Counteroffensive of Soviet troops near Moscow (1941)

Red Army infantry attacks the enemy with tank support during the counteroffensive near Moscow in December 1941, tanks tear through barbed wire.

A Red Army soldier leads a wounded comrade to the rear.

Machine gunners attack the Germans along the road.

A Red Army machine gun crew in position.

Soviet artillery and an armored train fire at the enemy.

Loading a gun in the turret of an armored train.

An armored train and artillery fire at the enemy, a corpse of a German soldier.

Attacking Red Army soldiers run past the corpse of a German soldier.

A Red Army soldier carries a wounded comrade to the rear on his back.

An attacking Soviet tank.

Part of a German barbed wire fence destroyed during the breakthrough.

Soviet attack aircraft take off from a field airfield on a combat mission, planes flying over the airfield.

Soviet heavy and medium tanks go on the attack across a field.

Flying Soviet bombers.

An attack by infantry, tanks and aircraft on the enemy.

A ski battalion, supported by tanks, advances to the attack line.

Airplanes fly by.

Infantry in camouflage robes goes on skis to attack, supported by tanks.

Soviet aircraft fly by.

A view of a field with infantry in camouflage robes lying in wait (above).

Soviet tanks in battle.

The frozen corpses of German soldiers.

A tank with troops on its armor.

Soviet infantry attacks a village.

Red Army soldiers break into the village.

A light machine gun crew takes up a position around the corner of a wooden house.

A machine gunner fires at the enemy.

Red Army soldiers occupy one of the houses.

A Red Army soldier kicks surrendering Nazi soldiers out of a basement.

German soldiers crawl out of a crack and surrender.

German MP submachine guns taken as trophies.

German soldiers crawl out of a crack under a house and raise their hands, the Red Army soldiers lead them away.

A view of a street in one of the cities near Moscow during a street battle.

A heavy machine gun crew takes up a position near the wall of a house.

The Red Army infantry attacks the enemy along the street.

A flag with a swastika lies near the steps of the porch of one of the houses, the legs of German prisoners of war descending from the porch.

German prisoners of war walk with their hands raised under escort.

A rifle platoon of the Red Army enters a burnt village.

Red Army soldiers near a burning house.

The corpses of German soldiers in the snow.

A destroyed German truck and artillery piece, the corpse of a German soldier in the snow.

A light tank drives along the street of a liberated city.