Interesting comparison.

Photo, taken be me in Pripyat, Ukraine (see this post).


Screenshot from Infinity Ward's game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, episode Pripyat.

Good work, Infinity Ward :-)

Color photos of WW II - Part 3

British Forces:


Valentine tank and troops.


American troops to a ship, in a British port during preparations for the Normandy invasion, circa May-June 1944. Note British Sailors in the boat's conning station.


So that's why they call it the spitfire!


British Paratroopers.




Prisoners captured in fighting in the El Alamein area; 1942.


Fiat G.55s taken in early 1945.


General Bernard L. Montgomery watches his tanks move up. North Africa, November 1942.


Battle of Normandy: summer 1944: British of the personnel of beach with three mini tracked tactical vehicles.


British soldiers searching a house in colle, a village on Monte Camino.


Les Siviter, (Front row far right) was part of 131 Field Ambulance, left behind at by the BEF to tend the wounded, captured and marched through France and eventually entrained first to Stalag 20A and then transferred to 20B in Poland.


The ground staff pushing a giant Stirling, largest four-engined bomber in the world, out for overhaul.


US Navy: American unloading in Normandy: Unloading of a British unit since a LCA. Sight the quality of the camera angle, it probably acts of a exercise, since the soldiers wear the very common shorts to Africa, but not very frequent in Normandy.

Part 1 - Canadian forces.
Part 2 - Soviet army.

Photos of Al Capone, probably the most famous gangster ever.

Old photos of New York's skyscrapers

Color photos of WW II - Part 2

Soviet army:


Victory Banner.


Russian Soldiers and US Soldiers.


Celebration with Russian Soldiers.


Troops with Female Russian Soldier.


"Land der Berge, Land am Strome". Austria 1945. Two russian soldiers. Flags: USSR and USA.


T34s and troops.


Column of soviet POWs.


Prisoners Of War.


Russian sergeants.




This is the Pe-2 .The most mass produced tactical soviet bomber. This photo of early version probably 1941-42.

Part 1 - Canadian forces.

Photos of U.S. Civil War

Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (fifth from left) and Staff aboard the U.S.S. Pawnee - Charleston Harbor, SC.


Lewis Payne, the Conspirator who Attacked Secretary Seward - Washington Navy Yard, D.C., April 1865.


John L. Burns, the "Old Hero of Gettysburg," with Gun and Crutches - Gettysburg, PA, July 1863.


Portrait of Commander Matthew F. Maury.


Company F, 2nd NY Artillery at Fort C. F. Smith - Defense of Washington, Arlington VA, August 1865.


Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and General John A. McClernand - Antietam, MD, October 3, 1862.


Three Surgeons of 1st Division, 9th Corps - Petersburg, VA, October 1864.


Scouts and Guides of the Army of the Potomac - Brandy Station, VA, March 1864.


Prof. Thaddeus S. Lowe Observing the Battle From His Balloon Intrepid - Fair Oaks, VA, May 31, 1862.


Allan Pinkerton on Horseback.


Officers of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry at Army of the Potomac Headquarters - Petersburg VA, August 1864.


Soldiers Resting after Drill Reading Letters, Papers and Playing Cards - Petersburg, VA.


The 26th U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry on Parade - Camp William Penn, PA, 1865.


Excavating for a "Y" at Devereux Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad.


Headquarters of General Robert E. Lee on the Chambersburg Pike - Gettysburg, PA, July 1863.


Group of Diplomats at the Foot of a Waterfall in NY State, August 1863. The waterfall picture was taken in what is now Letchworth State Park, then the Estate of James Prior Letchworth, just below his mansion, Glen Iris.


Engineers of the 8th New York State Militia - 1861.


Scouts and Guides for the Army of the Potomac - Berlin, MD, October 1862.


Auction & Negro Sales, Whitehall Street - Atlanta GA, 1864.


St. Michael's Church - Charleston, SC, 1865.


Bodies of Confederate Soldiers Killed on July 1, Collected Near the McPherson Woods - Gettysburg, PA, July 1863.


Peachtree Street with Wagon Traffic - Atlanta, GA, 1864.