not just a passing interest

Montmartre, Paris,1955. Unknown ph. credit.

Three Soviet guerrillas in action in Russia during World War II.

Photograph: Peter J. Carroll/AP

Spring, London, 1973. Photograph by Mary Brown.

8-year-old Różyczka Goździewska, the youngest nurse in the Warsaw Uprising. She helped as an assistant in the field hospital by bringing water to the injured, chasing away flies and serving as a source of happiness.

Amazing portraits of Parisian women in the 1930s taken by André Zucca. See more here…

French resistance fighter, Paris, 1944

Food delivery, Tokyo, 1935. Unknown photo credit.

A well-armed Soviet partisan, 1944

DFS 230 transport glider with landing ski. First flew in 1937. Carried pilot w nine troops or supplies. Usually towed by a Ju 52

Ulica Marszałkowska w Warszawie (1926).

Maori soldier with captured German submachine gun, World War II

British infantry in a captured German trench, 1917.

The Fw.189 reconnaissance plane of the Nazi Luftwaffe, captured by the Russians

English Spitfire Fighter In the Soviet Union

English Spitfire fighters for the Soviet Air Force in Iran