P-51B Mustang “Jeanne III” after crash landing at a USAAF base in China1mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
POW 2Lt Minoru Wada watches B-25 bombers attack positions of the Japanese 100th Infantry Division that he revealed, Aug 9, 1945, Mindanao, Philippines1yr ⋅ tomato_power ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. nurses walk along a beach in Normandy, France on July 4, 1944, after they had waded through the surf from their landing craft. They are on their way to field hospitals to care for the wounded allied soldiers.1yr ⋅ bizarre_gene ⋅ r/wwiipics
US soldiers crossing the Rhine under enemy fire at Sankt Goar, Germany; March 19451yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
German personnel inspect the first ever RAF Supermarine Spitfire captured intact, France 1940.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
For some reason there is an 8K picture of a US Army truck driver taken in May 1942. (8269x6431)4yr ⋅ Solid_SHALASHASKA ⋅ r/wwiipics
US and German war correspondents film together, St. Nazaire France, Nov.29 1944 (filmed by another German)3mo ⋅ Spike762x39 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German saboteur, captured while wearing a U.S. Army uniform during the battle of the Bulge, is lashed to a stake moments before his execution by a firing squad in Belgium. (Photo: U.S. Army Military History Institute)3yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The chin turret of a Boeing B-17G bomber with the cowling removed, revealing its six .50 caliber machine guns, June 17, 19444mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Hurricane pilot Ginger Lacey, scored 18 kills in Battle of Britain.3yr ⋅ duncan_D_sorderly ⋅ r/wwiipics
A desperate attack by a lone Japanese Ki-46 Dinah aircraft on an American B-29 bomber (29th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force) formation somewhere over the Mariana Islands - 19451yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Franz Von Werra is congratulated by his Luftwaffe comrades after his return to Germany, April 1941. He was shot down over England and sent to a POW camp in Canada. He escaped and crossed the US border into New York, the German Consulate smuggled him back to Germany.2yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captured German Kar98k rifles at Stavanger, Norway, after the surrender of Germany in 1945.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Battle of the German submarine U-515 with American escort destroyer and aircraft - 9 April, 19441yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A 20-year-old female welder during WWlI, photo by Bernard Hoffman, 1943.3yr ⋅ Sleeeepy_Hollow ⋅ r/wwiipics
“Kill The Bastards!” - A sign above a road in the Pacific. (From my Personal Collection)1yr ⋅ AidanSig ⋅ r/wwiipics
SU-76 self-propelled guns on parade in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, 24 Jun 1945.3mo ⋅ duncan_D_sorderly ⋅ r/wwiipics
A US soldier in Manila rescuing an injured Filipino girl, February 1945. Defying orders from General Yamashita, Japanese Marines in Manila refused to surrender. Over 100,000 civilians were killed, many intentionally by the Japanese, this has become known as the Manila Massacre.1yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
Allied soldiers - Americans, British and South Africans - carry a captured Nazi flag in the ruins of an unidentified city in Italy - 19441yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A U.S. Marine, killed by Japanese sniper fire, still holds his weapon as he lies in the black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima, on February 19, 1945, during the initial invasion on the island. In the background are the battleships of the U.S. fleet that made up the invasion task force.1yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
December, 1944, NUTS: Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe's reply to the German commander's demand that the 101st Airborne Division surrender at besieged Bastogne. (736x644)1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two local Italian nurses dress injuries for two British soldiers in front of the Cathedral of Sant'Agata in Via Vittorio Emanuele II, Catania, Sicily. August 5, 1943.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
American troops man a machine gun in a captured German position during the 1944 Battle of Hurtgen Forest.3yr ⋅ Losenoc ⋅ r/wwiipics
Final resting place of an “Unknown English Soldier” near Arnhem Bridge, 1945.4yr ⋅ diosmioman ⋅ r/wwiipics
A group of happy Japanese prisoners posing with a newspaper announcing their Nations surrender, 1945.2yr ⋅ YoYoB0B ⋅ r/wwiipics
A woman attemps to shield her child with her own body just before they are executed by Nazi death squad (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod, Ukraine. 19422yr ⋅ Heartfeltzero ⋅ r/wwiipics
Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton watch former concentration camp prisoners demonstrate the torture methods they were subjected to. Ordruf, Germany, April 12, 1945.1yr ⋅ _McThompson ⋅ r/wwiipics
Netherlands, 1945. Canadian Sherman Firefly and another Sherman variant armed with a 105 mm howitzer.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German V-2 rocket prepared by the British military with the help of Wehrmacht personnel for a test launch at a proving ground in the Altenwalde region, Germany. October 19454mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Professor Ernst Heinkel showing his youngest son a model of a He 111 bomber. May 22nd, 1941.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A tiger from the 508th heavy tank battalion of the Wehrmacht in Rome, in front of the Vittoriano Palace. This unit, consisting of 45 Tigers, was sent to attack the Allied foothold at Anzio and remained in the defense of northern Italy until the surrender in May 1945.1yr ⋅ Banonimus ⋅ r/wwiipics
My Dad, 96 and doing well, drove a truck through Nagasaki 3 weeks after the bomb dropped. They were going to pick up POWs at a Japanese camp to take them to a hospital ship. I knew about his experiences in Japan but never knew he had pics until today. He said he forgot about them.1yr ⋅ Farmzeke ⋅ r/wwiipics
Eugene Sledge’s Uniform worn at the Battle of Okinawa, 1945; displayed at The National Museum of The Pacific War, Fredericksburg, TX1yr ⋅ frankstah416 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A U.S. soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child during the battle between Japanese and American forces during the Battle of Saipan, 19443mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his senior commanders at Supreme Allied Headquarters in London. 19443mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German Flak crew photo of their regimental mascot sitting by a 88mm, FlaK 36 (c. 1941)4mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
An unknown British Paratrooper from the 10th Parachute Battalion photographs himself as he falls from a modified Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber in training at RAF Ringway, Cheshire, England, March 1943.2yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/wwiipics
In WWII, Daniel Inouye was flanking a German machine gun nest and took a bullet the stomach. Inching on, he was hit in the arm, almost severing it, then hit in the leg. Finally he destroyed the nest with a grenade. He went on to become a nine-term US senator for Hawaii. (564x824)2yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko, a Ukrainian Soviet sniper, was credited with 309 confirmed kills, making her the most successful female sniper in recorded history. Pavlichenko acquired the nickname Lady Death2yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
A piper leading Scottish troops at the beginning of Operation Epsom, also known as the First Battle of the Odon, in June 1944.1mo ⋅ Dhorlin ⋅ r/wwiipics
An armada of Marines is seen heading for the shores of Iwo Jima on D-day as Mt. Suribachi looms in the background1yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
German boy walking down a dirt road lined with the corpses of 100s of prisoners who have died of starvation near Bergen extermination camp. (Photo by George Rodger 20 April 1945)1yr ⋅ 8nt2L8 ⋅ r/wwiipics
French civilians fight with captured German weapons in Paris in August of 1944.2yr ⋅ thegreatlib23 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Marines unload equipment and supplies onto the sands of Iwo Jima from landing craft - February 19, 19452mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Col. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, hand-to-hand combat expert, 1943. Known for ordering trainee Marines to attempt to kill him with bayonets, and disarming them all.1yr ⋅ Biff-Buff ⋅ r/wwiipics
Traute Lafrenz, the last surviving member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance died on March 6, 2023 at the age of 103.1yr ⋅ icantthinkofaname940 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The mission tally on this B-17, E-Rat-Icator, of the 452nd Bomb Group. She was the only bomber of the group to survive the entire WW II. (1280x856)1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
British RAF pilot getting a haircut, smoking a pipe and reading a book while in between missions (1942)1yr ⋅ UltimateLazer ⋅ r/wwiipics
View from the front gunner position in a Luftwaffe Heinkel He-111 flying over Poland in the first days of WW2. September 1939.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
My Uncle Hank (Solider on the Left) hero of the Los Banos raid of the 11th Airborne passed this weekend at the age of 95.2yr ⋅ Bronze-Soul ⋅ r/wwiipics
Russian prisoners of war lifting up an American soldier after the US 9th Army liberated them from their camp at Eselheide, Germany (1945)1yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The brand new 03 1081 Reichsbahn train at Bw Amstetten / Lower Austria, 20 September 19401yr ⋅ LongDukDong84 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Harry Hudec of the 82nd Airborne stands ready for a combat jump in 1944. Wounded in Normandy, he was hidden away and cared for by French farmers. They remained lifelong friends and he returned to visit the man who rescued him in 2004.3yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two US Army MPs are slightly amused interrogating two German grade school children pressed into military service as the war was winding down. In general, any German soldier under 17 was briefly interrogated and then allowed to return home.1yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A group of Italian war prisoners working at the Webster Canning Company Plant in Rochester, NY receive the news of Italy's Declaration of War on Germany. October 14, 19431yr ⋅ FantasticFinding642 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Newly built F4U Corsair and F6F Hellcats being prepared to be shipped to the Pacific theatre, USA, 19441yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German soldier completing a giant wave on a horizontal bar in full marching kit2yr ⋅ Le_Rekt_Guy ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Navy personnel freeing a PBY-5A Catalina from frozen waters at Kodiak Bay, Alaska - Winter of 1942-43 (Colorized)1yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Army M36 Jackson tank destroyer firing from a concealed position between buildings. Oberbrauch, Germany, 1945.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
General George S. Patton: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country”.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
Unfortunately blur but this old pic shows a USAAF B-17 ditching in Lake Zug, Switzerland.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Members of The Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ), Captured in Occupied Zagreb. Defiantly Smile in front of their Grave moments before their Execution at the Hands of the Fascists. Zagreb, Yugoslavia2yr ⋅ ZestyZasta ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Marine Hayes points to himself on the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photo. He had a tragic and short life after the war, he was found dead lying near an abandoned adobe hut in Sacaton, Arizona, in 1955, aged 32. He died of exposure to cold and alcohol poisoning.4yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A member of the RAF holds up a bulletproof window from a captured Messerschmitt Bf-109. Colourised.3yr ⋅ vorst17735 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A single Stahlhelm lies at the edge of the abyss, with a destroyed Reichstag in the background. Aftermath of the Battle of Berlin, 1945.3yr ⋅ r1ckeh ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Luftwaffe general teaching a young German soldier about throwing hand grenades(1945 January)1mo ⋅ Antique_Pop1482 ⋅ r/wwiipics
M4A3E2 Sherman Cobra King was the first tank to enter the Bastogne perimeter in relief of the American 101st Airborne Division; December 19441yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
USS Augusta, USS Midway, USS Enterprise, USS Missouri, USS New York, USS Helena, and USS Macon steaming up the Hudson River on their return home after World War II, October 27, 1945. [960x1160]1yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two young girls assemble submachine guns during the siege of Leningrad in 19432yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. 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. (900x612)2yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects Atlantic Wall defenses, early 19441yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
In this photo, Corporal Allan Bartlett scans the ruins through the scope of his Lee-Enfield No.4 MkI (T). Every time he was questioned about the number of enemy soldiers he had killed, Corporal Bartlett simply replied: “Several...”1yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American officer points his M1911 pistol at German soldier that just surrendered near Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge; December 19443yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Polish boy carrying loaves of bread provided by the Red Cross in an Iranian refugee camp during WW2. Library of Congress www.thevintagenews.com.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Stairs of Death: prisoners forced to carry a granite block up 186 steps to the top of the quarry at Mauthausen concentration camp.2yr ⋅ Detours1204 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Searchlights pierce the sky over Gibraltar and anti-aircraft guns open fire into the night in a practice for an air-raid on the 20th November 1942. Colourised by me.3yr ⋅ vorst17735 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Adolf Hitler meets a group of Hitlerjugend in the chancellery garden during his last public appearance on camera. He would kill himself a little more than a month later (20 March 1945)4mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
A machine-gunner of the Hermann Goring Division fine-tunes his MG34 on its tripod. Sicily, summer of 1943.1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American serviceman shares his rations with two Japanese children in Okinawa, 1945.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
A P-51D tasked with the grueling 8 hour escort missions over Japan, late WWII, US PTO.3yr ⋅ Ch0pstick_Expert ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese Bomb hits the flight deck of USS Enterprise, costing the photographer of this picture his life. August 24, 1942.3yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Frenchman offers a glass of wine to an American machine gunner in Coutances, France - July 19443yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. officers Lieutenant Colonel Ben Thompson and Virgil Happy with wads of money in the vault of the Magdeburg Bank, where $280 million worth of Reichsmarks were found - 27 April, 19451yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
RMS Queen Elizabeth arrived in New York Harbor with thousands of soldiers returning from the war, 1945.3yr ⋅ SuperbPlankton7 ⋅ r/wwiipics
War souvenir found in old vets house. Anyone have more info on it? It looks like it was cut off of a large banner or flag. Ive never seen a tan flag before6mo ⋅ manguy1928 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German soldier poses for a pic in a downed Dutch Fokker G.I twin engine heavy fighter. Comparable to the Bf-110 the Fokker G.I could have been a good plane but the small number available to the Dutch and the capitulation of the Netherlands in few days never let us find out.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US soldiers leave a message for Japanese forces on a bomb during Operation Meetinghouse (1945)2mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two German women prisoners of war from a Wehrmachthelferin (female auxiliaries of the German Wehrmacht) unit, walk into captivity after surrendering to soldiers from the United States Seventh Army on 14th May 1945 near Bad Aibling in Bavaria, Germany.1wk ⋅ the_giank ⋅ r/wwiipics
Canadian soldiers showing off their spoils of war during overload. Somewhere outside of Hautmesnil, France in late August of 19441yr ⋅ Stickandmovez29 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet soldiers helping an injured German soldier September 8th 19417mo ⋅ Antique_Pop1482 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soldier of Hitler youth crying after being captured by the Allies, 1945.3yr ⋅ Rodion_Raskolnikov9 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lest we forget— the Battle of Iwo Jima began 75 years ago today. RIP brave souls.4yr ⋅ diosmioman ⋅ r/wwiipics
World War II - Photo of a Russian military couple shortly after the Victory Day in Europe, 19453yr ⋅ Europa_Teles_BTR ⋅ r/wwiipics
Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski of 348th Engineer C Battalion, on Omaha Beach, Normandy, after helping to rescue a group of drowning soldiers after their landing craft sank on the morning of 7th June 1944 during the Normandy Landings.1yr ⋅ bizarre_gene ⋅ r/wwiipics
A B-17 of the US Fifteenth Air Force breaks up in flames after being hit by flak over a railyard at Nis, Yugoslavia - 15th April 1944. (800x623)1yr ⋅ GaGator43 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese nurses and soldiers surrendering to Americans on Northern Cebu Island, in the Philippines. Nov. 5, 1945. They were the last known Japanese forces to surrender during World War II7mo ⋅ CeruleanSheep ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Marine carrying a M2-2 flamethrower lights a pipe while Iwo Jima burns behind him4yr ⋅ Death_Spectre ⋅ r/wwiipics
German airmen, who parachuted from a shot-down Heinkel HE-111 bomber (remains smoking in the background) are marched off by the Home Guard in Goodwood, Sussex, 12th September 1940. Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
«You have to understand that it took me nearly forty years before I could look at our 1942 company picture and not break into tears, particularly if it was December or January». Continued in the comments.3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A soviet armored division receiving operational orders prior to the final battle in Berlin, Germany, 19451yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Last minutes of the U-185. On Aug 24th 1943 1 Avenger & 2 Wildcats from USS Core attacked her in mid Atlantic. Pressure hull broke and seawater reached the batteries producing toxic chlorine gas. 100 people were on board as she had rescued the crew of U-604, only 36 were rescued.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics