Two soldiers of the SS  with an MG-34 machine gun at a marina on the Eastern Front.



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



A Waffen‑SS M‑35 D D Helmet.



Surrendering commonwealth soldiers been taken POW by German Fallschirmjäger, Crete, 1941.  Colorization and description by Mike Gepp.


A light Bofors gun and crew which were in action on the Goubellat Plain near Medjez-el-Bab, against enemy aircraft during operations against Tunis. Tunisia, May 1943.





A GI plays the piano for an American Red Cross girl and fellow soldiers. Italy, 1944.


Gebirgsjäger in the Caucasus mountains.



A German woman sits with all her earthly belongings within the ruins of post-war Cologne, Germany.


Two types of 1943 aeronautic first aid kits installed in U.S. aircraft during World War II.





Lieutenant Helmut Ritgen receives food in a field kitchen mounted on a 2½-ton 6 x 6 diesel lorry. 



Battleship Yamato was 263 feet long and 39 meters wide.  When launched in 1941, it was the world's largest battleship.


 



Italians servicing a Caproni-Reggiane Re.2000 Falco I.




Nazi recruitment poster, "Enlist to a volunteer military service with the 'Feldherrnhalle' Grenadier Regiment".





A group of US Army soldiers, rifles in hand, wear a gas mask during a training exercise related to chemical attacks, California, 1943. Along with the soldiers, a dog with a first aid pack strapped to it wears a special muzzle filter to protect it from gas.


Post-war Dresden, 1945.




The road to Mandalay, Burma. British Indian soldiers with .30 Browning machine guns on Pagoda Hill during the Battle for Fort Dufferin, March, 1945.



A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress being readied for battle, England, 1942.  


A real Flit Gun was used to kills insects with pesticide.


Soviet artillerymen firing on a street in a suburb of Berlin, 1945.  Colorization by Olga Shirnina.



German Generaloberst (or Colonel General) Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883 - 1941) poses next to a camouflaged Czech bunker during the German invasion of Sudetenland, late 1938. 




A Canadian mortar team in action in France.



Smoke rises from the burning buildings on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Oahu Island, after the surprise attack by the Japanese which brought America into World War II, December 7, 1941.



An official visit of Heinrich Himmler in BMW 355 at the Łódź Ghetto, Thursday, June 5, 1941.



Twenty Mark coins used in the Lodz Ghetto


A Tiger tank from the German 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion during the fighting in the city of Daugavpils, Latvia.  Colorized by Lopatin V.



Video of combat near Daugavpils

ID of a French Resistance fighter used during World War II.



Land Army Girls using a roadside well, 1944.



TBD Devastator torpedo bomber on the flight deck of USS Hornet, May 15, 1942.




 A Panzer IV driver and the radio/bow gunner.





Two GI's escort and elderly Japanese woman to the rear.  She found and brought by a patrol of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines.




A poster for the United States Submarine Service.




A World War II German wristwatch worn by a member of the Luftwaffe.




German soldiers enjoying ice cream cones in occupied Paris.