A German Arado Ar 196A-2 floatplane stands inside a port facility on Crete in 1943. The aircraft belonged to a Luftwaffe maritime reconnaissance squadron operating over the Mediterranean. Read more
Portrait of Guards Lieutenant Nikolai Borozdnov, commander of a T-34 platoon that was among the first Soviet units to enter the occupied city of Orel during the summer of 1943. Read more
A German Wehrmacht comedy troupe performs a humorous stage act in women's clothing and makeup for Gebirgsjäger (mountain troops) stationed in Lapland during the war against the Soviet Union in 1943. Read more
German submariners rescued after the sinking of U-175 sit wrapped in blankets aboard the American Coast Guard cutter Spencer during the Battle of the Atlantic in April 1943. Read more
Senior Waffen-SS commanders Fritz Witt, Max Wünsche, and Kurt Meyer near Kharkov during the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front in early 1943. Read more
German submarine U-185 sinking in the Atlantic Ocean after being attacked by American naval aircraft from the escort carrier USS Core during the Battle of the Atlantic on August 24, 1943. Read more
Rare color WWII photograph showing a young woman applying lipstick beside the Seine River in occupied Paris during 1943. Read more