Major-General Roy Urquhart DSO and Bar (leader of the 1st British Airborne Division during the Arnhem Operation) plants the Airborne flag outside his headquarters (Hotel Hartenstein), the last British stronghold…

On 2 August 1943, Hampden torpedo bombers of No 455 Squadron RAAF attacked a convoy off the Norwegian coast. This aircraft (L4105/D) suffered massive flak damage to its tail –…

A Russian team member (C) introduces digging techniques to Chinses partners on the Huoshao Mountain in Muling City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, May 12, 2015. A one-month-long China-Russia search began…

WWII Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Jamro, 93, center, who was shot down as a tail gunner on a Liberator bomber over Romania in 1944 looks through a scrap book with…

An F-4 Phantom II sits by itself in the “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AIr Force Base, Ariz. The aircraft served as the principal air superiority fighter for the Air Force during…

Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus announces the name of the Independence-class littoral combat ship LCS 24 as USS Oakland during a major league baseball game between the Oakland…

Inspection by leading figures of the UN Forces nearby Punchbowl, Korea. (Left to right: Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Gen. James Van Fleet, X Corps commander Maj. Gen.…

An unconventional pose, highlighting the more casual approach to many of these photos. This man has Two Years Overseas Service chevrons on right sleeve and a Good Conduct (Three Years)…

Hell’s island gets letters from heaven. Marines of the Fourth Division receive airmail in the most literal sense of the word when planes flew over Iwo and parachuted mail bags…

After retrieving an original floor board of the plane from storage as part of the reconstruction and conservation project, conservators found a previously undocumented surprise: a German round lodged in…

This is the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany as it appeared in the days after it was liberated by British and Canadian troops, adorned with the German Reichskriegs flag (left)…

A Cromwell Mk V tank of 4th County of London Yeomanry, 22nd Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, leads a column of armour (including a Sherman Firefly immediately behind) and soft-skin…

Vertical aerial photograph taken over Pforzheim, Germany, during the first and only area-bombing raid on the city. High explosive and incendiary bombs explode in the target area at the height…

Infantrymen meet a patrol of the French Army on a fork of the road leading into (?), Germany. The (?) came down from the east side of the Rhine to…

Panzergrenadiers from Kampfgruppe Hansen (one of the three large kampfgruppe of the Leibstandarte Division) take a cigarette brake. Such a state was the norm during combat operations. This photograph was…

The new U.S. Navy light aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) in San Francisco Bay (USA) on 15 July 1943. Note that she still carries Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers. Before…

An 8,000-lb HC bomb (‘super cookie’) is brought by tractor to a waiting Avro Lancaster of No. 106 Squadron RAF in its dispersal at Syerston, Nottinghamshire. The target on this…

Avro Lancaster B Mark I, ME590 ‘SR-C’, of No. 101 Squadron RAF, lies on the FIDO (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation) pipework at Ludford Magna, Lincolnshire, after a successful crash-landing…

“Lady Jeannette” Damage consisted of the right wing, #4 outboard engine and cowling gone, with a fire blowing past the tail. The #3 inboard engine was the only engine that…

One Marine assigned to covert activities in Europe with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was Capt Peter J. Ortiz, who was twice decorated with the Navy Cross. Here he…

Two couples from Frol/Levanger, Ingeborg and Martin Sivertsen and Hilda and Olav Holberg, were in January 1945 arrested as hostages for their sons. They were imprisoned at Falstad until Liberation.…

Two years after surviving his accident at Midway Atoll, Capt. Ray L. Obenshain, Assistant Operations Officer of Fresno, California, checks his jungle pack at the 47th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter…

The first two gliders to touch down, their wing tips interlocked after colliding on landing. In the foreground are the Headquarters Artillery Group. Nearly all the vehicles of the 1st…

Major John W. Forth, Chaplain of The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (right), Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, helping the unit’s Regimental Aid Party treat a wounded comrade during the Battle of…

Paratroopers (inc. RAMC Para Field Ambulance personnel) of the British Army’s 1st Airborne Division taken as POWs by Germans during the Battle of Arnhem. Near Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands. 20…

The three Army Film and Photographic Unit Photographers who took the graphic still and cine pictures of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. The picture, which shows them with their…

Men of the RAF Regiment assist an RAF intelligence officer to salvage important parts from a Messerschmitt Me 410 photographic reconnaissance aircraft, shot down on the banks of the Sangro…

Retired Lt. Col. Alston Daniels stands proudly outside of a Douglas C-47D Skytrain on static display at Fairchild AFB, Wash. April 7, 2015. Daniels flew the C-47 during World War…

Crash landing of F6F-3, Number 30 of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2), USS Enterprise, into the carrier’s port side 20mm gun gallery, 10 November 1943. Lieutenant Walter L. Chewning, Jr., USNR,…

On the 11th of June 1944, F/O H.G. Garwood of 412 Squadron was flying VZ-S (MJ 255) MK IXc Spitfire when it suffered an engine failure* near Tilly-sur-Seulles, France, during…

‘Some jolly gunners and their pet.’ A group of men from the Royal Regiment of Artillery, photographed alongside a long-barrelled field gun. For the occasion, they have chalked the words,…

Features on an historic photo of USS Independence CVL 22 are captured in a three-dimensional (3D) low-resolution sonar image of the shipwreck in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The Coda…

‘A Boche prisoner, wounded and muddy, coming in on the 13th.’ A British soldier helps a wounded German prisoner walk along a railway track. A man, possibly an official French…

Nobody wins in armed conflicts because opposing sides always have casualties. Yet citizens of nations waging wars around the globe seem to think otherwise. In fact, during World War 2,…

The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center is comprised of a museum, a library (the first presidential library in the country, for the record) and Spiegel Grove, the house that Hayes…

Aircrew of No. 106 Squadron photographed in front of a Lancaster at Syerston, Nottinghamshire, on the morning after the raids on Genoa, 22-23 October 1942. Crews of No 106 Squadron…

Major General Matthew B. Ridgway (center), Commanding General, 82nd Airborne Division, and staff, overlooking the battlefield near Ribera, Sicily, 25 July 1943. Each officer wears the distinctive jump jacket and…

Troops string wire past 4 dead German artillery horses which were killed along with 5 German soldiers when an American artillery burst caught them as the horses were being hitched…

Russian team members dig out a box containing the remains of four Soviet Union soldiers on the Huoshao Mountain in Muling City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, May 12, 2015. A…

A crowdfunding campaign has launched to reunite two World War II veterans who fought against each other during the war and became as close as brothers after the war. The…

Before the most gruesome aspects of the Holocaust, Germany began to implement other ways of “cleansing” its population. One of the programs used for such purposes was called Aktion T4 (though the…

Joe Stilwell was known as “Vinegar Joe” for his abrasive personality. A 1904 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in… Seven Australian soldiers who fought and died during the Battle of Fromelles in France during World…

On April 14, 1943, three World War II Beauforts from the Royal Australian Air Force were performing a low pass for the media. However during a breakup formation it all…

In the latter half of 1943, two of World War II’s most colorful and charismatic senior commanders, General George S. Patton, Jr. and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox,” were both…

David Balme, the Royal Navy Officer who seized a top-secret Enigma machine and codebook while storming a captured German U-Boat has died at the age of 95. Lieutenant Commander David Balme, who…

The Civil War has resulted in a variety of historically significant and interesting spots to visit, but no where is Civil War tourism as prominent as it is in the…

While most know of the Foo Fighters as a popular rock band, the term was actually used for a very different reason during World War II. The term was coined…

Polish authorities have backtracked on claims a buried German WWII ‘Ghost’ train containing gold has been found in the country. This conflicts with a statement made on Friday by Piotr Suchowski,…

In Part One of Notable US Navy Losses of World War 2 we covered the USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), USS Tullibee (SS-284), USS Tang (SS-306), USS Mount Hood (AE-11), USS Borie (DD-215), USS…

War doesn’t just spur nations to create better offensive and defensive technology; it can also lead to everyday products and technology made necessary due to shortages and changing needs in…