Civilians in the city of Tula (south of Moscow) take up arms and prepare for a German assault. Many of the defenders were factory workers who, just hours earlier, had been making weapons for the Red Army; October 1941-January 1942.

From factory to battlefield

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.

Combat wounded

Soviet artillerymen fire from a 122mm A-19 corps field gun on a Danzig (German city  from 1939-45) street; March 1945.