Photographs

A US Air Force B-24 Liberator heavy bomber during an attack over an oil refinery in Ploiesti, Romania, during Operation Tidle Wave. Operation Tidle Wave was a bombing raid by the United States on August 1st, 1943, targeting the oil fields of Romania around Ploiesti, which were key to the …

British humour on display in the Summer of 1940, during the Battle of Britain, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy managed to resist and halt the large scale attacks carried by the German Luftwaffe. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 The Battle of …

Us soldier standing guard over thousands of German prisoners in 1945 at Camp Remagen, part of the Rheinwiesenlager. The Rheinwiesenlager were 19 camps in Allied occupied Germany before the end of WW2, which held over one million surrendered Wehrmacht soldiers. Us Army Chief of Staff, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, made …

Mauthausen Camp Commandant Franz Ziereis with SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler and SS Obergruppenfuhrer Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner on April 27th, 1941. The photo is taken at the “Wiener Graben” stone quarry, where the camp inmates were worked tirelessly. The quarry was one of the main reasons for the location of the …

In the image we see the first Me 262 to be captured by the Allies, when the test pilot defected on March 31st, 1945. The aircraft was sent to the US for testing. The Messerschmitt Me 262, aka Me 262 Schwalbe or Stormbird, was introduced in the Luftwaffe during April …

A Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft in low flight over a horse pulled cart on the Eastern Front, in Northern Russia, 1943. It’s quite likely that supplies dropped by the plane were being loaded into the carriage for transport to the front. We can see bags in and around …