Soviet Assault, 1941

Still delayed along the 2000 mile Eastern Front was the long-expected summer offensive. Soviet airmen, however, were not idle. In repeated air assaults they battered Nazi-held rail centers, like the one in Bryansk, where connecting lines lead north to Smolensk and south to Kharkov. Pictured here is a low-level strafing attack by a flight of twin-engined DB-3A medium bombers swooping down over a Nazi rail point jammed with Axis troops and supplies moving to the front.

Map Overlay, 1942

Overlay map of the European Theater over North America to show relative distances. Solid Black line between Murmansk and Rostov is the Eastern Front between Germany and the USSR[United States]. Army Orientation Course. Newsmap. Monday, May 25, 1942 : week of May 15 to May 22, poster, May 25, 1942; [Washington, D.C.]., University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.