Four U.S. soldiers working a radio transmitter in the Liri Valley, near Rome.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Monday, December 30, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Battle Planning
A German Army company commander and a platoon commander in discussion, Stalingrad, Russia, June 21, 1942.
Saipan
Frightened civilian women and children emerging from caves where they had hidden during battle between Japanese & American forces for control of Saipan. July, 1944.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
82nd Airborne
Francs-tireurs and Allied paratroopers reporting on the situation during the Battle of Normandy in 1944.
Friday, December 20, 2013
M7 Priest
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.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Luftwaffe Women
Luftwaffe women, 1944.
Luftwaffe Flak Helferinnen-This photo was taken in der Schweinwerfer-Stellung in Postmoor in January, 1945.
Luftwaffe Flak Helferinnen-This photo was taken in der Schweinwerfer-Stellung in Postmoor in January, 1945.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Artifacts
U.S. soldiers in civilian clothes sort through artifacts from a Native settlement. Aleutian Islands, 1944.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Flight Instruction
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.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
SV-189
A group of Americans look over a SV-189 German fighter plane left on the airdrome at Salzburg, Austria by the hastily retreating Germans.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Just Give Us the Metal
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!"
Babi Yar
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.
Monday, December 9, 2013
A Quick Nap
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.
U.S. Army 9th Air Force
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
Friday, December 6, 2013
An Accordion
Young German soldiers trying to have a good time in their trench. The Central Sector of the eastern front, summer 1943 or 1944.
Hungarian 2nd Army
The Hungarian 2nd Army on the march in Russia, 1942.
Captured members of the Hungarian 2nd Army, 1943.
Captured members of the Hungarian 2nd Army, 1943.
Kindness
A Japanese magazine shows soldiers handing out candy to Chinese children. The magazine is from 1939.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Bren Gun
A deactivated Lithgow manufactured Bren gun dated 1942 . Used by Allied troops throughout world war two , the Bren was very reliable and accurate.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Housing Project
Tents housing Seabees (members of the U.S. Navy's Construction Battalion), Adak Island during World War II, 1943.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Southern Front
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.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Training in Northern Ireland
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.