Wartime Archive
Guardsmen of the Scots Guards inspect a knocked-out German PzKpfw IV tank near Medenine. Tunisia, 12 March 1943.
A sapper of No. 1 Dog Platoon, 277th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, with his dog ‘Nigger’, Normandy – 1944
General Eisenhower reacts to the news that General Macarthur has been fired by President Truman. 1951
Launching a torpedo
On May 5, 1945, Holland was liberated by the Allied Forces after having suffered from the Hunger Winter. Between November 1944 on until the end of February 1945 18,000 …
Corporal Charles H. Johnson of the 783rd Military Police Battalion, waves on a `Red Ball Express’ motor convoy rushing priority materiel to the forward areas, near Alenon, France, Sept …
Circa 1908: A fireman from the London fire brigade wearing a smoke helmet.
WWII – A soldier of the British Expeditionary Force returns home, 1940
Camouflaged German staff car. France June 1944
The USS Nebraska in camouflage paint, which made it difficult to estimate the ship’s range, speed and heading. WWI