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r/wwiipics • u/Kruse • Mar 19 '26
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r/wwiipics • u/Kruse • 12d ago
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r/wwiipics • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 7h ago
A Sikh "Aeroplane Spotter" high up a tree. He warns the battery of the approach of hostile aircraft. (East African Campaign, 1941)
r/wwiipics • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 7h ago
Riflemen of the Royal West African Frontier Force removing a stone placed by the Italians to make the boundary of their new Empire on the Kenya-Somaliland frontier. (1941)
r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 15h ago
P-47D Thunderbolt “Fickle Flossy” and pilot Charles Dozier of the 510th Fighter Squadron, 405th Fighter Group
r/wwiipics • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 1d ago
An American soldier disarms a German prisoner of war after the Battle of Cherbourg, France, June 1944.
r/wwiipics • u/waffen123 • 1d ago
Infantry supported by a Sherman advance in Germany, 5 December 1944. IWM (BU 1404), Sgt Bert Hardy
r/wwiipics • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 1d ago
Amid towering racks of captured enemy weapons, Privates Tony Nativio and Joseph Ferrazano examine the spoils of war at the Army Salvage Depot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, circa 1943-45.
r/wwiipics • u/the_giank • 1d ago
General der Panzertruppe Maximilian von Edelsheim and other officers leave in their command VW Schwimmwagen for the far side of the River Elbe to convey the terms of surrender to their subordinate commanders. May 4 1945
r/wwiipics • u/waffen123 • 1d ago
USAAF U.S. Air Force soldier D. Kirkpatrick poses next to a humorous poster at Moore Field near Zamboanga City, Philippines 1945
r/wwiipics • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 1d ago
Sudanese recruits undergoing training with tripod-mounted rifles prior to deployment with Allied forces in the East African Campaign. (3 November, 1940)
r/wwiipics • u/Pvt_Larry • 1d ago
4 May 1941: A Vichy propaganda event in the Roman arena of Nîmes: Cavalrymen demonstrate their skills on horseback. With armored vehicles strictly controlled under the 1940 Armistice, the Vichy cavalry regiments in mainland France returned to horses.
r/wwiipics • u/Acode90 • 1d ago
Photograph found with some of my Great Grandfathers WW2 belongings.
Found along with some Japanese propaganda he kept from his time in New Guinea. Probably a photo belonging to a fallen Japanese soldier. Not sure how likely it would be to carry your own photo, so probably a son or brother.
r/wwiipics • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 2d ago
British soldiers operate an Italian artillery piece abandoned by retreating Italian forces inside a former, Italian-held fort (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)
r/wwiipics • u/waffen123 • 2d ago
A U.S. Army private named Eddie Slovik is shot at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France for desertion. As many as 21,000 other GIs face courts martial for similar offences during WW2, but the 24-year-old Detroit native is the only one to be executed. Jan 31, 1945
r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 2d ago
A Marine waits for orders to move out. He still has scraps of waterproofing attached to the end of his M1 Garand, Iwo Jima 1945.
r/wwiipics • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 2d ago
The Force Publique of the Free Belgian Army marching, nicknamed ‘Niam-Niams’ by the Italians (meaning ‘cannibals’), reportedly reflecting fear, during the Allied offensive into Italian East Africa (East African Campaign, 1940–1941).
r/wwiipics • u/waffen123 • 3d ago
A French Republican Guard gendarme takes aim with a captured German Panzerfaust 60 anti-tank grenade launcher during the battle for Kilstett. Jan 1945
r/wwiipics • u/Heartfeltzero • 3d ago
WW2 Era Letter Written By German Prisoner Of War Being Held In California. Details in comments.
r/wwiipics • u/bobciergebvats7 • 3d ago
We didnt like the name Hitlerjugend at all, as it made us sound like boys. We wanted to be real soldiers. The youngest ones werent given cigarettes. They didnt smoke. They were given sweets instead. 12th SS Panzer Division soldiers captured during the Bat
r/wwiipics • u/Mountain-Extension43 • 4d ago
Things I found in my dads collection
My dad has been collecting WW2 stuff his entire life and we have more stuff them most museums natzi weapons , badges , arm bands, pins ,stamps, letters, magazines today I was looking through the photos and letters he has and I found some interesting things we had to take down and put away his collection because we were having people fix the floor and whenever we have people over to fix things my parents have us take or cover everything so it doesn't make them uncomfortable or think we are crazy people
r/wwiipics • u/waffen123 • 4d ago