German POWs having a chat with a US soldier after the Battle of Cherbourg

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US paratroopers in Normandy 1944.

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German tank Royal Tiger (Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. B Konigstiger) of the 3rd company of the 511th heavy tank battalion, shot down near the bridge in the Kassel area. During the battle, the vehicle was allegedly hit by an American M36 tank destroyer. Tank commander sergeant major Heinz Wilms.

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American and Filipino captives sort out their belongings before beginning the infamous Bataan Death March. About 600 Americans and between 5,000 and 10,000 Filipinos died along the way. April, 1942.

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A Red Army infantryman hurls a box of ammunition towards a friendly maxim machine gun crew

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'Molotov bread basket bomb during the Winter War 1939-40. Unexploded aerial Soviet rotationally dispersing incendiary bomb, called 'Molotov bread basket' as Russians claimed not to be bombing Finnish cities but dropping bread on the starving Finnish citizens.

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Slovak soldier entertaining a couple of Ukrainian girls. 1941.

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The iconic image of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, during the Blitz. (1940 - 1941). (Image - Herbert Mason).

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Soviet troops make their way through the rubble of Stalingrad, 1942

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Allied troops awaiting evacuation at Dunkirk. 1940.

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Flight Sergeant James Hyde of San Juan, Trinidad, a Spitfire pilot who arrived in Britain in 1942 to begin his training, here pictured in 1944 with his Squadron’s mascot, a dog called ‘Dingo’.

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Men of the 12th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in training. Wearing his gas mask, a soldier advances through a smoke screen, 1941.

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Sturer Emil, only 2 of these SPG,s were made and it is remarkable that 1 is still preserved at Kubinka in Russia.

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A B-25's payload of para-frag bombs fall toward a camouflaged Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sally at Old Namlea Airfield, Buru Island, Dutch East Indies, 15 Oct 1944. Note - rear gunner's spent cartridges also visible.

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Last photo of Hitler (April 28, 1945)

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This B-24 Liberator’s wreckage still remained near Reims, France in 1947. Some of these downed planes, especially in remote areas such as Indochina or the Soviet arctic, were still extant in the 1950s.

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Luftwaffe sailors at attention as they pass on an armed Siebel barge, Lahdenpohja, Lake Ladoga, 13 August 1942

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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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Battle of Iwo Jima. March 1945. US Marine Private Francis Hall and his Doberman war dog. (530 x 671)

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German military graveyard, North Africa

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A Passing Dispatch Rider Reads a Beachhead Sign Warning Against Butterfly Bombs - Normandy, 1944

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Scores of newly manufactured F4U Corsairs await their shipping to the Pacific Theater.

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Injured US Marine proudly exhibits a Japanese Katana at Tarawa - November, 1943

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Japanese soldiers in Burma viewing a giant Buddha statue - 1942

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19-year-old Lt. Edwin “Lucky” Wright shows off the damage caused by flak to his P-47 Thunderbolt near Sint-Truiden / Brustem Airfield airfield in Belgium, October, 1944

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Boeing B-17 crew casualties by combat station

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Private Michael Swinkin, B Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, loaded up for the crossing of the Roer River near Kreuzau, Germany, 25th February 1945.

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Tank Destroyer, pre invasion practice Slapton Sands, Devon England, Exercise Tiger, April 1944.

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Helmut Obersteuermann Klotzsch of U-175 calling for help to be rescued after his ship was sunk by USCG cutter Spencer in the waters of the North Atlantic, south-west of Ireland, April 17, 1943.

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Imprint of a Kamikaze attack on the HMS Sussex, 1945

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US Marines from the 1st Marine Division move in off the beaches of Peleliu, September 15th 1944

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Winston Churchill inspects the 1st American Squadron of the British Home Guard; London, on 9 January 1941. There were almost 4,000 Americans in the UK when the war started and many chose to remain. The American Squadron was formed in London in June 1940 and had average strength of 60–70 men.

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A wounded marine proudly exhibits a Japanese sword, Tarawa, November 1943.

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Burial at sea for the casualties of USS Intrepid, hit by Japanese kamikazes during operations in the Philippines, November 26, 1944

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A dog sits in the snow against the background of a column of Italian troops retreating from Stalingrad. December 1942

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U.S. Coastguard Beach Patrolman

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Weapons collection point in Germany , never seen so many Goliath demolition units together.

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Russian trench mortar team, Stalingrad.

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American troops treat a wounded dog on Orote Pennisula, Guam, 1944

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Rare color pic of German Marder III H tank destroyers in Tunisia. Probably newly arrived and prepared to be sent to the front packed with gasoline drums and jerrycans.

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New Guinea Campaign. 24 October 1943. Allied POW's about to be beheaded by the Japanese at Aitape. (L-R) Sergeant Leonard G. Siffleet of 'M' Special Unit - Australian Army, Private Pattiwahl and Private Reharin of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. (513 x 654)

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Soviet soldiers (one wearing an armoured plate!) fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad.

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Italian woman checking if the story is true.

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Schoolchildren in Liverpool having their Christmas party in an air raid shelter built into a railway arch. 1941.

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US Marines escort a Japanese POW on Iwo Jima, March 1945

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Japanese civilians training with bamboo spears to be used against the Americans/Allies in a predicted invasion of Japan aka Operation Downfall (1945)

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B-17 Flying Fortress crewmembers Gus Palmer, side gunner, and Horace Poolaw, both of the Kiowa Nation stand near their aircraft at MacDill Field, Fla., in about 1944.

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Can you imagine being able to buy Flying Fortress for 26k from an ad in a paper!

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A RAF Hawker Typhoon attacks enemy railroad cars with RP-3 rockets, Germany 1945; the photo was taken with a camera mounted in the plane

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SAS patrol in North Africa, January 18, 1943.

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Anna Leska, Polish RAF ATA pilot, 1942.

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USMC Corporal Edward Burckhardt playing with a kitten he found at the base of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. March 1945

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A cool depiction of a D-Day Veterans memories of the landings. Pic was taken in Normandy

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Ace Captain Edwin Fisher showing his impressive war actions on his P-47 in 1944. He was killed in a flying accident in an AT-6F Texan near Norristown, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1947.

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Marine sniper with a Springfield 1903A1 and Unertl 8-power scope

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Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history

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A long line of Dutchmen volunteering to join the Waffen-SS. Between 22,000-25,000 Dutchmen volunteered to fight in the Waffen-SS, more than any in Western Europe. Contrary to popular myths, the majority of them were middle class and true believers who sought to establish a New Europe (1941).

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Launching of the German battleship Tirpitz, Wilhelmshaven, April 1939

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The industrial might of the USA- F4U Corsair assembly line at the Vought-Sikorsky plant in Stratford, CT, ca 1944.

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Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery explains Allied strategy to King George VI in his command caravan in Holland, 1944

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GI posing for a photo with his M1911 and his foot on a Waffen SS helmet. Note the captured Luftwaffe dagger at his side.

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Grandfather posing before heading out to defend Finland from Russian invaders

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LtGen George Patton 26 Aug 1944, N France.

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Remembrance Day tomorrow. Here‘s a picture of my grandfather. He was a tank crew member. He survived the war but died a year before my birth.

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Eastern Front. German soldier armed with the MG 42. (948 x 1249)

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An American soldier dressed in camouflage and face paint holds an M1 flamethrower with fire and smoke behind him during a training exercise in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, c. 1942

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Poster issued by the Ministry of Health, ca.1939.

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Today 80 years ago Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk began. More than 330,000 soldiers made it to the UK.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau 1944. Below 2018.

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A US Marine uses a flamethrower against Japanese positions with the support of two rifleman on Iwo Jima; Feb 1945

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German Waffen SS soldier looking at a nervous Red Army POW, somewhere on the Eastern Front during September 1941.

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“Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-you note for the Jap skull he sent her.” LIFE magazine’s “Picture of the Week,” May 22, 1944.

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Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was a medic and labded on Omaha Beach on June 6th 1944. He gave first aid to over 200 men while wounded, and worked for 30 hours straight. Colourised by me.

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Operation Dynamo, May/June 1940.

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Soviet peasant woman in the village of Shchadrino, working in the field, threatens German prisoners with her fist - August, 1943

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BBC War Correspondent Robin Duff makes a recording during the D-Day landings, 1944.

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The famous Russian unit “The Night Witches”, an all-women bomber unit formed in 1941 that would fly at night in propeller planes over enemy territory

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USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt over Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France.

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German signalmen coming under artillery fire somewhere on the front of Army Group Centre, Russia, spring 1942

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French civilians of all ages work to tear up stones from the street to make barricades as the population rose up against the Germans as the Allies approached Paris; August 1944.

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P-38 reconnaissance variant with R&D casualty evacuation pod

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Mrs M. Hale, whose husband is fighting in France, spends the day giving US soldiers tea and other refreshments in the road outside her house, and playing the accordian for all those who want to listen. June 22nd, 1944.

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Original color pic of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 production line.

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90th Infantry Division soldiers go over a list of demands regarding the city's surrender with the mayor of Oberhausen, April 1945

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US GIs armed with a bunch of German M24 Stielhandgranate

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French Partisan, armed with a Mauser 98k. An FT-17 tank is seen in the background.

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The so-called German invasion of Winnipeg, Canada, February 19, 1942

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The Bishop of Liverpool takes a look through the periscope of the Royal Navy submarine HMS Sahib after blessing the ship. May 1942.

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Does anyone know the backstory behind this soldier? Did he survive? What’s his name? Was he punished? Very famous image but all my research has come up empty.

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Ahead of the Soviet advance, German refugees pick their way across a partially destroyed railway bridge over the River Elbe. May, 1945.

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French submarine Surcouf with her 1940 configuration and identification markings. This sub disappeared in 1942, taking the entire crew with it. I found this photo postcard at an antique shop and thought I should share.

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Private J.O. Hayman examining a heap of Italian-made mortar bombs abandoned by a German Panzer Grenadier unit near Aquino, Italy. 22 May 1944.

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Churchill Crocodile flame thrower tank near Sterkrade Germany, March 1945.

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On March 6, 1945, at 22 years old, Ensign Jane Kendeigh the first Navy flight nurse to set foot on any battlefield, bends over a badly wounded marine on the airstrip on Iwo Jima, after she landed on the battle-torn island in a Navy transport plane to evacuate wounded.

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A M4A1 Sherman of the 713th Tank Battalion equipped with a flamethrower torches the entrance to a cave in Southern Okinawa - 1945.

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Far from the front lines ppsh rolling off the production line in the Soviet Union

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A young Soviet soldier and the chief medical officer of the Berlin Police, Major General Karl Emil Wrobel, following the latters surrender to the Red Army. 2 May 1945.

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American and Soviet soldiers together by the end of WW2

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Jurgen Stroop and his aide Erich Steidtmann with SD men Heinrich Klaustermeyer and Josef Blosche during the Warsaw Uprising. Stroop was executed for crimes against humanity in 1952, Blosche in 1969, Klaustermeyer received life in prison and died in 1976, Steidtmann escaped justice and died in 2010

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Last German troops to surrender in WW2. Soldiers at the meteorological stations on Svalbard Archipielago in the Norwegian Arctic Ocean got news of Germany surrender on May 8th 1945. Could not ask for help until Aug 1945 & on Sep 6th 1945 surrendered to the captain of a Norwegian seal hunting vessel.

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A German Brummbar abandoned in the streets of Rome, June 1944.

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U.S. sailors enjoy a swim at Majuro, May 1944 while Fifth fleet carriers lie at anchor, awaiting the launch of Operation Forager which is set to begin next month.

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Luftwaffe Dispatch Rider with His Motorcycle

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July 1942, the US government imposes gasoline rationing across the country to help the war effort.

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Ethnic Ukrainian troops of German 14th Waffen Grenadier Division with 5 cm PaK 38 gun, Mar 1944.

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Dutch volunteers about to join the Waffen SS Division 'Nederland' . Netherlands, 1941.

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My grandparents, grandfather right out of basic training jumped the train in Bridgeport, CT to see his first son (he jumped back on to rejoin his unit without getting into trouble later)

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Two Red army soldiers with SVT 40 , 1941

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Erich Hartmann, Der Schwarze Teufel The Black Devil was the world's highest scoring fighter Ace with 352 aerial victories. During WW2 the Luftwaffe had 2,500 fighter pilots achieve Ace status, with 103 pilots claiming 100 victories or more. In total the Luftwaffe claimed 70,000 aerial victories.

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My dad was going through some family photos and found this. Not the usual thing on here but still cool.

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SS soldier holding a baby fox and bird

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US Vehicles cross the River Rhine on the Alexander Patch Pontoon Bridge near Worms, Germany - March 28, 1945. This pontoon bridge, built by the 85th Engineers, replaces the ruined bridge at right, which was destroyed by retreating German forces. (Original Color Picture)

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A New Zealand soldier poses in front of the wreckage of a German plane his unit shot down with Bren machine guns in Greece. In his hands he holds a German helmet as a souvenir, while an unexploded bomb from the aircraft is close proximity to him. April 1941. (Photo by George Silk)

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German soldier taking a nap during Operation Barbarossa. 1941

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Japanese soldiers surrender their weapons to a Red Army officer in Manchuria, August 1945.

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Does anyone have more information on this picture? My friend sent me this and I would like to learn more about it and its origins.

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German Heer Truppen run past a Norwegian House that's going up in flames, April 1940.

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General George S. Patton in North Africa, 1943

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U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville, March 1944.

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October 1944, German prisoner of war is buried at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri after he died in the post's hospital.

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A formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 457th Bomb Group entering dense flak during a mission to Schweinfurt, Germany, 1944

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Adolf Hitler visits with officers wounded in the July 20 assassination attempt. The injured man in the bed is Walter Scherff, Hitler's military historian. @lzcolorizations

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A C-47 over the pyramids. It was transporting supplies for the troops in Tobruk. 1942, colorized

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Wehrmacht Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus at Red Army Headquarters for interrogation at Stalingrad, after the surrender of the 6th army, winter 1943. [1600×1192]

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I recently interviewed a 95 year WWII veteran who still fits in his original uniform! He fought and was wounded with the 91st Infantry Division in Italy! (his interview is in the comments)

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A gun camera picture of a RP-3 rocket salvo, launched by a Hawker Typhoon towards railway wagons in a siding at Nordhorn, Germany. (1945)

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A Bantam jeep, the forerunner of the Willys MB and Ford GPW jeeps, loaded with 3-man crew, and towing a 37mm anti-tank gun, gains some air during testing at New River, North Carolina. 1941.

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Row after row of WW2 Dodge ambulances in a scrap yard.

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Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard, 1943.

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Italian soldiers executing Slovenian civilian hostages from the village Dane, 1942.

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An English soldier rescues a little girl from the ruins of her home during the aerial bombings of London, July 30, 1944

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