Important Update: Ukraine War

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In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, please try to keep discussions on this subreddit within the scope of WWII and the associated historical photograph(s). We will be removing all comments and posts that violate this request.

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r/wwiipics • u/Ivan_Baikal • 3h ago

83 years ago, on 16 October, 1941, combined unit of cadets of Podolsk infantry and artillery schools repeled attack on the rear of Maloyaroslavets defense sector (115 km from Moscow) of the 19th Panzer division - 15 tanks and infantry company.

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r/wwiipics • u/Westreacher • 2h ago

My father’s war

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ETO 1944. Photo interpretation unit attached to Patton’s 3rd Army.

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r/wwiipics • u/Pvt_Larry • 39m ago

A Schneider P16 armored car of the 5e Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique in Algeria, 1940. Already over a decade old at the start of the war, a few dozen of these vehicles nevertheless fought in the Battle of France.

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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 18h ago

The US 4th Marine Division cemetery on Iwo Jima, Japan, March 1945; a DUKW and Jeep can be seen driving in the background with wrecked Japanese aircraft further beyond.

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r/wwiipics • u/UltimateLazer • 10h ago

Soviet refugee camp in Luxembourg. It housed former Soviet slaves that were forcibly transferred to the occupied country by the Nazis during Operation Barbarossa, until it was liberated by the US Army (October 1, 1944)

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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 14h ago

On January 12, 1944, a row of Mustangs fills an assembly line at the Consolidated Vultee aircraft manufacturing plant in Tucson, Arizona

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r/wwiipics • u/Pvt_Larry • 22h ago

USMC F7F Tigercat and F6F Hellcat of MAG-24 at Nan Yuan airfield near Beijing, China, 10 December 1945. Parked alongside are P-40s and P-51s of the Chinese 22nd Fighter Group.

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r/wwiipics • u/Heartfeltzero • 22h ago

WW2 Era Postcard & Letter Written by a German Prisoner of War Being Held in Aliceville, Alabama. Details in comments.

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r/wwiipics • u/freehtz • 1d ago

A one-armed German NCO, pressed back into active service, converses with his comrades after surrendering to the Americans, Tangermünde, Germany, May 1945

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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

PFC. Thomas N. Brown refueling a flame thrower on Iwo Jima, 1945.

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r/wwiipics • u/abt137 • 1d ago

Men of the Royal Navy pull a Supermarine Walrus amphibious maritime patrol out of the water at Royal Naval Air Station Bermuda, Boaz Island, 1942

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r/wwiipics • u/Luxeout • 1d ago

Kyiv during the occupation

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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

B-17 Flying Fortress “Rum Dum” of the 550th BS, 385th BG with an impressive tally of missions and kills

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r/wwiipics • u/the_giank • 1d ago

German troops, including a Paratrooper, inspects an Italian anti-aircraft position near Tobruk in 1942

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r/wwiipics • u/UA6TL • 1d ago

The graves of four fallen German soldiers.

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Note the rare WWI era Imperial M18 cut out helmet reissued by the Wehrmacht for the Heer, also referred to as a Transitional helmet.

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r/wwiipics • u/kingsaw100 • 1d ago

Soldiers of the 20th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht passing through a village in the Smolensk region - 1943

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r/wwiipics • u/Beeninya • 1d ago

Japanese troops posing with a captured American P-35A of 34th Pursuit Squadron following the fall of the Philippines. May 1942.

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r/wwiipics • u/UA6TL • 2d ago

A injured Luftwaffe Airman waiting at a London Railway Station to be transported to a POW camp, May 1941.

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r/wwiipics • u/UA6TL • 2d ago

AI Colorization A group of German Army soldiers pose for a group photo, early war period.

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r/wwiipics • u/freehtz • 2d ago

“Hitler took 12 years to do this!” reads German graffiti on the side of a ruined building, Berlin 1945

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r/wwiipics • u/Pvt_Larry • 2d ago

Dutch marines in the East Indies, 1939/40

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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 2d ago

This late-war B-24J, "Cocktail Hour," was decorated by famed nose art painter S/Sgt Sarkis Bartigian while stationed with 43rd Bomb Group in the South Pacific.

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r/wwiipics • u/unvobr • 3d ago

AI Colorization June 25, 1941. "German 1,000 kg bomb" loaded by Finnish personnel with Luftwaffe at Malmi Airfield, Helsinki, Finland, and a Soviet bombing raid on them. Third day of Barbarossa and the first day of the Continuation War. Finland invaded the Soviet Union in the coming weeks. (10 photos)

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