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[michaelmaltby]

A British aerial reconnaissance photograph of Tirpitz moored at Kaafjord in northern Norway. The artificial smoke generators on the shores of the fjord have not yet obscured her.
Operation Paravane - Wikipedia
RAF heavies flew from Russia ...

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

These photos were taken by a war photographer Evgeny Khaldei. He met the war in Murmansk and finished it in Berlin. He took part in liberation of Sevastopol, storm of Novorossiysk, Kerch, liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary. He took pictures of defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, the conference of heads of the Allied Powers in Potsdam, raising the flag over the Reichstag, the signing of the surrender act of Germany. At the Nuremberg Trials, some of the physical evidence was photographs of Eugene Khaldei. You saw many of the photos, but did not know the author.
Yevgeny Khaldei was born in Yuzovka, now Donetsk.

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I think the bomber in the 3rd photo is a DB-3 or a Il-4 (most probably the last one)

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[stona]

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Not many men with a VC, DSO and bar, and DFC and bar.

Not that many men with DFCs, though everyone in this photograph has earned one.

From left to right.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, VC, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar.
Pilot Officer P M Spafford, bomb aimer (an Aussie, you can tell by his darker uniform).
Flight Lieutenant R E G Hutchinson (from Liverpool), wireless operator.
Pilot Officer G A Deering (a Canadian of Scottish origins) and Flying Officer H T Taerum (a Canadian of Norwegian extraction), gunners.

Only Hutchinson had previously flown regularly with Gibson.

It's representative of the multinational nature of many Bomber Command crews.

 

[Андрей]

Finnish Lieutenant Onni Koivisto, shortly before he was hit by a Soviet sniper's bullet at a position near Rukajärvi. The officer was showing the advanced positions to a photo correspondent, but was killed. 08.04.1943. Karelia.

 

[Андрей]

Pe-2 of the early series. Note the RS-82 rocket projectile (under the wing) pointed backwards to protect against enemy fighters.

 

[Андрей]

I think the bomber in the 3rd photo is a DB-3 or a Il-4 (most probably the last one)

There is a very good chance that this photo is the same IL-4. The author of the previous photo, Yevgeny Khaldei, is also depicted in this photo, he is putting on a parachute, standing on the right.

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Matilda tank ... Battle of Moscow (Typhoon), December, 1941

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/matilda-ii-in-soviet-service
... 14% of Britain's tank productions went to the Soviets. There were Valentines at Stalingrad and Churchill's at Kursk.

 

[SaparotRob]

I'm thinking the answer is no but did Soviet tanks have heaters?

 

[michaelmaltby]

In his communiques with Churchill and the Allies, Stalin would grind on about "the second front ... the SECOND front ...".
THIS was the second front, opened by Britain less than 90 days after Barbarossa.

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[SaparotRob]

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest battle fought in WW 2.

 

[Wurger]

I'm thinking the answer is no but did Soviet tanks have heaters?

Yep... especially after pea soup with the tushonka.

 

[SaparotRob]

I was kinda' thinking along those lines myself.

 

[michaelmaltby]

.... take your pick

 

[syscom3]

A B-17 of the 385th Bomb Group with engine damage. I bet some Private is going to be tasked with cleaning off the oil.