Wehrmacht infantrymen advance across a snowy field on the outskirts of the city of Rostov-on-Don, USSR.

Winter offensive

American soldiers posing with a captured mortar they used to knock out a German 85mm gun; 25 February, 1945.

New owners of a formerly enemy weapon

Hungarian soldiers pose with a German self-propelled "Marder II" tank destroyer, somewhere on the Eastern Front.

Rear view of the weapon

German observers with large telephoto lens take pictures of Russian positions in the Eastern Front; 1941.

High tech equipment

Australian soldiers carrying one of their wounded comrade on the Kokoda Track (or Trail) in New Guinea, South-Western Pacific Ocean; c. 1942-43. 


Combat casualty in the jungle

Luftwaffe airmen setting up an 8.8cm Flak near Kharkov, Ukraine, Soviet Union; 1943.

To be used for ground targets

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel tours the Normandy beaches and inspects the anti-invasion obstacles; May, 1944.

Expected landing sites

Two American soldiers guarding a road junction with a .50 caliber M2 machine gun. Somewhere in the Ardennes; Belgium, 2 January, 1945.

During the Battle of the Bulge

A Sicilian resident welcomes two US soldiers with a pitcher of wine, in the town of Gela; July 1943.

Get rewarded by friendly locals

Three American soldiers laying one of their fellow soldiers to rest in an American cemetery in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium; March 1945.

May he rest in peace

Soldiers of the 322nd RCT, 81st "Wildcat" Infantry Division, holding a captured Japanese Flag on Angaur Island, Marianas Group, Pacific Theater of Operations; October, 1944.

A Prize to show off with...

Eastern War Theater, Soviet Union: Hungarian infantry advancing in a village on a country road; Summer, 1941

Hungarian Participation

Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, flanked by two unidentified airborne officers; His reply - to the German commander's demand, that the 101st Airborne Division surrender at besieged Bastogne - was a resounding "NUTS".

Belgium, December 1944.

Chester Martin - Boone, Iowa

US Soldier opens a Christmas package; Ardennes, Belgium 1944.

Gift to lift the fighting spirit

Wounded German soldiers taken as POWs by American troops during Operation Dragoon wait to be treated by medics at a collection point. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; August 1944.

All over for them

Australian soldiers guard Italian and German POW’s in North Africa; 1941.

Long bayonet ready

Italian Campaign.; ML 3-inch mortar crew of the British Army's 4th Parachute Regiment, 2nd Parachute Brigade in action near the commune of Venafro, between Naples and Rome; April 30-May 1, 1944.

British paratroopers in ground-action

Hungarian soldiers in front of a Royal Hungarian Army 40-mm Nimród self propelled anti-aircraft gun. It was primarily utilized against lightly armored vehicles and for air defense; 1942/43 photo.    

Don River Front, USSR.

Flight Nurse 2nd Lt. Reba Whittle, the only American female POW in Europe, flew with troops from the front lines of Europe back to the safety of the English countryside.

Flight Nurse POW

A GI named Corporal Leo Kaller celebrates Thanksgiving in  the field, somewhere in Western Europe; November 1944.

Thanksgiving in the lull of combat

General Sir Bernard Montgomery shows Prime Minister Winston Churchill the battle situation on a map held by the commander of II Canadian Corps, Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds, during Churchill's visit to Normandy, 22 July 1944. Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey, the commander of the British Second Army, looks on.

Battle situation map

A Universal Carrier crew of the British 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in the Netherlands, 22 September 1944.

Spreading the goodwill...

 Newly arrived troops from the US Army's 34th Division enjoy a snack at Dufferin Quay, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 
 It was the first American division deployed to Europe in World War II, where it fought with great distinction in North Africa and the Italian Campaign; January 1942.

First GIs to Europe

Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese 25th Army, Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita (front), inspecting an area captured after bitter fighting. At left is Lieutenant General Sosaku Suzuki, Chief-of-Staff, and Staff Officer Nagai, Navy liaison officer (right). 

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