Wartime Archive
A Matilda tank of the Australian 2/4th Armoured Regiment on the Buin Road, Bougainville, 1945.
Members of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) pose at Camp Shanks, New York, before leaving from New York Port of Embarkation on Feb. 2, 1945. The women are with …
Victory Day in London 8 May 1945: Two small girls waving their flags in the rubble of Battersea snapped by an anonymous American photographer.
“Elderly Villager Amidst Ruins of His House”. An elderly resident of a village burned down by Germans sitting by the ruins of his house. Ukraine, Region Tschernigow. Even as …
Waffen SS of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division take a breather on the side of the road as the invasion of Poland unfolds at lightning speed. A big fire …
German soldiers relax pre-war, 1939
Photograph of German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks, circa 1916. Photograph by Universal History Archive.
‘Australians storm a strongpoint’. A posed portrait of Australian troops advancing during the Second Battle of El Alamein, 3 September 1942.
Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle ever fought with each side deploying nearly 3000 tanks.
Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Private First Class Joesph Jackson prepared a special ‘gift’ on March 10, 1945 Easter morning. With the words “EASTER EGGS FOR HITLER” and …
