Last Czech RAF WWII pilot, Emil Bocek died, at age 100. Honor to his memory.1yr ⋅ dxdavidcl ⋅ r/WorldWar2
The four soldiers monument in Moscow. Representing the four major allied powers that fought against nazism. France, USSR, USA and Great Britain.2yr ⋅ TheFalc0ner ⋅ r/WorldWar2
80 years today since my great uncle walter was reported MIA at dieppe. he didnt live long enough to have any kids; my only wish is for somebody somewhere to remember him 🇨🇦❤️🩹1yr ⋅ johnnybird95 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Russian soldiers conducted mass rape of German and eastern European countries it occupied at the end of ww2. An estimated 2 million women were raped in germany alone, with an estimated 240 thousand dying as a result.1yr ⋅ dogsrunnin ⋅ r/WorldWar2
My grandpa’s division signed this flag after he captured it. Can’t really display it anywhere so I’ll show it here. Hope you all like this.2yr ⋅ ValHyric ⋅ r/WorldWar2
On February 8th, 1943, Nazis hung 17 year old Yugoslav Lepa Radic. When they asked her the names of her companions, she replied: I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me...I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves wiping out all you..2yr ⋅ No_Window_8634 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
After a photo of the 80cm railway shell was posted here recently, I had to find a picture of the Krupp 80 cm Kanone that fired it. Albert Speer (right) and Adolf Hitler (second from right) observed the test. Hitler referred to the impractical gun as “meine stahlerne faust (my steel fist).”1yr ⋅ AmateurJenius ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Private Kenneth Hoger sports a pinup girl with appropriate titles on the cannisters of his flame thrower while en route to Iwo Jima, 1945. According to MOH recipient Woody Williams, the average life expectancy of an American flamethrower operator in the Pacific was five minutes.1yr ⋅ YoYoB0B ⋅ r/WorldWar2
My grampa had this picture of Eisenhower in his photobook. Any way to find out if he took the photo himself? Google image search had no exact matches.8mo ⋅ HlyMlyDatAFigDoonga ⋅ r/WorldWar2
On February 8th, 1943, Nazis hung 17 year old Yugoslav Lepa Radic. When they asked her the names of her companions, she replied: I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me...I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves wiping out all you..1yr ⋅ brisklyMake ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Saturday Evening Post Cover, May 26th 1945. Scene of a soldier returning home after the end of the war in Europe. One of Norman Rockwell’s best.1yr ⋅ Heartfeltzero ⋅ r/WorldWar2
My Grandpa’s US Army gear from WWII. He was stationed in Italy for a while and brought home a few souvenirs after the surrender.2yr ⋅ mimosaholdtheoj ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Imperial Japanese propoganda depicting Axis samurai destroying allied warships2yr ⋅ yeboi2100wastaken ⋅ r/WorldWar2
On July 25th, 1945, Adolf Hitler’s former heir, Hermann Goring, was interviewed by Major Kenneth W. Hechler of the U.S. Army Europe’s Historical Division. This has been dubbed the 'lost' prison interview. Full interview in the comment section. Picture is Goring on trial at Nuremberg, 1946.1yr ⋅ Nowiscurrent ⋅ r/WorldWar2
USMC Corporal Edward Burckhardt playing with a kitten he found at the base of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. March 19451yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
So recently the last living witness to the German surrender during World War II wrote back to me and signed a card of mine.1yr ⋅ Jaguars4life ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Piles of Rifles surrendered by German Soldiers after the End of the Second World War, 1945.2yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
An emaciated 18-year-old Russian girl looks into the camera lens during the liberation of Dachau by men of the American 42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division.1yr ⋅ ATSTlover ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Waffen-SS troops waiting for the Russian onslaught at Battle of Narva 19441yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Current look at the Battleship Texas (BB35) in drydock in Galveston, TX for extensive repairs and renovation!1yr ⋅ vdavidiuk ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Two Canadian soldiers look over a German mock up of Juno Beach and its defenses. Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. June 1944.2yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, October 15th, 19411yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
British and German fighters leave entails while dogfighting over London on October 22, 19401yr ⋅ Westoaklane ⋅ r/WorldWar2
American POWs Lee Rogers & John C. Todd sit outside Santo Tomas Internment Camp following their release by Allied forces. Manila, 5 February 1945. The camp was the largest of several in the Philippines and was housed on the campus of the University of Santo Tomas, with brutal conditions.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Visited the magnificent Red Sands Maunsell Forts today. A real piece of history.1yr ⋅ Madaboutthegirl ⋅ r/WorldWar2
My grandfather was a surviving soldier of The Rats of Tobruk. Here is a photo of him and I.4mo ⋅ rustybricks ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Wounded German soldiers getting their boots cleaned by a Russian peasant child while at a train station on the Eastern Front, March, 1943.1yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
77 years ago today, June 6, 1944; 150k+ men from 10 different countries would storm the beaches of Normandy; kicking in the door of Hitler’s Fortress Europe and embarking on a 13 month journey to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny. The sacrifices made must never be forgotten.3yr ⋅ NotYourDadsMemes ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Just picked up this original newspaper from 06JUN44 for only £6. Maybe not that rare of an item, but I’m really pleased with this find1yr ⋅ hdckurdsasgjihvhhfdb ⋅ r/WorldWar2
HMS Glowworm making her last stand against the Admiral Hipper 8 April 19401yr ⋅ Few-Ability-7312 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Last photo of the survivors of HMAS Armidale, which was sunk on 1 December 1942 after being attacked by Japanese aircraft, south of Timor. This photo was taken from a Catalina flying boat on the 8th, which was unable to land due to rough seas. The men in the raft would never be seen again.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Defenitly the best ww2 channel by far. Never have seen a more dedicated person than this man.2yr ⋅ jcolefan666 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Trinity, the world's first nuclear explosion, 25 milliseconds after detonation, Alamogordo Bombing Range, New Mexico, 16 July 19451yr ⋅ Goldeagle1123 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Sadly, 80% of the males born in Soviet in 1923 died during World War 2. They were either taken as as prisoners and starved/killed, or surprised in battle and killed outright by opposing forces.2yr ⋅ poop-machines ⋅ r/WorldWar2
John C. Woods, who lied about of being a hangman, then purposefully made the executions of Nazi war criminals and holocaust enablers convicted at the Nurnberg trials slow and painful1yr ⋅ veloticMw ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Albina Mali Hocevar. A member of the Yugoslav Partisans. She was wounded in combat three times. The third was on her 18th birthday.2yr ⋅ TheFalc0ner ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A young German soldier captured by British forces near Caen during Operation Goodwood. 18 July 1944.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
The moment the powder magazine of USS Shaw exploded during the Pearl Harbor attack, following the direct hit of three 500lb bombs, 7 December 1941 at about 0930. Note the after turrets of the USS Nevada passing in the channel at right.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A man at a yard sale sold me this USSR gas mask. its clearly used and has a strange smell to it. you think its safe to wear?8mo ⋅ EmphasisSwimming6413 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
“The 98 Rock”: an escaped American POW carved the message “98 US PW” near the site of a massacre on Wake Island by his Japanese occupiers. He was later recaptured, and beheaded personally by Admiral Sakaibara.2yr ⋅ WhenPigsRideCars ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A British jeep passes a sign warning against looting on the outskirts of Ravenna, Italy, 7 December 1944.1yr ⋅ JCFalkenberglll ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Australian soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945. These five POWs were held in the Changi POW camp. Over 22,000 Australians became prisoners of war of the Japanese. The newspaper the soldier is reading is the “Daily Express” from September 5th, 1945.2yr ⋅ CButler19 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Abandoned bunker from World War 2 in France that fell after a storm that removed sand of the beach.2yr ⋅ Kemro59 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Japanese soldier gives water to a dying horse from his canteen, during the Battle of Shanghai, 19371yr ⋅ Goldeagle1123 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
French civilians converse with US soldiers of the body of a dead German soldier. The Frenchman wearing the cap is the one who killed him. Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy. 6 June 1944.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A woman walks through the ruins of Berlin during the Battle of Berlin, May 19452yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
US Soldiers examine a captured German G33/40 Carbine in Tunisia - 1943.1yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A reunion of Pearl Harbor veterans on the 60th anniversary of the attack, 2001. Richard Fiske who was a crewman on the USS West Virginia embraces Zenji Abe who flew off the Akagi as a part of the second wave.1yr ⋅ YoYoB0B ⋅ r/WorldWar2
78 years ago today-Feb. 23, 1945. Marines raise the flag over Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima.1yr ⋅ MAGASig ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division are briefed for their first and only Airborne mission of World War II known as Operation Varsity.2yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
WWII - Ivan Federovich Boiko and his wife Aleksandra Boiko, the Soviet couple that crewed the same tank. They had 5 confirmed tank kills.1yr ⋅ Europa_Teles_BTR ⋅ r/WorldWar2
An unidentified Canadian soldier guarding a captured German officer, Vaucelles, France, 18 July 1944.2yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
An American marine with a captured Japanese Type 99 light machine gun. Saipan. July 1945.2yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Prisoners from the Wobbelin Concentration Camp near the city of Ludwigslust prepare for transportation to a nearby hospital after their liberation by the American 82nd Airborne Division. May, 1945.1yr ⋅ ATSTlover ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Battleship USS Texas (BB-35) in drydock at Galveston, TX undergoing extensive repairs.1yr ⋅ vdavidiuk ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A lonely bunker I came across in north-eastern France, 2km from the Belgian border1yr ⋅ sealcebbor ⋅ r/WorldWar2
The path of the German Stuka dive bomber, used in the Luftwaffe during WW2. They would dive down as close as possible to their target for deadly accuracy and are infamous for the screaming sound that the plane made.2yr ⋅ The_Cometeer ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Soldiers from the 157th US Infantry Regiment shoot SS guards from the German concentration camp Dachau. In the center of the photo is the calculation of the 7.62 mm Browning M1919A4 machine gun. The photo was taken after the first salvo .2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
German Panzer IV tanks being transported via train to the Eastern Front, 1943.1yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Visible exhausted RAF Pilot Brian Lane, photographed here after nearly 30hrs of dogfighting. Click to read more.2yr ⋅ saladdodger77 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Adolf Hitler delivering a speech at the foundation laying ceremony of the Volkswagen plant in Fallersleben, Wolfsberg, Germany, 26 May 19382yr ⋅ Goldeagle1123 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Roza Georgiyevna Shanina, one of the best Soviet snipers, 1943. Confirmed kills: 54.2yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
'Into the Jaws of Death.’ Down the ramp of a Coast Guard landing barge, Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day invasion of the French Coast. Men of the 1st Infantry Division. Normandy, France. 6 June 1944.2yr ⋅ Historynsnz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
U.S. troops entering Rizal Baseball Stadium during the Battle of Manila, Philippines. 16 February 1945.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Injured Hitler Youth anti-aircraft battery crewmen being decorated for bravery, 1943.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
USS Massachusetts BB-59, USS Alabama BB-60, USS New Jersey BB-62 & USS Iowa BB-61 photographed from USS Washington BB-56 in the Pacific - 1944 Original Color Picture LIFE Magazine Archives - J R Eyerman Photographer1yr ⋅ Few-Ability-7312 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
An Ukrainian refugee, deported to Germany for forced labor years prior, sits and eats in front of the Zeppelinfeld at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg following liberation by American forces. 28 April 1945.2yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
American Boeing B-29 Superfortress strategic bombers dropping their load over Japan.2yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
German soldiers of the Großdeutschland Division before the the battle of Kursk, 1943. The man sitting down is allegedly Guy Sajer; author of ‘The Forgotten Soldier’.1yr ⋅ YoYoB0B ⋅ r/WorldWar2
20mm Oerlikon guns in the catwalk of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) in February 1945.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Can someone fact check to see if that’s actually Desmond Doss on hacksaw ridge?1yr ⋅ Unlucky-Constant-736 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Adolf Hitler at the Wolfsschanze a few days before the 20th July bomb attack by Claus von Stauffenberg, who is pictured on the left1yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Four French soldiers pose in front of their defensive positions somewhere on the French-German border, 1940. One of them is armed with a FM 24/29 light machine gun.1yr ⋅ MichelangelesqueAdz ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Forget the man of the flying trapese or Houndini... These Dauntless Dive Bomber pilots performed true death-defying acts. Not only that, but think of the rear gunner who had to go through the dive facing backward! A 70-degree dive from 8,000ft. They must have had ice running through their veins!2yr ⋅ Tight_Fill1704 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
German soldiers surrender to the soldiers of the Red Army after a hand-to-hand attack. July 1941, Western Front.2yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/WorldWar2
“One People, One Empire, One Leader” Nazi propaganda slogan on a wall in Halle, Germany. The town would be taken by troops of 104th Infantry Division of 1st U.S. Army, 14 April 1945.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/WorldWar2
American troops on board a landing craft heading for the beaches at Oran in Algeria during Operation 'Torch', November 1942. It will be cool to know their names1yr ⋅ Few-Ability-7312 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
“This Is Worse Than Fighting.” Platoon Sergeant John Basilone, USMC, awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Guadalcanal, wears a harried look as he relates his experiences to the press at the Navy Department, September 2, 19431yr ⋅ JCFalkenberglll ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A Recruit Of The Elite Waffen-SS Is Tested On His Marksmanship At The Shooting Range As Part Of His Basic Training. Training Of Enlisted SS Men Lasted For Approximately 16 Weeks, Whereas SS Officers Trained For 19 Months.2yr ⋅ The-Kaiser1871 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Dwight D. Eisenhower cries before an audience of veterans in 1952 as he recalls the sacrifices soldiers made on D-Day.11mo ⋅ WhenPigsRideCars ⋅ r/WorldWar2
USAAF B-24 bombers approach Berlin, taken by German photograph Arthur Grimm, circa February 19451yr ⋅ Goldeagle1123 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Richard Bong, The Greatest American Ace, Credited with 40 confirmed kills.2yr ⋅ Moopa000 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
22-year-old Wieslawa Wojcicka Slawa from the Miotła battalion, from the Radoslaw grouping, after a few hours' passage through the sewers from Krasinski Square to Warecka Street to Srodmiescie in the morning of September 2, 1944. She survived the war. She died in 2009.1wk ⋅ Cultural-Fruit-63 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
German Soldier in action in the heavy fighting around Stalingrad - still confident of victory. USSR, September 19421yr ⋅ haeyhae11 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Luftwaffe officer with a dueling scar across his face. The 'dueling' scars were otherwise known as mensur scars.1yr ⋅ Nowiscurrent ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Two French legionaries of the German Wehrmacht’s 'Legion des Volontaires Francais' (French volunteers of the German army) take part in urban warfare during the early stages of Operation Barbarossa. Soviet Union. Summer, 1941.1yr ⋅ The-Kaiser1871 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Japanese POW listening to Emperor Showa's surrender announcement, Guam, 15 Aug 19451yr ⋅ icewollowcome_60 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
A colorized picture of U.S Staff Sergeant Francis Daggertt of the Military Police of the 11th Armored Division with a young Wehrmacht soldier. The German was only 10 years old when captured in the German city of Kronach on April 27th, 1945.1yr ⋅ Nowiscurrent ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Adolf Hitler addressing the Reichstag of the declaration of war against Poland, 1 September, 1939.2yr ⋅ DepressedMemerBoi ⋅ r/WorldWar2
