WWII Archive
Children Play in Ruined Berlin, Germany 1945 – HU036513 – Rights Managed – Stock Photo – Corbis
Soviet armoured diesel wagon type MBV D-2 captured by the Germans. Russia January 1944
“We have one aim Berlin.” Soviet poster
Soviet and American soldiers share a dance upon their meet-up at the River Elbe near Torgau, Germany. 26 April 1945.
A messenger dog with a spool attached to a harness for laying out new electric line in September of 1917.
During World War II, singer Kate Smith sold $ 600 million in defense bonds. Photo courtesy of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
A rather standard recruitment poster for the WAC
“Queen of the lost world”: an incredible tale of survival in the waning days of WWII. WAC Margaret Hastings and two of her Filipino-American paratrooper rescuers.
American troops guarding the main entrance to the Dachau concentration camp just after liberation, 1945
US Marine in a cave Okinawa 1945.