Sailor reading in his bunk aboard USS CAPELIN at submarine base New London, Conn. August 1943. [3000x2255]1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
A photo, taken about 1897, reveals what life was like below the decks of the USS Brooklyn. Colorized Credit: Media Drum World [1800x1391]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean captured by the Japanese and pressed to fight the Soviets, captured by the Soviets and pressed to fight the Germans, captured by the Germans and pressed to defend Normandy, where he was captured by the Americans on Utah Beach. June, 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
The HMS Menestheus, the Royal Navy’s floating brewery, was a floating dance hall, movie theater, canteen, and a brewery producing 250 barrels of English-style ale per week to offer a respite for soldiers and sailors fighting in the Pacific during World War II. [1440x810].2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Russian Ministry of Defense recently dropped a cache of photos showing service members participating in specialized combat training in the country’s Kaliningrad region on the Baltic Sea. Backflipping with deadly weapons during combat training appears to be a Russian tradition. [600x400]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
When the Japanese surrendered aboard the Battleship Missouri in September 1945, America’s airborne military might was on full display. An armada of 1000+ United States fighters and bombers flew low and slow over the “Mighty Mo” to hammer the message home to the Japanese that the war was over.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
The “Great White Fleet,” sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909, consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The fourteen-month long voyage was a grand pageant of American sea power. [650x409]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Wartime air traffic control trainees practice on model aircraft before working with the real thing.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Japanese fleet maneuvering while under attack by U.S. Navy aircraft during the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944. The ship at the bottom center is a Yamato-class battleship. The photo was taken from the back seat of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron 18 (VB-18). [5585 × 4081]1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
The World War II concrete fleet was sunk as breakwaters for a ferry landing in Virginia, two are now wharves in Oregon, and seven are still afloat as part of a breakwater on the Powell River in Canada. The World War II fleet ended America’s experiment with concrete ships. [2000x1326]1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
General George Patton died peacefully at 5:55 p.m. on December 21, 1945 at the 130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg. After a brief church ceremony, pallbearers placed Patton’s casket onto a half-track for the trip to the train station where seventeen cannons saluted the fallen general.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Reich Marshall Hermann Goering handed over this Walther PPK pistol along with a ceremonial dagger to American soldier Jerome Shapiro to mark his surrender at the end of the Second World War.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
These overshoes were made for Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents operating in Asia and the Pacific during WWII. When the agent landed on a beach from the sea, the “footprints” were intended to fool the Japanese into thinking that he was a barefoot native.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Just about anyone who has read about the Pacific War, knows that Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto was killed when the G4M he was flying in was shot down over Bougainville on April 18, 1943, by U.S. Army Air Force P-38 ‘Lightning’ fighters. The wreckage of that G4M can still be seen today.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
World War II’s “odd couple” on an inspection flight along the Western Front on September 9, 1944. General George S. Patton, Jr. (left) and General Omar Bradley reveal their strain and fatigue during the campaign to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
14-inch projectiles on the deck of USS New Mexico (BB-40) while the battleship was replenishing her ammunition supply prior to the invasion of Guam, July 1944. The photograph looks forward on the starboard side, with triple 14/50 gun turrets at left. Note floater nets atop the turrets. [4535×5742]1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Portrait of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery on his appointment as Colonel Commandant of the Parachute Regiment. He is wearing a beret and jacket similar to what was worn by the Parachute Regiment when they were dropped in Normandy on the night of 5 - 6 June 1944.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Corporal T Sillito was a member of a four-man SAS patrol tasked to blow up a rail line at El Alamein. After a firefight with the enemy, Sillito got separated and walked 100 miles back to the British lines, without food or water, a gruelling week-long desert experience. Note his bandaged feet. 1942.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Finnish soldiers from their 46th Infantry Regiment, printed in the April 1943 issue of Signal. Note that the Finnish helmets were almost identical to German helmets.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Navy photo of the forward 40.6 cm/45 guns of the battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) train to starboard during a North Atlantic battle practice. Photographed during her shakedown. Note the ice and snow on turrets and decks. circa December 1942 - January 1943.[5760×4573]1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
More than 70 years after the battle for the Hurtgen Forest ended, this concrete German bunker remains menacing and is indicative of the many strongpoints American GIs encountered during the fighting there.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
An African soldier or 'Askari' on guard duty at No. 23 Air School at Waterkloof, Pretoria, South Africa, January 1943.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
The 5” (127 mm) battery aboard USS New Mexico (BB-40) prepares to fire during the bombardment of Saipan. Note the time-fuze setters on the left side of each gun mount, each holding three “fixed” rounds of ammunition; 15 June 1944 [4515x5746]1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
An unusual photo brings to life how some farmers painted their cows during the World War 2 Blitz. The animals were recognised as potential traffic hazards during the bombing blackouts. Some crafty farmers of the earth daubed their cows with white stripes so they could be seen by motorists at night.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
General Feld Marschall Erwin Rommel inspecting the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy on the 30th of May 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
British Royal Marine Commandos attached to the British 3rd Infantry Division moving inland from Sword Beach, D-Day, 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ 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 frozen German Oberfeltwebel clutching a vase of goods plundered near Stalingrad.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
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
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
The reaction of this young Fallschirmjager Obergefreiter to becoming a prisoner of war speaks volumes about his sense of unit pride and shame of capture. January 19451yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Marine flamethrowing Sherman tanks set fire to Japanese WW2 aircraft in Sasebo, Japan, on November 2, 1945.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
German soldier during “Operation Citadel.” While the Soviets lost far more men and equipment, the German losses were unsustainable. Germany suffered more than 250,000 casualties from a force of 780,000+ men. The attack ran out of steam after just 8 days. Kursk, July 1943.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
For several years, a mysterious and relatively unassuming converted submarine support vessel ship called the Carolyn Chouest has plied the waters of the Pacific, executing an unknown number of secret special operations missions whose details may never be known. WarZone photo. [1920x1080]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
US Army troops examine a one-man Italian submarine that washed up on the Anzio beachhead in Italy. January 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
The Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat could absorb unbelievable punishment and still bring the pilot back to his ship. Pilots tell of flying mostly holes where the airplane used to be and more air was going through it than around it. Navy pilots called the Hellcat the Aluminum Tank. Circa 1943.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Original high quality Army Air Corps photograph of an intelligence officer briefing pilots for “Operation Strangle” during the Italian Campaign in spring 1944. Pilots were to attack key supply lines keeping German forces from operating in and around Central Italy. [11264x8315]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
40mm Gun Crew member (Deck Talker) on the Destroyer Escort USS Edsall (DE-129) circa 1943.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
German Focke-Wulf FW-190 fighters nicely silhouetted against the horizon.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
An exhausted American medic returning from the front during the Battle of the Bulge. Combat or Field medics in WW2 were military personnel prepared in a medical basic training, responsible for providing first aid and frontline trauma care on the battlefield.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Celebrations to mark a Lancaster bomber reaching 100 missions. 12 May 1944.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Gadget - the first atomic bomb, 1945. After the initial euphoria had passed of witnessing the first nuclear test explosion, test director Kenneth Bainbridge commented to Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer: “Now we are all sons of bitches”.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
A medic of the 4th infantry division taking care of another medic after the successful invasion of Utah beach. The photograph was taken on 6 June 1944 during Operation Overlord.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighter makes condensation rings as it awaits the take-off flag aboard USS Yorktown (CV-10), 20 November 1943. [1496×1227] US Navy Photograph.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
U.S. Navy K-class blimps in one of the airship hangars at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey (USA), circa 1942-1943. The blimp at right is the K-7.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Three Polar bears approach the starboard bow of the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Honolulu (SSN 718) while surfaced 280 miles from the North Pole. US Navy Photo. [3500x2625]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
General Dwight D. Eisenhower proved uniquely suited to the demanding role of supreme allied commander during World War II. Although he never fulfilled his dream of participating on the battlefield, he did what the world needed, and provided crucial leadership to end the war in Europe.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
A U.S. Navy photo of a B-25B Mitchell, one of sixteen involved in the mission, taking off from the flight deck of the USS Hornet to bomb Japan on April 18, 1942. The Doolittle Raid inflicted limited damage, but showed the Japanese that America had the will to fight back. [1600x1075]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Private Romanick, dressed in heavy winter gear, wipes and cleans a 40-mm antiaircraft gun. He is with an anti-aircraft battery of the 1st Infantry Division, U.S. First Army. The gun has six swastikas painted on it, one for each German plane it has brought down. December 1944.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WorldWar2
USS Missouri (BB 63) crew members get a drink of water from a crew quarters scuttlebutt as other men rest and read in hanging berths. circa August 1944.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Pointe du Hoc was a German stronghold strategically located as the highest point between Utah Beach to the west and Omaha Beach to the east. That’s why it became such an important site in D-Day history. Even today, the whole area is still full of Allied bomb craters and original German bunkers.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero (T2-157) abandoned at Munda Airfield (Central Solomon Islands), after the Allied Invasion, September 1943.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
LadyLex & SisterSara USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) off Diamond Head on 2 February 1933. Colorized by Irootoko jr. (960x458)2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Smithsonian original color photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt’s casket as it proceeds down Constitution Avenue toward the White House during his funeral procession on April 14, 1945. [10385x8774]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A soldier of the Großdeutschland Division is seen holding the uncommonly-seen close-range anti-tank Sturmpistole in Russia (ca. 1943)2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
325 B-29s headed toward Tokyo, and nearly 300 of them dropped fire bombs on it, destroying more than 267,000 buildings and killing more than 83,000 people, making it the deadliest day of the war. The firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than the atomic bombs at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. March 1945.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
General Douglas MacArthur smoking his trademark corncob pipe, probably at Manila, Philippine Islands, 2 Aug 19452yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soldiers from the 325th Infantry Regiment in a Horsa glider in their way to France during D-Day. The Horsa glider, actually the Airspeed AS.51 Horsa, was a British troop-carrying glider used during WWII.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Gordon Max Gollob was an Austrian-born German Ace and the first fighter pilot in aviation history to achieve 150 aerial victories. He rose to the rank of General der Jagdflieger and was one of only 27 to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Marines on Okinawa look over an abandoned Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 “Tony” on April 9, 1945.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Coast Guard Cutter Spencer Destroys The Nazi Submarine U-175, April 17, 1943. [880x699]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France. July 11, 1944.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Field Marshal Montgomery decorates Russian Generals at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. 12 July 1945.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Luftwaffe field division soldier with a Karabiner 98K and mounted ZF41 sniper scope in Russia 1942. It was initially planned to equip most combat units with the ZF41 scopes, but only 6% of German weapons production could fit the sight.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Somewhere in Russia - soldiers in winter equipment take a break. March 1944.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WorldWar2
3rd Squadron Hell’s Angels, Flying Tigers over China, photographed in 1942 by AVG pilot Robert T. Smith.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
George S. Patton, then a lieutenant general, in North Africa during WWII, 1943.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
U.S. Navy aviator Jesse Rhodes Waller tries out a machine gun he had just installed on a plane at Naval Airbase Corpus Christi, Texas in August 1942.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
The World War II concrete fleet was sunk as breakwaters for a ferry landing in Virginia, two are now wharves in Oregon, and seven are still afloat as part of a breakwater on the Powell River in Canada. The World War II fleet ended America’s experiment with concrete ships. [2000x1326]1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
An unknown American soldier in summer service uniform mocking Hitler’s moustache with a hair comb. c 1944.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Snowsuited soldiers walk through the snow-covered streets of St. Vith, Belgium. These men are with the Company C, 48th Battalion, 7th Armored Division. 1 December 19441yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WorldWar2
In 1944 Dick Bong (Ace of Aces) was awarded the nation’s highest honor by General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of all U.S. Army units in the Far East, who said: “I now induct you into the society of the bravest of brave, the wearers of the Congressional Medal of Honor of the United States.”2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
A photograph taken by Maj. Gen. Erwin Rommel, commander of the 7th Panzer Division that spearheaded one of the drives of Plan Sichelschnitt (the cut of the sickle), the blueprint for a blitzkrieg against Germany’s old and bitter enemy, France. May, 1940.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Near the port of Cherbourg, France lies a Confederate warship that never saw a Confederate port. CSS Alabama was commissioned by the South during the Civil War, built in Liverpool, armed in the Azores, and cruised against Union shipping around the world before being finally sunk. [1600x900]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
British gunners of the Shropshire Yeomanry in action with a 5.5 inch Howitzer under camouflage netting in Northern Italy, 1943.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
An unidentified US pilot stands up in the cockpit of his plane on the tarmac on Midway Naval Base, Midway Islands, 1942.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Circa 1860 Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at dock in London. [306x404]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
A North American Mustang Mk.IA on a test flight from NAA's Inglewood, California facility in October 1942. The painted-over serial number is 41-37416. It was damaged during shipment to Europe in late 1943.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
Major General Lloyd Fredendall was highly recommended by General George C. Marshall as “one of the best.” He had an exemplary service record prior to World War II. But ultimately these high hopes and expectations ended in a disastrous failure at the Battle of Kasserine Pass.1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
A US Navy Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless of bombing squadron VB-8 on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) during the Battle of Midway in 1942. [1521x1227]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
The crew of B-17G 'Bolo Babe' (42-102601) of the 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th BG, pose on top of their plane. Bolo Babe crash-landed after she lost an engine and her electrical system during a mission to attack a BMW plant in Ludwigshafen Germany, 9 September, 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
An original color screenshot by American Hollywood film photographer/director George Cooper Stevens of a young German prisoner of war in May 1945.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a high-ranking member of the Nazi SS, ultimately holding the rank of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer and General of the Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler and SS Liaison Officer to Adolf Hitler.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Navy original color photo of crewmen washing the fuselage of their Martin PBM-3 Mariner after returning from a patrol, Circa WW2.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
During the fight for Onderlangs, this British Para’s smock caught the fence when he was hit and he died in this position. Operation Market Garden, Arnhem, September 19, 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
The deck of USS Lexington hums as she recovers her air group. Three Hellcats are in various stages of getting their wings folded and moving forward while a TBF Avenger is just about to trap in the distance. [860x663]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Abandoned German vehicles on the Volokolamsk Highway near Moscow, Russia, 5 Dec 1941.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Color slide of a boy building a model airplane as a girl watches at a Migrant Farm Security Administration Labor camp in Robstown, Texas. January 19422yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
At the critical road junctions of St. Vith and Bastogne, American tankers and paratroopers fought off repeated attacks, and when the acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne was summoned by his German adversary to surrender, he simply responded, “Nuts!”2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Among the photos Walter Rosenblum took on the morning of D-Day was an iconic shot of an exhausted young lieutenant on a rocky beach, gazing past the camera while he and several others perform first aid on a group of men they’d tried to rescue from a wrecked boat, seen sinking in the background.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
American troops stand guard behind German Army soldiers captured near the town of Le Gast during the Normandy invasion, Life Magazine - June 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Staff Sergeant Nicholas J. Jones, Critical Skills Operator, is awarded the Navy Cross by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David Berger, during a ceremony aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune for actions in support of Operation INHERENT RESOLVE in March 8, 2020. USMC Photo [5760x3840]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/USMC
North American P-51D-5-NA s/n 44-13357 “Tika IV” flown by Lieutenant Vernon R. Richards 374th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group RAF Bottisham, United-Kingdom, 19442yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
B-17 Fortresses of the 91st Bomb Group nearing the Dornier Assembly Plant at Meulan, France at dawn, Aug 13, 19432yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Navy color WW2 photo of a German U-Boat (U-858) as it surrenders at a rendezvous point off Cape May, New Jersey after being escorted there by Destroyers for 1000 miles. Boarding party from an Ocean Rescue Tug (USS ATR-57) goes aboard as blimp and a helicopter provide coverage overhead. [600x809]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A couple of German soldiers share some private time at their “pit latrine.” Historically around 80 percent of casualties occur from non-battle disease and injuries. Hygienic disposal and treatment of unhealthy human waste is important to minimize disease from rats, flies, and other pests.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Navy photo of USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) burning aft after she was hit by a Nakajima B6N ‘Jill’ Kamikaze, while operating off the Philippines on 30 October 1944. Flight deck crewmen are moving undamaged TBM torpedo planes away from the flames as others fight the fires. [928x584]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was one of the Marines who raised the second U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
While his father chats with a customer at the hardware store, a uniformed Jimmy Stewart sets up a date to go fishing,1945.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Commissioned in 1890, USS Vesuvius was the first and only U.S. ship outfitted with dynamite guns. Vesuvius’ three pneumatic guns could fire 550-lb high explosive shells at targets a mile away and were used during the Spanish-American War in 1898 to bombard enemy emplacements in Cuba. [3465x1824]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Two Wildcats flown by Lt. Comdr. John S. Thach (foreground) and Lieutenant Edward “Butch” O’Hare near Oahu, Hawaii, in April 1942. O’Hare became the US Navy’s first fighter “ace,” but was killed in 1943.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
German forces move into Dunkirk hours after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force. Curious German officers inspect the memorial to the French aviation pioneer, Louis Bleriot on the sea front at Dunkirk. It is surrounded by German vehicles and the litter of the British evacuation.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
Surrendering to false reports that superior British forces were enroute to confront her, Admiral Graf Spee’s commanding officer Hans Langsdorff ordered the Panzerschiffe scuttled. On December 17, 1939, KMS Admiral Graf Spee, once the greatest threat to Allied shipping, was scuttled [2480x1749].2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Finland's armed forces in November 1939 after the Soviet invasion of Finland. He participated in the planning of Operation Barbarossa and led the Finnish Defence Forces during the Continuation War (1941–1944).1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WorldWar2
Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky at the controls of an R-5 helicopter, ca.19452yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
USS Pennsylvania and a battleship of the Colorado class followed by three cruisers move in line into Lingayen Gulf preceding the landing on Luzon. Philippines, January 1945. [3000x2428]1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
A group of German soldiers stand between a Panzerkampfwagen VI and a Zundapp KS 750 motorcycle.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
It was in August 1942 that Private 1st Class Edward Ahrens singlehandedly took on an entire group of Japanese soldiers who were trying to flank his unit. His last words were that the Enemy must not have known he was a United States Marine. He was Awarded the Navy Cross posthumously.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/USMC
Sandbagged 14th Armored Division M4A3 Sherman tank of B Company, 25th Tank Battalion in Alsace-Lorraine which was incorporated into Germany after France’s defeat in 1940. the 14th penetrated the Rhineland and moved into Bavaria. By war's end, the division had reached the Danube River. 1945.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/TankPorn
A U.S. cruiser fires her main batteries at Japanese positions on the southern tip of Okinawa, Japan in 1945.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
Here, a donkey is seen with a rocket launcher strapped to its back in Turkey. Donkeys were commonly used as pack animals in wartime. Throughout history, animals have served in the military in a variety of ways. Circa 1930.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/MilitaryHistory
Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt complained that Hitler’s “Fortress Europa” was nothing but a gigantic bluff, a “propaganda wall.” After the war, he made a number of damning remarks about the Atlantic Wall: “The enemy probably knew more about it than we did ourselves.”2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
US $1 bill marked for use in the Territory of Hawaii. These were regular pre-war bills overprinted so that if the islands became overrun, the money could be made instantly worthless in US markets.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/MilitaryHistory
US Navy photo of USS Franklin (CV-13) assisted by USS Santa Fe (CL-60) after a Japanese aircraft dropped 2 bombs on her deck near Okinawa. 807 crewmen of the USS Franklin lost their lives and 487+ were wounded. ‘Big Ben’ was the most damaged Aircraft Carrier of World War II. 19 MAR 1945 (1079x839]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
US Navy photo of 40mm guns firing aboard USS Hornet (CV-12) on 16 February 1945 as the planes of Task Force 58 were raiding Tokyo. Note the expended shells and ready-service ammunition at right. [1496x1227]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
On July 5th, 1944 Francis Gabreski shot down his 28th German plane. With the victory, Gabreski became America’s leading ace in Europe and the country’s newest celebrity. His next flight turned disastrous though when his plane crashed near Koblenz, Germany and the Nazis captured him.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Airborne Infantry “Cricket” was a Dime Store toy that became a D-Day Legend. The cricket provided paratroopers a way to communicate in the darkness. One click of its tab asked, “Who’s there?” Two clicks in response meant, “Friend.”1yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
US Army medics give a blood transfusion to a wounded soldier on one of the Normandy beaches in the hopes of evacuating him back to England. D-Day, 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/ww2
The Horchger Flak was one of the giant listening devices that captures even the slightest noise of an engine. This is an acoustic aircraft detection device. Before radar was developed, these devices were used to detect approaching enemy aircraft by listening for the sound of their engines. Oct 19392yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Hiller Flying Platform, somewhere in the USA, circa 1955. For some reason, the idea never become part of the US Army arsenal. [1080x1343]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun and its shells being prepared for display at the Imperial War Museum and Great Victory Exhibition, Chrystal Palace, 1920. [800x600]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
American troops pass a German graveyard along the Esperia Road, photographed during the Allied drive towards Rome, World War II, 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
US Navy original color photo of the USS Midway (CVB-41) as launched on March 20, 1945, in Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, the Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955 and the first U.S. warship too big to transit the Panama Canal. [6144x4810]2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
When sailors who had previously crossed the equator tested them for their capability to endure the long voyages, and at the end of the ceremony inducted them into a fraternity of seasoned sailors. Equator crossing ceremony aboard USS Wasp, Jul 1942 [740 x 589].2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Ju 288 was one of the most expensive Luftwaffe development projects within the bomber development program. Only 22 test models were ever built over five years because of costly German design and cost overruns that made the bomber lose its value for warfare. The project was canceled in 1944.2yr ⋅ qaiankqjpb ⋅ r/wwiipics
