Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1940s
879 photos, in date order; 541–600 on this page. Each photo's page says why it is public domain and which Commons licence category it was read from. About the collection
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"Soldiers of the 161st Chemical Smoke Generating Company, U.S. Third Army, move a barrel of oil in preparation to refilling an M-2 smoke generator, which spews forth a heavy cloud of white smoke. These men are engaged in laying a smoke screen to cover bridge building activities across the Saar River
1944-12-11
WWII: Europe; Francee: Invasion; "American Wounded"
1944-06-09
Informal Remarks At Union Station Plaza, Washington, D.C
1944-11-10
Japanese prisoner awaits questioning by intelligence officer on Guam.
1944-07
"Howard A. Wooten.", ca. 12/1944
c. 1944
(June 17, 1944), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1944-06-17 · map
(June 6, 1944), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1944-06-06 · map
Marines of the first wave, landing on the beach at Saipan, crawl forward for protective covering while waiting for additional waves of green-garbed Leathernecks to land.
1944-06-15
LST-786 launching
1944-07-22
Clark a Piazza San Pietro
1944-06-05
Laundry at NAS Jacksonville c1944
c. 1944
Aerial photograph of Darmstadt 1944-09-14 Detail
1944-09-14
PGM-7 Gunboat
1944-01
Douglas SBD-5 VMSB-231 1945
1944
2Fi05189 Liberation of Brest
1944
Beach scene. Saipan. June, 1944.
1944
Marines squat behind Jap boat on beach. Saipan. June, 1944.
1944-06
Jock Whiteley
1944
M2 machine gun provides cover for GIs of the 45th Infantry Division advancing towards Niederbronn-les-Bains, 1944
1944
Scene on Green Beach 2, at 0840, D-Day. Sgt. Matjasic was wounded while taking these pictures. 15 June, 1944.
1944-06-15
(July 29, 1944), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1944-07-29 · map
SBD-5 of VB-10 over USS Enterprise (CV-6) 1944
1944-01
Krinkelt Belgium 17 December 1944
1944-12-17
SB2C approaching USS Wasp (CV-18) c1944
1944–1945
USS Enterprise (CV-6) off Pearl Harbor August 1944
1944-08-16
Normandy 2
1944-06-08
Dulag airfield Leyte in 1944
1944-10
2Fi05167 Liberation of Brest
1944
Blue beach 1 Saipan
1944-06-18
26-G-3530 Box 70 1
1944-10-20
12Fi701 - LIBERATION DE BREST
1944-09-19
Cpl. Leo Kaller celebrating Thanksgiving while helping to liberate Western Europe in November 1944
1944-11-18
Marines take a brief rest in the jungle before pushing on against the Cape Gloucester airfield.
1944
Lt. Col. John E. Weber, commanding officer of a Marine battalion on Cape Gloucester, sitting on his helmet, receives a report from one of his company commanders.
1944
Rákosrendező vasútállomás bombatámadás után füstfelhőben. Visszatérő B 17-es bombázó Budaörs fölött.
1944
(June 28, 1944), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1944-06-28 · map
NavWarMap No. 5 - Southwest Pacific
1944 · map
Two tired US infantrymen undisturbed by the noises of war at nearby Cisterna, find peace and sleep in an open dugout after their first night of fighting in the new beachhead offensive. 25 May, 1944.
1944
Marines advance with an M4 tank towards the airfield on Cape Gloucester.
1944
511th PIR at Manarawat, 1944
1944-12-01
USS LST-461 Majuro Atoll March 1944
1944-03
(August 17, 1944), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1944-08-17 · map
1Lt. William E. Aron, a pilot of the 318th Fighter Squadron 325th Fighter Group
1944–1945
Peleliu Protestant Chaplain Rufus W. Oakley, of Milledgeville Ga., holding services within a few hundred yards of Jap positions, well within range of their mortars if they had chosen to have thrown them.
1944
U.S. Marines help a Japanese soldier from a dugout on Tinian after they convinced him that life as a prisoner was more desirable than death for the Emperor
1944-08-01
Quickly disembarking from tractor attacking inland. Guadalcanal. 10 March, 1944.
1944
Air raid on Érsekújvár, Hungary on October 7, 1944
1944-10-07
Wounded Marines from Bougainville fighting are unloaded from R4D hospital plane at Vella Lavella for hospitalization.
1944
336-H-09-L6237 - Colored enlisted men of unit 5891-E (A detachment of the 9th Cavalry) are shown on pier 2 with Red Cross Canteen Worker, Helen Alston, before sailing overseas.
1944
The boys are still puffing cigarettes in the New Guinea. Even the Natives enjoy an American fag now and then
1944
Navy Corpsman Bartolocci, attached to a Marine unit on Saipan, administers blood plasma to a wounded Marine while another at the right, waits his turn for treatment
1944
US 2nd Infantry Division soldiers in Brest during September 1944
1944-09-09
Kwajalein natives wounded in the fighting receive first aid and are forwarded to the rear for further care. 31 January, 1944.
1944
Wounded Marine being given plasma at a dressing station on Peleliu, 1944.
1944
American tank passes knocked-out Mark IV on the road near Ponsacco. 18 July, 1944.
1944-07-18
After only a short rest behind the lines, these Marines are going to reinforce some of their buddies who are having trouble getting the Japs out of their caves in the side of a ridge on Peleliu. September, 1944.
1944-09
Bombing of Dubova, Slovakia on August 20, 1944
1944-08-20
Japanese flak bursts over Truk 1944
1944-02-16
Goats observe Marines at observation post. Saipan. June, 1944.
1944
Operation Causeway Proposed Carrier Operations
1944-06 · map