2024-04-06 12:04
U.S. Army Air Force Lieutenant Robert L. Hite is carried from a Japanese transport plane after he was flown from China to Tokyo along with seven other captured US airmen.
Lt. Robert L. Hite… Read More
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2024-02-09 16:13
The Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 “Sparviero” (Sparrowhawk) was an Italian medium-bomber with three engines, developed in 1934 and employed in service of the Regia Aeronautica during t… Read More
2023-12-12 19:41
Ju-87 “Stuka” squadron flying a mission over Poland sometime in September 1939 during the German invasion.
The famous “Stuka” dive bomber, officially known as Junker… Read More
2023-12-01 13:39
Moroccan Goumier soldier photographed while sharpening his bayonet sometime during 1944 in the Italian hills.
Goumiers were indigenous Moroccan soldiers recruited from various tribes in the… Read More
2023-11-30 19:18
US and Soviet troops meet for the first time during World War II at the Elbe river near Torgau, a town in Saxony, Eastern Germany.
The historic meeting took place on April 25th 1945, a date… Read More
2023-10-16 21:05
Finnish soldier from the Dog Corps photographed in the snow together with a beautiful and vigilant German Sheperd. The image, while reportedly taken during World War Two, is not specificall… Read More
2023-08-22 00:09
A sunken Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber of the US Air Force is lying on the Pacific Ocean seabed with another Allied aircraft behind it, which appears to be a Douglas SBD Dauntless as we… Read More
2023-06-21 23:16
Italian troops pictured in Addis Ababa during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, image taken in May 1936.
The Second Italo-Ethiopian war was a conflict predating World War II, lasting from Oct… Read More
2023-05-09 22:25
The 24th German Panzer Division advancing towards Stalingrad sometime during August 1942.
After initially serving in Northern France, the division moved to the Eastern Front in June 1942, w… Read More
2023-05-09 22:22
German tanks advance in Kasserine, Tunisia, February 1943.
This was the first major battle between US and Axis forces in World War II in Africa. The Germans initially ran over the inexperie… Read More
2023-05-02 19:38
Czech resistance members and civilians fighting during the Prague Uprising, which took place between 5-9 May 1945.
After six years of German occupation, but with the end of WWII in Europe l… Read More
2023-04-18 23:55
German forces photographed while building a bridge over the Dnieper river near Kiev in September 1941. The crossing was set up in just 24 hours and acted as a replacement for the main bridg… Read More
2023-01-21 18:19
Throughout the night of August 15th 1943, the Church of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan, home of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous “Last Supper” mural painting, was struck by B… Read More
2023-01-21 18:17
Wehrmacht soldier looking through the scope of his Karabiner 98K bolt-action rifle, with a Schiessbecher grenade launcher mounted on top of it, sometime during November 1943.
The Karabiner… Read More
2022-11-30 20:20
US tanks pictured in Schevenhütte, Germany, sometime during 1945, vs. modern days.
We can see that, quite remarkably, the buildings and architecture captured in the photograph have not… Read More
2022-11-29 22:16
An overwhelmed US Marine is pictured while weeping among ruins during the Battle of Peleliu, more specifically after the battle for Hill 200 (one of the many strategic hills on the island)… Read More
2022-11-18 20:48
Al Blozis (left, pictured in 1941 at New York’s Polo Grounds with Georgetown coach Jack Hagerty) was an American Football player for the New York Giants between 1942-1944 and a decora… Read More
2022-09-07 16:21
If This is a Man was the first book published by renowned Italian author and chemist Primo Levi after his liberation from the Auschwitz concentration camp. Finished in early 1947, the manusc… Read More
2022-09-05 21:57
A British aircraft spotter of the Royal Observer Corps pictured on the roof of a building in London sometime during 1940. In the background we can see St. Paul’s Cathedral.
I was unab… Read More
2022-08-24 13:13
U.S. Marine pictured while giving a Japanese boy candy through the barbed wire of a civilian containment area sometime in July – August 1944, during the Battle of Tinian.
The battle o… Read More
2022-08-04 22:49
Lithuanian women assisting Wehrmacht soldiers with buckets of water in June 1941, during the early stages of Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union.
Having been… Read More
2022-08-04 21:10
German soldiers on motorcycles riding through a devastated French town sometime in May 1940, in the midst of the Battle of France.
The Wehrmacht often used motorcycles during their advance… Read More
2022-05-22 21:59
Erich von Manstein photographed while smoking a cigar alongside a few Turkish Generals on the Eastern Front, sometime during June 1943.
Although Turkey remained neutral until February 1945… Read More
2022-05-12 19:45
Located no more than 15 kilometers from Chisinau, the Cricova winery is a must see attraction for anybody visiting the country of Moldova.
As you descend into the catacombs which are housing… Read More
2022-05-11 00:55
A fancy Fräulein relaxing at the famous Cafe Wien, located in Berlin on Kurfurstendamm Avenue, sometime during 1946.
Cafe Wien was a large, internationally reputed cafe and confectione… Read More
2022-04-28 07:00
Ponte Santa Trinita, located downstream of Ponte Vecchio in Firenze, Italy, was built between 1567 to 1569 by Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammannati.
The bridge was destroyed by retreati… Read More
2022-04-28 06:55
Mexican family preparing to cross the border in order to work on farms in the USA, as part of the Bracero Program in 1944. The program was put in place as the US was struggling with labor s… Read More
2022-04-28 06:52
Albert Einstein delivering a speech at the Royal Albert Hall in London, during a gathering to aid the Jewish refugee fund. October, 1933.
In March 1933, while returning to Europe after a vi… Read More
2022-03-30 13:47
Arado AR 196 floatplane of the Luftwaffe flying above the Suda Bay in Crete, 1942-1943.
The Arado AR 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance, fixed-wing aircraft, which was first introduced in 1… Read More
2022-03-09 23:01
Famous photograph of a young boy reading among the ruins of a London library during the German Blitz campaign in 1940.
The German Blitz bombing campaign of Great Britain took place between… Read More
2022-03-07 23:54
Fuhrerbunker conference room photographed in July 1945. The conference room was positioned right next to the chamber in which Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945.
The Fü… Read More
2022-03-02 20:34
The Berlin – Munich Reichsautobahn (A9 today), Southeast of Dessau, photographed in June 1939. Its first section was inaugurated in 1936 and the last was finished by 1941, making A9 G… Read More
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