An American soldier turns a blind eye in the background as former Dachau prisoners prepare to execute an SS guard with a shovel. The guard was known to terrorize and murder men, women & children. (April 29th, 1945)4yr ⋅ Dannyboi93 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Five SS men are forced to walk past the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. They'd changed into civilian clothes in a failed attempt to evade capture. According to the photographer, the men were shot immediately after this photo was taken (May 1945).5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lepa Radic, a 17 year old Serbian girl about to be hanged. She was asked by the Nazis where her accomplices were to which she replied, “You'll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.” (1943)3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Russian refugee who saved an American soldier from a burning tank is given an American uniform to fight alongside the 3rd Tank Battalion of the 10th Armored Division. 21 March, 19453mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Boris Lazarev found after 50 years, a Soviet fighter pilot killed at 226mo ⋅ Terror_Billy1963 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Russian survivor liberated by the U.S. Army identifies a former Nazi SS officer who brutally beat the prisoners (Colourised) [April 14, 1945]4mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Japanese leaflet dropped on Allied troops to encourage their surrender, 19422mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
British soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore in 1945. (Colorized)7mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Brad Freeman, last surviving member of E Company, last of the legendary Band of Brothers, has passed at 97. RIP1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses awaiting the scrap heap, 1946.2mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
“Babies on bayonets”—Atrocities being committed by the occupying Japanese forces against Chinese citizens3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur meet for the first time. The Japanese were said to be offended by this picture because of how casual MacArthur was while next to the Emperor, which the Japanese saw as a god (1945)3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Allegedly the last picture of Adolf Hitler before he committed suicide on April 30, 1945. Hitler (right) and his adjutant Julius Schaub looking at the ruins of the Reich chancellery, April 28, 19453mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldiers crossing the border into the Soviet Union. Operation Barbarossa, 22 June 1941. [600 x 850]3yr ⋅ verostein ⋅ r/wwiipics
Inscription on a headstone of a British soldier, died 6th June, 1944 age 17.2yr ⋅ PrinceHarming ⋅ r/wwiipics
A US gunner, having stripped off his uniform to rescue an injured airman, who had been floating in the ocean for 24 hours after being shot down; photographed by Horace Bristol of the US Naval Aviation Photographic Unit (1944)2mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Bonus. Polish Colonel Kazimierz turned 109 yesterday, fought in the 1939 September campaign, then in the underground resistance and later in the Warsaw Uprising. That's a hell of a soldier. Found via Alina Nowobilska WW2 Polish historian.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
This sequence of images shows a Japanese officer disemboweling himself to death (suppuku) following Japan's defeat. This was a two person job with the person in the back acting as the help to ensure the person doesn't suffer any more than he needs to (1945)3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945.3yr ⋅ Sleeeepy_Hollow ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton, Okinawa, 19451yr ⋅ LongDukDong84 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An unauthorized photo of Stalin, taken after he was informed that the Germans were about to capture Kiev (Kyiv), 1941. Photograph taken by the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda.4mo ⋅ Silverfrost5549 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 Waddy's Wagon (20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group, 869th Bomb Squadron) posing to duplicate the nose art. All were KIA when the bomber was shot down over Japan in January, 1945.2yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Kamikaze pilots posing for a signed group photo to immortalise them before their final suicide flights as guided flying missiles in the Pacific War against the American Fleet (1944)3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Apparently Hermann Goring was a big fan of train models, here seen playing in a large diorama. Article in comments.6mo ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Dwight D. Eisenhower, then Supreme Allied commander, watches as survivors of the Ohrdruf concentration camp demonstrate torture methods used at the camp, April 12, 19453mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Notes made by a French tank gunner for identification of German tanks6mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American Marine, in foreground, still clutches the knife with which he killed the Jap, in background, in a duel on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll. A moment after finishing off his adversary, a sniper's bullet killed the Marine. ca. Feb 1944.3mo ⋅ DrTralfamadorian ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Dachau prisoner marked with the X beat a Nazi to death with his bare hands. Details in comments. 19453wk ⋅ PropertyOpening1158 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by dragging a corpse toward one of the ovens, Dachau Germany, c. May, 19452mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Pilots of the American 8th Bomber Command wearing high altitude clothes, oxygen masks and flight goggles, 19422mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
German boy walking down a dirt road lined with the corpses of hundreds of prisoners who have died of starvation near the. Bergen extermination camp (Spring 1945)3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Tate: A mass hanging of Russian peasants by the retreating Nazi Army during the Second World War, late 1943. Part of the David King Collection9mo ⋅ CeruleanSheep ⋅ r/wwiipics
Replacement Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses lined up on an airfield in England to replace squadron losses for the US Eighth Air Force - 1943/44 (Original Color Photograph Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)2mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Marines on Iwo Jima when they got word that the Japanese had surrendered, March 19451mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lt. Dick Winters ('Band of Brothers') during training at Camp MacKall, NC in 1943. Later commanded Easy Company of the 2nd Bn, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. (679x900)1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American soldiers talking to a member of the Swiss guard in Vatican, 19443yr ⋅ StrejdaElda ⋅ r/wwiipics
General Shiro Ishii performing vivisection on a prisoner at Unit 7315mo ⋅ HWIsBetterThanReagan ⋅ r/wwiipics
Three German soldiers who froze to death in -40° temperatures, Stalingrad6mo ⋅ sean_rooney2000 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument4yr ⋅ SirAlex0211 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet partisans moments before being executed by German forces in the Eastern Front, c. 19441mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German soldier is about to shoot a Jewish man in Vinnytsia. 1941. The victim is sitting on the edge of an excavation with many dead bodies inside. This image is titled The last Jew in Vinnitsa. Vinnitsa, Ukraine2mo ⋅ stevenwraysford ⋅ r/wwiipics
Shoot you filthy german dogs! Long live Czeshoslovakia! Last words of 4 star General Josef Bily, who was executed by Nazis for his resistance activities on this day 79 years ago. [977x1004]3yr ⋅ Muff1995 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Jewish man holds the starved corpse of an infant in the Warsaw Ghetto (1941) (NSFL)5mo ⋅ HWIsBetterThanReagan ⋅ r/wwiipics
British soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, 15 October 1941.3yr ⋅ yusufakman55 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Troops hold up a captured Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler outside a cafe on Hohenzollernstraße in Munich, 22nd March 1945.3yr ⋅ vorst17735 ⋅ r/wwiipics
“The Thousand Yard Stare”—USMC Private Theodore J. Miller is helped aboard a ship after intense combat on Eniwetok Atoll. Miller was KIA a month later.4yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captain Lewis Nixon of the 101st Airborne wakes up after a night of celebrating courtesy of Goerings private Liquor, Wine and Champagne collection, Austria May 4th 1945.2yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German General Anton Dostler's body slumps toward the ground after being executed by a firing squad at Aversa, Italy. December 3, 19455mo ⋅ DrTralfamadorian ⋅ r/wwiipics
Paul Gruninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders so he could save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they arrived when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Gruninger was later fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension.2mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/wwiipics
An old Russian man, clinging to his old uniform, shortly before his death, 1980s(?)3yr ⋅ pain67566 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division suffering a hangover after celebrating V-E Day at Hitler’s “Eagles Nest” (where they “liberated” a collection of 10,000 bottles of liquor, wine, and champagne amassed by Hermann Goring) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1945.5mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The beach on Guadalcanal in 1951, six years after WWII ended. (LIFE Magazine Archives - Howard Sochurek Photographer)3mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese girls training in 1945 for the anticipated invasion of mainland Japan3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
Some of the many Chinese and Korean 'comfort women'—women forced into sexual slavery by the occupying Japanese forces seen here with a Japanese soldier (c. 1940)2mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
American soldier taking a nap on a bed belonging to German General Hermann Goering after elements of the US 3rd Army captured his lodge. Germany, May 3, 1945.2mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet AA gunners wearing American helmets aboard a Lend-Lease supplied American ship4mo ⋅ Great_White_Sharky ⋅ r/wwiipics
Pvt./PFC. LC Byrd of the 761st tank battalion behind a .50 near Nancy, France; 5 November 1944. Byrd would be KIA several days later.1yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
The resultant mushroom cloud captured here by Hiromichi Matsuda roughly fifteen minutes after the detonation of the ‘Fat Man’ nuclear bomb over Nagasaki (9 August 1945)3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
My grandfather (left) and his friend in their hitler youth uniforms, 19414yr ⋅ real_eliZabethWarren ⋅ r/wwiipics
WWII Veteran Dean McCandless from the 505 PIR of the 82nd Airborne Division. He made all four combat jumps (Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and the Netherlands). He just turned 100 years old!3yr ⋅ LegendsofWWII ⋅ r/wwiipics
Easy Company 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division in Hitler's eagle's nest 1945. 'Band of brothers'3yr ⋅ Losenoc ⋅ r/wwiipics
Danish resistance fighters stealthily confront German occupiers, 19453wk ⋅ Top-Astronaut4004 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lt. Colonel James H. Howard in the cockpit of his P-51 Mustang on January 11th 1944. (1244x940)1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
WWII: American soldiers wash uniforms and themselves during the Battle of Saipan, 1944. (640x802)1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German zookeeper taking care of a shoebill bird at home, as the Soviets are approaching Berlin (1945)1yr ⋅ UltimateLazer ⋅ r/wwiipics
My grandpa is not doing well and will probably pass away soon. He’s 96 and a veteran of WW2. He was in the 66th Black Panther Division. Truly a hero and I’ll miss him greatly :(2yr ⋅ SuperStoner ⋅ r/wwiipics
Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's private secretary, relaxes on the terrace at the Berghof, Hitler's vacation home on the Obersalzberg, 1943.4mo ⋅ Silverfrost5549 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, 506th PIR the morning after VE Day, 1945.3yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
This combination of three photographs shows the reaction of a 16 year old German soldier after he was captured by U.S. forces, at an unknown location in Germany, in 19453mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Surrender of U-858: German (Type IXC) U-boat, U-858, surrendered to Allied forces on May 14, 1945, at Lewes, Delaware. She surrendered earlier at sea four days earlier.1yr ⋅ Biff-Buff ⋅ r/wwiipics
One of the last WWII Spitfire fighter pilots, Czech Emil Bocek Is today celebrating his 98 birthday. He fought in defence of France in 1940 and flew Spitfire in 1944-1945 and underwent 28 combat missions over Germany and France. Happy Birthday, sir! [640x425]3yr ⋅ Muff1995 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Japanese prisoner of war at Guam, Mariana Islands, covers his face after hearing Hirohito making the announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender on August 15, 19452mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet bouncy ball taken as war loot by finnish forces. Petrozavodsk 1941.3yr ⋅ TheDoors1940 ⋅ r/wwiipics
WW II: German POW, 7'3’’ (221cm) Jakob Nacken, chatting with Canadian corporal, 5'3’’ (160cm) Bob Roberts near Calais, France in September of 1944.1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group of men survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming.1mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A man shakes hands with a dog outside his tent during the battle of the Bulge, 1944.1yr ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captain Clark Gable flew 5 missions with 351st Bomb Group filming gunnery combat in 1943 with many scenes used in the documentary “Combat America.” Hitler offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed1yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
British Paratroopers with a German prisoner during Operation Market Garden, Arnhem, September 18th 1944.2mo ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
Transformation of Fritzes. WW2 poster by Kukryniksy (artist's trio: KUpriyanov, KRYlov, NIKolay Sokolov). 19421yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldiers sleep after moving from Holland to Belgium. May 19404mo ⋅ Antique_Pop1482 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Messerschmitt Bf 109 E3 undergoing testing at a then-advanced wind tunnel in the Herman Goering Aviation Research Institute—one of Germany’s most closely shrouded military sites during the war (1940)3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
New Zealand's 28th Battalion, aka Maori Battalion, performing a haka in Egypt, July 19413mo ⋅ NapoleonHeckYes ⋅ r/wwiipics
The all-black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, nicknamed The Triple Nickles, never served in combat but participated in fire-fighting missions throughout the Pacific Northwest as smokejumpers1yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
Harold Agnew carrying the plutonium core of the Nagasaki Fat Man bomb, 19453mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
The U.S. crew of the B-29 'Waddy’s Wagon' imitate their caricatures on the plane, led by former All-American end, Captain Walter Waddy Young, 1944.1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lancaster bomber dropping food parcels for the starving residents of Ypenburg, Netherlands as part of Operation Manna, May 1945.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
On this Memorial Day, lest we forget- November 26, 1944: the surviving members of USS Intrepid’s crew gather to pay their respects to 69 men, killed by kamikaze attacks the day before. [957x960] (Colorized) Link to original black and white in comments.3yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
57,000 German prisoners of war, being paraded in the streets of Moscow in 1944.1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A woman cries in the rubble after Allied bombing of Dessau. Germany, 7 March 1945.1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A sergeant of the US 29th Infantry Division is killed by a German sniper while clearing the town of Julich of its last defenders, February 1945.6mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Fearing capture by US troops after Nazi defeat, Major Walter Doenicke of the Volkssturm lies dead next to a torn picture of Hitler after ingesting cyanide3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
‘The Standing Boy of Nagasaki’- taken in Nagasaki, shortly after the atomic bombing of that city on August 9, 1945, of a 10 year old boy carrying his dead brother on his back waiting for his turn at the crematorium3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
My uncle left this HIMAMARU* flag from pearl harbor. I heard the families keep these flags. how could I find the family? if not what's it worth if I sell it?2wk ⋅ kingofbagger ⋅ r/wwiipics
Faris Tuohy, who fought in WWII, is holding a photo from 1944. That’s him on the left, holding a cup of coffee, after one of many hellacious battles. He celebrated 97 this past April.2yr ⋅ Blunt_Force20 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Doctors lead by Shiro Ishii at Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army perform experiments on a terrified prisoner after strapping him down, c. 19402mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Messerschmitt Me-262 jet at the KUNO 1 Forest Factory” - April, 19453mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German women of Namering ordered by Military Government with Third Army to view bodies of 800 murdered Russians, Czechs, and French who were inmates of Flossenburg Prison Camp. Bodies were exhumed by townspeople of Namering from stream bank and reburied. May 17, 19455mo ⋅ DrTralfamadorian ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American serviceman shares his rations with two Japanese children on the island of Okinawa, 1945.2mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US war correspondent Ernie Pyle lays dead on Ie Shima after being shot in the head; 17 April 1945. General Eisenhower would comment, The GIs in Europe, and that means all of us, have lost one of our best and most understanding friends.3mo ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German soldier, Soviet POW, and Finnish soldier, share their interest in photography (Karelia, Finland, 1941)2yr ⋅ sarge4567 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Dutch resistance fighters with captured German weapons celebrate the liberation of Breda, 29 October, 1944. [1080x1111]3yr ⋅ WW2077 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The largest banzai charge of the war took place during the Battle of Saipan when over 4,300 Japanese hit the US 105th Infantry Regiment resulting in almost all of the Japanese being killed; 7 July, 19441yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
January 31, 1943. German general Friederich Paulus surrenders to Soviet forces after the Battle of Stalingrad1yr ⋅ nysom1227 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Three Soviet POWs, one who looks like a civilian, stand in their own grave moments before their execution by German Wehrmacht forces. Eastern Front, 1942.4mo ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/wwiipics
William Patrick Hitler, (Adolf Hitler's nephew) being sworn into the US Navy having moved to the US after a falling out with said uncle. After the war he was honorably discharged and later changed his surname to Stuart-Houston (1944)3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand on Iwo Jima, 1945. (616x715)1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American soldiers surrender to the SS-Kampfgruppe Peiper . Stoumont, Belgium. 12/19/19444mo ⋅ Antique_Pop1482 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soldiers from the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom pose together for a photograph on Pariser Platz, Berlin, 22 August 1945.3yr ⋅ AutisticKnight ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lt. Richard Dick Winters of the 501st PIR during training at Camp MacKall - 19433yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects Atlantic Wall defenses, early 1944..He’s just wishing all that brass will move on1yr ⋅ Existing_Ad3192 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Hiroo Onoda (middle): The Imperial Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for 30 years after WWII, surrendering to Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos (left). Along with his former commanding officer Major Yoshimi Taniguchi. Lubang Island, Philippines, March 11, 19742yr ⋅ diwakar9777 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American POWs Lee Rogers and John C. Todd sit outside Santo Tomas Internment Camp following liberation after 4 years of captivity under the Japanese Army. 5 February 1945, Philippines.3mo ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/wwiipics
A fraternal kiss between a Soviet major and an American staff sergeant at a feast in Germany, shortly after VE Day (1945)1yr ⋅ UltimateLazer ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Russian refugee who saved an American soldier from a burning tank is given an American uniform to fight alongside the 3rd Tank Battalion of the 10th Armored Division. 21 March, 1945.2yr ⋅ signalcorpsarchive ⋅ r/wwiipics
