“A sailor doesn’t have to prove he’s a man! Remember- there’s no medicine for regret” - American WWII era anti-venereal disease poster, 19422mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division listen to the radio message about the victory over Germany. May 8, 1945. Okinawa3yr ⋅ Sol_126 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet teenage girls Nina Evstafieva and Valya Volkova assemble PPD submachine guns for the Red Army at the defense plant in besieged Leningrad - 19431yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Female firefighters battling the flames at Pearl Harbor (12/7/41)4mo ⋅ HWIsBetterThanReagan ⋅ r/wwiipics
GMC CCKW 2 1/2 ton 6x6 truck converted to serve as a spectacle workshop; some 15% of US soldiers used glasses.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
When the Allies landed in France in mid 1944 they brought with them almost everything, locomotives included.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captured SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 19454yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
It's these moments of discovery that make a search entirely worthwhile.1yr ⋅ graemeknows ⋅ r/wwiipics
Achille Muller (left) and Arnand Bouilloux, the last survivors of the French SAS who saw, Normandy, Holland and the battle of the bulge, they are still alive!2yr ⋅ FrenchieB011 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Major Dick Winters, commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, Holland, 1944.3yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A British military motorcycle Norton 16H still in the cargo bay of the British armed merchant SS Thistlegorm, sank by German planes off the Egyptian coast in the Red Sea on October, 1941.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
British infantryman advancing through a smokescreen during training in 19414yr ⋅ TonguePunchMyClunge ⋅ r/wwiipics
Imperial Japanese Navy Marines in gasmasks during the Siege of Shanghai, 1937. [1200×955]1yr ⋅ Solid_SHALASHASKA ⋅ r/wwiipics
British paratroopers veterans sitting across from their own younger selfs in the same plane which dropped them over Normandy6yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A B-24 Liberator called Sandman during a bomb run over the Ploiesti Astra Romana refinery during Operation Tidal Wave, 1 August 1943.1yr ⋅ From-Yuri-With-Love ⋅ r/wwiipics
My Papaw, one of the original Flying Tigers, while in Kunming, China.1yr ⋅ GoodnightJohnBoi ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese paratroopers of the Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment in the wicker seats of a Type 0 “Tabby” transport aircraft during a practice flight. Note the officer in the middle who painted his white gloves black. He also has a bag on his chest, used to carry demolition charges (circa 1944)3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/wwiipics
Underground manufacturing facility of German jet fighters Heinkel He 162 Volksjager, 1945.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
I own this M1 Garand built by Winchester in 1943. It was used in the Pacific Theater. You can still see markings on the stock from where the user hit the rounds in the en bloc clip against the rifle to pack the rounds more tightly.1yr ⋅ Brightfox42069 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Chinese comfort girl shortly after being freed. Rangoon, China, 8 August. 1945.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Members of the French Resistance rest against a barricade during the Battle for Paris. August 1944.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
71 years apart. (2016 v 1945). Mom standing at the same spot my grandpa stood while on occupational duty serving in the 82nd Airborne.2yr ⋅ boogietwoshoes ⋅ r/wwiipics
American pilot poses next to his P-47 Thunderbolt named Tipsy and adorned with adequate pin-up4yr ⋅ PatrickBateman-BG ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldier and a Russian soldier discovered a wounded comrade either a Russian or German, his helmet seems to look Russian yet the trousers look German. -1943, Leningrad2yr ⋅ vvansui ⋅ r/wwiipics
Millie Bailey, WW2 African American veteran and WAC officer passed few days ago at the age of 104.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
This photo was taken by an American in Europe during or immediately after WWII. This might be a long shot, but does anyone know where in Europe this was taken? Thank you!6mo ⋅ qpjgy ⋅ r/wwiipics
Taken by the German photographer Willi George in the summer of 1941, one of his unauthorised series of photographs that shows life in the Warsaw Ghetto.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
In a rare accident, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in a lower group of a U.S. 8th Air Force formation attacking Berlin, Germany, swung under an upper group just as the Bombardier released his bombs6mo ⋅ ArkosTW ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Army troops examine a one-man submarine which had washed up on Anzio beachhead in Italy, 1944.2yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two British paratroopers in German custody in a captured British jeep. Arnhem, September 1944, colorized, Photo by Leutnant Erwin Seeger3yr ⋅ haeyhae11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Pvt. Wallace F. Burket, left, bazooka man with the 80th Infantry Division, U.S. Third Army, finds his brother, Sgt. Wm. C. Burket, who was shot down over Africa two years and three months ago. Branau, Austria. 9 May, 1945.1yr ⋅ eleventhjam1969 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Finnish soldiers reading Panzerschreck manual just delivered from Germany (1944)3yr ⋅ StockEmperor ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. Soldiers listen to Bernard Herzog, an American citizen who lived in the Philippines, as he tells them of his days as an internee at Santo Tomas. Mr. Herzog lost 78 pounds and was suffering from beriberi. Manila, Philippines, February 1945.3yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/wwiipics
Strength of German army by the different fronts (divisions), report by US Army Intelligence from October 19432yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soldiers if the 3rd infantry division celebrating the end of the war at the berghof(hitler private mountain home) with bottles of booze looted from his wine cellar. May, 4 19451yr ⋅ Stickandmovez29 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The plane you see in the photo, about to hit the ship from the starboard side, is the Mitsubishi A6M Zero plane used by a Japanese kamikaze pilot.3yr ⋅ Losenoc ⋅ r/wwiipics
United States Army combat engineer placing several half-pound cans of TNT explosive under an abandoned German tank during the Battle of El Guettar, Tunisia, Apr 1943.1yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
Tankers of 502 heavy tank battalion near their Tiger Ausf. E. Russia, 1943.3yr ⋅ Losenoc ⋅ r/wwiipics
A weary and exhausted Marine weeps amid the rubble after the tough battle for Hill 200 near Peleliu Airport, August 1944.4yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Jewish chaplain (Rabbi) Captain Manuel Poliakoff of the US Army 29th Infantry Division (center) conducting a memorial service in Schloss Rheydt, the former home of Joseph Goebbels, 18 Mar 1945.2yr ⋅ From-Yuri-With-Love ⋅ r/wwiipics
American artillerymen fire a powerful M-12 155mm self-propelled gun in the streets of Aachen, Germany; October 19441yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two Panther tanks from the 5th SS-Panzer Division Wiking as seen through the lens of an SF14Z scissors periscope from another Panther, Poland, summer of 19441yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
Emergency landing of an American B-24 bomber at the Italian airfield of San Giovanni; six of the crew died in the crash - 21 April, 19451yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Polish soldier(1st Polish Armoured Division) treats the wound of a German POW, while a captured officer looks on. (Normandy, 1944)2wk ⋅ TheRedTide935 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Wounded soldiers heading back to a hospital ship after the D-Day landings - June, 19441yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Members of the US 101st Airborne Div with Hermann Goering s Mercedes Benz 540K. Berchtesgaden, May 1945.7mo ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet partisan Colonel Yemelyan Barykin, who served as the commander of partisan unit in Gomel, Nazi occupied Belarus, during World War II. He is also recipient of the title of the Hero of Soviet Union. (1943)3yr ⋅ vaish7848 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Danish troops on bicycle ride towards advancing German units during the invasion of Denmark, 9 April 1940. Less than 20 Germans and 16 Danes would be killed during the 2-hour long invasion of the country.5mo ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/wwiipics
Audie Murphy, the most decorated US soldier of WWII, at boot camp in Camp Wolters, TX 19421yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
Jubilant Soviet POWs celebrate their newfound freedom with their American liberator, 1945.3yr ⋅ DiosMioMan2 ⋅ r/wwiipics
British soldiers undergoing urban combat training, here seen jumping from roof to roof.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The crew of the American M4 Sherman tank and a full set of equipment, additional weapons and ammunition4mo ⋅ ArkosTW ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet flamethrower soldiers fight for the city of Kustrin 03/12/1945. Photo by A. Kapustyansky3mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
German troops with a Schwimmwagen, BMW R75 motorcycle and other vehicles during their surrender to US forces, 1945.3yr ⋅ Losenoc ⋅ r/wwiipics
The French light cruiser Gloire in dazzle camouflage off the coast of North Africa - late 1943 or early 19441yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
M4 Sherman Jumbo Cobra King shortly after the Battle of Bastogne.1yr ⋅ From-Yuri-With-Love ⋅ r/wwiipics
1942. Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb's of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron on a fighter sweep over northern France. (564 x 554)2yr ⋅ drumdust ⋅ r/wwiipics
German infantry and a supporting Panzer III advance towards the enemy. Eastern Front1yr ⋅ sasha_man123 ⋅ r/wwiipics
“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant who died in the air war”, Western Desert, 1941. Original photo by George Rodger1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Italian Campaign. Apennine Mountains. 20 February 1945. A German medic, helped by soldiers of the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, carry a wounded soldier to an American aid station after the Battle for Mount Belvedere. (1079 x 797)1yr ⋅ drumdust ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. Army Infantrymen approaching Omaha beach, Normandy, France on June 6th 1944. Photo: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images2yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A unit of anti-tank rifles prepares to repel an enemy tank counterattack near Ivangorod. 1944. Photo by I. Fetisov1mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
American soldiers look at a mural commemorating the First World War in Berchtesgaden. 4 May, 1945.1yr ⋅ signalcorpsarchive ⋅ r/wwiipics
My Great-Grandfather, posing with a captured German MG42. Taken in a German trench near the Rhine River3yr ⋅ MilsurpDan ⋅ r/wwiipics
Mushroom cloud of “Fat Man” 15 minutes after it was dropped on Nagasaki. Photo taken by Hiromichi Matsuda.3yr ⋅ JustAStuartTank ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet Red Army soldiers chatting with children just liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp -19453yr ⋅ vaish7848 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Looted church bells, heaped up in German ports, supposedly to be melted down for the Nazi war effort. 1945.1yr ⋅ Dhorlin ⋅ r/wwiipics
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/wwiipics
General George Patton died peacefully at 5:55 p.m. on December 21, 1945 at the 130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg. After a brief church ceremony, pallbearers placed Patton’s casket onto a half-track for the trip to the train station where seventeen cannons saluted the fallen general.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldier with a “Zielgerat 1229” night-vision scope, on an StG 44 assault rifle. Code Name: “Vampir” (Eastern Front - 1945)3yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Pvt John L. Drugan and “Pal”, his faithful war dog. Recognized for his heroic actions, Pal saved an entire platoon of Marines from an ambush when he discovered a well-hidden Japanese machine-gun nest during the Battle of Okinawa. John and Pal both survived the war. May, 1945.2yr ⋅ DiosMioMan63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. troops entering Rizal Baseball Stadium during the Battle of Manila, Philippines. 16 February 1945.1yr ⋅ Beeninya ⋅ r/wwiipics
Assembly shop of the German Ju-87 dive bombers of the Weser-Flugzeugbau plant in the hangars of Tempelhof airport in Berlin, 1943.1wk ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two survivors of the sunken Jintsu, dressed in US Navy uniforms, aboard USS Nicholas (DD-449), 13 Jul 19433mo ⋅ duncan_D_sorderly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Fascist officials in the small town of Verres built this monumental M to honor Il Duce (Mussolini) on a planned visit. The monument is manned with uniformed boys from the Fascist youth movement. Date unknown.1yr ⋅ erenetik0 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The ruins of Dresden, photographed from the town hall, after the Allied bombing in February, 19451yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Soviet Soldier, standing proudly with a trophied Luger in hand, and wearing a pair of incredibly rare “Leibermuster” camouflage trousers. A studio portrait likely taken in the early postwar period (45’-46’).3yr ⋅ 1945Aesthetic ⋅ r/wwiipics
Cathedral at Cologne, Germany with the collapsed Deutz Suspension Bridge beyond, Mar 1945.4mo ⋅ duncan_D_sorderly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Dick Bong, US's top flying ace in the war downing 40 Japanese aircraft, next to his P-38 named after his girlfriend: Marge1yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Marine with a Browning Automatic Rifle. Note on back reads “May 17 1942, New River NC - some pop gun. Excuse the cigarette, guess I was nervous.” A sympathy card to a Gold Star mother was found with this photograph.1yr ⋅ rtyga12 ⋅ r/wwiipics
P-51's, B-29's, and F-61's parked along South Field, Iwo Jima. April 8, 1945.4mo ⋅ rhit06 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Canadian Infantry on an LCA (Landing Craft Assault) headed for Juno Beach, June 6th, 1944. Colourised by me.3yr ⋅ vorst17735 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Hitler, Goring and nine of the twelve new field marshals at the Field Marshal Ceremony of July 19402yr ⋅ Lavrentio15 ⋅ r/wwiipics
40mm Gun Crew member on the US Escort Destroyer 'USS Edsall (DE-129) ca.1943 (Colorized by Jecinci)3yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German soldier poses for a funny photo on top of a scythe with a bayonet in hand. Eastern Front, date and exact location unknown [1000 x 800]2yr ⋅ sasha_man123 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two Polish soldiers embrace each other after reuniting during the Battle of Warsaw, October 1944. The soldier on the left is armed with a Soviet PTRD2yr ⋅ sasha_man123 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A wounded German officer, found in the Egyptian desert during the first two days of a British offensive, is guarded by a sentry while awaiting backup, on November 13, 1942. [1600×1189].2yr ⋅ thegreatlib23 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Reich Marshall Hermann Goering handed over this Walther PPK pistol along with a ceremonial dagger to American soldier Jerome Shapiro to mark his surrender at the end of the Second World War.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Yesterday died one of the last WWII RAF airmen, sergeant Tomas Lom at age of 96. Tomas Lom served between 1944-1945 in Czechoslovak 311. Bomber Squadron RAF as radio operator-mechanic in Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Once a bomb exploded inside his aircraft. [963x761]3yr ⋅ Muff1995 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Contents of my Grandfather's Footlocker, from his service in the Pacific. Link in comments to a detailed album.4yr ⋅ Tarpup ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Private First Class Stands Guard Outside The Palace Of Justice In Nuremberg, November 1945. Colourised by me.3yr ⋅ vorst17735 ⋅ r/wwiipics
