Chronology of World War II

Saturday, July 26th


German Air Raid on Moscow


German Air Raid on Moscow
German air raid on Moscow, 26 July 1941. Thin line – Air Defense work, thick white line – German flares on parachutes to highlight areas for applying and adjusting air strikes (due to long exposure when photographing tracks merged into a single line). The picture shows the Moscow River, Kremlin Naberezhnaya and the Kremlin with Vodovzvodnaya, Borovitskaya towers, Bolshoy Kamennyy bridge.