World War II Pictures

r/wwiipics • u/[deleted] • Aug 11 '20

An American soldier turns a blind eye in the background as former Dachau prisoners prepare to execute an SS guard with a shovel. The guard was known to terrorize and murder men, women & children. (April 29th, 1945)

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r/wwiipics • u/abt137 • Jun 06 '18

British paratroopers veterans sitting across from their own younger selfs in the same plane which dropped them over Normandy

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r/wwiipics • u/caesar_tr • Oct 11 '20

A Japanese soldier practicing stabbing on a Chinese prisoner. NSFW

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r/wwiipics • u/SirAlex0211 • Jun 01 '20

An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument

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r/wwiipics • u/DiosMioMan2 • Jul 14 '20

“The Thousand Yard Stare”—USMC Private Theodore J. Miller is helped aboard a ship after intense combat on Eniwetok Atoll. Miller was KIA a month later.

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r/wwiipics • u/Sleeeepy_Hollow • Mar 31 '21

The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945.

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r/wwiipics • u/Muff1995 • Sep 28 '20

"Shoot you filthy german dogs! Long live Czeshoslovakia!" Last words of 4 star General Josef Bily, who was executed by Nazis for his resistance activities on this day 79 years ago. [977x1004]

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r/wwiipics • u/LegendsofWWII • Aug 20 '20

WWII Veteran Dean McCandless from the 505 PIR of the 82nd Airborne Division. He made all four combat jumps (Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and the Netherlands). He just turned 100 years old!

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r/wwiipics • u/StrejdaElda • Dec 28 '20

American soldiers talking to a member of the Swiss guard in Vatican, 1944

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r/wwiipics • u/DiosMioMan2 • Sep 10 '20

Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, 506th PIR the morning after VE Day, 1945.

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r/wwiipics • u/abt137 • Jan 15 '20

Remember this famous pic? "Wait for Me, Daddy!", 5-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard, running out of his mother's grasp to his father, Pvt. Jack Bernard, 1940. Well, Jack survived the war and came home in October 1945.

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r/wwiipics • u/chicken_nugget_man1 • Jun 06 '21

Remembering those who died today on the beaches of Normandy, France in 1944

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r/wwiipics • u/Tenyearnotes • Jun 01 '21

Dutch girls escorting American soldiers to a dance; c.1944-45

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r/wwiipics • u/pain67566 • Jan 16 '21

An old Russian man, clinging to his old uniform, shortly before his death, 1980s(?) NSFW

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r/wwiipics • u/UA6TL • Mar 25 '20

The Germans truly were masters of camouflage

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r/wwiipics • u/diosmioman • May 06 '20

“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant who died in Air Battle” 1941

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r/wwiipics • u/yusufakman55 • Mar 15 '21

British soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, 15 October 1941.⁣

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r/wwiipics • u/DiosMioMan2 • Aug 13 '20

An allied soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a bath in the port city of Tobruk, Libya. 17 February 1942.

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r/wwiipics • u/vorst17735 • Mar 26 '21

US Troops hold up a captured Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler outside a cafe on Hohenzollernstraße in Munich, 22nd March 1945.

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r/wwiipics • u/Swimming-Call-4856 • Aug 21 '21

German soldiers react to footage of Concentration Camps, 1945.

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r/wwiipics • u/UA6TL • Jun 08 '20

A Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 going down into the English Channel

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r/wwiipics • u/abt137 • Dec 05 '19

Captured SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945 NSFW

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r/wwiipics • u/Muff1995 • Feb 25 '21

One of the last WWII Spitfire fighter pilots, Czech Emil Boček Is today celebrating his 98 birthday. He fought in defence of France in 1940 and flew Spitfire in 1944-1945 and underwent 28 combat missions over Germany and France. Happy Birthday, sir! [640x425]

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r/wwiipics • u/[deleted] • Apr 12 '21

African American soldiers during the war. (Colorized)

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r/wwiipics • u/Muff1995 • Jul 25 '20

Slovak fighter Ace Ján Režňák (32 victories + 5 unofficial) is showing his attack tactic to another Slovak firghtter Ace Izidor Kovárik (28 victories). April 1944. Both were highly decorated and top aces of Fascist Slovakia. [1000x666]

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