We are proposing to your attention pictures form the front-album of the Guard captain Avenir Skok, the squadron engineer of the 13-th Guard…

I, Alexey Sergeevich Shmonov, was born in 1923, in a town of Skopin of Ryazan Oblast. My father was a foreman of an…

Abramov, Yuriy Sergeevich: I was the youngest navigator in Navy aviation during the GPW (Great Patriotic War). I was lucky: I was sent…

Dmitriy Dmitrievich Alekseev: I was born on the 25th of December 1914 in Kuryanovo village, Kirillovskiy district, Vologodskaya oblast. My father enlisted in…

Part 2. Korean War Editor’s comment: Although the events described in this interview are not related to Lend-Lease, the editors feel that describing…

Part 1. Great Patriotic War The formula of battle is simple: You should see the enemy first; Altitude is the guarantor of victory;…

Lieutenant Olga Lisikova, 1943 My name is Olga Mikhaylovna Lisikova. I hold the military rank of Guards Senior Lieutenant, and I am a…

Kulakov: I was born on the 4th of March, 1923, in Rabotki, about 60 km downstream from Gorkiy. A ship was frozen there…