Ground Zero showing the melted remains of the atomic bomb tower after the first atomic test viewed by Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, Director of Los Alamos Atomic Bomb Project and Physicist (center with light hat) and Maj General Leslie R. Groves (center), Alamogordo, NM.10mo ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
/r/WWIIpics will be going dark starting June 12th in protest against Reddit's API changes, which will kill 3rd party apps.11mo ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Taken by his wingman’s gun camera, this P-47 Thunderbolt piloted by Capt. Raymond M. Walsh of the 406th Fighter Group is silhouetted against an exploding ammunition truck he just strafed in France on June 23, 1944.5yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Ilyushin Il-2M3 Shturmovik aircraft of the 567 ShAP, 16th Army fly over Berlin, 1945.5yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Ball turret trainer/simulator at Harlingen Air Force Base, Texas. January 11, 1945.4yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
View from the ball turret of a B-17 with open bomb bay doors during the bombing of the Leuna synthetic oil plant on December 21, 1944.5yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter of the 9th AF in flight over France, 1944.6yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two early recruits to the British Free Corps: Kenneth Berry and Alfred Minchin, with German officers, April 1944. The BFC was a unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II, made up of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by Germany.2yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-24 Liberator of the 705th Bomb Squadron over Orly Airfield, Paris, May 14 1944.5yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Luftwaffe pilots gather in front of a Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6/R6 at a wooded dispersal area in May 1944.6yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Bell P-39 Airacobra just off the runway at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942.5yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Six de Havilland DH.98 Mosquitos of 105 Squadron at RAF Marham, Norfolk, UK. December 11, 1942.8yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Medical staff and their WC-54 ambulances waiting for returning B-17 bombers, probably at RAF Ridgewell, Essex, England, 1944. Note the flare shot from the B-17 indicating wounded personnel on board.6yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
TBF-1 Avengers on the flight deck of USS Ranger while a K-class Airship flies overhead on anti-submarine watch, 19436yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Messerschmitt Bf-110 Zerstorer 8.ZG26 (3U+CS) escorted by Fiat G.50 somewhere over the Mediterranean.6yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Westland Lysander Mark IIIA (SD), V9707 'G', of No. 148 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF, surrounded by partisans after landing at a field near the town of Cortemilia, south of Asti in northern Italy, to evacuate three wounded partisans to the Allied-held area.6yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Two 305th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortresses collided in mid-air in heavy fog over Thurleigh airbase after returning from a mission, late 1944.5yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Picked up some Chinese takeout after some Rocket League--my fortune was appropriate...9yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/RocketLeague
A Messerschmitt Me 109 from JG 27, based in North Africa, receives a new coat of paint, 1941.8yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-17F-75-DL Flying Fortress 42-3555 of 8th Air Force 388th Bomb Group 560th BS. Nose Art “Tiger Girl” Shark mouth.8yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Atomic cloud over Nagasaki from Koyagi-jima by Hiromichi Matsuda, August 9, 1945.9yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Inside of a Handley Page Halifax after an anti-aircraft rocket exploded next to it somewhere over Central Europe. The plane made it safely back to base in Italy.9yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Troops of the 2nd Infantry Division file up the bluff from Easy Red sector, Omaha Beach, on D-Day plus 1, June 7, 19449yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Canadian Forces Boeing Vertol CH-113 Labrador helicopter from CFB Gander, landing on tip of Bell Island in 1987.9yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/pics
A 1944 photo of bomb-laden Marine Douglas SBD Dauntless' of VMSB-231 taxiing on Majuro Airfield.9yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
I almost forgot that it's my 1st reddit birthday. I have no girlfriend to make me something special, no silly t-shirts, and my cats are all boring. So, here is a picture of disappointed Matt Damon. I'm sorry everyone.13yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/pics
B-17G 2nd Patches of the 346th BS, 99th BG, Tortorella, Italy on mission to Poltova in the Ukraine, escorted by P-51's of the 318th FS, 325th FG, 1944.9yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Soviet spy laughs at his executioner in a picture taken in Rukajarvi, in East Karelia, in November 194211yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Spitfire pilots pose beside the wreckage of a Junkers Ju-87 Stuka, which they shot down as it was attacking a Channel convoy, 1940.9yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Damaged German Henschel Hs 129B of 5.(Pz)/Schlachtgeschwader 1 at El Aouiana airport, Tunis, Tunisia, in May 19439yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Junkers Ju-52 aircraft dropping parachutists & supplies during the Battle of Crete, one blazing after being hit by ground fire, May 19419yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
I feel like the creators of Homeland pulled one of these on us (and it was good).11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/homeland
P-38 fighter plane in background as the pilot arrives in a captured German vehicle, France, 19449yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Panorama view of Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese raid on 7 December 1941, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead. Large column of smoke in lower right center is from the burning USS Arizona (BB-39).11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-25 Jaunty Jo on a low altitude bomb run being hit by AA fire and about to crash. Formosa, May 25,19459yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
P-38 machine gun firing test. 50 caliber machine guns firing with every 5th shell a tracer in 3 second bursts.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Today in WWII history: One of 100 B-17s that attacked the Focke-Wulf plant at Marienburg on Oct. 9, 194311yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-1B Lancer Bombers on Diego Garcia, November, 2001, during the bombing campaign in Afghanistan11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/aviationpics
B-17G Flying Fortresses of the 96th Bomb Squadron are joined by a damaged P-38J Lightning fighter on the return from a mission to Ploesti, Romania, 10 Jun 1944. Note the feathered engine on the P-38 with oil stains covering the engine cowling.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Times Square, New York, March 1943 -- Note the buy war bonds poster in the background.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
A fleet of Landing Craft Assault passing a landing ship during exercises prior to the invasion of Normandy.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress hurtles down in flames after a direct flak hit over Japan, 1945.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-17F Alice from Dallas of the 100th Bomb Group 350 BS, Warnemunde Raid July 194311yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Consolidated Catalina Mark I, Z2417 ‘AX-L’, of No. 202 Squadron RAF flies by the North Front of the Rock as it leaves Gibraltar on a patrol.10yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
German troops in motorcycle and Einheits-Diesel trucks arriving in recently annexed territory of Sudetenland, Germany, 9 Oct 193811yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Crash landing of F6F-3, Number 30 of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2), USS Enterprise, into the carrier’s port side 20mm gun gallery, 10 November 194311yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Twin 5.25-inch guns of an anti-aircraft battery at Primrose Hill in London, 27 August 194311yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Consolidated B-24 Liberators, North American B-25 Mitchells, and Douglas C-47 Parked At Bari Airfield, Italy, October 1944.9yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
70 years ago today -- B-24 Liberators approach the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania during Operation Tidal Wave on Aug 1 1943.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
A motorcycle despatch rider passes a knocked-out Sherman tank and behind, a German Panther at Fontenay-le-Pesnel, 27 June 194410yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Polish insurgent fighters with captured German SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicle, Warsaw, Poland, 14 Aug 1944.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-26 Martin Marauder, 1943. Left Wing and Engine Nacelle Riddled With Anti-aircraft Fire. Plane Made A Safe Belly Landing After Bombing Raid In Tunisia.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Found an old school picture of an older school LAN a few friends had...in a laundromat. 14yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/gaming
A cut-away and annotated drawing of the Fiesler Fi 103 flying bomb, (also known as FZG 76 or V1 weapon). From a secret report prepared on 16th June 1944 for circulation to units of Air Defence Great Britain10yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
RAF C-47 Dakota aircraft turning away after releasing their Waco Hadrian gliders, Normandy, France, June 7 194411yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Spitfire LF VIII of 451 Squadron RAAF with USN blimp K-112 of Airship Patrol Squadron 14 at French naval air base, Cuers-Pierrefeu, near Toulon, France, Sep 1944.11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese G4M1 Betty aircraft fly impressively low to conduct torpedo attacks at Guadalcanal on August 8, 1942.12yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Vulgar Virgin and crew - 344th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force12yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
Can we please change the sidebar image to something more representative of this offseason?6yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/baseball
I was looking through an old hard drive archive, when I found a picture of a sandwich I made in 2006. It was delicious.14yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/pics
Maintenance crews readying B-25 aircraft of the 405th 'Green Dragon' Bomb Squadron, 38th Bomb Group; note painted-over nose glass and forward facing nose guns11yr ⋅ Kruse ⋅ r/wwiipics
