Photos of World War II Events | World War II Database

7,799 items in this album on 390 pages.


Bombing leaflet dropped on Japanese cities 72 hours before a bombing strike encouraging citizens to flee. Over 5 million of them were delivered to 35 Japanese cities by 1 Aug 1945.	Commander A. Francis Birch (painting L-11) and Norman Ramsey with 'Little Boy', Tinian, Mariana Islands, Jul-Aug 1945	Dr. Norman Ramsey signing 'Fat Man' bomb while an electrian's mate applied plastic paint, in front of Assembly Building Number 2, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945	Graphic chart of Allied advance in France, from Fiscal Years 1944-1945 Biennial Report of Army Chief from Staff General George Marshall to the US Secretary of War, Aug 1945

Japanese prisoners of war on Guam, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945	Kakazu Gorge, Okinawa, Japan, photo taken after the Okinawa Campaign	LeMay bombing leaflet; over 5 million of them were delivered to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 33 other Japanese cities by 1 Aug 1945, encouraging Japanese citizens to flee from cities for safety	Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 1 of 5

Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 2 of 5	Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 3 of 5	Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 4 of 5	Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 5 of 5

Man of 34th Construction Battalion working on water purification equipment, Solomon Islands, circa Aug 1945	Map depicting the proposed invasion routes of Operation Downfall; Japanese defensive positions were as of Aug 1945	Mugshot of Jürgen Stroop, 1945	Nagaoka, Japan after American aerial bombing, 1945

One of the two bomb pits at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands from which the atomic bomb mission to Nagasaki, Japan was launched, Aug 1945	Osaka, Japan in ruins, circa Aug 1945	Painting 'Iwo Jima' by Takeo Terada, 1945	Shimonoseki, Japan in ruins, mid-1945