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• Apr 22, 2021

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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.
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RAF heavies flew from Russia ...

 

• Apr 22, 2021

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• Apr 22, 2021

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• Apr 22, 2021

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Андрей said:

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)

 

• Apr 22, 2021

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• Apr 22, 2021

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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.

 

• Apr 22, 2021

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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.

 

• Apr 22, 2021

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

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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Escuadrilla Azul said:

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

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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.

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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• Apr 23, 2021

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

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... 14% of Britain's tank productions went to the Soviets. There were Valentines at Stalingrad and Churchill's at Kursk.

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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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.

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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• Apr 23, 2021

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

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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SaparotRob said:

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

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

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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I was kinda' thinking along those lines myself.

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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.... take your pick

 

• Apr 23, 2021

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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.