F-YEAH HISTORY

Harvesting new corn from the field of Jim Norris, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

Source: The Library of Congress.

Staff from Stockholm Transport visiting London Transport, 1948

Source: Stockholm Transport Museum

Suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Captured Jews are led by German Waffen SS soldiers to the assembly point for deportation (Umschlagplatz), 1943

Captain Michelson and “Tim” the turtle, 1940 Captain D Michelson with a turtle named “Tim”, the mascot of the 2/2nd Battalion.

Source: Australian War Memorial's collection.

Heinz Guderian being transported to the eastern front, 1943

Karachi Airport, 1943

1942 American Red Cross Canteen Corps

Credit to the Jewish Women's Archive.

Women at the Small Arms Ammunition Factory checking cartridges, Australia, 1944 Credit to the National Library of Australia.

Ruins of Königsberg Castle seen from Cathedral Island, 1949 The Königsberg Castle (German: Königsberger Schloss, Russian: Кёнигсбергский замок) was a castle in Königsberg, Germany (since 1946 Kaliningrad, Russia), and was one of the landmarks of the East Prussian capital Königsberg.

Young couple, including a lady from the Canadian Womens Army Corps chalking hearts onto a tree, Valentine's Day 1944 Credit to Galt Museum and Archives.

US Army Training, Sanskeid Range, Iceland, 20th June 1943 Gun crew prepares to fire a 37mm sub-caliber mounted on a 75mm field howitzer during range practice by the 19th and 21st FA.

Valentine's day card, c. 1940-1950

Members of the Eindhoven Resistance with troops of the US 101st Airborne Division in Eindhoven during Operation Market Garden, September 1944

Photograph of the Olympia Fire Department spraying water into McAllister Springs, 1947

Aerial photograph of British destroyer HMS Highlander (H44) underway, 1942 HMS Highlander was an H-class destroyer that had originally been ordered by the Brazilian Navy with the name Jaguaribe in the late 1930s, but was bought by the Royal Navy after the beginning of World War II in September 1939 and later renamed. When completed in March 1940, she was assigned to the 9th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet. The ship was assigned to convoy escort duties in June with the Western Approaches Command, sinking one German submarine in October. Highlander was transferred to Freetown, Sierra Leone in mid-1941 to escort convoys off West Africa, but returned to the United Kingdom in August. She became flotilla leader of Escort Group B-4 of the Mid-Ocean Escort Force in early 1942 and continued to escort convoys in the North Atlantic for the rest of the war. The ship became a target ship after the war ended and was sold for scrap in mid-1946.

ON THIS DAY: August 30th 1942 – World War II: the Battle of Alam el Halfa begins The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Panzerarmee Afrika—a German-Italian force commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel—attempted an envelopment of the British 8th Army, commanded by Bernard Montgomery. In the last major Axis offensive (Operation Brandung) of the Western Desert campaign, Rommel had planned to defeat the British 8th Army before Allied reinforcements made an Axis victory in Africa impossible.

ON THIS DAY: 1940 – In the midst of the Battle of Britain, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech thanking the Royal Air Force, declaring, "Never was so much owed by so many to so few." Pictured is the World War II poster containing the quote. Click here to read more.