Photo Collection

WORLD WAR II COLLECTION

Pix #
Date of Pix
Size of Pix
No. of Pix
Kind of Image

Negative

1

1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Medics working on wounded GI.

2

1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

M.A.S.H. surgery team at work.

3

1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Flight nurse prepares badly wounded GI’s for air evacuation back
to the United States.

4

1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

American airborne training jump in England. Notice the American
gliders among the cows and fence posts in the field.

5

1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

B-24 “Liberator” crew gears up for another run over Fortress
Europe.

6

1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Another day at the office! B-17 “Flying Fortress” waist gunners
search the skies for enemy fighters.

7

1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

American medium bomber formation in the skies over Europe.

8

1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x
2¼ B&W

American air power . . . death and destruction from above. German
city lies in ruins as a result of British and American aerial
bombing.

9

1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Germany’s war industry cities were bombed into rubble by Allied
air power during WWII.

10
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Somewhere in the Pacific. A Grumman F-4-F Wildcat is recovered
aboard the U.S.S. Hornet.

11
1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

A well dressed American paratrooper is ready to stand up, hook up,
and shuffle to the door.

12
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division listen to a pep talk
shortly before emplanning for the jump into Fortress Europe in the
predawn hours of 6 June, 1944. The pep-talker’s hand can be seen at
the center left of the picture. The hand belongs to the Supreme
Commander, Allied Forces in Europe, American General Dwight D.
Eisenhower.

13
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

This is it! Last thoughts before jumping into France, predawn
hours, 6 June 1944.

14
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Qual jump for American paratroopers. Paratroopers must jump on a
regular basis to maintain their qualification as paratroopers. This
is such a jump.

15
1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print
1½ x
2¼ B&W

American paratrooper inspects captured German heavy artillery
emplacement near the Normandy invasion beaches.

16
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

British rescue workers pull a woman from the rubble in London
after a German bombing raid.

17
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Naval aviator flight leader. The numbers written on the back of
this pilot’s hand are the tail numbers of the aircraft that will be
in his flight on this day.

18
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

British Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery in North Africa.

19
1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Soviet guns captured by the Germans during the encirclement of
Kiev.

20
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Their mountain guns were old, but Greeks were good shots.

21
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

What a way to celebrate V-J Day!

22
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

The Soviets suffered enormous casualties during World War II.

23
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Four hardy, well-armed partisan women enter Minsk; which was
liberated with partisan help in July of 1944. As Red Army units
advanced, some partisan brigades fought alongside them while others
moved farther to the west, staying behind the Germans and harassing
their retreat.

24
1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Red Army troops standing muster.

25
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Four German soldiers surrender to Red Army troops near
Stalingrad.

26
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Red Army infantry (aboard the tank), armor, and artillery move
forward to engage the Germans.

27
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Red Army artillery moves to a new firing position to put fires on
the Germans near Stalingrad.

28
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Wrecked Italian planes were left behind in hasty retreat.

29
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Japanese Imperial Marines put on a marching exhibition in the
United States c. 1939.

30
1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Japanese infantryman fords a stream in Malaya as Japanese drive on
Singapore.

31
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

German troops in the Soviet Union discover that Russian roads are
not quite the autobahn.

32
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Japanese infantry on the attack. China c. 1940.

33
1945

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

Time to pay the fiddler. Formal Japanese surrender aboard the
“Mighty Mo” (U.S.S. Missouri), in August, 1945, in Tokyo Bay.

34
1942

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

American and Filipino military personnel surrender to the Japanese
following the defense of the Bataan Peninsula on the island of
Luzon in the Philippines.

35
1942

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print
1½ x 2¼
B&W

The Bataan Death March is one of the most ferocious ordeals that
members of the American military have ever had to endure. Many of
the men who survived the Japanese atrocities of the Death March did
not survive until the final Allied victory in August, 1945. Their
courageous and tenacious defense of Bataan, coupled with the fierce
defense of Corregidor, the island fortress in Manila Bay, bought
the United States the most precious commodity of all . . . time.
They fought on against all odds . . . without reinforcement,
without resupply, without hope. These are the faces of American
heroes . . . “No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam.” These are the faces
of the Battling Bastards of Bataan.

36
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Slogans, posters, “Loose Lips Sink Ships,” were the order of the
day during the War. The home front worked hard to do its part in
the war effort.

37
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Convoy carrying supplies on the Burma Road.

38
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

American aerial reconnaissance photographer records results of a
bombing raid over Germany.

39
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

General of the Armies Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of SHAEF
(right), receives his fifth star from President Harry S. Truman
(left).

40
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Ol’ Blood‘n Guts, General George S. Patton, c. 1945

41
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

British servicewoman at work in a communications center.

42
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

British civilian aircraft spotter scans the skies over England for
German aircraft during the Battle of Britain.

43
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

American tankers man a turret .30 caliber machine gun.

44
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

British gun crew on a 20MM antiaircraft gun in North Africa.

45
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The SHAEF brain trust. Eisenhower is front row, center.

46
1944

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The thousand-yard stare. Fatigue and the stress and strain of
combat are etched in this GI’s face during the Battle of the Bulge
in December 1944.

47
1944

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Break time in Bastogne. Two troopers of the 101st Airborne
Division enjoy a brief respite from duty in the front line foxholes
in the beleaguered Belgian town of Bastogne.

48
1944

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Trooper of the 101st Airborne Division takes five in Bastogne
during the German’s attempt to overrun American forces in that
Belgian town.

49
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

American Engineers at work. Members of a U.S. Army Engineer
bridging company constructing a Bailey Bridge somewhere in
Europe.

50
1944-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

U.S. Army Engineer bridging company mounts treadways on pontoon
(floating) bridge somewhere in

Europe.

51
1945

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

American ground forces break through the Siegfried Line and begins
the final drive in German onto German soil. The concrete structures
are tank traps, known as “dragon’s teeth.”

52
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The face of the enemy. A German panzer driver peers out of the
viewport on his tank.

53
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

German army band marching in Paris with the Arch de Triomphe to
their rear.

54
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

German Wermacht NCO’s receiving briefing about a troop
movement.

55
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

German armored reconnaissance vehicle. This vehicle is assigned to
Rommel’s Afrika Corps.

56
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

A German soldier standing near an unidentified piece of
equipment.

57
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

German troops riding in a half-track.

58
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

He went that way! German soldiers on the Eastern Front (in the
Soviet Union).

59
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Germans attempt to recover a tank that has broken through ice and
sunk in a Soviet stream.

60
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Campaigning against the two pronged Soviet defense . . . the Red
Army and the Russian winter.

61
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

German mobile command post during Operation Barbarossa, somewhere
in the Soviet Union.

62
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

German observer watches an Artillery round hit in Stalingrad
during the German siege of the city.

63
1941-45

8 x 10

3

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Buddies help a German flame thrower specialist climb onto the back
of a panzerflakwagen. The soldier standing on top of the tank
holding the strange looking apparatus is holding the
flame-thrower’s nozzle. The odd looking backpack on the specialist
is the fuel cell that holds the jellied gasoline.

64
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The face of this Waffen SS (Fighting SS) trooper reveals the
hopelessness of the German situation at Stalingrad. The Germans
lost 200,000 men at Stalingrad. What happened to them was never
fully explained.

65
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The exodus begins. Germans trying to make to the American lines .
. . nobody wanted to surrender to the Russians.

66
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The last ditch defense of Germany and particularly of Berlin saw
old men and young boys fighting to stem the tide of Allied forces
closing the ring on the Nazi capitol. Here Hitler decorates and
encourages a group of young soldiers from the Hitler Youth
organization.

67
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

British Avro Lancaster heavy bombers head out of the fields of
England for another raid on Nazi Germany.

68
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The cost of liberty. American Marines who gave the last full
measure of devotion.

69
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Tom Brokaw said that the generation of Americans who won World War
II is the greatest single generation of men and women ever produced
by any culture in the history of mankind. If that is so, then this
could be the collective face of that generation. Semper Fi,
Mac!

70
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Marine firing line somewhere in the Pacific.

71
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Lone Marine rifleman fires his carbine up-slope on Mount Suribachi
on Iwo Jima.

72
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Japanese justice for POW’s was often quite extreme, as this
British POW discovered.

73
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Japanese POW’s aboard ship with marines.

74
1941-45

8 x 10

5

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

McArthur’s return to the Philippines.

75
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

B-24 “Liberator” heavy bomber powering through the smoke after
delivering another load of misery to German industry.

76
1941-45

8 x 10

1
B&W
Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Alright, which one of you guys is Kilroy? American GI’s in Europe
celebrating something. It didn’t take much for these guys to break
out the bottle and celebrate!

77
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The Desert Fox–German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel..

78
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

The Winter War, 1944-45, in Europe. American soldiers who fought
there remember this phase of the war as being some of the most
bitter fighting in the worst physical conditions of the war.

79
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Everybody likes to be around a pretty girl.

80
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Aboard a carrier somewhere in the Pacific a Navy pilot tells how
he did it.

81
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

General Jonathan Wainwright refuses to shake hands with a Japanese
officer aboard the USS Missouri during surrender ceremonies in
Tokyo Bay.

82
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

VP Harry Truman and President Franklin D. Roosevelt catch a little
lunch in the White House.

83
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

British air raid warden listens for enemy aircraft or rockets
overhead.

84
1941-45

8 x 10

2

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

German Afrika Corps surveying team in North Africa.

85
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Italian soldier fighting the cold and pushing a high-tech cart on
the eastern front in the Soviet Union.

86
1941-45
8 x
10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

English fighter pilots of the R.A.F.. Men like these won the
Battle of Britain.

87
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

German soldiers on the eastern front.

88
1941-45

8 x 10

1

B&W Copy Print

1½ x 2¼ B&W

Soviet female student pilots learn that the rubber side goes down
and the shiny side goes up.