Category: WWII

Relive the era of World War II through powerful vintage photographs. See the bravery, sorrow, and determination that defined the global conflict.
Each photo reveals human stories from the frontlines, the home front, and the aftermath that shaped our world.

#12 Rebuilding London during the Blitz, 1940

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#8 The flight deck crew prepares planes for launch from the USS Lexington (CV-16), en route near New Guinea, early April, 1944.

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#24 A Supermarine Spitfire Vc ‘Tropical’ JK707 MX-P serving with 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group operated by 12th USAAF. The regular pilot was 1st.Lt. Carroll A.

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#40 Members of the flight and ground crews of a B-17 bomber named ‘Honey Chile II’ make adjustments to their plane prior to a mission, Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England, fall 1942.

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#56 Men wade through the water near Butaritari Beach, Makin Atoll in November 1943.

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#72 S Air Force pilot 2nd Lieutenant Robert Wade Biesecker with his crew of the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bomb Group, US Eighth Air Force, standing by ‘Honey Chile’, their B-17 Flying Fortress bomber (serial 42-31027), at RAF Framlingham, a US Eighth Air Force Bomber Command station in England,

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#88 Marine Pfc. Douglas Lightheart (right) cradles his .30 caliber M1919 Browning machine gun in his lap, while he and Marine Pfc. Gerald Thursby Sr. take a cigarette break, during mopping up operations on Peleliu on 14th September 1944.

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#104 At 2.41am on the morning of 7 May 1945, at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies. The West awoke to the news the following day, with celebrations being h

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#120 40-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun at Finnish airfield, Leningradskaya oblast, August 26, 1943

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#136 Mountain soldiers of Wehrmacht troops relax on the sun loungers at a hunting lodge

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