7520 best r/wwiipics images on Pholder | German POWs captured during the Battle of Aachen being marched through the ruined streets of the city in October, 1944.

German POWs captured during the Battle of Aachen being marched through the ruined streets of the city in October, 1944.

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The crew of a British submarine at sea eating lunch - served around midnight. 1941.

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An allied soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a bath in the port city of Tobruk, Libya. 17 February 1942.

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A stunned Finnish soldier walks away without injury after shrapnel pierced his helmet in August 1941.

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German commandos, captured in American uniforms, are prepared for execution, 1944. (1279x1022)

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I am an American sign above a store owned by a Japanese man in San Francisco, USA; The picture was taken shortly before the store was closed, and the owner was sent to a concentration camp for people of Japanese descent - March, 1942

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Harry Daghlian (center left) and Louis Slotin (center right) during the Trinity test performed by the US Army as part of the Manhattan Project. Both would later die following supercriticality accidents involving the demon core

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Allied reconnaissance of German soldiers setting up beach obstacles in Normandy; May 1944

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Dated September 28, 1942. This is the insulation in our attic.

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Adolf Hitler and a number of other officials observing the mammoth Krupp 80 cm Schwerer Gustav / Dora being readied for a test firing at Rugenwalde, Germany (19 March 1943)

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Help ID this person? Found amongst my grandfathers WWII pics

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This photo, taken a few days after the death of George S. Patton in December 1945, shows his faithful dog Willie, lying next to the General's personal belongings. The legendary Commander of the U.S. Third Army absolutely loved his white bull terrier who followed him everywhere.

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“MacArthur is giving his all - are you?” (1942)

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Overview of the remains of Stalingrad shortly following the end of the Battle in late 1943

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A Finnish military chaplain writing letters to the families of fallen comrades in 1941.

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PFC Frank Pomroy, 'H' Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines in the marshes of Peleliu Island; September 1944

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British children taking shelter in a trench while watching an aerial battle overhead during the Battle of Britain on September 3, 1940.

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This is a photo of Lou Conter, who passed away today at the age 102. Lou was the last remaining survivor of the USS Arizona, which was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Stumbled on this photo at Toronto’s reference library. To my knowledge the only photo of Churchill in aviators. Sometime during WW2.

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My grandfather third on the right bottom row. Shot down on his 17th mission. 2 KIA the 8 POW’s. Top turret gunner Technical Sergeant Lowell T Jolley was lynched. Tail gunner SSG James H Wayne chute failed. My grandfathers after action report will be put in the body text & I have a few POW stories.

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Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean captured by the Japanese and pressed to fight the Soviets, captured by the Soviets and pressed to fight the Germans, captured by the Germans and pressed to defend Normandy, where he was captured by the Americans on Utah Beach. June, 1944.

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The first US troops to make contact on Iwo Jima were Underwater Demolition Team swimmers two days before the invasion. The frogmen swam to shore to gather intelligence about beach and surf conditions, clear mines and obstacles, gather sand samples, and take note of Japanese defenses

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Three young Russian women and a little girl recently liberated from a labor camp by the U.S. Army lay flowers at the feet of four dead American soldiers, April 18, 1945, Hilden, Germany. (960x776)

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Young Elizabeth with her family and Winston Churchill, celebrating V-E Day in 1945. The sheer amount of global changes anyone that age has experienced, just blows me away.

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Boeing YB-40 Heavy Escort, a modified B-17 used for escorting bombers to and from their targets in the early days of the war. Some would have up to 30 machine guns on board.

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A cousin of mine was killed on the first day of Operation Cobra on July 26, 1944, when his tank took a direct hit. He was a veteran of the invasions of Sicily & North Africa where he earned the DSC for valor. He served with the 66th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division. Humbling.

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Siege (battle) of Leningrad: German sentinel next to a sign post 'Where the german soldier stands is germany' 01.dec.1941

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“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant who died in Air Battle” 1941

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German soldier with his uniform on backwards

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Destruction of German cities in ww2

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The Germans truly were masters of camouflage

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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 !

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A Soviet village is set on fire during the German advance, photographed on October 28, 1941

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A broken German Stahlhelm lies in a puddle with the ruins of the Reichstag visible in the background, Berlin.

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“The unauthorized photo of stalin 1941. The image shows Stalin at the very moment when he received the news that the German army was about to take Kiev, the first large Soviet city to fall into German hands (August 1941).”

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Soviet soldier returning to his home after the war, 1945 - World War II

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This is a picture of my grandfather at the beginning of WWII. Can you help me identify his service branch and rank?

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More than 5 billion bottles of Coke were distributed to soldiers during World War II, thanks to Coca-Cola.

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Scottish sniper from C Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch in position in a ruined building in Gennep, the Netherlands, 14 February 1945

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When the Japanese surrendered aboard the Battleship Missouri in September 1945, America’s airborne military might was on full display. An armada of 1000+ United States fighters and bombers flew low and slow over the “Mighty Mo” to hammer the message home to the Japanese that the war was over.

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A German Panther tanks burns during the Battle of Cologne in March 1945.

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Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is strapped to a post moments before his execution by a firing squad for war crimes. Dostler was convicted of having 15 POWs summarily executed (Italy, December 1, 1945)

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Bf-110, photo taken from the gunners seat

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Slovak fighter Ace Jan Reznak (32 victories + 5 unofficial) is showing his attack tactic to another Slovak firghtter Ace Izidor Kovarik (28 victories). April 1944. Both were highly decorated and top aces of Fascist Slovakia. [1000x666]

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“Wild” Bill Guarnere and Edward “Babe” Heffron— 2 heroes of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division.

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After 78 years, Soldier comes back to France to commemorate the D-Day anniversary. The first picture shows him in 1944 guarding over a German soldier in the town of Audouville! Second picture 78 years later on same road.

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American soldier who was a German POW for three months (April 1945)

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“Wild Bill” Crump and his pet coyote nicknamed Jeep. Crump smuggled the pup to England where he was given his own dog tags, flight log, and immunization record. Jeep flew five missions aboard Crump's P-47 and was given a burial with full military honors after being run over by a vehicle

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(Original color photo) Assembly of B-25 bombers at the Fairfax plant, Kansas City, USA - October, 1942

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A Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 going down into the English Channel

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column of Italian,German, Romanian and Hungarian soldiers retreating in the Russian steppe after the defeat of Stalingrad, Eastern Front - January 1943

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Actor Paul Newman enlisted in the US Navy in 1943 at the age of 17

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Lt. Richard Dick Winters of the 501st PIR during training at Camp MacKall - 1943

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German super heavy tank Maus heading to the Boblingen testing ground, June 22nd, 1944. Credit to the Tank Museum Bovington.

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A WW2 Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer, Hiroo Onoda never surrendered in 1945. Until 1974, for almost 30 years, he held his position in the Philippines. His former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974. National Archives.

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A German soldier sitting with his head in his hands by a destroyed heavy artillery gun and the corpse of one of his compatriots during the Kursk battle of July 1943.

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Chocolates from the Tirpitz Museum, Denmark.

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Greek anti-fascist partisans on Crete, 1941

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Mocking der Fuhrer- British Royal Signals soldiers laugh at “Adolf's” gestures, October 3, 1939

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A US marine shares rations with an elderly woman on Okinawa in April 1945.

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U.S. troops watching the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. March 1944

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Rare Color Photo of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and Hermann Goring (1893-1946)

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Finnish soldiers passing remains of t 34

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A frontline encounter. Father and daughter met at the front in 1944. Tatyana Koneva, combat medic of an artillery regiment, with her father. Photo by Nikolay Shestakov.

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Two American soldiers guarding a road junction with a .50 caliber M2 machine gun. 2 January, 1945.

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Allied troops pass a sign on a road prompting them to kill the Japanese occupiers in retribution for Japanese war crimes against wounded American soldiers during the Guadalcanal Campaign, Sept 27, 1943.

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With its 33 m barrel and a weight of over 300 tons, the 21 cm K12 is fired from occupied France towards the British channel.

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18 year old GI John Wauthier with his BAR near Butgenbach Belgium, January 1945. He survived the war and married Ursula Ann Hoffman, they had ten kids together. John passed away at the age of 71 on Nov 7, 1997 and is buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Cecil, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

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James Francis “Stocky” Edwards, Canadian ace with 19 confirmed kills, has died at age 100

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A surreal scene in the Pacific Theatre of war - After an agreement of ceasefire has been reached, US Army troops escorted a contingent of Japanese Marines into their fighting lines. These Japanese troops were ambushed by American GIs and Filipino guerillas. Only 6 came back, the rest were killed.

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14 May 1945. German officers of U-805 give their surrender on the deck of the destroyer escort USS Varian (DE-798). (1024 x 825)

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U.S. Army Nurses sunbathing next to a twin Bofors 40 mm gun on a Coast Guard troop ship returning back to the United States from Europe, 1945.

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German soldier resting on a makeshift chair, African Front - 1941 or 42

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Photographer caught a good shot just minutes before the more famous image was taken on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 1945

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A German soldier giving bread to an orphaned Russian boy in the Volkhov area, 1942

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Merry Christmas!

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My grandfather jumping out of a perfectly good airplane

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On December 24, 1944 the Germans reach the village of Celles, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. It was one of the furthest points they reached before the British 29th Armoured Brigade was able to halt them near the Meuse river. This tank stands as a memorial at the place the bulge was stopped.

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Red Army soldiers with a cat they found inside a ruined building , Stalingrad , 1942

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U.S. Air Force bombers fly over Ploiesti, Romania, following a raid on August 1, 1943. Of the 16 cameramen accompanying this mission, the one who took this photo was the only one to survive.

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26-inch thick armor from a Japanese Yamato class battleship, pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun. The armor is on display at the US Navy Museum.

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The 7th Panzer-Division in France, 1940. (1200x778)

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December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

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Amon Goeth, camp commander of the Plaszow concentration camp from February 1943 until September 1944, can be seen standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners

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US troops in Weymouth, Dorset, get ready to board landing ships before the invasion in 1944.

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Aerial view of Tokyo after the war. Can anyone help me identify the domed building in the right foreground?

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SS-Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen-SS Karl Wolff, Northern Italy 1944

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“The Great Panjandrum” was a WWII British rocket powered rolling bomb that would have hit top speeds of ~60MPH. It was dangerous and hard to aim, so it was never used in battle. (I am going to assume gifs are allowed)

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US medic gives first aid to a wounded German SS soldier in France, 1944. (736x557)

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