U.S. National Archives photos from the 1940s

Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Miss. S. Akinaga, one of a staff of 40 interviewe.

Woodland, California. These farm children of Japanese ancestry are all prepared to go to an Assembl.

Woodland, Yolo County, California. Ten cars of evacuees of Japanese ancestry are now aboard and the.

Centerville, California. Packing cauliflower on a ranch near Centerville, California, on April 9, 1.

Centerville, California. Icing cauliflower in refrigerator car for shipment to eastern markets, pri.

Mountain View, California. Oldest son of the Shibuya family, a graduate in plant pathology of the C.

San Bruno, California. Pre-school evacuee children leaving the building for recess at this assembly.

AMS - Vung Tau, Vietnam

AMS - Nha, Trang, Vietnam

Captured Japanese photograph taken during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. In the distance, the smoke rises from Hickam Field.

Captured Japanese photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Camouflaged and poorly equipped Chinese soldiers repell a charge of 50,000 Japanese along the Salween River near Burma.

"A kitchen was set up along the beach for the.labor battalion unloading the boats. This picture shows a couple of the men enjoying a hot meal for a change. Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands."

"WAAC Capt. Charity Adams of Columbia, NC, who was commissioned from the first officer candidate class, and the first of her group to receive a commission, drills her company on the drill ground at the first WAAC Training Center, Fort Des Moines, Iowa."

Mrs. Sam Crawford helps with tobacco harvesting on her husband's farm in Maryland."

Training Camp maneuvers

The labor-management committee of the Northern Pump Co. keeps a scoreboard to keep employees informed of the progress of the War Production Drive.

WWI; England; "Huge invasion rehearsal unopposed by Nazis"; Preparation for the invasion of France, Europe.

WWII: Europe: England: Homefront Food Production

American soldiers hands out cigarettes to captured Italians of the Bersaglieri Division near El Guettar, Tunisia.

A war bond rally during World War II

Axis prisoners of war are herded out of the city as Allied armies enter Tunis.

John F. Kennedy's Change of Duty December 21, 1943

Leaving her youngster at a well-run nursery school in Oakland, California, this war-working mother can devote all her thoughts to the job, knowing that the child will be kept busy and happy during the day.

Near East Iran - truck convoy of US supplies for USSR

USO Club in Puerto Rico celebrating FDR's Birthday

Musician in the Belgium Congo

Soldiers in the Belgium Congo

Ready to test out the new ships, called "steam chickens" by the natives, American pilots in Africa wait outside an airport hut made from a fighter plane packing crate.

A young woman sells war bonds and stamps and distributes War Production Drive literature.

Douglas C-54 at Medouina Airport

Informal remarks at the dedication of four Liberator Bombers for Yugoslavian Combat Service at Bolling Field.

Those buried in the United States Military Cemetery located at Kasba Mehdia, near Port Lyautey, Morocco.

Pilots at briefing session aboard USS Lexington (CV-16) prior to attack on Kwajalein.

Adak Harbor in the Aleutians, with part of huge U.S. fleet at anchor, ready to move against Kiska.

Lt. Victor Jorgensen relaxes in his quarters aboard the USS Lexington (CV-16).

Crewmen watch Navy plane returning to USS Lexington (CV-16) after strike against Japs on Mili.

Patton, Marshall, and Arnold

F6F taxies into position after landing on board the USS Lexington (CV-16).

Troops loading on transports for the invasion of Kiska

A plaster cast for plexiglass for turret on PV-1 is scraped smooth by a workman at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, Calif.

Workers eat lunch against PBY wing panels at Consolidated Vultee aircraft plant, San Diego, Cal.

Grim humor on Tarawa

"A company of men has set up its office between the columns (Doric) of an ancient Greek temple of Neptune, built about 700 B.C."

"Cardozo High School, Washington, DC." High School Victory Corps

"4,000 Unit Housing Project Progress Photographs March 6,1943 to August 11, 1943; Looking down a street towards the west 1-2633-1."

Construction Progress Photographs "Map # 2AA-3 View From Easter Hill - Looking West Photo # 1-3884-50 Sept. 10, 1943 Richmond, CA

Commando training at Camp Carson, Colorado

Jap torpedo bomber explodes in air after direct hit by 5 inch shell from U.S. aircraft carrier as it attempted an unsuccessful attack on carrier, off Kwajalein.

"COME ON SAILOR, YOU'RE JUST IN TIME!!"

"REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR - WORK - FIGHT- SACRIFICE!!" / "WE'LL REMEMBER - AND BY GOD, YOU WONT FORGET!!"

Inside the Douglas aircraft plant at El Segundo, Cal. Row on row the powerful engines that will drive SBD's on missions of destruction against Japanese ships.

Medical Corps training at Camp Carson, Colorado

With "Jospehine," squadron pet, as his mascot, Lt. M. W. Carney of Churchlands, Va., prepares to give a new fighter plane just arrived in Africa its test flight.

Recovery of tin from squezzed out toothpaste and other collapsible metal tubes begins at drug and other stores where the critical metal is collected under the tube-for-tube exchange plan.

Shift goes off duty at Consolidated Vultee aircraft plant, San Diego, Cal.

Lcdr. John R. Madison prepares to go up ladder from control room of USS Muskallunge (SS 262) at submarine base New London, Connecticut. Lt. William B. Robb is at his station.

"Three soldiers of the United States Army sit in place at a radar used by the 90th Coast Artillery in Casablanca, French Morocco."

Crewmen hastily drag plane with flat tire down flight deck of USS Lexington (CV-16) to make way for next plane to land.

81 m/m Mortar crew in action at Camp Carson, Colorado