The story
Defenders of Moscow during the WWII years getting in the Gorky Park AAA guns ready for repelling a mock German air attack.
July 28 1941 Source RIA Novosti archive
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You have arrived at just one small part of Back to Normandy — a personal project dedicated to preserving stories, images, music and memories of the Second World War.
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