American soldiers of the US Army's finance branch in Malinta Tunnel during the Siege of Corregidor in Manila Bay, the Philippines, March/April 1942.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration.
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American soldiers of the US Army's finance branch in Malinta Tunnel during the Siege of Corregidor in Manila Bay, the Philippines, March/April 1942.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration.
Dutch resistance members celebrate at the moment they heard of Adolf Hitler's death over the radio, May 1945. Originally titled "The very instant that we heard of Hitler's death on the radio and knew the war was over!” Attributed to Tony van Renterghem.
Source: Rijksmuseum.
Two American soldiers in a foxhole during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, January 1945. By Tony Vaccaro.
British commandos attacking under the cover of a smokescreen during Operation Archery in Norway, December 27, 1941.
A US Navy frogman wearing a breathing apparatus and grease camouflage during World War 2.
Two German patrol boats on Lake Ladoga on the Eastern Front, August 13, 1942.
German soldiers firing an artillery piece at a building during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, 1943. Photographs from the Stroop Report.
An American soldier firing a bazooka at an Axis target 300 yards distant near Lucca, Italy, September 7, 1944.
A German soldier wearing a captured Dutch helmet during or after the German invasion of the Netherlands, 1940.
American troops celebrating Christmas with a makeshift Christmas tree at an advanced dressing station in Buna in the Territory of Papua, 1942.
American Marines firing rockets at Japanese positions in support of an American advance during the Battle of Iwo Jima, February 28, 1945.
Soviet soldiers rolling their guns out of a dugout, Soviet Union, 1943.
German Volkssturm carrying Panzerfausts on parade in Berlin, 1944.
A smiling British soldier giving two thumbs up for the camera while escorting a column of German POWs after the Siege of Tobruk, Libya, 1941.
View of entrenched British soldiers somewhere along the English coastline during training to repel a possible German invasion, 1941.
British soldiers in a sandbagged position guarding the Admiralty House in London to protect it against potential seizure by fifth columners, May 27, 1940.
American troops training to reload a 16-inch coastal gun during World War 2.