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.

#57 Aloft two geese destined to become Christmas dinner, Germany, 1944.

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#73 Admiralty Christmas Party for Allied Naval Officers’ children, 1942. This photograph shows ‘Father Christmas’ presenting Winston Churchill Junior, the Prime Minister’s grandson, with a gift of a book of nursery rhymes at a Christmas party at Admiralty House.

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#14 Group of passengers from the Portuguese ship Serpa Pinto, which was stopped by a German submarine and ordered abandoned off Bermuda, are shown after their arrival in Philadelphia, May 31, 1944. The U-boat officers abandoned plans to sink the vessel and permitted the passengers to re-board her after

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#30 German civilian refugees walking through the streets of Aachen, Germany, on their way to a safer area away from the combat zone, on Oct. 15, 1944.

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#46 Up camp street, arm in arm, stroll Mr. and Mrs. Michele Mikhailoff, artists from Russia. They walked to the shore of Lake Ontario.

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#11 Dead Soldiers

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#27 A Nazi Souvenir

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#43 Wildcat Division Tastes Real War

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#59 Uncle!

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#5 American troops on Tarawa playing softball during WWII.

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