A WW2 Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer, Hiroo Onoda never surrendered in 1945. Until 1974, for almost 30 years, he held his position in the Philippines. His former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974. National Archives.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ 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
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
A Chinese comfort girl shortly after being freed. Rangoon, China, 8 August. 1945.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ 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
“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant who died in the air war”, Western Desert, 1941. Original photo by George Rodger1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
William W. Outerbridge, captain of the destroyer USS Ward which attacked a Japanese midget submarine spotted at Pearl Harbor shortly before the Japanese attack.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German Waffen SS soldier looking at a nervous Red Army POW, somewhere on the Eastern Front during September 1941.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An abandoned boy holds a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following a German aerial bombing of London during The Blitz, 1940. Copyright Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ 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
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
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
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
Senior German officers - Rear Admiral Wagner (centre) and Admiral von Friedeburg (right) at the British camp on Luneburg Heath to sign the “Instrument of Surrender of the German armed forces in Holland, northwest Germany, and Denmark,” Germany, May 4, 1945. Original photo by George Rodger1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Risa and Yasubei Hirano pose with their son George (left) while holding a photograph of their other son U.S. serviceman Shigera Hirano. The Hiranos were held at the Colorado River Internment camp. Copyright Corbis/Getty Images1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
American Thompson sub-machine guns arrive in the U.K. under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Lend-Lease” program. Original b/w photo at https://militaryhistorynow.com/1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Escape from the Nazis: Jewish passengers on the SS Louis peer out of portholes, 1939. Copyright Getty Images1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
RAF pilots scramble for their Hurricanes during the Battle of Britain, 1940.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Waiting for the invasion on Shakespeare Cliff, Dover 1940. (Original photograph by George Rodger).1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
The wing of a Japanese bomber is left in ruins after being shot down on the grounds of the Naval Hospital at Honolulu during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American Marine prepares to land on Guadalcanal during the five-month struggle for the island between late 1942 and early 1943. Original photo by Joe Scherschel1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
German Nazi party member and author of the Nuremberg Race Laws Wilhelm Frick, photographed in his jail cell at Nuremberg, Germany, during the Nuremberg Trials. November 1945. (Original photo public domain).1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Doris ‘Dorie’ Miller wearing his just after being presented with the Navy Cross by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, on board USS Enterprise at Pearl Harbor, 27 May 1942. (Original photo National Archives collection).1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Men of the Volkssturm, ready with tank-killing Panzerfausts, called up to defend the German homeland, 1944.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics
Regular London firefighters being trained in the use of breathing apparatus in the yard of Brigade headquarters, Lambeth in 1940. (Copyright London Fire Brigade/Mary Evans Picture Library/Caters News)1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/Firefighting
American Serviceman in Eboli, Italy 1943. Original photo by George Rodger.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/WorldWar2
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in an optimistic mood, after landing at Heston Aerodrome following talks with German Leader Adolf Hitler during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Original photo by Edward Malindine, for Daily Herald.1yr ⋅ jamerson72 ⋅ r/wwiipics