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PO-2 deliver fuel and amunition for Soviet troops during offensive operation Proskurovo-Chernovitsky. March 1944, Ukraine.

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13 May 2019, 08:37 AMkazak

Hey, where did you take this? So rare photos.

I collected a large collection of photographs of Soviet Airborne Forces in World War II and read (and saved) a bunch of books on the subject related to the Airborne Forces (parachute containers, aircraft transports, gliders, etc.). For several years I have been browsing the sites of the Ministry of Defense, the sites of memory of the dead soldiers, and any sites dedicated to the Airborne Force, read many memories of living veterans of the Airborne Forces of the Second World War.

https://vikond65.livejournal.com/784734.html

Here are some more rare photos of the 214th Airborne Brigade of the 4th Airborne Corps during the Vyazma Airborne Operation of 1942.

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PZB-3 (Floating AntiAir Battery-3, Plavuchaya Zenitnaya Battareya) "Don't touch me" ("Ne trogay menya"), Sevastopol Defense, 1942
It has next weapon loadout:
2 130mm guns B-13
4 76,2mm guns 34-K
3 37mm autocannon 70-K
3 12,7mm DSHK
1 7,62mm M-4 (quad maxim gun for AA support)
It was made from unfinished part of battleship "Soviet Ukraina". 19 June 1942 was the last battle for it, after that all crew were used as marines in defense of Sevastopol.

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Man these are nice...

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507 Heavy Tank Batalion in attempts to help surrended 1st and 4th Wermacht Tank Armys. March 1944.

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Finnish barriers against Soviet paratroopers

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3-rd experimental T-44, with unitary shell for D-25T 122mm gun (the same gun used in IS-2, but IS-2 have separated shells).

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Belorussia 1944, operation "Bagration". Anyone could say what write on side armor? Possibly this tank was abandoned and destroyed by crew when fuel exhausted or mechanical dysfunction.

Operation "Bagration", another abandoned Panther

Eastern Front, 1944

Operation "Bagration"

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28 Jun 2019, 20:22 PMMaret

Belorussia 1944, operation "Bagration". Anyone could say what write on side armor? [...]
Operation "Bagration"

I cant read all of the text but the first line is:
"Achtung! Ladung zu breit! ..."
Danger! Cargo is too wide/ Wide cargo.

So it seems to me that it is a railroad cargo marking for the german rail transport.
I think it is a new tank that was transported to the front from the factory without any delay.