All in order. Win the war. Lim Word

operation, November 1941

      As a result of the Moscow battle, German troops were thrown 100—120 kilometers from the capital. Soviet soldiers for the first time see a significant amount of damaged and abandoned German equipment

      The German motorcade, broken down near Moscow

      German prisoners of war. Soviet troops take German soldiers for the first time in captivity groups, 10—15 people each

      Pearl Harbor, the US Pacific military base

      Harbor Pearl Harbor, modern photography. Approximately so, in color, almost 80 years ago, saw this all Japanese pilot

      November 26, 1941, the US, seeing in the ambitions of the Pacific power threat to its security, declare Japan an ultimatum: to leave already almost conquered China, Indonesia and Korea. In response, on December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft, with a belated declaration of war, strikes at the base of the US Navy in Hawaii (Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, roughly in the middle of the Pacific Ocean). 2400 people are being killed, four battles of the First World War, four destroyers, 188 planes are sinking. Twenty-three submarines and, note, six aircraft carriers, the main strike force of the US Navy, which left shortly before the open ocean, remain intact. Losses of the Japanese side – 29 aircraft, 55 crew members, 9 submariners from five sunken ultra-small submarines. In the photo – the attack of “Zero” of the Imperial Air Force

      Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

      Japan is accompanied by a major initial success. Since December 8, 1941 samurai stormed the dominion of Great Britain, Hong Kong. After 18 days of defense, the garrison surrenders. 9000 British and Canadian soldiers are captured. The irrevocable losses of Japan – 2 thousand people, the Anglo-Saxon allies – 4 thousand. Expansion of the Pacific Ocean and continental China acquires a scale previously unthinkable. In the photo there is a parade of Japanese troops in Hong Kong, January 1941.

      Since June 1941, thousands of echelons with people and evacuated equipment

      The new plants built in Siberia and beyond the Urals sometimes represent flat sites, almost without walls, without a roof, with rows of machine tools on which military products are manufactured. As a rule, only women and teenagers work here

      A teenager is 12—13 years old at work. For adults, work shifts last for 15—16 hours

      Issue of KV-1 tanks on the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant unimaginably expanded since 1941. A new huge tank-building combine is sometimes called “Tankograd”

      After a fairly successful Moscow battle, Stalin cheers up and again ceases to listen to anyone’s advice. The Supreme Commander believes that 1942 is the year of “the final rout of the German fascist troops.” As a continuation of the battle near Moscow, on January 8, the Rzhev-Vyazma operation starts – the general offensive of Soviet troops on the enemy’s well-prepared positions, without concentration of forces and assets in certain directions

      Soviet soldiers on the front line. Rzhev-Vyazma operation

      The Vyazma landing operation is carried out by the Red Army in several stages, from January 18 to February 28, 1942. The main goal is the disabling of railways and highways. Paratroopers, with a total of 10 thousand, are usually dispersed over a large area, lose some of the equipment, but still gather, and begin to perform a combat mission. Later, the survivors of the fierce and, at least somehow, successful battles, fighters join forces with cavalrymen on the rear of the Wehrmacht. Further, they break through the front from within and exit into the location of the main forces of the Red Army

      Vyazemsky landing operation. Briefing of personnel

      German troops near Vyazma. In the center of the photo – the T-4 tank of the first issues with short-barreled 75 mm. tool. Such a cannon is effective in infantry shooting (it is easier to adjust the range of the fragmentation of a fragmentation projectile), but, of course, is ineffective in dealing with heavily armored targets