Faces of war

French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen regiment and their Soviet military friends. 303rd bomber air division

The French General De Gaulle presenting awards to Soviet generals

French pilots, Hero of the Soviet Union, Senior Lieutenant Roland de la Poype (on theleft) and Lieutenant Rober Marky

Pilots of the Normandy-Niemen Regiment (from left to right: Lieutenant Perrin Marcel, Junior Lieutenant Roger Sauvage, Junior Lieutenant Lemard Georges) with a photo correspondent

A French pilot and two Red Army soldiers are standing by a combat aircraft. Regiment "Normandie-Niemen"

French pilots are sitting at the woodpile. From left to right: Lieutenant Roland de la Poype; Lieutenant Albert Duran; Major, Squadron Commander Jean-Louis Tyumyan; Lieutenant Marcel Albert; Lieutenant Joseph Risso. "Normandy-Neman" squadron

Pilots of the regiment "Normandie-Neman" at the airfield

A meeting of Soviet and American generals and officers on the Elbe

A group of the Soviet tankers and an American photographer are sitting on a tank

Meeting with the allies on the Elbe. From left to right: Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky, commander of the 43rd Army, twice Hero of the Soviet Union A.P. Beloborodov, British Field Marshal Montgomery

Meeting with the allies on the Elbe. Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky shakes hands with British Field Marshal Montgomery

From left to right: Colonel M.N. Chibisov, Lieutenant G. Gagarin, American pilot of the Russian origin, translator, Major A. Shapkin, Lieutenant Colonel V. Tertsiev, Captain Genkin, Major I. Salnikov

A group of the Soviet pilots and the American instructors at the "Carolina" seaplane. Sitting in the center in a white uniform is the first commander of a special forces group, Colonel V.N. Vasiliev, 3rd right in the front row is the American pilot of the Russian origin, Lieutenant G.G. Gagarin. USA, Elizabeth City

Colonel Chibisov Maxim Nikolaevich (1st from the left) and Lieutenant Colonel V.V. Tirtsiev (1st on the right) talking with a group of American pilots in the dining room. USA, Alaska

Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the regiment Safonov B.F. (far right) with the English pilots (left to right) Charleston Howe and Kenes Ward (at the airport, after they were awarded the Orders of Lenin). Northern Fleet