File talk:RIAN archive 303890 A battery of Katyusha during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.jpg

This photo CANNOT have been taken anywhere near Stalingrad. Look at the mountains in the back ground!

Suggest changing the description accordingly.

These aren't the "mountains". It looks like an unknown elevation or a hill, possibly something like a Mamayev Kurgan or something similar. Besides, the source page explicitly mentions that this photo was taken during the battle for Stalingrad, so unless you have a different source saying otherwise - the factual accuracy of description should not be disputed. Rndomuser (talk) 03:41, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

I agree – that does not look like the Mamayev Kurgan or anything else I’ve seen in photos around Volgograd (Stalingrad), but I can’t prove it isn’t. Of course the historical caption should be preserved as such, but photos of training, etc., are much easier to come by and often have been passed off as actual battle scenes, especially in wartime propaganda. The image is provided by its primary source, a Soviet and Russian state information service, and we should consider its assertions in light of this. See en:wp:USINGPRIMARY.

These look like Studebaker US6 trucks, so I guess they would be newly-built Katyusha mounts in October 1942. —Michael Z. 2014-07-27 21:12 z