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[Russian artillery during WWII: rocket launchers in action during battle of Berlin] – Vintage Print

[Russian artillery during WWII: rocket launchers in action during battle of Berlin] — historic print
[Russian artillery during WWII: rocket launchers in action during battle of Berlin]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures [Russian artillery during WWII: rocket launchers in action during battle of Berlin] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Soviet rocket launchers, mounted on trucks and firing volleys of unguided rockets, are the focus of this halftone, which its title places in the fighting for Berlin in 1945. That battle, which ended in early May with the German capital in Soviet hands, relied heavily on massed artillery, and these launchers were prized for delivering a dense barrage in seconds. Crews called the weapon "Katyusha," a nickname that became widely known during the war. The caption card records no date, so the picture is best read as a general view of late-war Soviet artillery.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,101 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125450

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