| Caption | Â Â Â | Soviet troops in a trench in Leningrad, Russia, 1 Sep 1941; note DP machine gun ww2dbase | ||||||
| Photographer | Â Â Â | Vsevolod Tarasevich | ||||||
| Source | Â Â Â | ww2dbaseRussian International News Agency | ||||||
| Identification Code | Â Â Â | 58228 | ||||||
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| Photos on Same Day | Â | 1 Sep 1941 | ||||||
| Added By | Â | C. Peter Chen | ||||||
| Added Date | Â | 16 May 2012 | ||||||
| Licensing | Â | Creative Commons |
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"Since peace is now beyond hope, we can but fight to the end."Chiang Kaishek, 31 Jul 1937
27 Feb 2012 05:12:30 PM
Russian soldiers or any fighting man living in the mud, it can be exhasuting can you imagine eating, sleeping and trying to stay warm during the winter or rainy season.
I've seen the best of men break down, seen and heard them cry if someone told me they never cried, in war, under those circumstances, they had no soul, I've done my share of all the above...
Dmitri has been issued the Degtyarov DP Light machine gun, fires the 7.62x54R round fed from the top by a 47 round pan type magazine, the weapon fires the same round, as the Moisin-Nagant Model 1891 Rifle.
He is wearing a waterproof rain cape warn over his field uniform.
His comrade Nicolai is wearing the standard pattern uniform with 1940 pattern steel helmet.