Mid-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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Altar prepared for midnight mass for the Christmas holiday at a US Army Medical Detachment 1340 facility, Fiji, 1942-1944	American 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun crew on an Algerian beach, North Africa, 1943	American M2 Half-track and M3 Gun Motor Carriage vehicles, date unknown	American M2A4 light tanks at Guadalcanal, circa Aug 1942-1945

American M3 tanks in group maneuvers, England, United Kingdom, circa 1942-1943	American poster to promote sale of war bonds, featuring an African-American US Army Tuskegee pilot, possibly Lieutenant Robert W. Diez, 1943; the text reads 'Keep us flying! BUY WAR BONDS'	American propaganda poster 'UNITED WE WIN', showing African-American and Caucasian aircraft factory workers working together, 1943	American propaganda poster featuring African-American US Navy sailor Doris Miller, 1943; the text read 'above and beyond the call of duty'

American propaganda poster featuring Isoroku Yamamoto, circa 1943	American Spitfire V fighter of 309th Fighter Squadron of US 31st Fighter Group based at at Atcham Airfield, England, United Kingdom, May 1942 to Jun 1943	An abandoned Heinkel He-219 Uhu night fighter under tattered camouflage netting, 1940s	An African-American air cadet looking up at his collection of photos of his girl friends while he was studying on his cot, date unknown

An American woman promoting war bonds and stamps, 1943	An intercept sheet of German radio transmission created for the cryptologists at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s	An Italian pilot preparing for flight with his G.55 aircraft, Italy, 1940s	An SNJ Texan, an F4F Wildcat, and a TBF-1 Avenger tied down on the flight deck of the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.

An SNJ-3C Texan noses over aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.	An SNJ-3C Texan noses over just before reaching the edge of the flight deck aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.	Anti-aircraft gunnery drill aboard USS Alabama in the Atlantic Ocean, 1943	Anti-aircraft guns at the Panama Canal Zone, date unknown