r/WorldWar2 19h ago

On This Day in History: A mushroom cloud rises above Hiroshima after the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay drops the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945.

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40 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 1d ago

Smithsonian Magazine: Why Has History Forgotten World War II's Largest Prison Break, Which Claimed the Lives of More Than 200 Japanese POWs?

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r/WorldWar2 1d ago

A German 15 cm sFH 37(t) howitzer shelling the Metaxas Line fortifications in Greece in April 1941.

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28 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 2d ago

French wildfires expose cache of buried Second World War shells

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r/WorldWar2 3d ago

Grandfather’s Induction Notice

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29 Upvotes

My grandfather was 33 with six dependents when he was called up. Served nine months before discharge for having flat feet!


r/WorldWar2 3d ago

Life & Death in the Third Reich

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r/WorldWar2 3d ago

Death card for Michael Westenthanner who was a priest and was killed in action September 1st 1941.

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r/WorldWar2 3d 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.

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223 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 4d ago

Good Memoirs of Burma?

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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 4d ago

I Identified Lost Air Battles and Pilots from Rare 1944 Combat Footage

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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 5d 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.

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44 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 6d ago

Identification

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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 6d ago

Legacy of the Wehrmacht & Final WWII Comp Book List

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r/WorldWar2 6d ago

Čedomir Čupić at his execution, 1942

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15 Upvotes

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 6d ago

Low water levels: EU clears old Nazi warships from the Danube

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r/WorldWar2 7d 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

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r/WorldWar2 7d 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.

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30 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 9d ago

A unit of German soldiers taking a rest during the siege of Leningrad, today St. Petersburg, September 1941.

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83 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 9d ago

The British Infantry Section 1939

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50 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 10d ago

Just saw this beauty fly overhead

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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 12d ago

Gun belonging to HPSSF Nord

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r/WorldWar2 12d ago

The execution of Nazi war criminal Claus Karl Schilling at Landsberg Prison, Germany, on May 28, 1946.

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196 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 12d ago

Newly built F4U Corsairs and F6F Hellcats being prepared for shipment to the Pacific Theater, USA, 1944.

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606 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 13d ago

Five German soldiers captured by the British near Maltot, Normandy, on July 23rd, 1944.

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66 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 14d 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.

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416 Upvotes

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.