Posts tagged: Soviet soldier
Soldiers of third guerrilla brigade in combat. Leningrad region.
Red Army soldiers keep defenses against attacks with tanks the Germans.
2nd Guards Rifle Division go to storm the German fortifications of the “Blue Line” on the Taman Peninsula. The presence of the 400 thousandth army factions and shortened front line enabled the Germans to create here a very tight defense. The fighting here continued from February to September 1943, until German troops were not evacuated to the Crimea. For the liberation of the Taman Peninsula, 2 nd Guards Rifle Division on Oct. 9, 1943 received the honorary title of “Taman”.
Anti-tank crew of Sergeant Paul Tarasova under the guise of a smokescreen comes close to the enemy.
The dead soviet soldier.
The Soviet soldiers are fighting.
Soviet sappers doing a pass in the portable wire sling by means of small scissors for cutting wire. Karelian Front.
Sappers armed with 7,62 mm rifles, SVT-38. On the belt visible sword bayonet from SVT-38 in the sheath. The portable wire sling is designed to close gaps between the barriers. Carrying a slingshot by four men. Small scissors designed for cutting barbed wire. When breeding pens cutting edges of scissors apart, while reducing the cut. Effort at cutting the barbed wire small scissors is 8-12 kg. Scissors have a length of 38 cm
Attack of the Soviet soldiers. The fighter left in the foreground - with a semi-automatic rifle, SVT, followed by machine-gunner with a machine gun DP.
Crew of the Soviet 14,5 - mm antitank gun Degtyarev PTRD-41 at Stalingrad.
Machine gun “Maxim” is set in the back of the jeep.
U.S. army vehicle-terrain «Willys» delivered to the Red Army on the Lend-Lease in the summer of 1942 (modification and Willys MB Willys Ma). By the end of the war in the Soviet Union had supplied about 52 thousand cars.
