Lance-Sergeant Brown and Sergeant Randall greet each other during the link-up between the British Eight Army and the US II Corps in Tunisia, 7 April, 1943.
The campaign had proved to be one of the most difficult and divisive fought by the Allies. 

Tunisia - Comrades in Arms

GIs enjoying a pint in Britain. American views on British beer was not always polite and encounters in British pubs between American and British soldiers were not always calculated to improve relations.

American GIs in a British Pub

Side by side, German and Soviet troops watch a joint victory parade in the streets of Brest-Litovsk during the partition of Poland. The German invasion of Poland
began on September 1, 1939, and the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939,
after both countries signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. The treaty was a non-aggression pact and included a secret protocol that divided Poland, Lithuania, Latvia,  Estonia, Finland, and Romania into German and Soviet "spheres of influence, " anticipating potential " territorial and political changes" in those countries. Brest-Litovsk, Poland
(now Brest, Belarus). September 22, 1939 



Parada

Private Milburn Henke, one of the first US soldiers to arrive to Britain, steps onto the quay at Belfast, Northern Ireland; January 1942.

Over there...

四式二十糎噴進砲（よんしき20せんちふんしんほう）とは、大日本帝国陸軍が1944年（皇紀2604年）に制式化し、第二次世界大戦末期に使用した口径203mmの噴進砲(ロケット砲)である。硫黄島の戦いや沖縄戦で使用され、簡易な造りで敵に大きな被害を与えられることから本土決戦の切り札としても期待されていた。写真は実際に硫黄島の戦いで使用された実際の物

四式二〇糎噴進砲

 1945年2月19日 - 1945年3月26日まで続いた日本の小笠原諸島の硫黄島での戦いのシーンです。日本軍の司令部があった摺鉢山がアメリカに攻略された瞬間です。


硫黄島の星条旗

My great uncle, 2nd Lt. Charles Peterson, B Co., 2nd Ranger Battalion.  Died 3, Aug. 1944.

2nd. Lt. Charles Peterson

Oberführer Oskar Dirlewanger , shortly after receiving the Slovakian War Victory Cross . Shortly after the Slovakian Nationak Uprising. Circa November 1944

Oberführer d.R Oskar Paul Dirlewanger 

U.S. Army Women Corps

U.S. Navy Wave

RAAF Poster

B-24

B-29

B-17

Roger Y Dorr (2) 82nd airborne 504th

More wounded soldiers from the Normandy landings are helped off an LST following their arrival to England; June 1944.

In need of medical treatment

Wounded soldiers who survived at the Normandy landings are helped off an LST following their arrival to England; June 1944.


To England to recuperate

German Soldiers surrender to U.S. Army Personnel outside of Metz France- November 1944.


Combat Medical Group

Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast.

From ship to shore to stay and fight

Bodies of fallen American soldiers lie on the ground in Normandy, France as graves are dug.

Far away from home...

Two soldiers of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division guard a group of teenage German POW's near Dausfeld, vicinity of Prüm area, west of Cologne, Germany. 1945


Former defenders of the Fatherland, now POWs

German soldiers who were captured in Normandy disembarking from an LST at Southampton, England during June 1944.


Stepping on British soil as POWs

Marines are elated when they got the word that the Japanese on Iwo Jima had surrendered; March 1945

Jubilant Marines after hearing the news

March from Taccoa to Atlanta

Tanks and GIs with the US 2nd Armored Division advance near Lemgo, Germany, taking prisoners on the way, April 1945. 


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