Mid-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

9,160 items in this album on 458 pages.


Soviet 122mm gun in action near Moscow, Russia, 3 Dec 1941	The top of the Silk Ad from two 3 Dec 1941 Honolulu newspapers turned upside down and viewed in a mirror. This was supposed to reveal the words, “Japan raid.”	Battleship HMS Prince of Wales mooring in Singapore, 4 Dec 1941	Hyuga at anchor, Japan, 4 Dec 1941

Abandoned German vehicles on the Volokolamsk Highway (now M9 highway) west of Moscow, Russia, 5 Dec 1941	Map depicting the German advance on Moscow, Russia, 26 Aug-5 Dec 1941	Carrier Akagi, battleship Hiei, and battleship Kirishima in the Pacific Ocean en route toward US Territory of Hawaii, 6 Dec 1941	Flight leader Masao Sato (second row, third from right) with his pilots aboard Zuikaku, 6 Dec 1941; note Tetsuzo Iwamoto second row, right-most

Group portrait of the flight officers of Shokaku while the ship was underway toward US Territory of Hawaii, 6 Dec 1941	Japanese B5N torpedo bomber crews posing before a B5N aircraft aboard carrier Kaga, Pacific Ocean, 6 Dec 1941	Japanese carrier pilots receiving instructions before attacking Pearl Harbor, Pacific Ocean, Dec 1941	Lieutenant Ichiro Kitajima briefing his bomber crews on the Pearl Harbor attack aboard carrier Kaga, 6 Dec 1941

'AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL' radio message received by USS Ranger, 7 Dec 1941. Ranger was in the Atlantic approaching Norfolk, Virginia at the time.	'AIRRAID ON PEARLHARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL' radio message received by USS Wasp, 7 Dec 1941. Wasp was anchored at Bermuda at the time.	A bow-on view of the comparatively lightly damaged battleship USS Maryland with the burning USS West Virginia behind her and the capsized USS Oklahoma beside her, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	A camera on Ford Island catches the moment the forward magazine of USS Shaw exploded, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 7, 1941.

A damaged Zero fighter left a trail of smoke above Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	A view down Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row about an hour after the Japanese air attack began, 0850, 7 Dec 1941. Note battleship USS California listing in the foreground and the capsized Oklahoma beyond.	A view down Pearl Harbor’s main channel during the Japanese air attack, 7 Dec 1941. Note the battleship USS California listing and sinking and note the Ford Island water tower at right.	A view of Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row from the Ten-Ten Dock at the Operating Base, 7 Dec 1941. Visible are battleships Maryland, the capsized Oklahoma, Tennessee, the sunken West Virginia, and Arizona’s masts.