‘The trail of the German defeat’, February 1943 (b/w photo)

‘The trail of the German defeat’, February 1943. Photograph, World War Two, Eastern Front (1941-1945), 1943. A Red Army cavalryman rides past a knocked-out Mk III German tank in a frozen Russian forest. Despite being a highly mechanised force the Red Army continued to use cavalry, sometimes in combined mechanised and horse units. The advantage of this approach was that cavalry and mounted infantry could keep pace with the advancing tanks during any breakthrough on the vast expanse of the Eastern Front. One of 26 British and Soviet official photographs.