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How Detroit's factories won the World War Two [photos]     life.com :: 2009-10-19
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn't the first to call America - and specifically Detroit - "The Arsenal of Democracy," but he popularized the phrase during his "fireside chats." And for once, political rhetoric didn't outdo reality: During the 1940s, Detroit's factories went from manufacturing cars to building battle tanks, aircraft, army trucks, military supplies - in short, arming U.S. forces for combat in World War Two.    

120 photographs of WWII submarine Vesikko - The prototype of German Type II U-boat     flickr.com :: 2009-07-13
Vesikko was a submarine of the Finnish Navy in World War Two. Built in 1933 in Turku, it served as a prototype (CV-707) for German Type II U-boats. 1933-1934 the German Navy carried out trials with the sub in the Turku Archipelago. In 1936, the Finnish Navy bought it. Vesikko saw service during WWII, patrolling the Gulf of Finland during the Winter War against the Soviet Baltic Fleet. During the Continuation War, Vesikko continued her patrolling career but there were few targets due to huge minefields laid by Finnish and Germans forces on the Gulf of Finland, which blocked the Soviet ships in their ports. In 3 July 1941, Vesikko torpedoed Soviet merchant ship Vyborg.     [U-Boats : Submarines]

Images of World War II - Photos German soldiers hid from their Nazi censors     spiegel.de :: 2009-05-09
Never before in history was photography such a built-in part of the military machine as it was during WW2. Many photos in Spiegel's photo book "Images of World War II," were only possible because soldiers hid them from Nazi censors. During a meeting of his cabinet in 1933 Adolf Hitler told that the future of Germany dependend on rebuilding the Wehrmacht. He also ordered photographers to begin preparing for the real thing. In 1938 the Wehrmacht began recruiting photographers. There were many taboos: Photos of German soldiers or SS officers killing Jews or partisans also had no chance passing through the censors. But many took forbidden photographs anyway.     [Nazi Photos]

Bringing hidden World War II photographs to the masses     wired.com :: 2009-03-19
The National Museum of Health and Medicine is bringing its dramatic photographic history of medicine to the public by scanning its images and uploading them to Flickr. We've picked out some from the Second World War collection here, including the X-ray of a fatal bullet wound and a flyer warning against venereal disease. This campaign to bring publicly owned pictures to light has already yielded a curated collection of 800 images, and a half million more have been scanned so far.     [WW2 Photos, Pictures]

Secret footage shows American troops practising D-Day invasion [video clip, still pics]     dailymail.co.uk :: 2009-02-24
A Sherman tank rolls ashore while behind it soldiers step through the waves holding their rifles. But for the seaside guesthouses in the distance it could be a view from the D-Day landings. In fact, the pictures show American troops practicing for the amphibious invasion of Normandy on beaches in North Devon. They are stills from footage (shot October 1943 - June 1944) that has not been seen since WW2. The film also shows Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower visiting the troops in 1944, a few weeks before the D-Day. The collection of 10-minute reels have collected dust in a National Archive in Baltimore since the end of the world war 2.     [WW2 Footage]

Rare collection of WW2 pictures go on sale for Bomber Command appeal     telegraph.co.uk :: 2009-02-02
A collection of previously unpublished pics by war photographer Charles Brown is to be reproduced for the first time to raise money for the Bomber Command Memorial Appeal. The photos capture the essence of the RAF, ranging from images of airmen on operations to ground crew hard at work on maintenance and female WRAF drivers delivering bombs to aircraft. The collection will include 24 black and white images, by the RAF Museum in Hendon, available to buy as prints, postcards and greetings cards, with proceeds going to the 2m pounds appeal to set up a national memorial to the 55,000 airmen who died serving with Bomber Command.     [WW2 Photos, Pictures]

Photographs: World War II battlegrounds then and now     forum.axishistory.com :: 2009-01-21
This long thread at Axis History Forum has dozens of then-and-now pictures of WWII related places, sceneries and battle scenes.    

Luftwaffe ground force in photographs - thread at Axis History Forum     forum.axishistory.com :: 2008-12-15
Some nice pictures of Fallschirmjägers and men of the Luftwaffe Field Divisions at Axis History Forum thread.    

Aryeh Yaakobi WWII aerial photographer for US air force [photos]     ynetnews.com :: 2008-11-29
In this article we go through the photo albums of Aryeh Yaakobi, who served as an aerial photographer in the US army during the Second World War. He photographed the sights of bombarded Europe and printed the photos at the American air force's labs in England.    

Land Girl photojournal - Badge honours surviving members     bbc.co.uk :: 2008-07-23
Tens of thousands of women in U.K. answered the call to work the land and forests, in place of men who had gone to fight in the Second World War. For many it was their first taste of independence, and for those from the cities it was a shock to find themselves driving tractors or felling trees. They became known as the Land Girls and the Lumber Jills. Now the government is recognising their work with a badge of honour for surviving members.    

330 largely-unknown full color images from the world war II     spiegel.de :: 2008-07-20
Of the hundreds of thousands of color photographs that were taken by American, British and German photographers during the World War II, many have been forgotten or were never published. A collection of these pictures has now been unearthed and collected by Der Spiegel. "Pictures of the Second World War," published by editor Michael Sontheimer, reveals 330 mostly color photos of the war that have so far not been given their public due. [Flash required to see online selection of photos]     [Hitler Pics]

The Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, CA - Photos of vintage warbirds     Bernard Zee :: 2008-06-21
The Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, CA was a great chance to get my fill of World War II vintage warbirds. Many different types of fighters and bombers were flying for the show including: P-51s, P-40s, P-38s, F4Us, Zeros, Val, Spitfire, Hellcat, Wildcat, Firefly, Bearcat, Fury, B-25s, and a B-17. As a bonus, there was a World War II ground reenactment (complete with battle tanks and halftracks) which provided the icing on the cake.     [Warbirds: Vintage aircrafts]

The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive, known as Tara, moved to Scotland     bbc.co.uk :: 2008-06-17
The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive - One of the world's biggest collections of aerial photography - contains over 10 million photos, most taken by World War II surveillance aircraft. It is being moved from Keele University to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) in Edinburgh. It is hoped much of the archive will be made available to the public online. The majority of the Tara archive comes from the Allied Central Interpretation Unit (ACIU), which was based at Medmenham in Buckinghamshire and was the HQ of WWII photographic intelligence.     [WW2 Photos, Pictures]

WW2 photos - Military Musem, Gellert Hill Citadel, Budapest, Hungary     flickr :: 2008-05-13
Photographs from the military museum located in the World War II bunker inside the Gellert Hill citadel in Budapest, Hungary.    

Collector sues museum over World War II-era photographs     nytimes :: 2008-04-04
Rodney Hilton Brown has sued the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, claiming it lost several of his WWII-era photos, worth $175,000, part of the WW2 memorabilia that he lent to the museum. 8 of 52 pics were missing when the museum returned collection, including the shot of marines raising Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The museum's president Bill White said: "We are surprised and disappointed to hear of the filing of this lawsuit." The museum used its limited resources to honor the military members. "This unfortunate action detracts from our carrying out this ... national mission."    

Photos from D-Day Ohio : World War II Reenactment of Omaha Beach     wildbillguarnere :: 2008-02-12
For the last 7 years the little town of Conneaut Ohio presents a WWII reenactment of Omaha Beach. They have re-enactors board actual landing craft (post WWII) and attack from Lake Erie, cross the beach, and head up a steep bank occupied by Germans. For the World War II historian it may seem a bit ridiculous but for the couple thousand people that show up it's a good living history demonstration. There weren't many veterans in attendance, maybe a dozen, but I did get to shake a few hands and hear a few good stories. For those that collect, there is also a memorabilia fair set up.     [WWII Reenactment & Reenactors: Living History]

Thousands of negatives by war photographer Robert Capa unearthed     independent :: 2008-01-27
A lost treasure trove holding thousands of negatives by Robert Capa has been recovered. Praised as the 'holy grail' of photojournalism, the discovery has sent shockwaves through the photography world. The uncovering of the pics is being hailed as a huge event, partially because the negatives can settle the question whether his most famous picture was staged. Known as 'The Falling Soldier,' the sequence of photographs shows a Spanish Republican militiaman reeling backwards at what seems to be the moment a bullet hits his chest or head, on a hillside near Córdoba in 1936. Richard Whelan, Capa's biographer, made a case that the photo was not faked, but doubts have remained.     [Reporters and Photographers]

Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan by Bob Duncan     theopenpress :: 2008-01-17
This is the tale of America's role in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from the tragedy of Pearl Harbor to VJ Day to the occupation of Japan. With fact-filled photo captions and chapter intros by Bob Duncan, "Historic Photos of World War II Pearl Harbor to Japan" exposes the sacrifice of the soldiers who fought in WWII, in striking pictures selected from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Naval Historical Center, and private collections. This 10x10 gift book presents these beautifully reproduced historic photos in a large, high-quality format and includes well-researched text.     [WW2 Photos, Pictures]

500 WWII photos and over 2 hours of film footage donated to Malta     timesofmalta :: 2007-12-24
A digital copy of 500 photos and two-and-a-half hours of footage were donated by British World War II veteran Stan Fraser to Malta for posterity. His photography is a documentary account of the life of a gunner in the Royal Artillery, while the 8mm films offer a different view to the British propaganda newsreel films of the day. The photos and films as well as his wartime diaries (The Guns of ¨¤aġar Qim), relate the colourful experiences of a British soldier during wartime. Despite the shortage of film supplies, he taped 80 minutes of film, and 500 photos were taken in Malta and Gozo 1941-1943.     [Malta in World War II]

Czech film archive receives unique shots from 1945     praguemonitor :: 2007-11-13
Article no longer available from the original source.
American Ambassador Richard Graber handed over unique documentary film shots from the liberation of the Czech Lands in 1945 to the Czech National Film Archive. The film, 2.5-hour long and shot by U.S. military amateur photographers, has never been presented in the Czech yet. The shots are from the period between May 5 and July 27 1945. "They show the return to a peaceful life and the cleaning of the area from the Nazi army. A lot of prisoners of war feature there, along with people who were liberated from concentration camps by the U.S. army."    

Historic World War II photos of Saipan unearthed - Amelia Earhart tip?     saipantribune :: 2007-10-11
Staff Sergeant Raymond H. Hagley of the 73rd Bombardment Wing of the 20th Air Force took the slide photos while at Isley Field on Saipan in 1944-1945. The restored Kodachrome slides are remarkable in color and content, showing details of the island rarely seen. Aside from its significance as a strategic air base, Saipan might hold the key to solving the mystery of aviatrix Amelia Earhart. One theory is that Earhart was held captive by the Japanese. Several eyewitness accounts had Earhart's Lockheed Electra hidden somewhere on the island. But no airplane hangars were thought to exist, but one of color slides shows a hangar on the island.     [WW2 Photos, Pictures]

Over 100 Photos from the Gathering of Mustangs & Legends 2007     pbase :: 2007-10-08
More than 100 color photographs from the Gathering of Mustangs & Legends 2007 at Rickenbacker Field, Columbus, Ohio. Good pictures of Vintage P-51 Mustangs, an American long-range single-seat World War II fighter aircraft.     [Aircrafts of WWII]

2500 WWII photos by German soldiers on the Russian Front online     webshots :: 2007-09-27
Original world war II photographs by German soldiers on the eastern front 1941-1945. Over 2500 WWII pictures of Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, POWs, battle tanks...     [Operation Barbarossa - WWII Eastern Front]

MacArthur Military History Museum offers historic WWII Photos on Web     todaysthv :: 2007-09-27
The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History has made a large number of its World War II photographs available on its site. More than 1,800 of the 4,600 images from the Allison Collection of WWII photographs are now available. During World War Two sports writer James Allison noticed that many photographs not printed in the newspaper were discarded. He received permission to save these images, and by war's end he had amassed a collection of over 4,600 photographs.     [WW2 Photos, Pictures]

40 picture albums - The expeditions of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry     gazetteandherald :: 2007-07-14
More than 40 picture albums about the expeditions of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry have been moved to a new home in the new multi-million pound Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office in Chippenham. John D'Arcy said: "This collection is very comprehensive and has survived astonishingly well. The photographs cover most of the military exercises and manoeuvres through the Boer War and all the way to modern day. For me, the highlight of the albums is the documentation of the Yeomanry's WWII campaign in El Alamein." One of the more unusual items in the collection is an 1871 handbook on sword exercises.    

Post-war China: Forgotten Photos Show Life in 1940s Tientsin     voanews :: 2007-06-12
A photo exhibition "Faces of Tientsin, 1946" in California has resurrected images, kept in storage for six decades, from 1940s China. The photographs were taken by a young officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Harold Giedt, who was stationed in Tientsin after World War II as his unit was helping repatriate Japanese troops and civilians after Japan's defeat. He had worked as a part-time photographer during his college days, and took 2 cameras as he headed for Tientsin in 1945. The resulting photographs were candid shots of life in one city in post-war China.    

The Auschwitz "Mengele" photographer Wilhelm Brasse to see a film of his work     tj :: 2007-03-16
A Polish photographer Wilhelm Brasse, who was ordered to take pictures of camp inmates during World War II, will visit London to see film "The Portraitist" of his work. He was captured whilst trying to escape the Nazis in order to join the Polish army. He was sent to Auschwitz in 1940 as a political prisoner and remained there until the end of the wat. As a photographer, the SS ordered him to document the inmates. The day before the camp was evacuated, he risked his life to save most of the 100,000 pictures he took. Among the images are some portraits of children experimented on by the Dr Josef Mengele.    

Photo Gallery: Looted German Treasure on Show in Moscow     spiegel :: 2007-03-14
Russia has unveiled cultural treasures looted from Germany after the end of World War II in an exhibition in Pushkin museum. The museum is showing objects from the Merovingian era seized by Red Army soldiers from a Nazi bunker in Berlin in May and June 1945.    

WWII-era photos frequently poorly documented     spiegel :: 2007-02-01
Gruesome Holocaust photos are often poorly documented, providing ammunition to historical revisionists. The Buchenwald Memorial is doing something about it. "A picture would be attributed to Buchenwald one time, to Dachau another time, and then to Nordhausen." Images are scattered across the globe and the photographers are unknown or dead. The photos are often only scantily labelled and wrong attributions are taken at face value. 6 years ago, an exhibition on the German army in WWII called "The Crimes of the Wehrmacht" had to be reworked after historians discovered serious errors in the captions of several images.    

WWII veteran donates collection of postwar photos of Okinawa     estripes :: 2006-12-25
Robert Rock's gift to Okinawa is a box of photographs of an island lost to time, in the early days of its struggle to rise from the ashes of war. They are images of his youth, when as a first lieutenant with the 10th Army Corps of Engineers, he landed with the American invasion force on April 1, 1945, and remained through Nov 1946, taking photos from the air in a single engine reconnaissance plane. He donated more than 170 photographs to the Ryukyu America Historical Research Society, which will post them to its Web site next month.    

Finnish Defence Forces releases 300 sensitive wartime photos     hs.fi :: 2006-11-22
Finland's military said it would keep about 300 declassified sensitive wartime photographs at the Defence Forces photograph centre, part of the Santahamina barracks. The photographs, some of which show women and children killed by Soviet partisans and document cannibalism practised by Red Army soldiers, remain difficult for the public to access them. "We are not going to organise any kind of exhibition. The media bear the responsibility for making the photographs public."    

A soldier's WWII scrapbook of photos     projo :: 2006-11-13
The negatives stayed in the cigar box after Captain Michael Di Maio returned from World War 2, stored his Army uniform and put away his $5 camera. It wasn't until 50 years later that he turned his attention to the photos he never printed. They depict the beginning of the end of the war: from the D-Day invasion to the defeat of the Nazis. The photos even capture world-famous figures of the era since Di Maio was around for wartime visits by Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton Jr. and Ingrid Bergman. The collection is so artistic that more than 40 of his photographs are on display in "Through the Eyes of a Soldier" - exhibit.    

A unique photo album from death camp     redorbit :: 2006-11-06
As a child, Esther Kramer sometimes awoke to shrieks in the night, and she knew that her mother had brought home another stranger. She knew that the stranger had looked at her mother's photo album - a priceless Holocaust artifact: an album containing photos that a Nazi soldier shot on a single day in the spring of 1944 at the Auschwitz death camp. "The purpose of the album is unclear. It was not intended for propaganda purposes, nor does it have any obvious personal use. One assumes it was prepared as an official reference..."    

Rare color photographs showing postwar Okinawa found     kyodo :: 2006-10-04
Article no longer available from the original source.
Seventy-four rare color photographs showing the images of Okinawa Prefecture after World War II have been found in a monastery, which donated the photographs to the Okinawa-based nonprofit organization Ryukyu America Historical Research Society. The photographs were taken by Neal Lawrence. The pictures offer a wanted glimpse into the postwar reconstruction period in Okinawa, because color still photographs from that era are extremely rare.    

What photographs spring to mind if you think of World War II     bbc :: 2006-08-26
The death of Joe Rosenthal reminds us of one of the most enduring images of that war, the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima - a photograph taken by him on 23 Feb 1945. He followed a US Marine group up to the summit of Mount Suribachi, and snapped six men raising the Stars and Stripes. But this was the second flag raised on the spot, a smaller flag having been erected 3 hours earlier. The next iconic image of war is the raising of another flag during WWII: over the Reichstag in Berlin. It was shot by Soviet photographer Yevgeni Khaldei on 2 May 1945, as the last Nazi forces resisted. But it, too, is controversial: image was staged a couple of days later.    

Pictures on Dieppe Raid     about-com :: 2006-08-11
The Raid on Dieppe was a test for the full-scale invasion by the Allies during World War II. The frontal assault raid on Dieppe would give the Allies a chance to test techniques and equipment for landing troops from the sea. A German ship spotted the convoy coming, and they were ready as the Allied troops got to the beaches. Many were mowed down by machine-gun and mortar fire. The tanks slipped on the round pebbles of the beaches, and those that got past the sea-wall were blocked by concrete barriers. The Canadians suffered 3,367 casualties at the Raid on Dieppe.    

223 photos taken in Hiroshima, Nagasaki after A-bomb donated     kyodo :: 2006-05-25
Article no longer available from the original source.
The son of a U.S. scientist who took part in a project to develop atomic bombs has donated 223 photographs that the scientist took in Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures after the atomic bombings of the cities in 1945. The Radiation Effects Research Foundation will show the photographs on Aug. 5-6 in Hiroshima and on Aug. 8-9 in Nagasaki. The most of the photographs are in color. Photos were taken by Paul Henshaw between 1945 and 1947. Color photographs were rare at the time, and photographs will hopefully help to better understand Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombings.    

One of the first people to photograph the Buchenwald camp     palmbeachpost :: 2006-04-29
Quite by accident in April 1945, a 21-year-old soldier with a Leica camera became one of the first people to document the outrages in the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. It was the defining moment in Howard Cwick's life. His 22 black-and-white snapshots showed emaciated bodies and haunted eyes, piles of bones, ashes and bodies abandoned by fleeing Nazi SS men, "like luggage left at a railway station," he said. NOTE: Article includes separate 10 photo gallery.     [Reporters and Photographers]

Striking World War II photo exhibit at Grout     wcfcourier :: 2006-04-28
A young French girl lays flowers at the grave of an American soldier in Normandy on June 12, 1944. Nazi soldiers round up terrified women and children at gunpoint in Warsaw, Poland, in 1943. A young, ragged and scalded Japanese boy stands amid the ruins of Hiroshima in August 1945. Those and other images await visitors to the Grout Museum exhibit, "Memories of World War II," on display now through June 11. The exhibit contains 126 photographs from WWII from the archives of The Associated Press. Many of them were taken by AP photographers and the U.S. Army Signal Corps.     [WW2 Photos, Pictures]

An old soldier leaves behind a record of war's horror     mysanantonio :: 2006-04-03
Before S.R. Kinder died he dropped a few hints that his old home might hold more than just the cluttered odds and ends of a long lifetime. When his nephew Stephen Frazier started going through the house, box by box, He turned up albums that trace Kinder's lengthy military career. The pictures from Europe capture Kinder's grinning Army buddies in the 102nd Infantry Division, posing with bottles of booze and beside downed Messerschmitts. There are also postcard shots of elegant German castles and rivers. One page is captioned "Hitler's mountaintop eagle's nest," and includes flyover shots of the dictator's hideaway.    

Photographs of Victims of UK's post war torture camp     guardian :: 2006-04-03
Photographs of victims of a secret torture programme operated by British authorities are published for the first time after being concealed for almost 60 years. The pictures show men who had suffered months of starvation, sleep deprivation, beatings and extreme cold at one of a number of interrogation centres run by the War Office in postwar Germany. Believing that war with the Soviet Union was inevitable, the War Office was seeking information about Russian military and intelligence methods. Dozens of women were also detained and tortured, as were a number of genuine Soviet agents, scores of suspected Nazis, and former members of the SS.     [Allied atrocities]

Life after wartime - Photos and writing reveal the emotions     calendarlive :: 2006-03-24
John Swope's photos and writing reveal the emotions of the victors and the vanquished in post-WWII Japan. WWII ended Aug. 15, 1945, when, reeling from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender. Two weeks later, the U.S. Navy, deployed its first boat to the Japanese shore to begin the liberation of prisoners of war. Among the handful of officers aboard this boat was photographer John Swope. Swope's record of this landing and of the three weeks he spent touring camps around the country are resurfacing now in an exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum - "A Letter From Japan: The Photographs of John Swope."     [Reporters and Photographers]

Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement     csmonitor :: 2006-01-19
For many if not most people, the term "eugenics" gives rise to one of two images; Nazi Germany's attempts at "purification" and creating an Aryan master race. Fewer are aware that there was a powerful eugenics movement in the US during the first half of the 20th century. Given the ongoing genetics revolution, the Dolan DNA Learning Center has decided it is time we were reminded of that history, and has gathered an impressive - and sobering - look at this lamentable crusade, at the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement.     [Eugenics - Racial Policy - Aryan race]

Early color photos vivify World War II era     findarticles.com :: 2005-12-14
For those too young to have lived through them, it can feel like the Depression and World War II happened in black and white. The Library of Congress has 1,600 color images covering both periods, and it's exhibiting 70 of them as digital prints at the Thomas Jefferson Building, through Jan. 21. All of the color photos - and over 160,000 black-and-white images - can be viewed on the library's Web site, at memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html.     [WW2 Photos, Pictures]

Digitalized color photos - Nazi Art Project now Online     Times Online :: 2005-10-20
Thousands of colour photographs commissioned by Adolf Hitler are to be released on the internet at www.zi.fotothek.org, bringing back to life many of Germany's lost art treasures. Hitler, worried about damage being wrought by Allied bombers, ordered photographers to make records of frescoes in churches and palaces across Germany and occupied Europe. The decision, made after the defeat at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43, suggests that Hitler sensed that the war could no longer be won.     [Nazi Photos]

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'Nazi photos'
'WW2 Footage'
'WWII Tanks'
'WW2 Movies'.

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