#eastern front

German troops examine the remains of the repurposed 305mm battleship guns at the Maxim Gorky Fortresses after the Siege of Sevastopol, summer of 1942

German 10.5cm leFH 18 direct fire during Operation Störfang circa June 1942 in the final weeks of Soviet resistance in Sevastopol.

French-made Canon de 155 L modèle 1918 Schneider in German service as the 15.5cm K 425(f) along with the 17cm Kanone 18 covering the retreat of Axis forces in Crimea, circa early 1944

Original title "Between battles. Kalinin Front". Viktor Popov, pilot of the 263rd Fighter Aviation Regiment, feeds pigeons on the stabilizer of his La-5 fighter during break.

T-34-85s of the 3rd Ukrainian Front in Romania, Aug 1944

Soviet Lend-Lease American M4A2 Shermans followed by British Valentines of the 2nd Guards Mechanized Corps on the move, March 1943. The Soviets didn't give a lot of praise to the material they received from Lend Lease, but regarded the Sherman well enough to make a few positive remarks about its reliability, roomy interior and high-quality radios. There was much more negativity towards the Valentine, which they considered under-armored and under-gunned (they even tried rearming Valentines with 75mm guns off T-34s and KV-1s with little success)

Germans look over a KV-2 which got stuck after collapsing a bridge, summer 1941.

Bundled up German on the Eastern Front, winter 1941-42