Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad took place in World War II from 1941-44 when the Germans surrounded the city almost completely (save for a narrow corridor which the Soviets were able to open in 1943) in an attempt to starve them into submission. The death toll in the city during the siege was said to be upwards of a million and a half. Needless to say, this set of photos is not particularly cheery.

 A farewell in Leningrad, in the spring of 1942. The German Siege of Leningrad caused widespread starvation among citizens, and lack of medical supplies and facilities made illnesses and injuries far more deadly.

  

 Female aircraft spotters on the roof of a Leningrad building, Soviet Union, May 1942

  

 Harvesting cabbage near St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad, August 1942

  

 In a street of Leningrad after German air raid

  

 Leningrad militiamen receive weapons - Canadian Ross rifles model 1910(Mk III), 

and RGD-33 hand grenades on the table

  

 Leningrad, 1944

  

 Residents of Leningrad running through the streets 

in the early days of the Great Patriotic War

  

 Soviet sniper on the Leningrad Front in March, 1943

  

 Soviet sniper, Leningrad, 1942

  

 Soviet soldiers take a break after heavy fighting on the Leningrad Front, 1944

  

 Soviet troops in trenches during the siege on Leningrad, 1942

  

 Standing in the backyard of an abandoned house in the outskirts 

of the besieged city of Leningrad, a rifleman of the Red Army aims 

and fires his machine gun at German positions on December 16, 1942

  

Three men burying victims of Leningrad's siege in 1942

  

 Two female Russian soldiers with their Degtyaryov light machine gun, 

during the Siege of Leningrad, January 1943

  

 Two Soviet snipers in winter camouflage gear 

in the snow near Leningrad. 1941-44

  

 Two teen girls helping to assemble submachine 

guns during the siege of Leningrad, 1943

  

Workers and residents building fortifications outside Leningrad

Allied Invasion of Germany

These photos are of the Allied invasion of Germany during World War II, 1944-45. 

 American soldiers take cover on the Nibelungen bridge over the Rhine River, as 

German snipers on the opposite bank of the Rhine take aim, 20 March 1945

  

 British Army Pvt. Watkins of the 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, aims his Bren gun from a dugout in the garden of a house on the Dutch-German border, 17 December 1944

  

 British Army soldiers of XXX Corps show off a captured portrait of Adolf Hitler 

after taking the German town of Kleve during Operation Veritable, March 1945

  

 British soldiers of the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division eat their rations next to 

an open flame in the newly captured town of Rethem, 16 April 1945

  

 Scottish infantrymen of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers engage German troops 

on the streets of Bremen with rifles and Bren gun. Bremen, Germany, 12 April 1945

  

 Soviet slave laborers are rescued from a cellar after it had been locked and set on fire by a German policeman following the liberation of the city by the British VIII Corps, Second Army. Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. 7 April 1945

  

Two U.S. Army infantrymen of the 84th Training Command decorate a Christmas tree in the cellar of a home in Geilenkirchen, Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. December 1944

  

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Dunkirk

These photos of Dunkirk were taken after the British evacuation of 1940.

Source: thirdreichcolorpictures.blogspot.com/

World War II - in color

 American medics in Normandy after D-Day

  

 American servicemen drive in jeeps through an unidentified 

and nearly completely destroyed town, Italy, May 1944

  

 American troops in France

  

 British and South African soldiers hold up Nazi trophy flag while combat engineers on bulldozers clear a path through the debris of the bombed out city of Cassino, Italy in 1943

  

D-Day, Omaha Beach

Soviet Women Fighters

These pictures are of Soviet women warriors during the "Great Patriotic War" (World War II).

 Evdokia Pasko – a legendary woman-aviator from the 

46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (“Night Witches”)

   

 Maria Dolina was a Soviet pilot and acting squadron commander of 

the 125th “Marina M. Raskova” Borisov Guards dive bomber Regiment

  

 Roza Shanina, a Soviet sniper
[Here is a short film telling her story]

  

 Soviet Air Force officers Rufina Gasheva and Nataly Meklin decorated as Heroes of the Soviet Union for their service with the famed Night Witches unit during World War II

  

 Soviet female fighter pilots, Crimea, 1944

  

 Soviet women snipers

  

Traffic controllers, Wolchow Front, 1 January 1943

John Florea

John Florea was a photographer who specialized in celebrity portraits; during World War II he became a photojournalist. This set features some of his World War II pictures. Later in life he became a director of TV shows.

A Soviet soldier (left) and an American soldier (right) pose 

for a photograph after the Allied forces meet in Torgau

  

American soldier looking over the bodies of some of the more than 80 

American POW’s murdered by Nazi Waffen SS panzer unit under the 

command of Lt. Colonel Joachim Peiper, Malmedy, Belgium, December 1944

  

Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945

  

Cologne, Germany, 1945

  

Malmedy 1945

  

American soldiers walking past rows and rows of corpses at the Nordhausen 

concentration camp just after its liberation, Nordhausen, Germany, April 1945

  

German civilians being forced by the Allies to bury prisoners killed 

at the Nordhausen concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany, April 1945

  

German civilians being forced by the Allies to bury prisoners killed 

at the Nordhausen concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany, April 1945