Scary shooting of the war. Documentary footage: photos of the Second World War. Germans frozen alive

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor F.B. Komal

Recently, many publications have appeared, the authors of which are trying to explain the reasons for the defeat of the Soviet Army in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. Many of these researchers rightly believe that one of the reasons was the massive repression of military personnel in 1937-1938. However, along with reasonable assessments of the events that took place then, there are also various conjectures, unsubstantiated statements. Let's try to consider this problem strictly on the basis of the documents.

First of all, we note that through the efforts of the party and the government, a wide network of military educational institutions was created, which ensured the release of a sufficient number of military personnel of all specialties and their high-quality training. As the threat of an attack on our country grew and new military formations and units were created in connection with this, the network of military educational institutions also expanded, which is especially characteristic of the pre-war years.

The number of military educational institutions grew from year to year, the number of students in them increased, as evidenced by the data on the development of military schools of the ground forces in the period from 1937 to 1940 (see Table 1). And the fact that the growth of military educational institutions contributed to an increase in the release of trained officers can be seen from Table 2. The dynamics of the influx of new officers into the army is shown in Table 3. The following were graduated from schools and schools of the Air Force: in 1938 - 8713 people, in 1939 - 12337, in 1940 - 27 918. Despite this, it was not possible to eliminate the chronic shortage of commanding personnel in the army. By the beginning of 1940, it numbered 60,000.

Table 1. Development of military schools of the ground forces in the period from 1937 to 1940

Name of schools	1937	1938	1939	1940
Infantry
Infantry
Small arms and machine gun
Rifle mortar
Total infantry. schools	10/9360	14/13800	14/14250	59/94800
Cavalry
Artillery
High power artillery
Corps artillery
Divisional artillery
PTO artillery
Anti-aircraft artillery
Total artillery schools	14/9660	20/18550	20/21600	20/26800
Art. arms. tech.
Art. instrument. intelligence FOR
Armored vehicles
Tank
Automotive
Tractor
Tank technical
Total ABT schools	7/5450	9/8750	9/9400	9/14000
Communication schools
Engineering
Engineering
Sapper
Total engineering schools	1/1320	2/1900	2/2300	4/5600
Chemical
Topographic

Medical
Veterinary
Military economic
TOTAL	49/36085	63/59150	64/65250	114/169620

* Including the Moscow Railway School for 500 cadets.
Note: The numerator shows the number of schools, the denominator shows the number of cadets.

Table 2. The number of graduates of military schools by type of service for the period from 1937 to 1940 *

Military schools	1937	1938	1939	1940
Infantry
Artillery
Cavalry
Armored vehicles

Engineering
Topographic
Military Communications Service (VOSO)
Chemical
Technical and others
Administrative
Medical
Veterinary
TOTAL	8508	20316	35290	35501

Table 3. The number of new officers who entered the troops *

the years	from academies	from schools	from the courses of junior lieutenants	restored in the army and taken from the reserve	Total

The Second World War was the most brutal and bloody in the history of mankind. It pulled dozens of countries and peoples into its deadly cycle. And, seeing firsthand documentary evidence, pictures of the death of people, dispassionately recorded by a camera, it is impossible not to shudder. It is difficult to say which is more terrible in this collection - the pictures of mass slaughter or the terrible, unstoppable moment of the death of a single person.

Katyn

Removing bodies from a mass grave in the Katyn forest. According to the documents, more than 21 thousand Poles were shot here - both captured officers and political prisoners. Only a few decades after the tragedy, Russia officially admitted the guilt of the NKVD in this atrocity.

Warsaw ghetto

Residents of the Warsaw ghetto before being shot. Murders in the ghetto took place every day: they killed the old and the weak, children and women ... In addition, terrible crowding and hunger reigned in the ghetto. Not wanting to humbly wait for death, the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto revolted. From April 19 to May 16, 1943, there were fierce battles on the faces of the ghetto. The Germans brought Jewish units into the ghetto and, cutting off block after block, brutally suppressed the resistance. In total, over 7,000 rebels were killed during this time.

Massacre at Malmedy

During the fighting in the Ardennes near the Belgian village of Malmedy, 84 American soldiers were captured. All of them were shot by the SS right there in the field. Several prisoners managed to escape. They brought the news of the Malmedy massacre to the American command.

Shark attack on the Indianapolis crew

On July 28, 1945, the American warship "Indianapolis" left the port in the direction of Japan, having on board part of the details of the atomic bomb, which was planned to be dropped into enemy territory. However, a day later, "Indianapolis" was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and went to the bottom. But that was only the beginning of the nightmare. The sailors who found themselves in the water were attacked by a flock of hungry sharks. According to very rough estimates, up to 150 people died from the teeth of hungry predators. The deaths of Indianapolis sailors are considered the most massive deaths in history from shark teeth. The picture shows a doctor examining terrible wounds from shark teeth in one of the survivors.

Massacre in Nanjing

Murder on Nanjing Street in 1938. When the Japanese captured Nanjing in the Sino-Japanese War, they, irritated by the stubborn Chinese resistance, behaved with unparalleled brutality. Almost one hundred thousand soldiers who surrendered were shot. The soldiers attacked civilians and beat, tortured, maimed and killed them. The number of women who were raped and then killed was in the thousands. In total, up to 600 thousand Chinese died during the Sino-Japanese War.

Leningrad blockade

During the blockade, corpses on the street were such a familiar part of the landscape that no one paid attention to them.

Bombing of Dresden

The persistent bombing of Dresden in 1945, which practically razed the city to the ground, is still considered by many to be a humanitarian crime by the Anglo-American allies. In Dresden there is culture in general, which, alas, did not have strategic and military enterprises, but there were many masterpieces of world architecture and culture, which, alas, mankind had to say goodbye to forever.

Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad is considered the largest land battle in the history of warfare. The losses of the Red Army in killed and wounded amounted to more than a million people. The Germans suffered the same losses. In the eyes of this German prisoner, nothing human seems to have remained.

Kamikaze

At the end of the war, in 1945, the first detachments of Kamkaze pilots appeared in Japan, listening to the call of Emperor Hirohito to die with honor for their homeland. Typically, young, often poorly trained, suicide pilots flew their vehicles to Allied bases and ships in the Pacific. The bitter irony lies in the fact that kamikaze strikes did not always reach the target - both because of the air defense of the allies and because of their own little preparation. Fanatic youths died in vain.

"Sea Wolves"

"Sea wolves" during the Battle of the Atlantic were called detachments of German submarines, scouring the ocean and with the same ruthlessness sank both military and merchant ships. During the war years, "sea wolves" sank about 4,000 ships, which killed about 75 thousand people, because there was practically no salvation for people in the open ocean. The picture shows a ship torpedoed by one of the "sea wolves" going under water.

Italians in Ethiopia

Even before World War II, in 1935, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on Ethiopia. Mussolini deliberately chose the weakest opponent. For example, the Italian army had 1,400 units of tanks and aircraft, while the Ethiopian army (pictured) had only two dozen pieces of equipment, and the army in its considerable part still had spears in service. During the fighting, about a million Ethiopians were killed.

Polish cavalry against German tanks

Desperate and suicidal attacks by Polish cavalry on German tanks led to massive deaths of Polish soldiers. In the photo: the consequences of such an attack.

Massacres in Odessa

A few days after the capture of Odessa, a powerful mine, laid by the retreating Soviet troops, exploded at the headquarters. This explosion was the signal for the beginning of the massacre organized by the Romanians in Odessa. Repressions primarily affected Roma and Jews. In a few weeks, over 15 thousand Roma and more than 34 thousand Jews were killed in the city. The picture shows one of the places of mass executions.

Crocodile attack on Ramree Island

During the battle on Ramree Island, about a thousand surviving Japanese, pressed by British troops, under cover of night decided to escape from the enemy pursuing them through the swamps. This was a fatal decision. Witnesses say that wild shouts and rifle shots were heard from the swamp all night. By morning, only about 50 survivors had come ashore. According to them, the rest were dragged under the water by voracious local crocodiles.

Tragedy in the village of Stavelot

The command of the SS unit that occupied the Belgian village of Stavelot accused its residents of hiding American soldiers. The Americans were not found in the village, but the angry SS men, confident that the locals had deceived them, shot all the villagers - 67 men, 47 women and 23 children. The picture shows the place of execution in Stavelot.

World War II ... People tend to forget history ... Less and less remembered about the terrible events that followed the whole world throughout the Second World War. And many representatives of the younger generation do not know facts, dates and numbers at all! This is extremely sad, because you need to know history in order not to repeat its mistakes.

We present to your attention 11 creepy shots from the Second World War that everyone needs to see in order to realize the horror of wars and remember that the war that was not good is good!

1 Raft from "Armidale"

On the first day of winter 1942, Japanese fighters attacked the Australian patrol ship Armidale. Most of those people who were on the ship died immediately, but some survivors managed to make a raft from the remains of the ship. The raft accommodated about 20 people. A patrol seaplane sighted the raft on December 8, taking this photo, but rescuers were unable to splash down due to high waves. Unfortunately, neither the next day nor ever the raft could be found ...

2 Punishment for General Dostler

On December 1, 1945, German infantry general Anton Dostler was executed. He led the destruction of the American sabotage group, for which he received a death sentence, the execution of which was carefully filmed on photographic and film.

In November 1942, in the forests of Eastern Karelia, a Finnish officer shoots a Soviet intelligence officer, who, despite the proximity of death, smiles into the lens. The photo was released only in 2006.

Germans frozen alive.

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Wehrmacht mountain rangers are about to raise the Nazi flag in Crete.

German vehicles (armored personnel carriers) on fire on the road near the village of St Aubin-d "Appenai on the road between Alencon and Mortagne in Normandy.

The American aircraft carrier Bunker Hill is on fire after two Japanese kamikaze attacks 30 seconds apart. 372 were killed, 264 were injured.

Burning bomber B-17 "Flying Fortress" (LockheedVega B-17F-20-VE, serial number 42-5786) 840th squadron of the 483rd bomber group of the US Air Force in flight over the Yugoslav city of Nis.

Burning bomber B-25 "Mitchell", "Jaunty Jo" 345th bomber group, shot down by anti-aircraft artillery bombing a Japanese oil refinery.

The German heavy cruiser ("pocket battleship") "Admiral Graf Spee", burning at the mouth of the La Plata River after it was blown up by the crew.

The grenadiers of the SS Panzer Division "Death's Head" change position in the battle near Warsaw, running past a burning Soviet T-34 tank.

A group of sappers of the Red Army in Belgrade immediately after the end of the fighting for the city. Behind them is the Albania Chamber - this is the very center of the city.

A group of German soldiers captured during the Battle of Moscow. Winter 1941 -1942

A group of reconnaissance scouts of the 27th Guards Rifle Division in the courtyard of a house in Poland.

Group photo of the crew of the Pe-8 # 4214 bomber in front of their aircraft. 11.1945

Gunther Rall is the third most productive German ace of the Second World War. On account of his 275 air victories (272 on the Eastern Front), scored in 621 sorties. Rall himself was shot down 8 times.

Long-range naval reconnaissance and patrol aircraft, also used as a transport aircraft. Captured by the Americans. Members of the German crew leave their plane, making way for American pilots.

Danish pilot Jørgen Thalbitzer (1920-1943) on the wing of his Spitfire Vb fighter (serial number BL855) at the British Air Force base in Coltishal.

Two American Curtiss SB2C Helldiver carrier-based bomber aircraft are approaching the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10).

Two German soldiers take a Red Army soldier prisoner.

Two German soldiers with a captured PPSh in a trench near the height of 200 near the village of Polunino, Kalinin region.

Two partisans from the Bryansk region. The teenager on the right has a captured German MP-40 submachine gun.

Two Soviet partisans inspect the captured German MG-34 machine gun.

Two soldiers of the German division "Hermann Goering" talk with a Romanian soldier.

Two Soviet servicemen at the sign "30 kilometers to Berlin".

Two Soviet officers on the steps of the Reichstag.

Two Arab soldiers of the British army stand in the background of tents in the vicinity of Bersheb in Palestine.

A girl-medical instructor accompanies a wounded soldier in Stalingrad.

Demobilized soldiers of the 4th Shock Army at the Varshavsky railway station in Leningrad.

Divisional scouts of the 27th Guards Rifle Division Pavel Silentyev and Viktor Krivonogov.

Divisional scouts of the 27th Guards Rifle Division. February or March 1945.

Dietrich Hrabak became the first German fighter pilot shot down during the Second World War (09/03/1939, the Hrabak fighter was shot down by the gunner of the Polish light bomber PZL P.23).

There are 77 kilometers to Berlin. A smoke break for Soviet soldiers.

A Don Cossack from the German troops firing from a cannon during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

Interrogation of a German soldier captured by scouts of the 49th Guards Rifle Division.

Interrogation of a captured Soviet lieutenant. May 1942, the area of the Rzhev-Vyazemsky ledge.

Inhabitants of the Czech town of Havlov Brod gather on the battlefield what may be useful on the farm. In the photo - the German self-propelled gun StuG III.

A volley of a battery of German rocket launchers Nebelwerfer 41 near Demyansk.

Camouflaged thirty-fours, January 1942, Rzhev area. The photo is interesting in that one of the crew left a rifle on the armor, since it did not fit in the tank.

Germans frozen alive.

The German crew is servicing the "Nebelwerfer 41" rocket launcher.

The German calculation of the MG-34 machine gun, led by a non-commissioned officer, is preparing to be thrown into a new position in Stalingrad.

A German soldier with the rank of Oberfeldwebel is photographed leaning against the barrel of an abandoned Soviet KV-2 tank. The sleeve insignia of radio engineering is visible.

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1. Bound Jews, guarded by the Lithuanian auxiliary guard. 1941

2. A column of Jewish women and children under the escort of the Lithuanian "self-defense".

Time taken: 1941
Location: Lithuania, USSR

3. Jewish residents of the city of Siauliai before being sent for execution near the Kuziai station.

Time taken: July 1941
Location: Lithuania, USSR

4. The famous photograph of the execution of the last Jew in Vinnitsa, taken by an officer of the German Einsatzgruppen, which carried out executions of persons to be exterminated (first of all, Jews). The title of the photo was written on the back of the photo.

Vinnitsa was occupied by German troops on July 19, 1941. Part of the Jews living in the city managed to evacuate. The remaining Jewish population was locked up in a ghetto. On July 28, 1941, 146 Jews were shot in the city. In August, the shootings resumed. On September 22, 1941, most of the prisoners of the Vinnytsia ghetto were destroyed (about 28,000 people). Craftsmen, workers and technicians, whose work was necessary for the German occupation authorities, were left alive.

5. Sending Slovak Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Time taken: March 1942
Location: Poprad station, Slovakia

6. Rabbis in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

7. Jewish rabbis in the Warsaw ghetto

8. SS soldiers guard a column of captured Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. Liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto after the uprising.

Photo from Jurgen Stroop's report to Heinrich Himmler in May 1943. The German original headline reads "Forcibly Pushed Out of Asylum." One of the most famous photographs from the Second World War.

9. Fey Shulman with Soviet partisans in the forest. Fay Shulman was born into a large family on November 28, 1919 in Poland. On August 14, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the Lenin ghetto, including Fay's parents, sister, and younger brother. They only spared 26 people, including Faye. Faye later fled to the woods and joined a guerrilla group made up mostly of fugitive Soviet prisoners of war.

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10. Row of Red Army prisoners of war.

1941
The propaganda caption to the photograph read: “There is a woman standing among the captured Soviet soldiers - even she has stopped resistance. This is a "soldier woman" and at the same time a Soviet commissar who made Soviet soldiers fiercely resist to the last bullet. "

11. A German patrol leads the captured Soviet soldiers in disguise. Kiev, September 1941

Time taken: September 1941
Location: Kiev, Ukraine, USSR

12. Killed Soviet prisoners of war on the streets of Kiev. One of them is dressed in a tunic and breeches, the other is in underwear. Both were barefoot, their bare feet were covered in mud - they walked barefoot. The dead have emaciated faces. Eyewitnesses recall that when the prisoners were driven through the Kiev streets, the guards shot those who could not walk.

The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kiev by the German war photographer Johannes Höhle, who served in the 637th propaganda company, which was part of the 6th German army, which seized the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.

13. Soviet prisoners of war, under the supervision of SS men, cover the area of Babi Yar with earth, where the executed are lying. The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kiev by the German war photographer Johannes Höhle, who served in the 637th propaganda company, which was part of the 6th German army, which seized the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.

Babi Yar is a tract in Kiev, which has become notorious as a place of mass executions of civilians and prisoners of war, carried out by the German occupation forces. 752 patients of the psychiatric hospital named after V.I. Ivan Pavlov, at least 40 thousand Jews, about 100 sailors of the Dnieper detachment of the Pinsk military flotilla, arrested partisans, political workers, underground workers, NKVD workers, 621 members of the OUN (A. Melnik's faction), at least five gypsy camps. According to various estimates, from 70,000 to 200,000 people were shot at Babi Yar in 1941-1943.

The half-strewn trees and bushes at the bottom indicate that the slopes of the ravine were blown up. Some of the prisoners are in civilian clothes. These are probably those who managed to change their clothes, fleeing captivity, but were identified. Along the edges of the yar are SS guards, with rifles on their shoulders, with helmets on their belts.

14. Soviet soldiers captured at Vyazma. October 1941.

Time taken: October 1941

15. A captured Soviet colonel. Barvenkovsky cauldron. May 1942.

In the area of the city of Barvenkovo, Kharkov region, at the end of May 1942, the 6th and 57th Soviet armies were surrounded. As a result of the unsuccessful offensive, 170 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army died and were taken prisoner, including the commander of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General A. Gorodnyansky and the commander of the 57th Army, Lieutenant General K. Podlas.

Time taken: May 1942

16. A captured Red Army soldier showing the commissars and communists to the Germans.

17. POWs of the Red Army in the camp.

18. Soviet prisoners of war. There are two wounded in the center.

19. A German guard gives his dogs some fun with a "live toy".

20. Soviet workers at forced labor at a mining enterprise in Boyten (Upper Silesia) during a break.

Time taken: 1943
Location: Germany

21. Prisoners of the Red Army at work in the winter.

22. Captured Lieutenant General A.A. Vlasov, the future head of the Russian Liberation Army, is interrogated by Colonel General Lindemann after his surrender to German captivity. August 1942

Time taken: August 1942

23. Soviet prisoners of war with German officers in Germany. Clearing unexploded bombs.

24. A Soviet prisoner of war, after the complete liberation of the Buchenwald camp by American troops, points to a former guard who brutally beat the prisoners.

Time taken: 04/14/1945

25. A US Army doctor examines a Soviet forced laborer suffering from tuberculosis. He was deported to forced labor in Germany in the coal mines in the city of Dortmund.

Time taken: 04/30/1945

26. Soviet child next to his murdered mother. Concentration camp for the civilian population "Ozarichi". Belarus, the town of Ozarichi, Domanovichsky district, Polesie region. March 1944

Time taken: March 1944

27. Liberated children from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Time taken: January 1945

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28. Captured German soldiers in Leningrad.

Time taken: 1942
Location: Leningrad

29. The French from the SS and the Wehrmacht in front of General Leclerc of the "Free French"

Captured French from SS and Wehrmacht units in front of General Leclerc, commander of the 2nd Armored Division of the Free French.

The prisoners behaved with dignity and even defiantly. When General Leclerc called them traitors and said: "How could you Frenchmen wear someone else's uniform?" one of them replied: "You yourself wear someone else's uniform - American!" (the division was equipped by the Americans). They say this angered Leclerc, and he ordered the prisoners to be shot.

30. German prisoners of war in the queue for the delivery of food. South of France.

Time taken: September 1944
Location: France

31. German prisoners of war are carried out in the Majdanek concentration camp. In front of the prisoners on the ground lie the remains of the prisoners of the death camp, the ovens of the crematorium are also visible. Outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin.

Time taken: 1944
Location: Lublin, Poland

32. Return of German prisoners of war from Soviet captivity. The Germans arrived at the Friedland border transit camp.

Friedland.
Time taken: 1955
Location: Friedland, Germany

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33. Captured young German soldiers from the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" under the escort of the military police of the 3rd US Army. These guys were captured in December 1944 during the Allied operation in the Ardennes.

Time taken: 01/07/1945

34. Fifteen-year-old German anti-aircraft gunner from the Hitler Youth - Hans Georg Henke, captured by soldiers of the US 9th Army in the city of Giessen, Germany.

Time taken: 03/29/1945
Location: Giessen, Germany

35. Fourteen-year-old German teenagers, soldiers from the Hitler Youth, taken prisoner by units of the 3rd US Army in April 1945. Berstadt, province of Hesse, Germany.

Time taken: April 1945
Location: Berstadt, Germany

36. Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Reich Chancellery awards the young members of the Hitler Youth. This is one of the last photographs of Hitler. In the center, awarded with 2nd class iron crosses, young natives of Silesia: second from right - 12-year-old Alfred Czech, third from right - 16-year-old Wilhelm Hubner, the latter is also known from a photo with Dr. Goebbels in Lauban.

Time taken: 03/23/1945

37. Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Reich Chancellery awards the young members of the Hitler Youth.

38. A boy from the Hitler Youth, armed with a Panzerfaust grenade launcher. The so-called "Last Hope of the Third Reich".

39. Sergeant Francis Daggertt with a German soldier, the soldier is only 15 years old. A dozen and a half of them were caught in the German city of Kronach.

Time taken: Kronach, Germany
Location: 04/27/1945

40. Column of prisoners on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground are the "last hope of Germany" boys from the Hitler Youth and Volkssturm.

Time taken: May 1945

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41. Soviet children are cleaning the boots of German soldiers. Bialystok, November 1942

Time taken: November 1942
Location: Bialystok, Belarus, USSR

42. 13-year-old scout-partisan Fedya Moschev. Author's annotation to the photo - “A German rifle was found for the boy”; it is probably a standard Mauser 98K with a sawed-off stock to make it easier for the boy to handle.

Time taken: October 1942

43. The commander of a rifle battalion, Major V. Romanenko (center), tells the Yugoslav partisans and residents of the village of Starchevo (in the Belgrade region) about the military affairs of a young intelligence officer - corporal Viti Zhaivoronka. Back in 1941, near the city of Nikolaev, Vitya went to a partisan detachment, in 1943 he voluntarily joined one of the units of the Red Army that stormed Dnepropetrovsk, and was awarded the Order of the Red Star for participating in battles with the Nazis on Yugoslav soil. 2nd Ukrainian Front.

Stars. 2nd Ukrainian Front.
Time taken: October 1944
Location: Starchevo, Yugoslavia

44. Young partisan Pyotr Gurko from the For Soviet Power unit. Pskov-Novgorod partisan zone.

Time taken: 1942

45. The commander of the partisan detachment presents a medal "For Courage" to a young partisan-scout. The soldier is armed with a 7.62-mm Mosin rifle.

Time taken: 1942

46. Soviet teenage partisan Kolya Lubichev from the partisan unit A.F. Fedorov with a captured German 9-mm submachine gun MP-38 in a winter forest.

Nikolai Lyubichev survived the war and lived to his advanced years.
Time taken: 1943

47. Portrait of 15-year-old partisan intelligence officer Misha Petrov from the Stalin detachment with a captured German 9-mm MR-38 submachine gun. The soldier is belted with a Wehrmacht soldier's belt, behind his boot is a Soviet anti-personnel grenade RGD-33.

Time taken: 1943
Location: Belarus, USSR

48. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky with his comrades in Berlin.

Time taken: May 1945
Location: Berlin, Germany

49. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky with his comrades in Berlin

Lieutenant (?) Nikolai Rubin, senior lieutenant Grigory Lobarchuk, corporal Volodya Tarnovsky and senior sergeant Nikolai Dementyev.

50. The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky puts an autograph on the Reichstag column

The regiment's son Volodya Tarnovsky signs an autograph on the Reichstag column. He wrote: "Seversky Donets - Berlin", and signed for himself, the regiment commander and his fellow soldier, who supported him from below: "The gunners Doroshenko, Tarnovsky and Sumtsov."

51. Son of the regiment.

52. Sergeant S. Weinshenker and Technician Sergeant William Topps with the son of Regiment 169 of the Special Forces Air Base. Name unknown, age - 10 years old, served as an assistant weapons technician. Airfield Poltava.

Time taken: 1944
Location: Poltava, Ukraine, USSR