A place to share and discuss World War II photographs.
This day in 1939, the United States Army Air Corps placed an order for 524 P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft.
Posted 27th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
26 April 1945: Civilians with white flags surrender the town of Stühlingen, on the German-Swiss border, to an M3 Stuart of Combat Command 3, 1st Armored Division (1re Division Blindée - 1re DB)
Posted 26th Apr 2026u/Pvt_Larry
Faris Tuohy, who fought in WWII, holds a photo from 1944. That’s him on the left, holding a cup of coffee after one of many hellacious battles. He celebrated 97th birthday in April 2023. He passed away on 6/2/2023
Posted 26th Apr 2026u/waffen123
A group of GIs take a moment to relax at Adolf Hitler’s former vacation retreat in Berchtesgaden, Germany 1945.
Posted 25th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
April 1945: German prisoners captured by the French 1st Army in Stuttgart
Posted 25th Apr 2026u/Pvt_Larry
Liberated inmates at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp get loaves of bread from one of the five camp cookhouses - 24 April 1945. Sgt H. Oakes, Photographer.
B-17F Flying Fortress “Cap'n and the Kids” had 84 missions to its credit. It knocked off 10 Zeroes and 8 enemy ships. In an amazing career, it had had two of its engines shot out, its hydraulic system shattered, its tail shot away and multiple holes blasted in its wings.
Private Lee Marvin, left, and an unidentified Marine pose with a Japanese machine gun in the Pacific in 1944. he later went to star in movies and in TV such as M squad, The Killers The Dirty dozen
Posted 25th Apr 2026u/waffen123
Panzergrenadiers from SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt.6 Theodor Eicke with JS-II from the 50th Guards Separate Tank Regiment that has just been knocked out at approximately 1:40 p.m.29 July 1944 on the northwestern outskirts of Siedlce and 2 T-34/85 from the 1 Battalion of the 20 Tank Brigade
US Navy Corpsman Byron Dary. KIA at 19 years old after earning a Silver Star at Omaha Beach and Navy Cross at Iwo Jima.
Posted 24th Apr 2026u/immisternicetry
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
A USO volunteer ID card
Posted 24th Apr 2026u/KedvesRed
My Grandfather documented the war as an artist does, by drawing it. Part 1.
Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/Ezada
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 North African civilian looks into the cockpit of an A-36 Mustang. 1943.
Posted 24th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Forced conversion of Serbs, 1941
Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/Books_Of_Jeremiah
Unfinished Third Reich artillery rings rotting in the wild
Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/Kitchen_Grade_8896
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.
The Führer’s failed shield: Decaying Third Reich naval batteries in the Russian wild
Hitler coming out of his bunker, last days of the war, 1945.
Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/BlueEclipse98
A young German soldier killed in action against the British somewhere in the Netherlands during the spring of 1945.
Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/the_giank
Commander of the 7th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht, Major General Erwin Rommel
Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/couple_rv86
The remnants of the Third Reich’s Panther-Wotan Line in Ukraine
Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/Kitchen_Grade_8896
Abandoned Third Reich Bunkers on the Shores of the Sea of Azov
The contents of a WWII breakfast ration box, 1940s.
Posted 21st Apr 2026u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw
U.S. Army Sergeant Joe J. Hayashi of Salinas, California, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on April 20, 1945, near Tendola, Italy.
Posted 21st Apr 2026u/waffen123
B-24 Liberator (s/n 44-49853) "It Ain't So Funny" of the 43rd Bomb Group, which operated from Australia, New Guinea, and Owi Island, making numerous attacks on Japanese shipping in the Netherlands East Indies and the Bismarck Archipelago, 1944. Artist - S/Sgt Sarkis E. Bartigan.
Posted 21st Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
US Soldiers with the 84th Infantry Division "Railsplitters" advance in Duisburg, Germany - April 1945
Posted 20th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Does anyone know what unit's emblem is on the back of the truck? Army Group Center's area of operations, 1941.
Posted 20th Apr 2026u/597354
Weary Marines just off the front lines after 23 days on Cape Gloucester, January 1944
Posted 19th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
The breakthrough (Aachen, Oct 1944) - Iconic scene spot revisited 82 yrs later
Posted 19th Apr 2026u/allesumsonst
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.
German soldiers near Dubno. On the left is a knocked-out Soviet KV-2 tank bearing German inscriptions and the date June 29, 1941.
Posted 19th Apr 2026u/couple_rv86
Six USS Hancock (CV-19) TBM bombers fly near Okinawa, while supporting the invasion forces, 4 April 1945.
81 years ago today- 18 April, 1945 – The death of beloved war correspondent Ernie Pyle on Okinawa
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
A US M4 Sherman T34 Calliope -France 1944.The T34 Calliope was a tank-mounted multiple rocket system used by the US Army during WW2.Fitted atop the M4 Sherman,it fired 4.5-inch(114 mm)M8 rockets from 60 launch tubes arranged in a distinctive clustered frame.
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/waffen123
April 1945: French 5th Armored Division (5e Division Blindeé - 5e DB) in the vicinity of Tübingen, Germany
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/Pvt_Larry
Finnish ski troops with reindeer in northern Finland near Jäniskoski, February 20, 1940.
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/the_giank
Wounded GI recovered by comrades (Aachen,1944) - Same spot 82 years apart
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/allesumsonst
South African troops posing with a captured Italian flag in newly liberated Abysinnia (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962
GIs advance through Kongressstraße, Aachen, in company with Sherman Tank - Spot revisited 82 years later
Captured Italian M11/39 tanks being inspected by British forces after the battle of Agordat and the subsequent Italian retreat (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)
A few rare, Interwar period group photos of the 24th Allgemeine-SS Standarte (Regiment) belonging to the 4th Sturm (Kompanie) taking part in a Gepäckmarsch (field gear endurance march) c. 1935. The location is likely Oldenburg
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/sean_rooney2000
“Hell on Earth”- Lagoon at Betio after the assault on Tarawa, November 1943
Posted 17th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
A German machine gun team in action during the Battle of Leros, 1943.
Posted 17th Apr 2026u/UA6TL
This is my granddad (left) and his buddies (second picture with names).
Posted 18th Apr 2026u/Fastfalkie
German Army sentries in cold weather uniforms, date and location unknown.
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