
V-Mail: The WWII program that scanned letters onto microfilm, 1942-1945
This post was originally published on this siteDuring World War II, letters were essential for soldiers and sailors stationed overseas. The average soldier wrote six […]
This post was originally published on this siteDuring World War II, letters were essential for soldiers and sailors stationed overseas. The average soldier wrote six […]
This post was originally published on this siteAfter Germany’s annexation of Austria in March 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled twice to the continent hoping […]
This post was originally published on this siteDuring World War II, America’s railroads were an important part of the war effort and it’s estimated that […]
This post was originally published on this siteWhen World War II ended in 1945, the industrial war machine did not stop overnight. Estimates of the […]
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the Second World War, Londoners of all classes flocked to Underground platforms to keep themselves safe from […]
This post was originally published on this siteThis collection of photos from Naval Air Station Corpus Christi during World War II shows the American war […]
This post was originally published on this siteMore so than any war in history, World War II was a woman’s war. Women, motivated by patriotism, […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe Hellfighters, the infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard, was the most celebrated African American […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe D-Day Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, was an immense undertaking involving nearly 6,939 Allied ships, […]
This post was originally published on this siteWilliam Patrick Stuart-Houston (né Hitler), son of Alois Hitler Jr, was the half-nephew of Adolf Hitler. He was […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1942, Office of War Information photographer Alfred T. Palmer visited Fort Knox and captured these spectacular photos […]
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the early years of World War II, various initiatives were undertaken by the US government in order […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese color photos document life in the French army during World War One, and the destruction of towns […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese photographs were taken in 1940 by John Topham while he was visiting the base of the Royal […]
This post was originally published on this siteBy the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland’s Military Aviation, quite commonly and incorrectly called the Polish […]
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the Second World War, the United States government encouraged the American people to participate in scrap drives, […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese mugshots of Auschwitz guards were published by Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance and you can see the […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn the final winter of World War II, the eastern German city of Dresden was reduced to rubble, […]
This post was originally published on this siteWhen the Germans and their allies invaded Southeastern Europe, a large number of civilians (over 40,000) escaped from […]
This post was originally published on this siteBy the time the sun rose in New York City on the morning of June 6, 1944, the […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1942, shortly after the US entry into the war, the Navy established a special group called the […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese are rarely seen color pictures from the Second World War featured in the book “The Second World […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn May 1915, Italy attacked Austria-Hungary along the Isonzo River and in the Trentino, hoping to conquer territory […]
This post was originally published on this siteAn unauthorized photo of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that the […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese two pictures are shown side by side in the Andrei Pozdeev museum. The museum caption reads: “(Left) […]
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