War History Pictures

07/08/2020

WW II history

Gold Beach, June 6th, 1944

06/02/2020

Amazing picture taken at Warsaw in 1944 exactly when a "Wurfrahmen 40" launched one of it's rockets.
War History Pictures

03/21/2020

WW II history

A 7th Panzer Division Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) is seen moving in advance of a Panzerkampfwagen II during the invasion of France, May 1940.
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03/14/2020

WW II history

Japanese Captain Chuichi Ichikawa in front of his Kawasaki Ki-61-I KAId Hien "Tony" fighter, of 244th Sentai, 3rd Chutai, demonstrates to other pilots the maneuvers that he uses to confront an American B-29 bomber, Chofu Airfield, near Tokyo, Japan, February 1945.

03/12/2020

WW II history

Two Royal Australian Navy explosives experts and a Gold Coast Police Officer (on right) stand beside the deactivated WW2 sea-mine, 1968-1969.

03/12/2020

Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (22 December 1925 - 24 June 2019) was a Russian combat medic who was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during World War Two.

03/11/2020

Grumman TBF-I AVENGER TORPEDO BOMBER

03/09/2020

Grumman Wildcat fighter aircraft and Supermarine Seafires ranged for take-off on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE

03/09/2020

A Fairey Albacore MK I of No. 820 Naval Air Squadron operating from HMS FORMIDABLE during the North African landings, November 1942.

03/08/2020

Bombing up a Fairey Albacore on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS FORMIDABLE.

03/08/2020

Naval Officers, including Captain A. G. Talbot, DSO, RN, captain of the aircraft carrier HMS FORMIDABLE, looking at the invasion beaches through binoculars.

03/07/2020

Gunner's Mate First Class Carrick N. Thomas passes a clip of four 40mm rounds through a hatch in a 40mm handling room of USS Alaska, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945.

03/07/2020

Aircraft maintenance on board a Pacific Fleet Carrier

03/07/2020

Northrop YB-35 (Historical US Prototype Aircraft).

03/06/2020

SBD of VB-6 (USS Enterprise) at Midway.

Artist: Lucio Perinotto

03/06/2020

View in the sick bay on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) where several men sleep on hanging beds, late 1943.

03/06/2020

Sinking of the Austrian Battleship SMS Szent István 1918.

03/06/2020

On the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, a crewman feeds another clip of four 40mm rounds into his gun on the ship's island, 1943.

03/05/2020

Portrait of Lieutenant David Beery, USNR, posing by the tail of a Dauglas SBD-5 aircraft at the air Operational Training Command, Jacksonville, FL, where he is an instructor, 1943.

03/05/2020

August 3rd, 1940 - on this day in World War Two history, Italian troops under Gen. Guglielmo Nasi invade British Somaliland from Italian Ethiopia.

03/04/2020

This picture shows an effigy on private John M Steele who landed on the church tower on DDay, June 6th off 1944, at the French town of Sainte-Mere-Englise.

03/04/2020

Iwo Jima.

battlefield V

03/04/2020

On the deck of the USS Yorktown (CV-10) aircraft carrier, ARM3c (Aviation Radioman Third Class) Robert L. Brown sits in the cockpit of a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter plane with the ship's mascot, Scrappy the dog, late 1943.

03/04/2020

On the USS Yorktown, a Grumman TBF Avenger takes off, as the ship operates in the Pacific, circa later 1943.
Ship in the background is a New Orleans class heavy cruiser.

03/03/2020

Kamikaze attack 1944.

03/03/2020

Portrait of Ensign Frederick Joyce, Jr, USNR, as he drinks pineapple juice before taking off on a flight from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, October 1943.

03/03/2020

On the US Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown, a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighter sits on the fight deck, during Pacific operations, 1943.

03/02/2020

A Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter plane waits for take-off on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), May 1943.

03/02/2020

On the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, an F6F Hellcat fighter pilot readies for the takeoff signal,ca 1943.

03/02/2020

Somewhere in the Pacific theater, flight deck crewmen stand by with wheel chocks underneath a Grumman TBF-1 Torpedo airplane, june 1943.

03/01/2020

View of Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters as they warm up their engines in preparation for takeoff from the deck of the USS Yorktown (CV-10), Pacific Ocean, mid 1943.

03/01/2020

On the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, Grumman F6F-3 fighters warm up on the flight deck, circa mid 1943.

03/01/2020

Portrait of lieutenant Harry Harrison, Jr., a pilot on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, October 1943.

02/29/2020

USN, Grumman Avenger formation flying over Pacific.

02/29/2020

World War II, January 1945, British Carrier borne Aircraft strike at Japanese occupied Sumatra, Picture shows men bombing up Avengers with 500 1b, bombs