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World War Ii Collection (page 4)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: World Heritage Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome

World Heritage Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: World Heritage Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome

World Heritage Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Donkey Ride

Donkey Ride
5th June 1954: A suburban street in France, along the route taken by the British Army in Europe during the closing stages of World War II

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: B-17 Flying Fortress

B-17 Flying Fortress

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Herman Goring Balloon

Herman Goring Balloon
1938: Nazi Air Force soldiers gather to witness a test flight of the Herman Goring balloon in preparation for World War II, Germany. The balloon was used to test air currents

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Livery Halls

Livery Halls
17th January 1956: The foundations of the new Sadlers Hall in Cheapside, being rebuilt after they were blitzed during the war. (Photo by Monty Fresco Jnr/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Aden Invaded

Aden Invaded
8th July 1940: Steamer Point at Aden. Aden has been brought nearer to military operations after three towns in British Somaliland were occupied by Italian invaders

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: VE Day in London

VE Day in London
8th May 1945: Crowds in Piccadilly Circus climb lampposts and the Eros statues protective container, on VE Day. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: No More Blackout

No More Blackout
26th May 1945: After nearly six years of war the blackout was lifted and London lit up for all to see. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Stern Reminder World War II

Stern Reminder World War II
5th September 1939: A message painted onto a pavement in Chorlton, Manchester, reminds residents to carry their gas masks with them at all times. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: So Near

So Near
1st August 1943: These two women and their children travelled all day from west Kensington, London, to the East Coast, only to find when they got there that they had to look at the sea through barbed

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Air Raid Damage

Air Raid Damage
1st October 1940: A warden inspecting the damage after German aircraft dropped bombs on the city. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Post War U-Boat Pen

Post War U-Boat Pen
19th October 1945: A U-boat in pen at Finkenwerde, near Hamburg, wrecked by Royal Air Force bombs during the war. The Royal Engineers continue with the demolition process using former German

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Guadalcanal Casualty

Guadalcanal Casualty
4th November 1943: A Japanese transport ship with its wrecked stern resting on the bottom of the beach at Guadalcanal. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Protective Fire

Protective Fire
August 1942: Anti aircraft fire, sent up by US warships as protection for their forces who are landing on the beaches at Guadalcanal, can be seen as black dots in the sky

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Artificial Sun

Artificial Sun
17th April 1942: Civil Defence Workers in Finsbury are beating the winter pallor with free sun lamp treatments. They call it Mixray at the Finsbury Health Centre

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Hitler Undone

Hitler Undone
February 1945: An American GI removing a sign which reads Adolf Hitler Street from the side of a building in Duren, Germany. The street is to be renamed following the Second World War

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Guarding The St Louis

Guarding The St Louis
17th June 1939: Gendarmes and plain-clothes police guard the St Louis, as it docks at the Belgian port of Antwerp with its cargo of German-Jewish refugees, after being denied admittance to Cuba

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Italian Tank

Italian Tank
circa 1940: An Italian tank in Northern Egypt. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Desert Army

Desert Army
19th October 1939: Stripped to the waist, Tommies of the British forces toil in the heat of the midday sun, in the shadow of the Egyptian pyramids. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: VJ Day

VJ Day
11th August 1945: Revellers dancing in a floodlit Trafalgar Square to celebrate the end of the war in the Far East. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Zeppelinfield

Zeppelinfield
1945: The huge Zeppelin Stadium at Nuremberg, built to display Nazi might, is in Allied hands. Here the Nazi Party held its rallies and Hitler made his speeches. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Ledo Road

Ledo Road
January 1945: Some of the first Chinese trucks pass through on the Ledo Burma Road, after its re-opening at the end of the Second World War. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Flight Deck

Flight Deck
circa 1943: An American plane flying above an American aircraft carrier, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. In the background is the destroyer escort. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Flying Tank

Flying Tank
circa 1941: One of the American M-3 Medium Tanks in action in the Western Desert War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Tank Lighters

Tank Lighters
circa 1944: American tank lighters, which carry oil and gasoline, close to the shore at Charan Kanoa, on the west coast of Saipan Island

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Hitlers Retreat

Hitlers Retreat
circa 1945: GIs stand at the ruins of the great living room window of Hitlers mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden, the so-called Berghof. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Marching On

Marching On
22nd June 1945: US Marines led by a tank move towards the last strongpoint of the Japanese resistance. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Machine Guns

Machine Guns
circa 1940: Machine guns used for aeroplanes, awaiting shipment from a converted automobile plant in America. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Blow That Horn

Blow That Horn
circa 1943: A trumpet is sounded to begin the days march of Japanese troops in Burma as they make their way to the Indian Frontier. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Ships At Sunset

Ships At Sunset
17th July 1942: A convoy with British Navy escort at sunset. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Radar dishes

Radar dishes
Abandoned RAF Stenigot radar dishes, Lincolnshire, UK

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Old world war II harbour in the normandy

Old world war II harbour in the normandy
Part of an old harbour that was set up during world war II to maintain the debarkment of american, british, french and canadian soldiers, tanks and vehicles after the d-day

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: German Guard

German Guard
December 1939: A German soldier standing guard by a field gun, in the French countryside, during the Second World War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: Roadside Pub

Roadside Pub
31st March 1945: A whitewashed public house is illuminated by a motorists headlights. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1936 - The Magic Lantern Of A Cars Headlights - pub

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: French Evacuees

French Evacuees
French children evacuated from Paris arrive in Gueret, in central France, during World War II, 1940. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorld War Ii Collection: VE Day In New York; corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street in New York City during

VE Day In New York; corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street in New York City during
The corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street in New York City during the VE Day celebrations, 7th May 1945. Trinity Church looms in the background. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)



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