Machine Gunners

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

Salerno Landing

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

Waffen SS Helmet

A Waffen‑SS M‑35 D D Helmet.

Captured at Crete

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

Bofors Gun

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.

Piano Man

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

Gebirgsjäger

Gebirgsjäger in the Caucasus mountains.

All That She Owns

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

First Aid Kits

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

Food Kitchen

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

Battleship Yamato

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

 

Reggiane Re.2000

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

Enlist!

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

Chemical Warfare Training

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.

Dresden

Post-war Dresden, 1945.

Battle of Mandalay

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

Flying Flit Gun

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

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

Soviets in Berlin

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

Sudetenland

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. 

Canadian Mortar Team

A Canadian mortar team in action in France.

Pearl Harbor

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.

Lodz Ghetto

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

Daugavpils

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

French Resistance Identification

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

Land Army Girls

Land Army Girls using a roadside well, 1944.

TBD Devastator

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

Panzer IV Driver

 A Panzer IV driver and the radio/bow gunner.

Okinawa

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

Hit 'Em Where it Hurts

A poster for the United States Submarine Service.

German Watch

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

Ice Cream!

German soldiers enjoying ice cream cones in occupied Paris.