Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1940s
879 photos, in date order; 721–780 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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Special Film Project 186 - Feldherrnhalle 1
1945
Special Film Project 186 - Muenchner Frauenkirche 2
1945
USS Harrison (DD-573) with PBY in October 1945
1945-10
USS South Dakota (BB-57) steams into heavy seas on 24 February 1945 (80-G-K-3345)
1945-02-24
USS Paul Hamilton (DD-590) comes alongside USS Makin Island (CVE-93) on 11 March 1945 (NH 42812)
1945-03-11
Seattle Daily Times 1945
1945
Macarthur hirohito2
1945-09-27
USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) burning 1945
1945-01-04
Bruecke von Remagen 1945 3
1945-03-17
Dornberger-Axter-von Braun HD-SN-99-02953-original
1945-05-03
Captured StuG III in U.S. service with concrete armour
1945
USS Medea (AKA-31) with returning troops, in 1945-1946 (NH 78150)
c. 1945
Uss idaho bb-42 (cropped)
1945-04-01
(February 10, 1945), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1945-02-10 · map
USS Austin (DE-15) at Pearl Harbor, circa in January 1945
c. 1945
Ludendorff bridge damage
1945-03-07
USS LST-779 USS LST-808 USS LST-788 USS LST-760 USS LST-724 USS LSM-264 Iwo Jima 25 February 1945
1945-02-25
Funeral for US Army MG Edwin D. Patrick (March 16 1945)
1945-03-16
Heilbronn 1945 April NARA Reference Number 342-FH-3A21600-3A21600
c. 1945
392d Fighter Squadron Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning 42-12982
1945
Kobler Field 25 April 1945
1945
Muenchen Siegestor 1945
1945
6th Naval Fuel Depot, Takao
c. 1945
Culver TD2C-1 drone in flight c1945
c. 1945
Interior of 40th PRS Mess Tent
1945
Mk 13 torpedo is loaded on TBM aboard USS Bennington (CV-20) in 1945
1945
USS Walker (DD-517) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 10 February 1945
1945-02-10
USS Takanis Bay (CVE-89) in a dry dock, circa in 1945
c. 1945
Landing of the 24th Division, at Parang, Green Beach, Mindanao
1945-04-17
NH 42390 USS Tennessee (BB-43) with LVTs near Okinawa, 1945
1945-04-01
These three Japs are emerging from a cave at the bottom of an abandoned sulfur pit within a stone's throw of the Fifth Marine Division command post.
1945
More bombs being dropped on an already devasted Dresden, in April, 1945 -a
1945-04
Marines blast Jap positions near the base of Suribachi on Iwo Jima. 24 February, 1945.
1945
158TH REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM WOUNDED WAIT FOR LITTER BEARERS AT DAMORTIS IN THE PHILIPPINES ON 14 JANUARY 1945
1945-01-14
(January 30, 1945), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1945-01-30 · map
(January 22, 1945), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1945-01-22 · map
Pampanga Provincial Capitol 1945
1945-01-31
(January 2, 1945), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1945-01-02 · map
(March 28, 1945), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1945-03-28 · map
Donaldjstrait P-51
1945
A Filipino woman scurries for cover in this unusual picture by a Coast Guard combat photographer at the height of the first-day assault on the beaches of Luzon.
1945
Ignoring the heavy enemy fire in the area, Marine stretcher bearers carry a wounded Leatherneck to a foxhole aid station on the beach at Iwo Jima.
1945
An infantryman provides cover while others advance on German-held houses, March 4, 1945
1945
Members of the 1st Battalion, 339th Infantry of the 85th Division crossing the river Adige in Verona over the destroyed Ponte Della Vittoria, April 1945
1945
The 10000th prisoner of war captured by the 6th Armored Division is brought into the stockade at Fauvillers, Belgium, by Pfc. John D.G. Phillips, 204 Oakwood Ave., West New Brighten, Staten Island, New York.
1945
Members of the shortly lived 473rd Infantry Regiment enter Massa, Italy, April 1945
1945
Marine Amtracs struck by Japanese mortar fire on Iwo Jima.
1945
Nürnberg im April 1945 09
1945
Displaced Persons in a garage at the at the former Kemmel Barracks at Trier, Germany, 16 April 1945
1945-04-16
USS New Mexico (BB-40) anchored in Tokyo Bay, circa in late August 1945 (NH 50232)
1945-08
A sick Polish survivor in the Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp receives medicine from a German Red Cross worker
1945-04-11
101st Airborne Division - WW2 04
1945-02-13
USS Alaska (CB-1) gunnery practice
1945-02-05
High-Velocity Aircraft Rockets (HVAR) on a US Navy aircraft carrier c1945
c. 1945
1945-03-14 401st Bomb Group of US Air Force drop bombs on Lohne, Germany
1945-03-14
Battleship Yamato under attack 7 April 1945
1945-04-07
Entertainers Visit the 24th Combat Mapping Squadron
1945-01-08
A New F-S-E
1945
Displaced Persons at the Displaced Persons Camp at Wittlich, Germany, 18 April 1945
1945-04-18
(June 16, 1945), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.
1945-06-16 · map