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Portrait photographer Signal Corps U.S. Army Lieutenant William Wilson (William R. Wilson).
Deans lieutenant Otto (Otto Dinse), the last with the Piper of the war - and remains one of his best friends after, took the vacant chief’s position after the increase, the battalion commander Letlampen
Valentin Y. Orlikov (02.19.1915 - 31.01.1986) - first female captain of BMRT (large freezer trawler), the world’s only female captain of a whaling ship (“Storm”), a veteran of World War II, the first woman in the fishing industry in the country , awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor.During World War II went to the navigator on board the Navy. In August 1941 Valentine Orlikov participated in the evacuation of Tallinn six thousand wounded. From August 1942 to October 1944 worked as a Valentine Yakovlevna third mate on the ship ‘Dvina’.“Dvina” drove the Soviet raw materials in the United States in exchange for U.S. products to be supplied under the Lend-Lease. In the first flight, which began August 8, 1942, ship was carrying manganese ore.As the convoy of British ships detained, it was decided to send the “Dvina” alone, without accompaniment. Of all the weapons on board were two machine guns and 5 guns.In order for the ship did not seem quite helpless victim to the German ships and submarines, the captain decided to build a dummy naval guns made of wood, put on their covers and fasten to the false-guns calculations.
An unknown artillery sergeant of the 24th Territorial (Latvian) Rifle Corps. A soldier dressed in the form of the former Latvian army with Soviet marks the difference.Out of order commissar of defense, Marshal SK Tymoshenko number 0191 on August 17, 1940: “1. Existing Army in the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSR to maintain for a period of 1 year, clear of unreliable elements and transform the army into every Rifle Corps Territorial … 7. In the 22nd, 24th, 29th infantry corps to maintain the current dress code, proposing to remove straps and put decals officers of the Red Army. “
Portrait of a pilot’s aircraft the U.S. Navy Lt. George W. Bush (George HW Bush, was born in 1924), the future of the 41st U.S. president.
Portrait of U.S. President Harry Truman (Harry Truman, 1884-1972).
Senior Lieutenant P. Kryukov, sitting on a garden chair.
The captain of artillery Dmitry Troshchenko, party organizer 544-th Army Mortar Regiment RGK (Reserve Command), the 10th Army of the Western Front. On the breast the medal “For Military Merit.”Photo courtesy of the grandson of DA Troshchenko Igor Troshchenko.