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The background music you are
hearing is from The Leningrad Symphony by
Shostakovich. It was first
performed in Leningrad in
September of 1942 at the height of the siege. The Russians lobbed >3000 shells into the German lines
just before the performance to
try and keep them quiet.
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Russian soldiers under artillery attack
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Russian troops attackingbehind a smoke screen
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Dead Russian soldiers during the Winter War with Finland
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Japanese troops crossing the Khalkhin Gol River during the Battle of Nomanhan.Wait! What’s this got to do with the Great Patriotic War? For that matter what’s this got to do with Pearl Harbor? (Answers coming up.)
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How most of the German army moved
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Russians attack a village
(Life was rough if you were a Russian villager.)
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A probably staged shot of a German delivering a Potato Masher
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Polikarpov I-16This obsolete plane was
the principle Russian fighter at the beginning
of the war.
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On Day One of Operation Barbarossa the Luftwaffe
destroyed 1500 Russian aircraft.
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The German Army marching, marching, marching…..
(They look ordinary, but these guys maintained a 4::1 kill ratio against the Russians throughout the war.)
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Still marching…Filzlaus!Does Russia never end?
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And still marching but this time with help from their horses (very few of which survived.)
(It was a tough war for horses also.)
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Einsatzgruppen at work
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An picture from early in the war; the Germans go east, the Russians
go west (with an 80% chance of never going home.)
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Russian troops making lunch in a destroyed
bunker
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Carrying out Hitler’s Commissar
Order
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German infantry hitching a ride
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The much feared Mk VI (Tiger). It generally maintained a 10::1 kill
ratio against the Russian T-34 (and the American Sherman)
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German soldier at Stalingrad (note he is using a Russian PPsH, a common practice.)
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Life continues to be really tough if you’re a Russian villager.
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Russians man a defensive position (note the ice in the
bottom of the trench).
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An “up-gunned” German Mk. IV tankThe Mk IV was the workhorse of the initial blitzkrieg and the most numerous tank in the German army throughout the war.
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Siberian troops at the Battle of MoscowZhukov’s secret weapon
(Until they showed up, the Germans had no idea they even existed.)
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Russian women digging anti-tank trenches outside Moscow in
November 1941.
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The B-4 203mm heavy howitzer used extensively by the Russians. Although the
tracks make it look mobile, it actually has to be towed everywhere.
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StuG lll Assault Gun and later used as a tank destroyer. Very successful and popular weapon. Over 10,000 were built. The turret does not rotate, defensive weapon only)
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Two German soldiers check out a destroyed KV-1
Russian heavy tank.
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Stalin’s decision to move >2500
factories to the east of Urals was critical to Russia winning the war. Otherwise they
would never have produced the tens of thousands of T-34s, IL-2s, and the
rest of the weapons that may
well have made the difference in
winning or losing.
The Ural Mountains looking East
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Russia started the war with 218 subs, the largest fleet in the world. Performance however was poor. Fighting in the Baltic and Black Seas, they sank about 80 Axis ships for a loss of over 100 subs. (This is a terrible kill ratio for a submarine force.)
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Two of the four 12” Maxim Gorky guns defending Sevastopol
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This picture speaks for itself and says a lot about the Great Patriotic War
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Russian soldiers surrendering; note the women soldier in the front.
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Another village bites the dust.
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The huge German “Karl-Garät” 600mm (24 inch) mobile mortar used at Sevastopol and Warsaw.
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American M-3 half-tracks in Russian service. The Russians
loved these things and we sent them 8700.
Here is an American
motorcycle. We sent them 35,000
of these.
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A lack of these type of uniforms were a major problem for the Germans in front of Moscow in December 1941 and later at Stalingrad in December 1942.
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Russians combined arms attack, probably a staged photo. Because of their wide tracks and diesel engines,
Russian tanks kicked up this much dirt and belched this much smoke
under any conditions.
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Russian soldiers surrendering. The women
in the front center is probably a nurse.
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Russian Marines. Used extensively at Leningrad and around the Crimea. The
Germans found them to be tough fighters.
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IL-2 SturmovikStalin call these the “Air
& Bread” of the Red Army. Arguably the
best “tank buster” of the Second World War.
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Staged? This is almost identical to the famous picture Frank Capra took of a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War. Capra’s
picture was real; not so sure about this one but it certainly could be real.
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German Sd.Kfz.251 Half-TrackThere were over 15,000 of these in 23 different mission configurations, a Blitzkrieg
workhorse.
Note the concrete blocks being used for extra protection.
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German attempt to neutralize Stalingrad from the air. In the front of the picture is Russian workers housing.
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Dead German troops being picked up after
battle.
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Romanian troops defending a road position
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Russian troops using BT-7 light tanks as cover as they move forward.
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The famous German 88mm artillery piece. It was originally
designed as an anti-aircraft gun but became the most
feared anti-tank weapon of WW2
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Russians defending a wall in winter uniforms. Note: of the eight men in the picture, four of
them are using automatic weapons. Red Army firepower was remarkable.
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Two Italian soldiers outside Stalingrad
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Surrendering at Stalingrad
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The background music you are
hearing is from The Leningrad Symphony by
Shostakovich. It was first
performed in Leningrad in
March of 1942 at the height of the
siege. The Russians lobbed >3000 shells into the German lines
just before the performance to
try and keep them quiet.
Leningrad morning body
pick-up.
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T-34: Overall, the best tank of WWII. 84,000 were built.
The 76mm original
The 85mm “Up-gunned” version
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Russian heavy machine gun crew
under artillery attack
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Petlyakov PE-2, very effective medium bomber.
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Yak-9, Russia’s best fighter. They built
17,000 of them.
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The FW-190; The best overall
German fighter of WWII.
Introduced a year into the
Great Patriotic War, over 20,000
were built.
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ME-110Terrible as a long-range fighter but it became a work horse for numerous
other missions.
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Classic Blitzkrieg A Junkers JU-87 overflies the mobile troops it is
supporting.
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Close-up of the Ju-87
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Some Russian troops(Note the medals)
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ME-109The premier fighter at
the beginning of the war.
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Russian Artillery
It was their principle weapon and they used it in mass numbers
sometimes literally wheel to
wheel to start their offensives.
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We sent the Russians 4719 of these and they loved them! As a result, the P-39 shot down more enemy planes than any other American made plane of WWII. On Russia’s list of Aces, five of the top ten including #2, #3, and #4 all flew P-39s.
American P-39 Airacobra
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A staged picture of the Russians
meeting the Americans on the
Elbe River.
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60,000 German POWs marched through Moscow after Operation
Bagration
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A German soldier on sentry duty; the grenade
is to wake up his comrades.
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Preparing to launch an
assault
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Studebaker US6 Truck in Russian service pulling a 76mm cannon. The US sent 376,000 trucks to the Red Army.
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Germans attacking into a snowstorm; the flag is an attempt by the tank crew to avoid getting
killed by their own planes.
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Russian soldiers with a trove of captured German equipment.
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The quest for firepowerOn the left, the German StG44, the world’s first true assault rifle.Above, the Russian PPsH (“Burb Gun), the fastest firing and most
produced submachine gun of WW2.
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This German’s going home date has just been delayed significantly if not forever.
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The Dnieper RiverThis was the last serious
barrier between the Russians and Germany. Once the
Russians crossed it, victory was only a matter of time.
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Two ages of warfare; a Russian IS-2 (Joseph Stalin) (arguably the best 1 on 1 tank of WW2) drives by a wounded horse.
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Five Stukas escorted by two ME-109s getting
ready to start phase one of a Blitzkrieg attack.
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A Jagdpanther; arguably the best tank destroyer of WW2. It’s built on a Mk V
(Panther) chassis with a long barreled 88mm gun. As with so many of these
really good German weapons, it was too late
and there were too few to make a big difference.
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Russian soldiers moving up in the vicinity of Stalingrad
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The Russian winter and Blitzkrieg were not necessarily a good
combination.
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Members of the Volkssturmarmed with the Panzerfaust; arguably the best hand-held anti-tank weapon of the war.
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Russian soldiers attack at Budapest, one of the bloodiest and toughest urban battles of WW2
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Stalingrad, Kharkov, Kiev, Budapest, Vienna,
Berlin.The Russians got pretty good at urban warfare.
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Germans conducting an amphibious assault in Crimea on the Black Sea.
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German team firing a Panzerschreck (a superior knockoff of the American Bazooka.)
Because of the heavy smoke trail, this was a “shoot and scoot” weapon.
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Poking (carefully) around a bombed-out bunker
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The Wilhelm Gustloff
The Wilhelm Gustloff left Danzig on 30 January
1945 with 10,000 people trying to flee the on-
coming Russians. She was sunk by the Russian
submarine S-13, one of the few successes the
service could claim. 9,343 people died including
about 5000 children. This is the worse nautical
disaster in history.
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A Russian soldier about to deliver an RGD-33 Stick Grenade.
This was a very complex grenade design (you carried the fuses in a
separate pouch and put it together just before use.)
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An inhuman war at best.
This is a dead frozen stiff Russian soldier that some Germans have stood up and turned into a street
sign.
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Enough said