The best WW II photos.

[il padrino]

or both could be his

[Visna]

or both could be his

Oh so that's why in Soviet "liberated" territory, one of the first Russian phrases one should learn was "Give me your watch"?

EDIT. *ahem..*
OT


A couple from D-Day





Not exactly a photo, but meh...

[il padrino]

i was just joking,but i didn't know that


anyway,i think it's silly to censore pictures just becase someone stole a watch

[Farnan]

The cracked bridge becomes a metaphor in three years.

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In three years these men would be enemies.

[Nissedruva]

Soldiers from 12 SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend during the battle of Normandy.

[pajomife]

I search and I find this.



And there are many people looking for this guy.
http://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewto...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

[Boyar Son]

Sorry if above is too large, i dunno how to re-size picture.


Here's some krauts that eventually were defeated by the superior Americans later in the war.

[pajomife]

T found this site http://www.ww2incolor.com/updates ,is fabulous for the WW II fans .

[Caelius]

Japanese troops running under fire outside the walls of Nanking, 1938


Japanese troops advancing through the streets of Kuala Lumpur during the Malaya Campaign


British sailors abandoning the battleship HMS Prince of Wales as the ship lists to port following Japanese air attacks which had sunk the HMS Repulse an hour earlier

Pound: Prime Minister, I have to report to you that the Prince of Wales and the Repulse have both been sunk by the Japanese - we think by aircraft. Tom Phillips is drowned.
Churchill: Are you sure it's true?
Pound: There is no doubt at all.
Churchill hangs up

"In all the war, I never received a more direct shock... As I turned over and twisted in bed the full horror of the news sank in upon me. There were no British or American ships in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific except the American survivors of Pearl Harbor, who were hastening back to California. Over all this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme, and we everywhere were weak and naked." -Winston Churchill

Japanese troops march through the streets of Singapore after the British defeat and surrender of the city.


Canadian Commonwealth troops holding positions shortly before the Battle of Hong Kong


An A-20 light bomber flying past a Japanese troop transport at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea


Anti-Aircraft flak bursts from the USS Enterprise at the Battle of Santa Cruz


USS Hornet under attack from a Japanese dive bomber at the Battle of Santa Cruz (the carrier would be sunk in this engagement)


USS Yorktown under heavy attack at the Battle of Midway


US Marine with a flamethrower at the Battle of Tawara


US Marine platoon storming a Japanese pillbox position on Tarawa, platoon leader Lt. Alex Bonnyman (shown in this photo) would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership


Japanese prisoner being held by Chinese troops after the Battle of Changde (over 200,000 troops on both sides combined); the Imperial Japanese Army also employed extensive use of biological and chemical warfare weapons during this battle (including bubonic plague), resulting in the deaths of over 300,000 Chinese civilians


USS Indianapolis firing her main guns in support of the amphibious landings during the Battle of Saipan


US Marine with a baby (still alive) during the fighting on the island


Japanese carrier Zuikaku and escorts under US attack at the Battle of the Phillippine Sea (largest aerial naval battle in history)


USS Enterprise taking a direct hit amidships at the Battle of Leyte Gulf (the largest naval battle of WWII, one of the all time biggest in world history as well)


Battleship Yamato taking a direct hit to one of her forward turrets at Leyte Gulf


Carrier USS Princeton explodes at Leyte Gulf


Japanese Carriers Zuikako and Zuiho under aerial attack at Leyte Gulf


Light Carrier USS St. Lo (part of the famous Taffy 3 formation) explodes following a kamikaze attack which penetrated the ship's torpedo and bomb magazines, at Leyte Gulf


Crew of the Japanese Carrier Zuikako saluting as the ship's ensign is lowered, shortly before abandoning ship towards the end of the Leyte Gulf engagements


Battleship USS Missouri shortly before a Kamikaze strike at the Battle of Okinawa


Carrier USS Franklin listing to starboard following crippling torpedo damage and multiple kamikaze attacks at the Battle of Okinawa


USS Bunker Hill afire from two consecutive kamikaze attacks at the Battle of Okinawa


US Marines marching past the corpse of a Japanese soldier on Okinawa


US Sherman tanks destroyed by Japanese artillery


Photo of Lt. Gen. Buckner Jr. (far right) shortly before he is killed in a Japanese artillery strike (one of the highest ranked US casualties in the war)


Battleship Yamato explodes with nearly all hands (90% of the crew KIA) after sustained US Navy aerial attacks involving almost 400 aircraft, smoke from the explosion could be seen a 100 miles away from the Japanese home islands


US Army soldiers listen to the Victory in Europe announcements over the radio while on Okinawa


Formation of US B-29s flying near Mt. Fuji during Operation Meetinghouse (the firebombing of Tokyo)


Tokyo enveloped in several massive Firestorms following the American bomber raids (over 100,000 civilians died during the attacks; more than the amount of people who would die in Hiroshima less than 2 weeks later)


US troops bound for Pearl Harbor in the hangar deck of the USS Enterprise during Operation Magic Carpet following the Japanese surrender and the end of WWII

[Farnan]

America's major land force in Burma. Merrill's Marauders.



OSS Detachment 101 with Kachin Rangers.

[Anachronist]

[Babur]

that has already been posted

I think this one is also a good photo:

[il padrino]

that has already been posted

I think this one is also a good photo:

who are these guys ?

[Pious Agnost]

They've both been posted, but the raising of the American and Soviet flags are my favourites

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US Army soldiers listen to the Victory in Europe announcements over the radio while on Okinawa

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[il padrino]

Partizans posing with the captured Chetnik leader Draza Mihajlovic (the one in the midle,withe a beard

[Heathen Hammer]

[Farnan]

They've both been posted, but the raising of the American and Soviet flags are my favourites

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?

Why the smilie?

[Babur]

who are these guys ?

Japanese soldiers scaling the Great Wall of China.

[Tiberius Tosi]

Quite large so I put in spoilers...

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Kind of graphic...

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Sorry for the AP logo on it...

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Germans during Battle of Bulge = Awesome

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[il padrino]

Quite large so I put in spoilers...

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Kind of graphic...

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Sorry for the AP logo on it...

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Germans during Battle of Bulge = Awesome

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i prefer this

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