Degtyaryov Pekhotny 'DP' Photographs


Japanese soldiers in Mongolia Area, China, 1939; note captured Soviet DP machine gun	Mongolian DP machine gun crew, Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia Area, China, 1939	Soviet troops in a trench in Leningrad, Russia, 1 Sep 1941; note DP machine gun	Captured Japanese Arisaka Type 38 rifles (right), bayonets, Type 11 machine guns (foreground), DP machine gun (with pan), and Type 96 machine gun (background), Hubei Province, China, 1942

Captured Japanese equipment, Hubei Province, China, 1942, type 1 of 2; note Arisaka Type 38 rifles, Type 89 grenade launchers, AG20 gas masks with AGM filters, DP machine gun, helmets, bayonets, grenades	Captured Japanese equipment, Hubei Province, China, 1942, type 2 of 2; note Arisaka Type 38 rifles, Type 89 grenade launchers, Belgian-made AG20 gas masks with AGM filters, DP machine gun, helmets, bayonets, grenades	Captured Japanese Type 11 (background), Type 96 (center rear), Type 11 (center front), and DP (foreground with pan) machine guns, Hubei Province, China, 1942; note stocks of Arisaka Type 38 rifles and helmets	Russian soldier dressed in SN-42 body armor, wielding a Degtyaryov Pekhotny 'DP' light machine gun, date unknown

Soviet soldier with DP machine gun, date unknown	Russian soldiers fighting with a Degtyaryov Pekhotny 'DP' light machine gun and a PPSh-41 submachine gun, circa 1943-1945	Soviet infantrymen, 1943	Chinese troops with BAR, ZB vz. 26, and Degtyaryov Pekhotny machine guns, 1940s

Three Soviet soldiers taking a break from fighting while a fourth stood guard, Byelorussia, 1 Apr 1944	Men of the Polish 5th Wilenska Infantry Brigade, 1945	Troops of Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front fighting in Budapest, Hungary, 5 Feb 1945	Russian troops fighting in Berlin, Germany, circa Apr-May 1945; note Mosin-Nagant M1944 Carbine and Degtyaryov Pekhotny 'DP' light machine gun

Private First Class Julias Van Den Stock of Company A, 32nd Regimental Combat Team, US 7th Infantry Division with M1 or M2 Carbine with captured Communist Chinese DP light machine gun and RPG-43 grenade on Hill 902, near Ip-Tong, Korea, 25 Apr 1951