Photo of the Day: Red Army Link Up, Wittenberg, Germany 1945

Recently, we’ve received a lot of traffic from the Russian Federation. Today’s photo is in honor of all of our Russian readers:

 

Russian Series WWII  Russian Soldiers with Liberated British and Australian Paratroopers After Link Up with 9th Army Wittenberg germany 043045  (1 of 1)

April 30, 1945. Russian Soldiers liberate weary Australian troops who’d been POW’s of the Germans in a camp near Wittenberg. The photo was taken as the 9th U.S. Army linked up with the Red Army’s units around that city. The photo was taken by the 168th Signal Corps Company’s George J. Barry.

 

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