Red Army soldiers with wind instruments abandoned by German troops during the retreat from the village of Demkino near Rzhev
23.08.1942

Central Front 1942

A wounded Soviet soldier is placed on a U-2/Po-2 ambulance plane (a modification of the U-2 plane for transporting the wounded), Eastern Front; 1942.

 

Airlift the seriously wounded

A wounded Russian soldier (probably a higher ranking officer/commander) being loaded onto a U-2 / Po-2 "Kukuruznik" ambulance plane by nurses, to be flown to a field hospital.