this article we publish 37 rare photographs.

Lieutenant Sergei Vasilievich Achkasov (1919 - 03/14/1943), who made two air rams on the Voronezh front, near the MiG-3 fighter.

Lieutenants Petr Andreevich Adkin (far right) and Alexander Andreevich Guivik (second from left) with co-workers.

Leonid Utyosov on the wing of the La-5F fighter, built at the expense of his ensemble "Merry Fellows". The moment of transferring the car to the troops.

Flying boat PBY-5A "Catalina" (PBY-5A Catalina) U.S. Coast Guard under repair in a frozen bay on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

Pilot Boris Eremin on the Yak-1B fighter with a dedicatory inscription “To the pilot of the Stalingrad Front of the Guard Major Eremin from the collective farmer of the collective farm“ Stakhanovets ”comrade. Golovaty".

Pilot Semyon Sibirin congratulates his French colleague Albert Littolf on another victory.

Pilots of a separate aviation squadron "Normandy" and the 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment near the Yak-1B aircraft.

Pilot aces of the 9th Guards Aviation Division fighter Bell P-39 "Aircobra" G.A. Rechkalov.

Battleship "Arizona" (USS Arizona), sunk in a Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

A London boy in the ruins of his house, where his parents died after being hit by a German V-2 rocket.

A boy of seven years old at the site of the last battle, near the blown up Soviet tank T-34-85. Behind you can see two more of the same tanks.

Maria Dementyevna Kucheryavaya, 1918 the year of birth, medical lieutenant. At the front from 06/22/1941. In September 1941, during the fighting on the Crimean Peninsula, she received a shell shock.

Maria Dolina, Hero Soviet Union, Guard captain, deputy squadron commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Division.

Maria Timofeevna Shalneva (Nenakhova), corporal of the 87th separate road maintenance battalion, regulates the movement of military equipment near the Reichstag in Berlin.

March of captured Germans in Moscow - ahead of thousands of columns of soldiers and officers are a group of 19 German generals.

Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov and General D. Eisenhower in Leningrad. D. Eisenhower's visit to Moscow and Leningrad took place in mid-August 1945 after a personal invitation from G. K. Zhukov.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov photographed outdoors.

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

Marshal of the Soviet Union, Commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, getting out of the car on the street of Budapest, accepts the report of the subordinate.

A medic from the 48th Medical Battalion, 2nd Armored Division of the US Army bandages a wounded German soldier.

In less than six months, during the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad, this army will be surrounded and defeated. On February 2, 1943, the 6th Army capitulated.

Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria go out with a banner to the roof of the Reichstag. Although this was not the first red banner installed on the Reichstag, it was it that became the Banner of Victory.

Japanese Intelligence Junior Lieutenant Hiro Onoda surrendered to the Philippine authorities.

Junior Sergeant Konstantin Alexandrovich Shuty(06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shutoy, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.

Junior sergeant, mortar - Nikolai Polikarpov in a firing position near Kyiv. 1st Ukrainian Front.

The grave of an American pilot, made from 12.7 mm cartridges from the machine guns of his P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. The grave was made on August 8, 1944 by a couple of French refugees.

The grave of Soviet soldiers (judging by the three Soviet helmets) and the Maxim machine gun. In the background, more than a dozen graves are visible - already German (the helmets on the columns are German).

Continuation of a series of documentary photographs, dedicated to the Day Victories in the Second World War 1941-1945. The WWII photo archive contains rare photographs with the participation of Soviet and German troops, military equipment from the Second World War, photos of bombers and fighters, a unique photo from the scenes of the Great Patriotic War. Dedicated to the memory of participants and witnesses of hostilities, to the memory of those who spoke and did according to the principle "Better to die than back!", to the memory of those who fought to the death and ran towards the whistling bullets. The Motherland remembers its Heroes, we remember and thank you for the Victory. Documentary photo of the Second World War 1941-1945 for viewing online.

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The famous photograph of Maxim Alpert was taken on July 12, 1942. The name of the soldier depicted in the photo remained unknown. Learn more about .

"Kazakhstanis stand to the death." The deceased gunner was replaced by the deputy commander of the artillery regiment for political affairs, Major N. Zhetsybaev

On May 1, Krebs arrived at the location of the Soviet troops in order to draw the High Command into the negotiation process. On the same day the general shot himself

The 2nd Guards Rifle (future Tamanskaya) Division holds the line in battles in the North Caucasus. For courage and military prowess, the entire personnel of the division was awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus"

The 2nd Guards Rifle Division goes to storm the German fortifications "Blue Line" on the Taman Peninsula

On March 19, 1943, Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer (right) and other dignitaries arrived at the Rügenwald training ground, where they were presented with the super-heavy 800-mm Dora railway gun

August 25, 1942 Antonov, performing the task of covering the attack on the German airfield near Mozdok, was shot down

Soviet partisans with a machine gun "Maxim" in battle

Soldier of the 5th SS division "Viking" Arhild Hamsun (Arhild Hamsun) - the son of the famous Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun - after being awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class

TBM-3 Avenger from VC-15, which fell into the water during an unsuccessful takeoff from the Tulagi escort aircraft carrier

A. Hitler in a carriage with Wehrmacht soldiers wounded during the invasion of Poland

Emergency landing of an American heavy bomber. Consolidated B-24M-5-FO Liberator

Australian aviator with a young kangaroo

Car "Horch-901" (Horch 901) headquarters of the 71st Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht on the road

Adolf Hitler and his generals celebrate Christmas in 1941

Adolf Hitler talking to Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (1883-1945) through a carriage window at the Italian Brennero station

Actress V.V. Serov and war correspondent K.M. Simonov on the Leningrad front

American movie star (German by birth), actress Marlene Dietrich, surrounded by members of the US Army Women's Corps (WAC) in France

American gunners

American service girls give a military salute to a Soviet traffic controller in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate

American pilots demonstrate the size of the hole in the wing of a B-17 bomber received during a raid on the German city of Ludwigshafen as a result of anti-aircraft fire

American pilots show the natives the F4U Corsair carrier-based fighter

American pilots are rescued from the TBF-1C Avenger torpedo bomber from the VT-26 squadron, which fell into the water during takeoff from the aircraft carrier USS Bataan

American soldiers in the trenches during the shelling. A soldier in the foreground brings a cracker or biscuit to his mouth

American soldiers helping a wounded German soldier

American soldiers dig out their comrade, covered with earth as a result of a German bombing in an Italian city.

American soldiers with a bazooka grenade launcher and a burning German Panther tank, possibly knocked out by them

American soldiers, who came to the Tiergarten garden to exchange wristbands, communicate with German girls. In the background a group of Soviet soldiers

American C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft (Douglas C-54 Skymaster) at the Gatow Berlin airfield during the Potsdam Conference

American bomber A-20 Havoc attacks Japanese transport

American war correspondent Lee Miller takes a bath in Adolf Hitler's Munich apartments on the day of the latter's suicide

American fighter Grumman F6F-5P "Hellcat" ("Hellcat") fighter squadron VF-23 crashed while landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier "Princeton" (USS Princeton (CLV-23) and broken into two parts

American pilot Edwin King on the wing of his P-47 aircraft, covered with a layer of oil

A US Marine pets his dog, mortally wounded by a Japanese sniper on Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands.

American flamethrower tank M3 "Stuart" (flamethrower modification M3A1 with E5R2-M3 Flame-gun) firing on the island of Saipan (Marian Islands)

American carrier-based torpedo bomber TBF "Avenger" (Grumman TBF Avenger), hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire, comes in for landing

American calculation of the Browning M1919 machine gun firing at the enemy in the German city of Aachen

American reconnaissance aircraft F-5B (No. 42-67383) of the 8th reconnaissance squadron after an accident at Tadji airfeild in New Guinea

American tank M4A1 "Sherman" with the name "Honky-tonk" (Honky-tonk) of the 1st Panzer Division of the United States, destroyed by an explosion in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia

American heavy bomber B-17G "Flying Fortress" (Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress), damaged over Germany

The Americans inspect the wrecked German self-propelled guns "Hummel" and an armored personnel carrier from the SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"

Americans at the captured German attack aircraft Junkers Ju-87 (Ju-87G) at the airfield in Czechoslovakia

English ace Douglas Bader climbs into the cockpit of his Spitfire fighter on prosthetic legs.

An English soldier and a wounded German officer in North Africa. Photo taken during the British offensive

Antoine Saint-Exupery in the cockpit of his reconnaissance aircraft P-38 "Lightning" "No. 223"

Artillerymen firing from a German 75 mm PaK 40 anti-tank gun

Artillerymen of the guards of Captain I. Bogomolov are fording across the Sheshupe River - the border with East Prussia

Artillerymen of the Guards Lieutenant Sofronov are fighting on Avaider Alley in Koenigsberg (now - Alley of the Brave)

Artillerymen from the Soviet 6th tank brigade inspect the wrecked German tanks. Southwestern Front

Artillerymen of one of the infantry regiments of the American 4th Infantry Division fire from a 105-mm howitzer M3

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