Photographs

Crew of German U-550 U-Boat abandon ship and await rescue on the deck. April 16th, 1944. The German submarine torpedoed and sunk the massive Pan Pennsylvania tanker, which was trailing behind its convoy south of Nantucket Island. Expecting a counterattack from the US convoy CU 21, captain Klaus Hanert decided, …

Wehrmacht soldiers surrender to Soviet troops in the district of Tula, late 1941. The Soviet soldier is carrying a SVT-40 semi automatic rifle. The SVT-40 was used intensively at the start of the war and was supposed to be the new standard rifle of the Red Army, but the German …

1) Sweethearts embracing and kissing at the Conneticut train station in 1945, as an older couple smiles in the background. 2) French girl holding an American G.I., maybe her boyfriend, on a date sometime during the 1940s. Image might be taken somewhere around Cote d’azur (note the palm trees). 3) …

A British sentry guarding an injured German officer, while waiting for backup, during the first two days of a British offensive in the Egyptian desert. North African campaign, November 13th, 1942. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 Desert War: The North African Campaign 1940-43 (Alan Moorehead, 1965)

Major Charity Adams, 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the Women’s Army Corps commander, and Captain Abbie Noel Campbell, 6888th CPD executive officer, inspect the first soldiers from the unit to arrive in England. February 15th, 1945. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all African-American Women’s Army …

An Austrian woman and a Soviet officer are dancing in the streets of Vienna after the fall of Nazi Germany in May 1945. There were many similar images of celebration in Vienna as the war in Europe came to an end, and people were hopeful for a happier future. Book …

Periscope view from a German U-Boat as it hit and sunk an enemy vessel with a torpedo, 1942. Other details are unknown. Book suggestions ⤵️ 📖 Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II (Herbert A. Werner, 1968) . 📖 U-Boat War (Lothar Gunther …

Australian troops in Milne Bay, New Guinea, three weeks after pushing back a Japanese invasion attempt. October 1st, 1942. The Battle of Milne Bay took place between August 25th and September 7th 1942 in the Pacific Campaign. It was a Japanese operation (codenamed Operation RE or the Battle of Rabi) …

American infantrymen of the 290th Regiment in the snowy Ardennes (near Amonines, Belgium) during the Battle of the Bulge. The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the final major offensive campaign by German forces on the Western front in WW2. Germany’s surprise attack through …

German U-boat with crew posing beside a frozen deck gun in the Polar Sea, probably the Arctic Circle, sometime in 1942. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 U-Boat War (Lothar Gunther Buchheim, 1986)