Wartime Archive
Pearl Harbor photo
Vmail, or Victory Mail, was sent for the first time on June 22, 1942. One roll of film contained 1500 letters to military service members in WWII.
February 1945 in Manila: an American GI rescues an injured Filipino girl In February 1945, the Japanese forces in Manila defied their orders from General Yamashita to withdraw and …
Marines carrying the first flag up Iwo Jima.
The little kitten “crept out from beneath a wrecked” tank. The U.S. Marine soldier offered water to it. Tarawa, 1943
Combat operations at Ia Drang Valley Vietnam November 1965. Major Bruce P. Crandall’s UH-1D helicopter climbs skyward after discharging a load of infantrymen on a search and destroy mission.
Soldiers of the 26th Infantry Lloyd Spencer of Portland and James Bryson of Lynn during the Bulge in Wiltz, Luxembourg. 6 Jan 1945.
Chateau Wood, Ypres, 1917
15th (Scottish) Division advance during Operation ‘Epsom’ in Normandy, 1944
Moscow, the first day of the war.