Galleries
Heading Home at Last
Across Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, America’s victorious GIs pack up, tear down, and head home to restart their lives—and their country.
Victory Mania!
Americans cut loose around the world as they learn of Japan’s surrender and start the countdown to a new life and a brighter future.
America beats the Nazis
Join America’s fighting men on their long, dangerous journey across Europe to end the tyranny of the Third Reich.
George Patton and the camera
Hard-fighting General George S. Patton, Jr., wasn’t just a warrior, he was a showman—dramatic, flamboyant, and ready to mug for the camera.
Iwo Jima Snapshots
Clearing ash-coated Iwo Jima of its grim Japanese defenders was a grind unlike anything US Marines had ever experienced before.
Pulp fiction fantasy
Cheap, exciting, and fun to read, pulp fiction magazines were the ultimate escape from war’s hard times.
pulp fiction Goes to War
A sampler of World War II-era, military-themed pulp fiction magazine covers.
Icy Battle of the Bulge
Here’s what it looked like when GIs battled two enemies--the Germans and a savage winter--to recover Belgian ground lost to blitzkrieg.
Death of a carrier
The aircraft carrier USS Princeton was launching planes during the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf when a bomb ended her career—and the lives of hundreds of men.
The Marianas Turkey Shoot
A loosely chronological photo gallery of June 19-20, 1944, in the Battle of the Philippine Sea
Americans on D-Day
Follow American fighting men as they prepare for and launch the great Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944.
Ghost army shoulder patches
General George Patton fielded a historic-first phony army to fool the Germans in the 1944 Normandy Invasion. The deception was so elaborate it even included counterfeit insignia for the fake army units.
Under fire on Guam
A grunt's view
