Saturday, June 10, 2017

Great Patriotic War

The USSR continues its struggle against Nazi Germany. These are from 1942.

A Soviet Army intelligence group on an inflatable boat moves across the river Don on a reconnaissance mission south of the city of Voronezh during the First Battle of Voronezh, June 1942
  
A Soviet Army medic bandages the hand of a wounded Soviet soldier in the ruins of a building during the First Battle of Voronezh as two soldiers fire on Axis positions. July 1942
 
A Soviet Army medical orderly bandages the hand of a wounded Soviet soldier 
in the outskirts of Voronezh during the First Battle of Voronezh, July 1942
 
Russian children place flowers and tend to the grave of a Soviet soldier killed 
in the Battles of Rzhev as Soviet soldiers march behind them. October 1942
 
Soviet Army Sgt. Fyodor Konoplyov and his crew fire a DShK anti-aircraft gun at 
strafing German Luftwaffe bombers during the Siege of Leningrad. 9 October 1942
 
Soviet Guards Panov and Ermakov of the Soviet Signal Corps run 
communication cables across the Voronezh river, just south of city of 
Voronezh during the First Battle of Voronezh. July 1942
 
Soviet infantry attack German position in Lozova during the Third 
Battle of Kharkov, in which German Army Group South (Heeresgruppe 
Süd) led a counterstrike against the Soviets, February 1942
 
Soviet riflemen prepare to repel an Axis attack from across the Don river on 
the southern outskirts of Voronezh during the Battle of Voronezh. July 1942
 
Soviet soldiers play a nocturne for their comrades amidst the ruins of battle. Novoshahtinsk, 
Rostov Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. Autumn 1942. Photograph by Yakov Khalip
 
Source: Anti-Worlds

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