An American Chance Vought F4U Corsair attacks Japanese ground targets on Okinawa using eight 127 mm HVAR (High Velocity Aircraft Rocket) rockets during the final months of the Pacific War. Read more
Personnel of the 4th Ferry Aviation Regiment of the 1st Ferry Aviation Division of the Soviet Civil Air Fleet dance with local women to the music of an accordion during a brief moment of rest in Yakutsk in 1943. Read more
Three cheerful German fighter pilots pose beside an early-production Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft bearing the personal name "Margot" painted on its engine cowling. Read more
One of the most controversial photographs from the Eastern Front depicts a Waffen-SS soldier armed with an MP 40 submachine gun standing beside several Soviet prisoners of war, one of whom appears to be critically wounded. Read more
A dramatic wartime photograph shows a Japanese Ki-46 "Dinah" interceptor making a determined attack on a B-29 Superfortress of the 29th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force somewhere over the Pacific near the Mariana Islands in 1945. Read more
American soldiers pose for a carefully staged photograph during military training at Fort Benning, Georgia, on 13 August 1941. The men are armed with M1 Garand rifles fitted with M1905 bayonets, while the soldier nearest the camera wears a Mark II gas mask. Read more
The German submarine U-552, famously known as the "Red Devil," returns to its base at Saint-Nazaire, France, after completing its first combat patrol on 16 March 1941. Read more