Photographs

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 …

A German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber raiding a British supply depot near Tobruk, Lybia, October 1941, during the North African campaign. The siege of Tobruk was part of the Western Desert Campaign (1940-1943), and lasted for 241 days. With the Allies defeated and forced back on most of …

A De Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI British combat aircraft, part of RAF’s 140 Squadron, warming up its engines before a night photographic reconnaissance mission. Melsbroek, Belgium, February 15th 1945. The light, quick and agile De Havilland Mosquito stood out due to the fact that it was constructed of mostly …

A Romanian IAR-81C aircraft being inspected by Soviet personnel after a crash, sometime between 1942 and 1944. The IAR-81C was an upgrade on Romania’s main WW2 fighter, IAR 80. The IAR 80 first flew in 1939, and at the time it was comparable in performance with similar aircrafts of more …

Italian battleships Vittorio Veneto (left, foreground) and Littorio (right, background) firing their main batteries in the Mediterranean during World War Two, sometime between 1940 and 1943. Vittorio Venetto and Littorio were sister battleships, and both saw extensive service during the war – particularly Vittorio Venetto. Both ships were surrendered to …

Japanese infantrymen preceded by an artillery barrage, advancing over defensive lines in China, Peking sector, on August 19th, 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Second Sino-Japanese War started in the Summer of 1937, predating the official start of WWII by two years (but being very much a part of …

An old Russian lady sobbing among ruins during the siege of Leningrad. The blockade and encirclement of Leningrad was one of the longest and most horrific sieges in history, lasting 872 days between September 8th 1941 and January 27th 1944, when the weakened Axis forces were expelled by the Soviet …