A collection of WWII images from the world wide web (WWW). These are pictures that drew my attention or are telling me a story that interests me. More groups are to follow.
Anastasia Harman’ WWII POW Pictures. Zg650. Flight nurse with injured men inside a C-47, accommodated to injured patients. This episode 42 picture is from Anastasia Harman’s web pages, click here: Album description: Anastasia Harman. A researcher of POWs in the Philippines. Her Great Grandfather was a POW in the Philippines, hence interested! She posts biweekly […]
Read MoreZg046. Gaunt and emaciated, but happy at their release from Japanese captivity, two Allied prisoners pack their meager belongings, after being freed near Yokohama, Japan, on September 11, 1945, by men of an American mercy squadron of the U.S. Navy. (AP Photo) —————————————-———————————————- This is my 4th albums about WWII Tidbits from the www. ———————————————-——————————————— […]
Read MoreZf612.Sound location equipment in Germany, 1939. It consists of four acoustic horns, a horizontal pair and a vertical pair, connected by rubber tubes to stethoscope type earphones worn by the two technicians left and right. The stereo earphones enabled one technician to determine the direction and the other the elevation of the aircraft. This picture […]
Read More– Zo819. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt meeting in Hawaii with General Douglas MacArthur (left), Admiral William D. Leahy (center), and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (standing), who is pointing to Tokyo on a large map. Date 28 July 1944. John Duresky wrote this: Somewhere in Corregidor Proboards I had seen a photo similar to the […]
Read More– Zo809. Daihatsu (Army) Large MLC, it is also termed Type “A” Landing Craft (Army). —————————————————- In this presentation we show two images from Wikipedia and 6 images from John Duresky, who is a member of the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team. He wrote this to me: Hello Karl. Incidentally, I was at […]
Read MoreZc775. U.S. Navy Deep Sea Diver diving on a sunken Japanese vessel next to Pier 7 in1945 at Manila. If I had been born earlier and on the right side of the war it could have been me. I was a U. S. Navy Deep Sea Diver (Hard Head Diver) after the war. That hard […]
Read MoreZo571. GERMAN-ARMY-RUSSIA-SOVIET-UNION-WW2-SECOND-WORLD-WAR-IMAGES-PICTURES-PHOTOS-HISTORY-008 February 1944. A pathetic sight. The once mighty German army withdraws from Leningrad area on horse-carts. Curtesy of: https://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/ or click here https://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/2010/07/germans-in-russia-later-years-retreat.html or click here —————————————————– A collection of WWII images from the world wide web (WWW). These are pictures that drew my attention or are telling me a story that interests […]
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