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Of the original 800-strong Russian garrison, only 100 remained, and nearly all suffered debilitating effects from the gas. After the initial chemical bombardment, over twelve battalions of the 11th Landwehr Division , some 7,000 men, moved forward to occupy the supposedly abandoned Russian positions, expecting little resistance.
If it moved continuously across the scene, three separate strongly-colored "ghost" images could result. Such color artifacts are plainly visible in ordinary color composites of many of Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs, but special digital image processing software was used to artificially remove them, whenever possible, from the composites of all ...
Pages in category "Russian military personnel of World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 922 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
By RYAN GORMAN Stunning images of the Russian imperial family have emerged nearly 100 years to the date they were taken. The Romanov portraits were shot between 1915 and 1916, only months before ...
Kombat (Russian: Комбат, lit. 'battalion commander') is a black-and-white photograph by the Soviet photographer Max Alpert. It depicts a Soviet military officer armed with a TT pistol who is raising his unit for an attack during World War II. This work is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the ...
"With our Russian allies": the Imperial Russian Navy in the Black Sea bombs Varna in Bulgaria, which has just joined the Central Empires (top); arrival in Petrograd of General Albert d'Amade's French military mission (bottom). Images from the French magazine L'Illustration, October 30, 1915.