A place to share and discuss World War II photographs.
Douglas TBD Devastator on the flight deck of USS Enterprise CV-6 with a torpedo loaded during the Doolittle Raid - April 1942
Posted 17th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
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.
An Ethiopian partisan carrying a captured Italian Breda light machine gun, during the Allied offensive into occupied Italian East Africa (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)
Posted 17th Apr 2026u/Alarmed_Business_962
An aerial photograph of motorized, Fascist Italian troops advancing toward the city of Kassala in British-Sudan (East African Campaign, 1940)
An M3A1 in action.
Posted 17th Apr 2026u/OldYoung1973
Photograph taken by waist gunner Fred D Venables, 8th Air Force, 466th Bomb Group, 785th Bomb Squadron, B24 piloted by Henry N. Thorsen.
Posted 16th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
USS Gudgeon (SS-211) in San Francisco Bay, August 7, 1943
Posted 17th Apr 2026u/mossback81
Soviet soldiers armed with Thompson M1928A1 and PPSh-41. 1943
Posted 16th Apr 2026u/Neither-Wave-7444
U.S. Senator James Mead sits in a captured Afrika Korps Kubelwagen while on an inspection trip to the MTO, Tunisia 1944.
Posted 16th Apr 2026u/UA6TL
In April 1945, a BAR man takes aim as another prepares to pull the pin on a grenade during the Battle of Okinawa.
Posted 15th Apr 2026u/waffen123
South Dakota (BB-57) firing her anti-aircraft guns at attacking Japanese planes during the action, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. 26 October 1942.
A Soldier Sharing a Banana With a Goat During the Battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
Posted 15th Apr 2026u/GaGator43
Meeting the troops in 1941
Posted 15th Apr 2026u/TJ_Tacos4me
Instructor and students at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 1942. Original color (Kodachrome)
Posted 16th Apr 2026u/MyDogGoldi
RAF Hawker Hurricanes Mk.IIB from 81 Squadron RAF at Murmansk-Vaenga airfield, Soviet Union, late 1941
Posted 15th Apr 2026u/abt137
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
Private First Class John David Magrath of East Norwalk, Connecticut, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in Italy on April 14, 1945
Posted 14th Apr 2026u/waffen123
Panzergrenadier Corporal, October 1942
Posted 14th Apr 2026u/OldYoung1973
US soldier's M1911 pistol with “Sweetheart Grips” - clear grips covering a picture of his loved one
“Wild Bill” Guarnere with Mike Ranney of Band of Brothers fame at Camp Toccoa, 1942.
Posted 13th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Odinstårnet (Eng: Odin's Tower) in Odense (Denmark), which was blown up by the Schalburgtage group Petergruppen on December 14, 1944.
Posted 13th Apr 2026u/KongGyldenkaal
US Soldiers in action on Okinawa, April 1945 (Ian Smith Photographer, LIFE Magazine)
During WWII, Mel Brooks was tasked with defusing enemy land mines to clear the way for Allied forces. Reflecting on his experiences, Brooks said, “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The 2 things I hate most in the world are combat & engineering.”
Posted 12th Apr 2026u/waffen123
12 April 1945: Combat Command 2 of the French 1st Armored Division enters Baden-Baden, Germany.
Posted 12th Apr 2026u/Pvt_Larry
Burial at sea aboard USS Hancock for those killed by Japanese special attack two days prior, off Okinawa, Japan, 9 Apr 1945
Machine gunner SS-Oberschütze Günter Strelow of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" during the Battle of Caen, he was killed in action on June 11th, 1944.
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/UA6TL
US Marines during the Battle of Peleliu.
Posted 12th Apr 2026u/UA6TL
Troops of the 1st Fallschirmjäger Regiment after securing the Fornebu Airport in Oslo, Norway, April 9th, 1940.
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Posted 12th Apr 2026u/Specialist-Apple-854
Eastern Front, 1944.
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/OldYoung1973
Various shots French MPs of the 1re Armée during the allied invasion of Germany, March-April 1945. These oft-forgotten units played a critical role keeping the army moving by guiding convoys, posting road signs, and providing rear-area security.
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/Pvt_Larry
USMC 37mm M3 anti-tank gun crew during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
US Paratroopers from F Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division, on their way to Normandy, France - 5th June 1944. Photo : US Army Archives
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/waffen123
An Interwar period, suspected foreign press photo (likely American) of an SS-Mann of SS-Verfügungstruppe Standarte 1 "Deutschland" in honor guard service likely of IV. Wach-Bataillion to one of Munich's Erhentempel (Honor Temples) c. The summer months of 1936-39. Colorized not by me (and long before
Posted 11th Apr 2026u/sean_rooney2000
A periodical press photo of an inspection of the newly formed SS-Verfügungs-Division of men of Standarte 2 "Germania" presenting new "feldanzug" consisting of camouflage field garments during the French campaign c. 1940
Marine rifleman tosses a phosphorus grenade at a sniper on Okinawa, April 1945
Posted 10th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Walter Peyton Manning was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 3, 1920 and grew up in Philadelphia, PA . Manning was a Tuskegee Airman and served in Italy in WW2. He flew 50 missions, and was awarded the Air Medal for heroism six times.
Posted 9th Apr 2026u/waffen123
A Bren gunner of 36th Infantry Division sits on guard by a path amongst artillery-shattered trees near Pinwe, Burma, November 1944. Spare magazines lie ready nearby, and a rifle and bandolier are propped by a tree in the foreground. IWM (SE 778), 9 AFPS
Posted 10th Apr 2026u/waffen123
In April of 1945, a 14th Armored Division tank crashes the gate at the Stalag XIII-C POW camp in Hammelburg, Germany.
Posted 9th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
Soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division advance towards Mount Gusuku - Ie Shima April 1945
Posted 8th Apr 2026u/TK622
B-17G of the 600th Bomb Squadron after a catastrophic direct flak hit during a mission over Germany. The blast killed tail gunner S/Sgt Wallace E. Kasch and severed the plane’s tail. Miraculously, the pilot and copilot managed to get the crippled bomber back to England safely. April 8, 1945.
Posted 8th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
The 'Cobra King' crew, 1st Lt. Charles Boggess, Cpl. Milton Dickerman and Pvts. James G. Murphy, Hubert S. Smith and Harold Hafner, posing for a celebratory photo in the vicinity of Bastogne, Belgium shortly after the tankers led the armor and infantry column that liberated the city. December 1944.
GIs with the 33rd Infantry Division take a break in the Caraballo Mountains, Philippines - April 1945.
Hawker Sea Hurricanes on the deck of the RN carrier HMS Argus while anchored off Lamlash, Scotland.
Posted 8th Apr 2026u/abt137
"Teamwork: Riflemen draw sights on a Jap hillside position as a flame-throwing tank shoots a tongue of flame at the enemy. This photo was found in the camera of a wounded combat photographer." Okinawa, May 11, 1945. (USMC archive photograph and original caption)
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371
The cost of equipping an American GI during World War II
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/waffen123
Two US Army M4 Sherman tanks destroyed by Japanese artillery - Bloody Ridge - Ie Shima April 1945
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/TK622
Can anyone help me identify my grandfathers rank and medals?
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/Gugianer
A German soldier inspects a British World War I Mark V tank outside the Assumption Cathedral in Smolensk, Russia
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/subarunoaria
US troops inspect an abandoned Luftwaffe Me 262.
Posted 7th Apr 2026u/UA6TL
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