President Truman watches a boxing match on board the Augusta cruiser
President Harry Truman, with his escorts and crew, is watching a boxing match aboard the Augusta cruiser of the US Navy during the return from the Potsdam conference. Above to…
Christmas images: Celebration of Christmas on carrier Lexington
Christmas images: The crew of the aircraft carrier Lexington celebrates Christmas 1944. Available materials used in the decoration of the cabin. Location: Pacific Ocean Date: December 1944
Celebrating the day of Neptune on the US Navy Enterprise aircraft carrier
Celebrating the day of Neptune on the Enterprise aircraft carrier of the US Navy. S2c. Pollywog V. E. Christensen plays the accordion for his co-workers. Date: September 1944
US paratroopers are loaded onto planes before Operation Market Garden
US paratroopers of the Allies are loaded onto C-47 Dakota aircraft before Operation Market Garden. Location: England Date: 17 September 1944
American bomber B-17E Typhoon McGoon 2 and part of his crew
Bomber B-17E Typhoon McGoon II (on-board number 41-9211) and part of his crew. The aerials above the plexiglass part of the B-17E bomber cockpit were used to detect ground targets.
German soldiers under the cover of the Tiger tank in the Battle of Narva
German soldiers under the cover of a heavy tank Panzer VI “Tiger” from the 502nd battalion of heavy tanks of the Nazi Wehrmacht in the Battle of Narva. Location: Narva…
Jewish children liberated from Buchenwald, on their way to Palestine
Jewish children on their way to Palestine after they were released from Buchenwald the Nazi concentration camp. The girl on the left is from Poland, the boy in the center…
The Soviet defensive line under shelling in the Battle of Moscow
Defensive line of the Soviet infantry of the Red Army under Nazi-shelling in the Battle of Moscow. Location: Battle of Moscow, USSR Date: November-December 1941
American marines in the jungle of the island of Bougainville
American Marines of the US Army are posing in the jungles of the island of Bougainville. Location: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands Date: January 1944 Source of American Marines: National Archives…
B-17F bombers from the US 92nd Bomber Group over Europe
A group of heavy four-motores bombers Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress from the American 92nd Bomb Group of the US Air Force (USAF) over Europe. The Western Front of the Second…