The battles on the Belgorod direction (1943)

Fighting Soviet troops and aircraft in the Belgorod direction.

Voronezh front, 8-10 July 1943 IL-2 291st assault aviation division under the command of Colonel Andrei Nikiforovich vitruka (2nd Air Army Lieutenant-General S. A. Krasovsky) in the sky.

Among them, the nominal plane, "Alexander Nevsky".

The aircraft dropped bombs.

The explosions from the bombs on the ground.

Panorama of the exposed fly Soviet attack aircraft.

Fighter "YAK" covers in the sky stormtroopers.

General view of the tier of the enemy, exposed to bombardment by the Soviet air force, blasted railway bridge (removed from the aircraft).

The mortar crew is on the trench, carrying a box of ammunition for a 122 mm mortar battery of Lieutenant V. K. Lunegova.

Mortar gun charge. 122 mm mortar firing from the shelter.

Mortar 82 mm gun company guards senior Lieutenant M. D. Nechipurenko firing from cover.

The corpses of German soldiers on the battlefield.