Lt. Col. Ronald Speirs, one of the toughest soldiers in Easy Company (Band of Brothers). Colour by PIECEofJAKE.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. Army 2nd Division Tech Sgt. Meredith Rogers from California shows how lucky he was when his helmet got punctured by a sniper bullet, Normandy, July 13th, 1944. Meredith survived WW2 and passed away in 1994. Colour by PieceOfJake4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
This is Harry Hudec, a 508th HQ Parachute Infantry Regiment 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper who was a Regimental Boxing Champion during WW2. He jumped into Normandy D-Day and fought on the site of Hill 30 between Chef du Pont and Picauville. Colourised by PIECE of JAKE.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Private Albert Taylor Hart, of 15 French St., Methuen, Massachusetts puts an empty ration box over the muzzle of his M-1 to protect it from the snow. Belgium, January 1945. Colourised by PieceOfJake.2yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[76 years ago today] Troops of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment move through the fog to a new position, Ardennes, Belgium, December 20, 1944. Colour by PIECEofJAKE.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese soldiers stand in attention during sunrise in Wuchang, Wuhan, China, 1938. Colourised by Julius Jaaskelainen.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
British troops and American Rangers meet on the Anzio-Rome road, Italy 23 January 1944. Colour by JuliusColorization.2yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Belgium, May of 1940. 81 years ago today, Rommel paddles across the river Meuse. Colour by In Colore Veritas.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[77 years ago today] Fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator “Little Warrior” with the 861st Bomb Squadron explode over Fallersleben, Germany after anti-aircraft hit, Jun 29 1944. Photo taken by Clifford A Stocking, waist gunner on “Green Hornet.”3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U-848 under attack from a very low flying aircraft. The submarine was intercepted on 5 November 1943, off the coast of Brazil, by the US Navy aircraft from VB-107. She was depth charged by 3 PB4Y-1 Liberators. All 63 hands were lost. Colour by Nathan Howland (@ HowdiColourWorks)2yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[75 years ago today] Red Army soldiers open the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, January 27th, 1945. Colourised by PIECEofJAKE.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German Grenadiers during the 4th defense of the Smolensk Rollbahn, 17 December 1943 after the second Battle of Smolensk (7 August–2 October 1943). Colour by Julius Jaaskelainen.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[75 years ago today] 4th May 1945. Hans-Georg von Friedeburg signs the surrender of the German Armed Forces in Montgomery's tent. Color by Christos Kaplanis.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U-185 sinking after being hit by US depth charges, 24 August 1943. Color by Royston Leonard.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet soldiers surrendering to the 1st Panzer Division Leibstandarte during the summer of ‘41/‘42. Colour by Julius Jaaskelainen.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The crew of B-17F Man O' War assigned to the 306th Bomb Group, 367th Bomb Squadron. Missing in Action during a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St Nazaire, France on 9th November, 1942. All 11 crew members were killed. Their bodies were never recovered. Colour by Renee Colours.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-24L 'Stevonovitch II' of the of the 464th Bomber Group hit by German anti-aircraft fire over Lugo, Italy, 10 Apr 1945. Colour by Nathan Howland.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Navajo code talkers Cpl. Henry Bahe, Jr. and PFC George H. Kirk transmit messages during combat on Bougainville. December 1943. Colour by Mohamed Bayouli.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German troops watch as their artillery bombards Soviet positions, Stalingrad, 1942.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
On the island of Bougainville on March 16, 1944, an M3A1 Stuart tank Popeye III of Company A, 754th Tank Battalion and Riflemen of Company C, 132nd Infantry Regiment attack a Japanese bunker in an area of fierce combat dubbed the Hornet’s Nest by American soldiers. Colour by Royston Leonard.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Japanese prisoner captured near Nauro on the Kokoda Track, New Guinea, being cared for by Australian stretcher bearers. He had been overworked and was near starving when taken prisoner. Papua New Guinea, October 1942. Colour: Benjamin Thomas.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Marine patrol moves through the jungle on Emirau island, March 1944. Colour by Julius Jaaskelainen.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Dutch children welcome paratroopers of the 506th Parachute Infantry Division, US 101st Airborne Division, shortly after landing on DZ B, late afternoon on September 17th 1944, Son, The Netherlands. Colour by PIECEofJAKE.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lance-Corporal W.J. Curtis of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (R.C.A.M.C.) 3rd Division, bandages the burnt leg of a french boy whose brother looks on, Boissons, Normandy in France, 19 June 1944. Colourised by Doug.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US and British soldiers look on as French civilians lay a wreath at the Great War monument to commemorate Carentans dead. Place de la Republique, Carentan. June 14, 1944. Colour by Jared Enos.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Hart H. Spiegal tries to communicate with two very young Japanese soldiers captured during the Battle of Okinawa. June 17th, 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
This 'Jedburgh', Lt. John K. Singlaub, has a .30 cal. M1-A1 folding-stock carbine slung across his chest, a compact weapon favored for parachute operations. 11 August 1944. Colour by PieceOfJake.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
75 years ago today. Pfc. Richard Larock, of 'E' Company, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th US Infantry Division, relaxes after a day of fighting by playing piano in a wrecked German beer hall. He was killed in action two days later near Aachen on the 10th of October 1944. Colour by Zeldave.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[75 years ago today] German commandos captured in American uniform are prepared for execution, 23 December 1944. Colour by PieceOfJake.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captain Bruce Ballantyne, Patrol commander of T Patrol, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), probably taken in the Western Desert, Libya, 1940-43. Colour by Benjamin Thomas.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
His bayoneted M1 Garand serving as a holder, a wounded Leatherneck gets an injection of blood plasma from a Navy Hospital Corpsman during the battle for Okinawa, May 1945. Colourised by PIECE of JAKE4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet soldiers in a trench position on the Karelian Isthmus, Finland, December 1939. Colour by Julius Jaaskelainen.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An M10 Wolverine 3-inch self-propelled gun of the 20th Anti-Tank Regiment provides cover for the infantry of 3rd Division as they advance inland from Queen beach, Sword area, Normandy, 6 June 1944. Colorized by Julius Jaaskelainen.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/TankPorn
[75 years ago today] Bf 109G-14, ‘Blue 2’ of IV Gruppe (16 Staffel) JG 53, was brought down by .50 caliber rounds during Operation Bodenplatte on January 1st, 1945. The 23 year old fighter pilot, Gefreiter Alfred Michel, was on his first and last mission. Color by Rui.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
4 P-38F of the 82nd FG - 95th FS flying of the sea whilst base at Grombalia, Tunisia, during the summer of 1943. Colour by Nathan Howland4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
[76 years ago today] 19 May 1944: HRH Princess Elizabeth watching parachutists during a visit to airborne forces at Netheravon Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire in England in the run-up to D-Day. Standing next to her is Brigadier Stanley James Ledger Hill. Colour by RJM.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Six B-17 bombers fly over the skies during a flight drill in 1943. Colorozation by Nathan Howland.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American B24 plane photographed from above while on mission to Brussels, Belgium on August 3, 1944. Colorization by Nathan Howland.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Private First Class Frank Pomroy, 'H' Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, USMC, in the marshes of Peleliu Island, Western Pacific. September 19445yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet tank commander Lt. Mikhael Sisoevich rests with his crew by his camouflage T34/76 tank of the 206th Tank Batallion, 90th Armored Brigade near Stalingrad, October 1942. Colour by Jecinci.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A US C-46 aircraft of the 5th Air Force is conducting an aerial evacuation of wounded American troops from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, shortly after US forces retook the city after intense fighting with the Japanese. Colour by PIECEofJAKE.3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Army troops on board a landing craft tank (LCT), ready to ride across the English Channel. June 12, 1944.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese POW 2 Lt Minoru Wada using the intercom aboard a USMC PBJ Mitchell bomber to relay instructions to his interpreter about the location of the Japanese 100th Infantry Division headquartersdeep in the jungle on Mindanao, Philippines. August 9, 1945.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Bf-109E piloted by Walter Fiel (WNr 5901), which crash-landed at Peckham, Kent on October 2nd 1940, is put on display to help raise funds for the war outside St Nicholas church in Durham.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
SS-Panzergrenadiers in Poteau, Belgium, 18 December 1944. Colour by Julius Jaaskelainen.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A group of redirected B-17 bombers from the 398th Air Expeditionary Group on a mission over Munich in April 1945. Colorization by Nathan Howland.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-25D Mitchell bomber of the 13th Bomb Squadron departing Simpson Harbor after an attack, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 19435yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Sgt. Clearance Pfeifer and Pfc. Sherman Maness of the 11th Armored Division bringing back two captured German prisoners, Longchamps, Belgium. January 13, 1945. Colourised by Richard James Molloy.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Cpl. F.R. Smith of Queensland Australia, squats in the high 'Kunai' grass with his Tommy Gun. November/December 1942 Gona Area, Papua New Guinea. Colourised by PieceofJake.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
75 years ago today. A serial of Douglas C-47 Skytrains of the 315th Troop Carrier Group, dropping 41 sticks of the 1st Polish Airborne Brigade into DZ O near Grave, southwest of Nijmegen in Holland, on September 23, 1944, D+6 of Operation Market Garden. Colourised by Piece of Jake.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
T/Sgt Johnny Yanak, ‘A’ Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, seen here carrying his Thompson SMG in the hedgerows of Brest in Brittany, France. 26 August, 1944. Colourised by Doug5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[COLOR] B-25s are pictured flying past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spews from the top of the volcano. The eruption killed 57 as it destroyed the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 while Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. infantrymen move down a street in Waldenburg, Germany, after a raid during World War II, April 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
G.I.'s from (possibly) the 1st Btn, 314th Inf. Rgt. of the US 79th Inf. Div., during an attack on the Bolleville road, just north west of La Haye-du-Puits in Normandy. ca. July 8, 1944. Colourised by Doug.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Holding a Napoleonic era helmet in one hand and his own 20th century head gear in the other, Capt. Frederick J. Saam, of Calumet, Mich., presents a contrast in two distant epochs of war which the antique town of Anzio has witnessed.' Anzio, Italy. 31 January 1944. Colour by Julius Jaaskelainen.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-17 bombers amidst heavy flak fire over Merseburg, Germany, circa 1944-19456yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Crewmen lifting Kenneth Bratton (AOM) out of turret of TBF on the USS Saratoga (CVA-3) after raid on Rabaul, 5 November 1943. Colourised by PieceofJake.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[The channel stopped you, but not us] 6th Airlanding Brigade troops admire the graffiti chalked on the side of their Horsa glider as they prepare to fly out as part of the second drop on the night of 6th June, 1944. Colourised by Paul Reynolds.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German Frogman, captured while swimming with others along the Rhine River near Remagen, in an attempt to destroy US First Army bridges. Captured by the men of the US 164th Engineer Battalion at Kripp in Germany, March 18 1945. Color by Julius Jaaskelainen.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lieutenant General Patton of the US 3rd Army awarding the Silver Star Medal to Private Ernest Jenkins for gallantry during actions at Chateaudun, France, 13 October 1944.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Finnish soldier looks on at the burning town (probably Porajarvi, Karelia, Russia) in 1944. Colorization by Jecinci.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Marine Corporal Harold Flagg and his war dog Boy posing with a Japanese flag, Okinawa, Japan, April 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German infiltrators lined up for execution by firing squad after conviction by a military court for wearing U.S. uniforms during the Battle of the Bulge. December 23, 1944.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[COLOR] Soldiers of the US 101st Airborne Division at a medal ceremony at the Place De La Republique, Carentan. Of the 11 people standing in front of Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, 3 were Killed in Action later on in the war.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Band of Brothers June 7, 1944. Easy Company, 2nd Battallion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101th Airborne Division, at Sainte-Marie Du Mont, Normandy. Colourised by Royston Leonard UK.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
75 years ago today. Two soldiers watch as Cromwell tanks of the Guard Armoured Division of the 2nd Armoured Recon Batallion Welsh Guard cross Nijmegen bridge in the Netherlands, Thursday, 21 September 1944. Colourised by Tom Marshall.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A liberated Frenchman lights British Prime minister Winston Churchill's cigar. 19446yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captain Robert Rae of the 82nd’s 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment checks his manifest before boarding his C-47 aircraft for the D-Day airborne assault, June 5, 1944. Colour by PieceofJake.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
October 20, 1944: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, center, is accompanied by his officers and Sergio Osmena, president of the Philippines in exile, extreme left, as he wades ashore during landing operations at Leyte, Philippines, after U.S. forces recaptured the beach of the Japanese-occupied island6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Photo taken on June 7, 1944, at Baudienville, a small hamlet 2.5 km NE from Sainte-Mere-Eglise, showing a smiling Monsieur Jacques Philippe standing at the door of his establishment with his little daughter and the customers he was waiting for for the last 4 years. Colour by In Colore Veritas4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German soldier cleans his rifle in the break between battles at Stalingrad, autumn 19426yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Consolidated B-24 emerges from flak area with its No. 2 engine smoking. Vienna, 1944.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two dejected German women sitting on what used to be a park bench, surrounded by destroyed buildings; Cologne, Germany, 1945.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The beginning of World War II: SMS Schleswig-Holstein firing what is believed to be the first shot of the Second World War in Danzig, Poland on the Westerplatte peninsula at dawn on September 1, 1939. The vessel fired at close range destroying the nearby harbour.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An 8th Air Force B-17 warplane flying over Marienburg, Germany, 1943. Colorization by Mario Unger.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German Fallschirmjager armed with a Maschinenpistole 40 (and possibly a holstered Walther flare pistol), also carrying an M35 map-case on the march in Nettuno, Italy. Winter 1943/44. Colour by Doug3yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Landing craft loaded with 3rd Division Marines heading for the beach on the Island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, north of Australia; 8 November 1943.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[COLOR] Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery explains Allied strategy to King George VI in his command caravan in Holland, October 19445yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Marine Staff Sergeant A S. Barnacle shaving in his camp on Okinawa, Japan, ignoring the heavy flooding due to rain, 28 May 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Daimler armored car opens fire in the gloom of early morning at the start of the battle for Tripoli, 18 January 1943.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A camouflaged Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21-IIb bomber seconds before its destruction by parafrag bombs dropped by a USAAF Douglas A-20 Havoc. Dutch East Indies, 1943.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A helmeted and bewhiskered soldier dressed as Santa Claus handing out presents to wounded American soldiers on Christmas day, outside of a field hospital.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
F6F-3 Hellcat fighter of VF-15 being shot from the hangar deck catapult of the Fleet Carrier USS Hornet (Essex-class) (CV-12) during training in Chesapeake Bay, February 12, 1944. Colour by Jecinci.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
USS Cowpens rolling in heavy seas in Typhoon Cobra in the Pacific Ocean, 18 December 1944.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A celebration of Germany's surrender takes place on Paris' Champs Elysees, as seen from the top of the Arc de Triomphe ,on May 8, 1945.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[COLOR] An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in an airplane cockpit during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport him to a field hospital, July 1944.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captain Edwin 'Bill' Fisher of the No 377 Fighter Squadron, 362 Fighter Group, atop his P-47D Thunderbolt Shirley Jane III at a landing ground in France in summer 1944.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[COLOR] Major Richard Winters, Captain Lewis Nixon, Liet. Harry Welsh (of the Band of Brothers), and two other man celebrate VE Day at Hitler's alpine retreat in Berchtesgaden May 8, 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles Beach in Normandy, on June 6, 1944 as Allied forces storm the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
USS Copahee (CVE-12) escort carrier left the Garapan anchorage off Saipan on 8 July 1944 with a load of captured Japanese planes (13 Zekes and 1 Kate) and equipment (37 engines) to be used for intelligence and training purposes, and arrived in San Diego on 28 July.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
US Cobra King tank : the one that broke German siege lines at Bastogne. December of 1944 - Battle of the Bulge6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese soldier walking through a barren section of Hiroshima, Japan, September 19456yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Saint-Malo, France, Aug 8, 1944. Privates Ora Pace and Bill Smith (on the left) of the 83rd Infantry Division manning a Browning 1917 heavy MG. Colourised by PieceOfJake.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The German Submarine U-505 (Type IXC) Captured at sea off the coast of Rio de Oro, Western Sahara, West Africa on the 4th of June 1944 by a US carrier task group. Colourised by Doug.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Queen and Princess Elizabeth talk to paratroopers in front of a Halifax aircraft during a tour of Airborne forces, 19 May 1944.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American paratroopers of the 1st Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment land on Kamiri Airdrome, New Guinea, on July 3, 1944.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US soldiers of C Company, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division seek shelter behind an M-4 Sherman tank at Geich.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Unshaven and tired. Captain E.J.Paavilainen photographs a Finnish soldier after fighting around the Rukajarvi area, 12 September 1941. Colour by Julius Jaaskelainen.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[COLOR] A British patrol on the lookout for enemy movements over a valley in the Western Desert, on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Libya border, in February of 1942.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American tank crew listen to Bernard Herzog who was just liberated from the camp of Santo Tomas, 19445yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near “Omaha” Beach, on May 28, 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Lt. Col. Robert Wolverton, 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, checking his gear before boarding the C-47 “Dakota”, 8Y-S, “Stoy Hora” of the 440th Troop Carrier Squadron at an airfield in Exeter, England. The evening of the 5th of June 1944.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A couple of French boys watching Allied vehicles pass through the destroyed town of St. Lo, 1944.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American troops dig foxholes during the Tunisian Campaign in North Africa.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Gunner Cpl. Carlton Chapman from Giles County, Va. poses in his M4 Sherman tank near Nancy in France on November 5, 1944. He died in combat 4 days later on November 9, 1944. Colour by Julius Jaaskelainen.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A soldier of the Cameron Highlanders chalks a warning to Hitler on the side of a train as troops leave Aldershot for France. It reads Hitler! Look oot the Jocks are Coming. The Cameron Highlanders took part in the Battle of France and the subsequent Dunkirk evacuation in May 1940.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Nov. 11, 1943: Crewmen of a U.S. Coast Guard combat transport go for a swim under the hull of a Japanese landmark in the Solomon Islands during World War II.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
5 October 1940. A formation of Hawker Hurricane Mk.Is of No85 Squadron RAF based at Church Fenton in Yorkshire, climbs above the clouds, led by Squadron Leader Peter Wooldridge Townsend. Colour by Doug.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
Two US Marines and an Okinawan child share a foxhole. Battle of Okinawa, 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[COLOR] US Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Regiment, land at Green Beach One, Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands during WWII - 19456yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The torpedoed Japanese destroyer Yamakaze, as seen through the periscope of an American submarine, Nautilus, in June 1942.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress 'Memphis Belle' stand for a photograph on June 7 in 1943 at an air base in England after completing 25 missions over enemy territory.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American GI Ivan Parrott is seen running through smoke in no man’s land near Neuss, Germany during the Battle for the Rhine, World War II, 1st March 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American soldier from 7th Armored Division mans the machine gun of his tank while on maneuvers. Circa 1943.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Marine Shoots on a Japanese Pill Box, Tarawa, November 1943. Credit: USMC.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. Marine with M1 carbine hiding near the entrance to the cave on Okinawa, 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
[COLOR] The imprint of a kamikaze Mitsubishi Ki-51 on the side of H.M.S Sussex in 1945.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
A police officer attempts to console an elderly man after his wife was killed in a V1 'doodlebug' flying bomb attack, England, 1944.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German troops of the 6th Army move into the suburbs of Stalingrad, late September 19425yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Staff Sergeant Francis Daggertt of the Military Police and a 15-year-old Wehrmacht soldier, in the city of Kronach, Germany 1945.5yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
1941: German sailors from the sinking battleship Bismarck swimming to British warships to be saved...but most drowned after U-boats scared off their rescuers. Only 114 of 2,200 sailors were saved.6yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/wwiipics
In A Bridge Too Far (1977) a british paratrooper appears twice in the take off scenes from England, holding a chicken. This is a portrayal of Lt. Joseph Glover and his pet chicken Myrtle. Both of them dropped on Arnhem with the 4th Parachute Brigade on September 18th, 1944.4yr ⋅ FENIX400 ⋅ r/MovieDetails
