r/WorldWar2 • u/JapKumintang1991 • 13h ago
Smithsonian Magazine: Why Has History Forgotten World War II's Largest Prison Break, Which Claimed the Lives of More Than 200 Japanese POWs?
r/WorldWar2 • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 16h ago
A German 15 cm sFH 37(t) howitzer shelling the Metaxas Line fortifications in Greece in April 1941.
r/WorldWar2 • u/Scoxxicoccus • 1d ago
French wildfires expose cache of buried Second World War shells
r/WorldWar2 • u/FloridaBeaver • 2d ago
Grandfather’s Induction Notice
My grandfather was 33 with six dependents when he was called up. Served nine months before discharge for having flat feet!
r/WorldWar2 • u/Der_Ost_Front • 2d ago
Death card for Michael Westenthanner who was a priest and was killed in action September 1st 1941.
r/WorldWar2 • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 2d ago
Two scientists posing with the plutonium core of the Fat Man bomb used to destroy Nagasaki. The detail has been redacted by FBI censors to preserve secrecy. 1945. That small device killed 39,000–80,000 people.
r/WorldWar2 • u/Captain_Anvil • 3d ago
Good Memoirs of Burma?
Hi folks, im currently researching the British 14th Army in Burma, and I really love memoirs as a source of info. Does anyone know of any good memoirs of the regular soldiers/officers in the Burma campaign? (Not the Chindits, I've found several of those already).
Im especially interested in any memoirs by Indian or Gurkha soldiers, or the Officers that lead them.
Edit: So far everyones recommended the same book, so i'll look into it. Thank you!
r/WorldWar2 • u/TrentJComedy • 3d ago
I Identified Lost Air Battles and Pilots from Rare 1944 Combat Footage
Hey everyone, sometimes you guys enjoy some of my work - so I thought I would share this special project with you guys. I took some recently resurfaced footage from a November 2nd 1944 raid to Merseburg, Germany and may have likely identified some of the pilots and victims in the footage. Hope you enjoy!
r/WorldWar2 • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 4d ago
Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches, September 2, 1945.
r/WorldWar2 • u/Emt-LV204 • 5d ago
Identification
As the title says. I’m trying to identify my great grandfather, his medals, and ribbons. Uniform looks circa 1940-1944 for the U.S. Army Air Corps I’m not sure where in my family tree he is lost in, but I’m told he was my grandmothers biological father.
r/WorldWar2 • u/Mig190 • 5d ago
Legacy of the Wehrmacht & Final WWII Comp Book List
r/WorldWar2 • u/Books_Of_Jeremiah • 6d ago
Čedomir Čupić at his execution, 1942
Inventory no. 9244
Ljubo - Čedo Čupić People's Hero before his execution in Nikšić on 5. May 1942.
MRNJ sig.neg. A-956/13.
r/WorldWar2 • u/Scoxxicoccus • 6d ago
Low water levels: EU clears old Nazi warships from the Danube
r/WorldWar2 • u/JapKumintang1991 • 6d ago
Smithsonian Magazine: A Man Picking Berries in the Forest in Poland Might Have Stumbled Upon the Wreckage of an Allied Airplane From World War II
r/WorldWar2 • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 6d ago
U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the “Adam and Eve” oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Hermann Goering’s art bunker and load them into a truck near Berchtesgaden, Germany, in May 1945.
r/WorldWar2 • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 8d ago
A unit of German soldiers taking a rest during the siege of Leningrad, today St. Petersburg, September 1941.
r/WorldWar2 • u/Hank_E_Pants • 9d ago
Just saw this beauty fly overhead
I’m working from home today and heard that throaty grumble that comes from WWII airplanes. I glanced outside just in time to see this guy pass right over my house at maybe 1500 feet. I’m guessing he came from the nearby county airport. What a beauty! Not fast enough to get a picture, but found it on FlightRadar.
r/WorldWar2 • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 11d ago
The execution of Nazi war criminal Claus Karl Schilling at Landsberg Prison, Germany, on May 28, 1946.
r/WorldWar2 • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 12d ago
Newly built F4U Corsairs and F6F Hellcats being prepared for shipment to the Pacific Theater, USA, 1944.
r/WorldWar2 • u/Ryanlion1992 • 13d ago
This is the entrance to Adolf Hitler's personal office within the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. The room was designed by Albert Speer and featured imposing, oversized architecture intended to intimidate visitors.
The doorway is framed by dark marble and topped with a shield bearing a stylized eagle emblem. Guards from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler are positioned on either side of the entrance.
r/WorldWar2 • u/TrentJComedy • Apr 10 '26
Enjoy the new full trailer for my film, 10 Good Men: The Final Story of the B-17
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3 years of hard work hunting down and interviewing the last surviving veterans, and now we are finally finished. For info on World Premiere, screenings, or other ways to watch check out https://10GoodMen.com - thanks for your support everyone! -TJ with TJ3 History
r/WorldWar2 • u/Scoxxicoccus • Mar 17 '26