U.S. National Archives photos from the 1940s

Sixth Fleet during invasion of Iwo Jima. Mt. Suribachi in background.

20mm gun crews standing by aboard the USS Hornet (CV-12) as her planes hit Tokyo, Japan.

WWII: Europe: Germany; "U.S. Third Army iruns throuhg smoke filled streets in Wernberg"

Favored by Warm breezes and under a blue Kansas Sky, a vast crowd attends the delivery ceremony on the Boeing-Wichita flight apron at 4:15 P.M.

Demobilized Japanese soldiers crowd trains at Hiroshima on way to homes.

Devastated downtown Manila with a 'calesa' (popular form of transportation in Philipines) in foreground.

Serial 0145, Enclosure C: Photograph of Section of Attacking Pilot's Scarf (Japanese plane attack on SS Alexander Majors)

WWII: Europw: Germany; "German POWs - Desolate wounded Nazi captured near Korrenzig by U.S. Ninth Army Sector"

"Genoa, Italy. In this newly liberated city the 92nd Division troops enter the Galleria Guiseppe sic Garibaldi.", 04/27/1945

"Surrounded by a veteran crew of Marines who have spent 15 months in the Southwest and Central Pacific, this gun, named the 'Lena Horne' by its crew, points majestically skyward. The gun is manned by members of the 51st Defense Battalion, one of two such Negro units in the Corps.", 1945

WWII Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: "Two men sitting after liberation from Lager-Nordhausen Death Camp"

"Pfc. Luther Woodward., a member of the Fourth Ammunition Company, admires the Bronze Star awarded to him for `his bravery, initiative and battle-cunning.'."

"A gun crew of six United States Navy sailors who were given the Navy Cross for standing by their gun when their ship was damaged by enemy attack in the Philippine area.", ca. 1945

". troops in Burma stop work briefly to read President Truman's Proclamation of Victory in Europe."

Cpl. Leopold Anthony Mulikowski, WSMC, of Muskegon, Mich., rests on board the USS Benevolence, AH-13, after rescue from prison camp where he spent three years.

Jap soldiers climb out of rocks and bushes of Kerama-retto and into water to give themselves up to crew of picket boat.

"The `Top-Kick' looks them over at Camp Shanks, New York, Transportation Corps staging area of the New York Port of Embarkation. Tech. Sgt. Tommye Berry, Acting 1st Sgt. of the Negro WAC group."

Mountain-climbing U.S. medium tanks, manned by Chinese and American crows, use the Burma Road for the first time after the combined Allied offensive had broken the two-year Jap control of the only overland supply route to China.

Edward Stettinius, Alexander Cadogan, and Averell Harriman

"The patient's skin is burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the explosion.", ca. 1945

"Marines receiving instruction in the Demolition Course at Montford Point Camp NC, during intensive combat training in preparation for action in the Pacific.", 02/1945

Giant seawall under construction by Seabees of the 76th Construction Battalion at Apra Harbor, Guam. When completed the two mile breakwater will contain 1, 760, 000 cubic yards of earth and stone. A 30-ton boulder is hauled to dumping spot.

Lcdr. Dwight S. Long, U.S. Navy photographer makes adjustments on his 16mm motion picture camera while on an assignment.

Photographs, with captions, of "Food for Freedom" Native American activities for the war effort, from Carson Agency Annual Extension Report for 1945 (Narrative and Illustrated Section).

"A gun crew of six Negroes who were given the Navy Cross for standing by their gun when their ship was damaged by enemy attack in the Philippine area."

Men wounded on Okinawa are lined up on pontoon dock alongside an Lst (H) anchored off Okinawa. They will be transferred to hospital ships in the anchorage.

Japanese envoys leave the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, Japan, after signing surrender papers.

In the background, a Roman Catholic cathedral on a hill in Nagasaki, ca. 1945

"Two smiling French soldiers fill the hands of American soldiers with candy, in Rouffach, France, after the closing of the Colmar pocket.", 02/05/1945

Navy photographer pictures suffering and ruins that resulted from atom bomb blast in Hiroshima, Japan. Victim lies in make-shift hospital in bank building.

Marines, injured in Iwo Jima fighting, await evacuation to Guam by plane.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's flag-draped casket placed on an artillery caisson is ready to start on its journey through the streets of the nation's capital to the White House where simple ceremonies were held in the historic East Room. An honor guard of enlisted military personnel stands by the body

Funeral of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York.

Scores of allied prisoners were released by Navy and Marine Corp men at Saitama prefecture, a Franciscan Convent 30 miles North of Tokyo used as a prison during the war. Japanese civil police watch prisoners leave.

WWII: Europe: Germany; "U.S. First Army at Remagen Bridge"

"Corsair fighter looses its load of rocket projectiles on a run against a Jap stronghold on Okinawa. In the lower background is the smoke of battle as Marine units move in to follow up with a Sunday punch.", ca. 06/1945

"Pvts. George Cofield.and Howard J. Davis.guard a newly-constructed bridge site over the Rhine River, built by U.S. Ninth Army Engineers.", 03/30/1945

Three Japanese oilers burning in Camranh Bay, Indochina. TBM's from the USS Hornet (CV-12) which delivered the fatal bombs fly overhead.

Results of one of the war's fiercest struggles, the fight for Iwo Jima, lie in sorry heaps all over the island. The hand of a Japanese soldier killed by a bomb blast is seen in the rubble which covered the island.

Navy photographer pictures suffering and ruins that resulted from atom bomb blast in Hiroshima, Japan. Blast victims live in fly-infested hospital in bank building.

"Two Negro Marine movie operators."

Sailor on liberty in Manila at fruitstand

"The first Negro to be commissioned in the Marine Corps has his second lieutenant's bars pinned on by his wife. He is Frederick C. Branch of Charlotte, NC."

"Marines, following the rapid Japanese retreat northward on Okinawa, pause for a moments rest at the base of a Japanese war memorial. They are (on steps) Pfc. F. O. Snowden; Navy Pharmacist's Mate, 2nd class R. Martin; (on monument, left to right) Pvt. J. T. Walton, Pvt. R. T. Ellenberg, Pfc. Clyde

"Carrying a Jap anese prisoner from stockade to be evacuated and treated for malnutrition. Iwo Jima."

Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia on USS Qunicy in Great Bitter Lake, Egypt.

(Top) - German officers sign unconditional surrender in Reims, France. (Bottom) - Allied force leaders at the signing.

German atrocities. Germany, Poland & Czechoslovakia

Infantrymen of the 255th Infantry Regiment. move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by 63rd Division.

Lad with mother pushing from behind rolls cartload of possessions out of Uerdingen, Germany, moved out by allied military government seeking to prevent loss of life from shelling by Germans on other side of Rhine.

Destroyed railroad bridges east of Sankt Vith, Belgium, circa in February 1945

Destroyed vehicles in Houffalize, Belgium, in January 1945 (342-FH-3A05290-55970AC)

After holding a woodland position all night near Wiltz, Luxembourg, against German counter attack, three men of B Company, 101st Engineers, emerge for a rest.

Camp for German prisoners of war. Unidentified location in Germany

German War Crimes Trials. Nuernberg & Dachau

President Harry S. Truman seated at a desk, before a microphone, announcing the end of World War II in Europe.

Japanese atrocities. Phillippines, China, Burma, Japan

View of a heavily bombed street in Bitburg, Germany, 28 February 1945

Western part of the bombed Schildescher Vidadukt, Germany, in 1945 (342-FH-3A20911-B59511AC)

Radar vans XIX TAC Luxembourg 1945