The raids and brutal reprisals of World War Two through rare photographs, 1942
The events of 1942 were crucial in the way that World War Two played out. The fi…
Tag: Pacific War
The Navajo Code Talkers and their unbreakable code, 1942-1945
Every war combatant highly appreciated the need for an unbreakable code that wou…
Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Campaign in rare pictures, 1942-1943
The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific War. Before the Battle o…
Rare photographs that show the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, 1941
By the time the first Japanese bomber appeared over Pearl Harbor on December 7, …
A young woman writing a thank you note to her boyfriend in the Navy for the skull of a Japanese soldier that he sent, 1944
A rare and disturbing picture, so much about this it's still a mystery. We don't…
A stranded Dutch warship evaded the enemy by disguising itself as an island, 1942
In February 1942, in the midst of World War II, the Japanese fleet completely wr…
US Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton, Okinawa, 1945
This picture depicts one of the most heart-wrenching moments to occur on Okinawa…
The Pacific Theater in rare pictures, 1942-1945
After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese quickly gained control over a huge area of the …
Attack on Pearl Harbor in rare pictures, 1941
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began just before 8 a.m. local time…
US Marine discovers a near-dead baby in a cave in the jungle of Saipan island, 1944
In a photo that somehow comprises both tenderness and horror, an American Marine…
The final moments of a Japanese dive bomber, 1945
A Japanese plane caught squarely by antiaircraft fire leaves a trail of smoke an…
American pilots resting with a Japanese skull, 1944
A number of firsthand accounts, including those of American servicemen, attest t…
A Papuan Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel guiding an injured Australian soldier home, 1942
An Australian soldier, George "Dick" Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Rap…
Leonard Siffleet about to be beheaded with a sword by a Japanese soldier, 1943
Leonard Siffleet was an Australian Special Forces radio operator, sent on a miss…
Ticket to Armistice – Japanese leaflet dropped on Allied troops, 1942
During World War II there were many different forms of propaganda to support the…
Emaciated British soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945
Five emaciated former prisoners of war sitting on the steps of an ambulance in S…
Captain Nieves Fernandez shows to an American soldier how she used her long knife to silently kill Japanese soldiers during occupation, 1944
Captain Nieves Fernandez, the only known Filipino female guerilla leader and for…
Wounded combat dog during action on the Orote Peninsula, 1944
In the late summer of 1942, the Marine Corps decided to experiment with the use …
The Flying Tigers over China, 1942
The Flying Tigers are flying in close formation. Every pilot in that picture is …
Captain Paul Tibbets in the Enola Gay minutes before takeoff to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 1945
The Enola Gay was a bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot…