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.

#17 Liberation of concentration camp Buchenwald by US troops, 1945.

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#33 A man shows a noose used for hanging in the Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945.

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#8 With the three survivors of the famed Mt. Suribachi flag-raising incident as his guests, President Truman gets the first of the new 7th war loan posters, based on Joe Rosenthal’s epic Iwo Jima photograph, at the White House, 1945.

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#24 Two Japanese soldiers lay dead from the invasion armada seen in the background in Japan, 1945.

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#40 A B-29 Superfortress rests on a dirt mound after it crash landed with two engines working at Iwo Jima, Japan, during World War II, 1945.

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#6 A Geiger-counter is shown aboard the USS Haven, preparing to sail from San Francisco Bay for Operation Crossroads, 1946.

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#2 An Army Medical officer acts as a village doctor to the civilians of Benouville, Normandy. A dispenser from a local hospital travels around with the officer and acts as his interpreter. The treatment and advice given by the officer is much appreciated by the people of Benouville, they have had no doctor to consult since D-Day. The people not only seek treatment for themselves, but they bring their animals along too. The Medical Officer from South Africa goes on rounds in his jeep in France, 1944.

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#18 Bastille Day celebrations in the little Normandy town of Isigny, 1944, took the form of services at the town’s War Memorial. French children pass in turn to lay their tributes to war dead at the War Memorial during the services.

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#34 French civilians, wounded during the Normandy battles, 1944, lie on stretchers on the ground behind the lines, where they are treated by U.S. Army medical corpsmen.

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#5 Associated Press reporter Roger Greene a few days after the D-Day landing in France. 1944

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