Four U.S. soldiers working a radio transmitter in the Liri Valley, near Rome.


Hitler on a flight to his "Berghof" in the Alps, June 1, 1943.


A Soviet poster that reads:  "German tanks will not pass here".


A Kawasaki KI 45 pilot.




German troops advance through Belgium, in the Spring of 1940.




Australian Spitfire pilots.


A German Army company commander and a platoon commander in discussion, Stalingrad, Russia, June 21, 1942. 


Frightened civilian women and children emerging from caves where they had hidden during battle between Japanese & American forces for control of Saipan. July, 1944.



Francs-tireurs and Allied paratroopers reporting on the situation during the Battle of Normandy in 1944.


Awesome color video of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

"Pearl Harbor" by Chuck Hamrick


A 105 mm Self Propelled Gun M-7 'Priest' of the 14th Armored Field Battalion/2nd Armored Division passes through Rue Holgate, Carentan. 18th June, 1944.  Colorization and description by Doug Banks, one of the best colorizers out there.


A Bulgarian soldier gives a lift to German troops, somewhere in the Struma Valley. 


United States Marines, 75mm howitzer crew at Torokina on December 15, 1943.


Luftwaffe women, 1944.


Luftwaffe Flak Helferinnen-This photo was taken in der Schweinwerfer-Stellung in Postmoor in January, 1945.


U.S. soldiers in civilian clothes sort through artifacts from a Native settlement. Aleutian Islands, 1944.


A Royal Navy signaller, 1940.



A German U boat Captain.


Lieutenant Walter A. Haas, USNR, instructing flight students from the cockpit of a Brewster F2A Buffalo fighter, at Naval Air Station Miami, Florida (USA), 9 April 1943. The F2A was then in use as a training aircraft. Lieutenant Haas had recently returned from the war zone. Note that the students are wearing white cap covers and khaki shirts.



An LCT-222 landing a jeep onto Salerno beach, Italy, September, 1943.


A group of Americans look over a SV-189 German fighter plane left on the airdrome at Salzburg, Austria by the hastily retreating Germans.


An American WWII propaganda poster depicting an American solder holding a tattered Japanese flag with the slogan "We'll lick 'em - just give us the metal!"


Under the supervision of SS, Soviet POWs dig in the ravine at Babi Yar outside of Kiev. Over the following months, between 70,000-200,000 people were led to the ravine and shot. While the majority were local Jews, the dead include partisans, members of the underground, NKVD operatives, gypsies, and 752 psychiatric patients under the care of Ivan Pavlov. Of the tens of thousands shot at Babi Yar, only 29 are known to have survived the horror.




An Italian soldier is greeted by Benito Mussolini.


A quick nap for a Waffen SS grenadier in full camouflage kit and carrying the indestructible Zeiss field glasses, standard issue for the German army of the time. Note the truck's headlight cover visible behind the sleeping man.




Three pilots of the 332nd Bomb Group, U.S. Army 9th Air Force, posing in front of a Jeep in the Braintree district of Essex, England, 1944.


The 9th Air Force's patch, used during World War II


Young German soldiers trying to have a good time in their trench. The Central Sector of the eastern front, summer 1943 or 1944.


The Hungarian 2nd Army on the march in Russia, 1942.


Captured members of the Hungarian 2nd Army, 1943.


A Japanese magazine shows soldiers handing out candy to Chinese children.  The magazine is from 1939.



A deactivated Lithgow manufactured Bren gun dated 1942 . Used by Allied troops throughout world war two , the Bren was very reliable and accurate.




A Panzer IV in front of damaged church. Near Stalingrad, September, 1942.


A U.S. Marine, stationed in the Southwest Pacific, gets a Christmas package from home.




Tents housing Seabees (members of the U.S. Navy's Construction Battalion), Adak Island during World War II, 1943.



The crew of a Soviet armored car BA-10.  E. Endrekson staff sergeant, sergeant V. P. Ershakov and Shepherd Dzhul'bars. Southern Front.  A colorization by Olga.




American soldiers and their dog read a scrapbook during a break in training in 1942 Northern Ireland. Mascots served as morale boosters and companions during the war, a reminder of life back home.