Jewish families wearing yellow star badges arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1942.5mo ⋅ Dhorlin ⋅ r/wwiipics
Marines and Navy Seabees attend open-air divine services on Easter morning on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. (April 1, 1945)2yr ⋅ From-Yuri-With-Love ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldiers take refuge in a house during street fighting somewhere in the USSR. March 19433yr ⋅ JCFalkenberglll ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet soldiers charge into battle somewhere in Europe. Note the soldier in the foreground wielding a captured Stg-442yr ⋅ sasha_man123 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German Stanhelm lies crushed in soft Italian ground near Monte-Cassino, 19442yr ⋅ sasha_man123 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The last minutes of the USS Yorktown Carrier which was sunk on 7th June 1942. (Collection of The National WWII Museum).1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Hobart's Funnies is the nickname given to a number of specialist armored fighting vehicles derived from tanks operated by units of the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army or by specialists from the Royal Engineers1yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
Allied soldiers pose in front of captured Krupp 30cm shell for the worlds largest gun the German Schwerer Gustav. The AP rounds weighed 15653lbs and carried 551lbs of explosive. The muzzle velocity of these rounds was about 2,362fps and they had a range of 23.6 miles.4yr ⋅ cheezyimdaman ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet and American soldiers celebrating together after victory was declared in the European front1yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Although blurred in the pic a Boeing B-29 Superfortress has lost a wing after a direct hit by Japanese flak and falls engulfed in fire.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American soldiers marching through Paris in celebration of Victory in Europe. 1945.3yr ⋅ thefrontYT ⋅ r/wwiipics
Female Soviet Sniper Roza Shanina with her spotter pose for a propaganda photo. She had achieved 59 confirmed kills,unfortunately she was killed in action in East Prussia January 1945.4yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
Political Comissar Read the Order about War with Finland to Red Army Soldiers, 30th November of 19392yr ⋅ Outrageous-Nothing58 ⋅ r/wwiipics
British Royal Marine Commandos attached to the British 3rd Infantry Division moving inland from Sword Beach, D-Day, 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Wooden German Pz.IV tank mock ups loaded on rail cars, most likely to be used as decoys.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Army Staff Sgt. Herbert Ellison explaining the G.I. Bill of Rights to fellow members of the 15th Air Force Service Command in Italy, circa 1944-453yr ⋅ dnadosanddonts ⋅ r/wwiipics
Russia is big, meaning different geographies, climates and fauna. Here German soldiers using what look like Bactrian camels as draft animals, most likely in SE Russia. They may be POWs but can't confirm.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Landing craft approach Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The soldiers are protecting their weapons with Pliofilm covers against the wetness. These US Army infantry men are amongst the first to attack the German defenses. (Colorized)2yr ⋅ Tigrannes ⋅ r/wwiipics
An M4A3(76)W Sherman pulling into Niederbetschdorf in the Alsace-Lorraine area, France, January 1945. Note the crew carefully working the tanks way under all the communication wires.4yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet tankers take a moment to relax on their Lend-Lease M4A2 Sherman.3yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/wwiipics
The SS Cynthia Olson sinking after she was hit by forty seven rounds from the Japanese submarine I-26 on December 7, 1941. I've included a write up in the comments that talks about the sinking if you'd like to learn more.4mo ⋅ icantthinkofaname940 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet sub-machine gunners in North China after the defeat of the Japanese by the Red Army in the Harbin region, 1945. Photo by E. Khaldei.2yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/wwiipics
WW2 - Fully geared Soviet Naval infantry soldier, Eastern Front 1941-1945 [COLOURIZED]1yr ⋅ Europa_Teles_BTR ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-17G Queen of Hearts after taking severe damage to the nose during a mission on 25 June, 1944. Two crew were killed, and one was captured over enemy territory after bailing out too early.1yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Polish teacher Władysław Bielinski moments before he was executed by the Germans, 1 November 1939. The Germans buried them in trenches in the Bydgoszcz district of Fordon, later called the Valley of Death. Copyright IPN.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Although deemed insufficient the British Army anti-aircraft network during the Battle of Britain in 1940 consisted of +1200 guns of several calibers and thousands of searchlights claiming the destruction of 300 German planes.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese midget submarine originally launched outside of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 by submarine I-18. Photographed soon after its recovery near the entrance to Pearl Harbor, July 19602yr ⋅ RLoret ⋅ r/wwiipics
Dad pictured Nov 11, 2015 at the Canada remembers, Remembrance Day Ceremony, 2 years later he passed away at 98 years old.4yr ⋅ Guncam63 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Massive pile of German weapons being processed by Allied soldiers, collected shortly after Germany's surrender - 19451yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
“Two alert U.S. Marines stand beside their small tank which helped blast the Japanese in the battle of the Tenaru River during the early stages of fighting on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Those well-manned, sturdy machines readily mopped up strong points of enemy resistance.”5mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Greece. Women and children mourn their relatives at the memorial service of the Kalavryta massacre when on December 13, 1943 the German army executed nearly 700 civilians and burned more than 1000 houses. Probably December 1944.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Junkers Ju-87 Stuka in Greece, 1941. You can se the bomb release mechanism -to pusk the bomb out of the propeller spinning area- and detail of the Jericho trumpet on top of the right wheel fairing. These Jericho trumpets created the characteristic noise of the plane while on a dive attack.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A bit over 80 years ago an exhausted Colonel James Doolittle seats by his crashed North American B-25 Mitchell in a paddy field in China after leading the Doolittle Raid over Japan and flying for over 13 hours. April 18th, 1942.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands reading a speech for Radio Oranje in 1940.3yr ⋅ HerrasKissa ⋅ r/wwiipics
UK. 1941. A soldier of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders during bayonet training. (750 x 934)1yr ⋅ drumdust ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American soldier gives cigarettes to a few of the more than 30,000 liberated concentration camp inmates at Dachau on April 29, 1945. GIs had a hard time believing Germans who protested they did not know about the camps. Dachau was just ten miles from Munich.3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/wwiipics
An Army nurse inoculates a newly arrived American soldier in Australia. December, 1941.1yr ⋅ Dhorlin ⋅ r/wwiipics
A boy working as a caulker looks towards the camera. His clothes are ripped, and his face is darkened by dirt. Tyneside, 1943. (Original photo by Cecil Beaton)1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-17s flying through flak on a mission to Debrecen Hungary, September 21, 1944.2yr ⋅ skipperbob ⋅ r/wwiipics
Gunners Mate 2nd Class Charles Hansen working on a 40mm quad machine gun mount onboard the USS Missouri (August 1944)2yr ⋅ SmileyUnchained ⋅ r/wwiipics
Tail Wreckage of B-17G 42-31367 Nicknamed Chow hound found by a American engineer who discovered.5mo ⋅ b-17lover124 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Illegal black market in Berlin where ordinary Germans sold goods to Allied soldiers with money on their hands.1945.2yr ⋅ Dhorlin ⋅ r/wwiipics
Pvt Theodore James Miller returns to the attack transport USS Arthur Middleton after two days of combat on Engebi, the first island of the Eniwetok Atoll to be invaded by American forces; February 1944. Miller died in a fire-fight at Ebon Atoll a month later. Miller was from Minnesota and was 19 yo3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/wwiipics
US breakfast K-Ration containing canned ham and eggs, biscuits, dried fruit bar, water purification tablets, cigarettes, chewing gum, instant coffee, toilet paper, sugar, and can opener2yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
For the European audiences the Opel Kadett has been a constant presence in the roads from the 70s to the mid 90s, however its origins are in 1936 used both in civil versions and as staff car. Here one seen during Operation Barbarossa, and yes, there is a KV-2 behind.1yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Americans the day after capturing Cape Pointe du Hoc in Normandy. German POWs are visible at the top of the photo - 8 June, 19441yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Wedding bands that were removed from Holocaust victims prior to being executed. Each ring represents a married Jewish woman sent to the camp, 1945.4yr ⋅ peter15546 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S Army Medic aids a badly wounded German Officer near Chartres France, August 19442yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American MP watches over two captured Luftwaffe pilots. Aachen, Germany, December 1944.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Mosquito FB VIII with 6-pounder (57mm) cannon under the nose for anti-U-boat work, and 4 x .303 machineguns.2yr ⋅ duncan_D_sorderly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese soldiers manning a 20 mm Type 97 automatic cannon, an anti-tank rifle for practical purposes.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Luftwaffe aces, and other Knights Cross recipients, chat with Hitler after a decoration ceremony at Berghof April 4 1944. Notable pilots are Gerhard Barkhorn, Erich Hartmann, And Walter Krupinski all from the famous JG-52. These three men would later serve in the new German Airforce after the war.3yr ⋅ pornogroff_the_weird ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet poet Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky holding Hitler's head in Berlin May 1945.4yr ⋅ bulllongtime ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Japanese soldier surrendering to three US Marines in Kwajalein, one of the Marshall Islands; January 1944. Note the second soldier emerging from under the bunker.2yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/wwiipics
Command of the Soviet 45-mm anti-tank gun under the command of Guards Captain, Hero of the Soviet Union Konstantin Matveevich Boboshko (1918-1994) from the 17th Guards Rifle Division of the 39th Army is changing its firing position, 1st Baltic Front, photo by Mikhail Savin, 19441mo ⋅ Ivan_Baikal ⋅ r/wwiipics
USS Franklin in New York Harbor, New York, United States, circa 28 Apr 1945; note Manhattan skyline in background1mo ⋅ duncan_D_sorderly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Former Estonian Mk V tanks of British construction, in Berlin's Lustgarten Park. They allegedly participated in the defense of Berlin - April, 19451yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
M1917 Browning machine gun crew of D Company, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division in action.1yr ⋅ From-Yuri-With-Love ⋅ r/wwiipics
Brand new Corsair and F6F Hellcats awaiting shipment to the pacific. Picture dated 19442yr ⋅ del_snafu ⋅ r/wwiipics
German Soldiers surrender to advancing Red Army during Operation Bagration, 19443yr ⋅ Paul-Von-Hindenburg ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soldiers of the Finnish 4th Light Detachment during the Winter War, 1939.3yr ⋅ HerrasKissa ⋅ r/wwiipics
Anyone know the identity of this gentleman here? Seems to be of the rank of either a major or a colonel, but Japanese, and I'd very much like a story of who he was!1mo ⋅ Careless-Bad-444 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Members of the US Army Ordinance Corps inspect an StG-44 with a curved barrel (Krummlauf) mounted3yr ⋅ RanardUSMC ⋅ r/wwiipics
Hiroo Onada was the last Japanese soldier to surrender, which he finally did here in 1974.2yr ⋅ jhog36 ⋅ r/wwiipics
South-African soldiers posing with a captured Italian flag during the East African Campaign, 1941.3yr ⋅ HerrasKissa ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American soldier examines a captured Type 92 Nambu MG on Saipan, July 1944. The machine gun was also nicknamed the woodpecker by the Allies2yr ⋅ sasha_man123 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Portrait of an American soldier, armed with an M3 grease gun, and a surplus amount of ammo2yr ⋅ sasha_man123 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Jewish partisans near Pinsk, Belorussia. The woman in leopard print is Faye Schulman, known for her work photographing partisans during WWII. 19443yr ⋅ patriot-renegade ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in the cockpit of an army liaison light aircraft during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport the youngster to a field hospital. July 1944.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Red Army signal man laying cable across a river during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943.3yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
World War II - Russian soldier playing violin for his fellow soldiers in a ruined building3yr ⋅ Europa_Teles_BTR ⋅ r/wwiipics
Russian civilians digging anti-tank ditches near Moscow in 1941. With virtually every male between 16 and 50 drafted these work forces were predominantly female.4yr ⋅ Darth_Texan ⋅ r/wwiipics
Ocrober 1940: Her son is leaving for the Italian front and his mother offers him an icon of Saint George for protection. Until the Nazi intervention in April 1942, the Italian casualties were nearly 40.000 dead and missing (plus 26.000 POW) while the Greeks lost about 14.000 men.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese women being trained with spears preparing for the expected American invasion.8mo ⋅ skipperbob ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldiers who were captured during the Battle of Aachen in October 1944.3yr ⋅ HerrasKissa ⋅ r/wwiipics
Three sailors enjoying drinks on leave. The man on the right is Fred Gwynne, a radioman on the submarine chaser USS Manville (PC-581). He would go on to play Herman Munster in the 1960's.1yr ⋅ ATSTlover ⋅ r/wwiipics
Norwegian Pro-nazi figure Vidkun Quisling meets Adolf Hitler in Berlin, 1942.2yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
This photo from the German Army publication Signal depicts the Nazi advance during the Battle of Moscow4yr ⋅ UA6TL ⋅ r/wwiipics
Survivors from a German U-boat all covered in oil are picked up by a British Royal Naval warship - Atlantic Ocean3mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Panther tanks of Operation Spring Awakening, the last German offensive of WWII, abandoned on the road near Lake Balaton, Hungary, due to lack of fuel.2yr ⋅ duncan_D_sorderly ⋅ r/wwiipics
Today, 75 years ago, at 5:29 AM on July 16th, 1945 the nuclear age began. The nuclear bomb Trinity was detonated in US state of New Mexico at the desert of Jornada del Muerto, which is fitting since it means the journey of the dead man.4yr ⋅ abt137 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Piles of dead Japanese soldiers in Attu, Alaska, USA during the last ditch attempt with a banzai charge. Many of the dead included hundreds who killed themselves after giving up the fight completely. Only 29 were taken prisoner at the end of the Battle of Attu. (May 30, 1943)4yr ⋅ TrendWarrior101 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Sherman tanks from the Canadian Governor General's Horse Guards Armoured Regiment advancing in the city of Arnhem during its liberation on 15 April 1945.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Belgian girl kisses an American anti-aircraft gunner after the liberation of Liege, Belgium 1944.4yr ⋅ Historynsnz ⋅ r/wwiipics
An M4A3 Sherman tank of the 11th Armoured Division, 3rd US Army is seen advancing into the centre of the German town of Kronach on April 12, 19452yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
The British battleship HMS Barham exploding after being hit by torpedoes from a German U-boat in the Mediterranean in 1941. A total of 862 men died when the ship was sunk.2yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/wwiipics
Invasion of Sicily. 5 August 1943. Two Scottish soldiers from the Black Watch pass by a burning German anti-aircraft half-track. (746 x 685)3yr ⋅ drumdust ⋅ r/wwiipics
German Wehrmacht soldiers of the 17th Army rest after heavy street fighting in, Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. July 1942.2wk ⋅ the_giank ⋅ r/wwiipics
Red Army wireman Lipovka M.I. at work in the territory recaptured from the Germans. Photo: Strunnikov1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
During Op Fire Fly in 1945, the African American paratroopers of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion made over 8,000 jumps as smokejumpers on wildfires in the Pacific Northwest. Here they're preparing to jump from a Douglas C-47 on a wildfire in Wallowa Forest, Oregon.3yr ⋅ vp2013 ⋅ r/wwiipics
On April 18, 1942, ace pilot Jimmy Doolittle raided Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagoya, and Osaka. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and promoted by President Franklin Roosevelt to brigadier general. Doolittle commanded Air Forces in the Pacific, Europe and North Africa.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soldier of the 4th Infantry Division bidding farewell to his wife and baby at Penn Station, NYC 19448mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Crewmembers of the USS Intrepid gather around a hole made by a kamikaze attack - 25 November, 19442yr ⋅ kingsaw100 ⋅ r/wwiipics
2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment man the Gort Line at Rumegies, France on the Belgian border; January 1940. This was a defensive line forming a northern extension of the Maginot Line. Both lines proved ineffective when the British and French were flanked by the Germans in the Ardennes.3yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/wwiipics
King George VI visits Polish pilots of 303 Air Force Squadron, which shot down the most planes during the Battle of Britain, on 26 September 19402yr ⋅ Tenyearnotes ⋅ r/wwiipics
Heavily-armed Soviet partisan, carrying a PPSh-41, two M1895 Nagant revolvers and a plethora of grenades3yr ⋅ patriot-renegade ⋅ r/wwiipics
Generalleutnant Otto Elfeldt calmly smokes a cigarette before he is questioned after his capture. On 30 July 1944, he took over command of the LXXXIV Army Corps but his Corps was surrounded and destroyed in the Falaise Pocket. Released in '48, he lived a long civilian life.1yr ⋅ PosiCursed ⋅ r/wwiipics
USAAF pilot Dick Bong and his P-38 Marge with nose-art of his girlfriend Marjorie2yr ⋅ HGpennypacker ⋅ r/wwiipics
American Marines on a landing craft approaching the Japanese-held island of Tarawa, one of the Marines shows a picture of a pin-up girl as Tarawa burns in the background, 1943.10mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/wwiipics
