A place for historically-accurate content relating to the Second World War.
Enjoy the new full trailer for my film, 10 Good Men: The Final Story of the B-17
Posted 10th Apr 2026u/TrentJComedy
I found this WWII propaganda at an estate sale! Can anyone tell me more about it?
Posted 26th Apr 2026u/racecarart
Operation Avalanche - U.S. troops board a Coast Guard transport ship near Salerno, part of the Allied invasion of Italy (c. September 1943)
Posted 24th Apr 2026u/CosmoTheCollector
The Parade of the Vanquished; approximately 57,000 German prisoners of war, including 19 generals, were paraded through the streets of Moscow following their capture, July 17, 1944.
Posted 24th Apr 2026u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw
The Free Belgian-Congolese Force Publique, nicknamed ''Niam-Niams'' by the Italians, meaning cannibals. The troops, aware of this stereotype, used this to their advantage by primarily charging Italian-held hills with bayonets, wiping out essential machine gun nests (East African Campaign, 1941)
Posted 24th Apr 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962
Forced conversion of Serbs, 1941
Posted 24th Apr 2026u/Books_Of_Jeremiah
I found these soviet medals in an abandoned veterans club. What do they represent?
Posted 24th Apr 2026u/viadelapizza
An aerial view of a POW camp in Germany filled with captured Germans. This camp alone held 160,000 German POWs. April 1945.
Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw
A former concentration camp inmate drags a concentration camp guard by the hair while American troops look on at the newly liberated Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, April 1945.
This is the British cruiser Edinburgh. Which was sunk with 5 tons of Soviet gold on board in 1942. (Payment for Lend Lease)
Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/HelicopterBig4467
A 240mm Howitzer of Battery B, 697th Field Artillery Battalion, shortly before firing on German positions at Mignano, Italy. January 1944. [3000x2404]
Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/CosmoTheCollector
The contents of a WWII breakfast ration box, 1940s.
Posted 21st Apr 2026u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw
US Soldiers with the 84th Infantry Division "Railsplitters" advance in Duisburg, Germany - April 1945
Posted 20th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
The breakthrough (Aachen, Oct 1944) - Iconic scene spot revisited 82 yrs later
Posted 19th Apr 2026u/allesumsonst
Weary Marines just off the front lines after 23 days on Cape Gloucester, January 1944
Posted 19th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
M4 Mortar Carrier nicknamed “LUCIA” with HQ Company, 3rd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division, in front of the Hexenbürgermeister House in Lemgo, Germany - April 1945
U.S. Army Corporal Larry Matinsk puts cigarettes into the extended hands of newly-liberated prisoners behind a stockade in the Munich-Allach Concentration Camp in Allach-Untermenzing, Germany, on April 30, 1945.
Original photos of Winston Churchill and FDR Jr during their August 1941 visit to Iceland
Posted 19th Apr 2026u/IphoneCarSpotter
81 years ago today- 18 April, 1945 – The death of beloved war correspondent Ernie Pyle on Okinawa
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
British soldiers operate an Italian artillery piece abandoned by retreating Italian forces inside a local fort (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962
Wounded GI recovered by comrades (Aachen, 1944) - Same spot 82 years apart
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/allesumsonst
GIs advance through Kongressstraße, Aachen, in company with Sherman Tank - Spot revisited 82 yrs later
“Hell on Earth”- Lagoon at Betio after the assault on Tarawa, November 1943
Posted 17th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Photograph of Sudanese soldiers from the British army with a captured Italian anti-tank gun after the succesful recapture of Italian-occupied territory (East African Campaign, 1940)
Posted 17th Apr 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962
VE Day on Okinawa- While Europe rejoiced at the end of the war in the west, these Marines found no respite from the bitter struggle on Okinawa. Through the mud of a narrow road, one file moves up to the front line past a column of returning men on the road to the capital city of Naha, May, 1945.
Douglas TBD Devastator on the flight deck of USS Enterprise CV-6 with a torpedo loaded during the Doolittle Raid - April 1942
Need help tracking down veterans
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/AlexiaSmalls
Marines on Tarawa by NC Wyeth
Posted 15th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
My Great Grandfather’s WWII Medals
Posted 15th Apr 2026u/Salty-Temperature575
The renowned Sir Learie Constantine, Baron Constantine - filmed during World War II in his role as Welfare Officer for the Ministry of Labour in Liverpool - acting as advisor to Black British munitions workers in Merseyside...
Posted 16th Apr 2026u/TheThrowYardsAway
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
Posted 15th Apr 2026u/2Treu4U
The damaged USS Franklin (CV-13) approaches Manhattan to dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 28, 1945, its deck scarred with melted metal and wreckage. The destruction was caused by a March 19 dive-bomber attack near Japan that kılled over 800 crew members.
Posted 14th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Need Help Identifying Details From Old Photos
Posted 14th Apr 2026u/Fallen_Penumbra
My grandad's Luftwaffe sword
Posted 13th Apr 2026u/FEelguDiNc09
US Soldiers in action on Okinawa, April 1945 (Ian Smith Photographer, LIFE Magazine)
Posted 13th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
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