Photographs

The forward magazine of the Mahan-class destroyer USS Shaw exploding during the Pearl Harbor bombing on December 7th, 1941. The ship was repaired a few months after the attack, and served in the Pacific for the rest of the war. It was decommissioned in October 1945, and was sold for …

Sailors of the Kenya Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve inspecting anti aircraft weaponry on a Royal Navy minesweeper sometime in 1945. As a British colony, Kenya contributed with forces in significant numbers for the Allied cause and was an important economic hub as well. From June 1940 to February 1941 there …

South African soldiers in Moyale, after the Italians were forced to withdraw from the area by an Allied offensive. Moyale is a city located on the border between Ethiopia and Kenya. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 South Africans versus Rommel: The Untold Story of the Desert War in World War II …

Bulgarian soldiers guard Yugoslav prisoners of war near a German Sd.Kfz. 231 8-Rad armored vehicle. Balkans, April 1941. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 – 1999 (Misha Glenny, 1999)

1) Sweethearts kissing over the railing, as British soldier returns home during leave. London, 1940. 2) American soldier with his English girlfriend hugging on the Hyde Park lawn in 1945. 3) British soldier welcomed home by his wife after the end of WW2 in Europe, 1945. 4) A young Canadian …

Uruguayan Chargé d’Affaires in the United Kingdom, Senor Montero de Bustamante, speaks at a ceremony to name a Royal Air Force Spitfire fighter in 1943. The Aircraft had been funded by Uruguayan donations. Uruguay was neutral during World War II until signing the Declaration by United Nations in February 1945, …

Kaiten manned torpedoes, stacked on top of a departing Japanese submarine sometime during World War Two (likely 1944-1945). The Kaiten were fast manned torpedoes used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the later stages of WWII, and intended to be piloted straight into their target in suicide / kamikaze missions. …

Two Romanian soldiers with a ZB-53 machine gun in Nalchik, Russia, 1942. The ZB-53 was a 7.9mm caliber Czechoslovak machine gun. Following the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, many ZB-53’s were captured and used in the war under the new name of MG37(t). The weapon was also heavily used by the …

German aircraft, possibly a Dornier Do 17, crashed into a house during the Battle of Britain in 1940. The Battle of Britain was a large scale aerial assault by the Luftwaffe in an attempt to subdue Britain, so that Germany could force Britain into peace and focus on the Eastern …

Heavy anti aircraft fire against Japanese night raiders by US Marines defending the Yontan Airfield in Okinawa, April 16th, 1945. Two US Marine Corsair fighter planes of the “Hell’s Belles” attack squadron can be seen in the foreground. Image captured by Technical sergeant Chorlest of the Marine Corps. Book suggestion …