Radio Transmitter

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

Flight to the Berghof

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

German Tanks Will Not Pass Here

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

KI 45 Pilot

A Kawasaki KI 45 pilot.

Battle of Belgium

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

Spitfire Pilots

Australian Spitfire pilots.

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.

82nd Airborne

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

Pearl Harbor

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

"Pearl Harbor" by Chuck Hamrick

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.

Buggy Ride

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

Howitzer Crew

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

Luftwaffe Women

Luftwaffe women, 1944.

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

Artifacts

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

Signaller

A Royal Navy signaller, 1940.

U Boat Captain

A German U boat Captain.

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.

LCT-222

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

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.

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.

Meeting Mussolini

An Italian soldier is greeted by Benito Mussolini.

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

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.

Kindness

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

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.

Panzer IV

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

Package from Home

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

Housing Project

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

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.

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.

Be Silent

 "Be silent: You put me in danger".  From the German Home Front.

Making Panzers

A photo of a German factory producing Panzer III tanks.

Oslo

German soldiers fighting in the streets of Oslo. The blitz against Norway was resolved in a couple of days. The occupation of Norway was considered as a key factor in the war against England.

Bomber Pilot

World War II, bomber pilot, Captain in a bombardment squadron, just before he climbs aboard his YN-17 bombing plane, from original caption 'The kind of man Hitler wishes we didn't have.' photograph by Alfred T. Palmer, May, 1942.

Crusader

British 'Crusader' tank - The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt - 27/10/42.  Just another awesome colorization by Doug Banks.

Shoe Repair

Afrikakorps soldier in the desert taking his comrade's boots to the cobbler.

Japanese Vessels

Japanese vessels, IJN Yamato and IJN Musashi, 1943.

Berlin

A fantastic diorama of a Soviet tank, and the ruins of Berlin.

Source

30 Caliber

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M. third class, tries out a 30-caliber machine gun he has just installed on a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, photograph by Howard R. Hollem, Corpus Christi, Texas, August, 1942.

Schutz Muetze

Waffen-SS Black Schutz Mütze for Panzer Crews.

source IWM