Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1940s
879 photos, in date order; 301–360 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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BuShips WDR №17 - USS NEVADA (BB36) Torpedo and Bomb Damage December, 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor Plate X
1942-09-18
BuShips WDR №17 - USS NEVADA (BB36) Torpedo and Bomb Damage December, 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor Plate XI
1942-09-18
BuShips WDR №17 - USS NEVADA (BB36) Torpedo and Bomb Damage December, 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor Plate XII
1942-09-18
BuShips WDR №17 - USS NEVADA (BB36) Torpedo and Bomb Damage December, 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor Plate VI
1942-09-18
Dorie Miller - Restoration, full
1942-05-27
BuShips WDR №17 - USS NEVADA (BB36) Torpedo and Bomb Damage December, 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor Plate I
1942-09-18
Dorie Miller
1942-05-27
USS Honolulu (CL-48) War Damage Report №1 Foto1
1942-02-14
USS Honolulu (CL-48) War Damage Report №1 Foto2
1942-02-14
USS Honolulu (CL-48) War Damage Report №1 Plate1
1942-02-14
United States bomber crew- Navigator
1942–1945
B-17 starting engines on an 8th Air Force Base in England
1942–1945
P-47 Thunderbolt with 4.5 inch bazooka type rocket being loaded between the machine guns and the bombs
1942–1945
Control Tower Operators
1942–1945
Brenner Pass destroyed road bridge and bomb craters below a B-25 and P-47
1942–1945
Loading bombs at an 8th Bomber Command base
1942–1945
P-47 Thunderbolt being loaded with one of two bombs and.50 calibre ammunition
1942–1945
B-17G Flying Fortress formation with Bendix chin-turret of the 8th Bomber Command escorted by a P-51
1942–1945
Members of the 369th AAA Ready for embarkment
1942-06-16
United States bomber crew- Pilot, Co-pilot and Bombardier in the nose of a B-29
1942–1945
Nose gun of a B-17 manned by the Bombardier helped by the Norden bombsight to target enemy fighters
1942–1945
Guadalcanal WWII Map
1942 · map
"An MP on motorcycle stands ready to answer all calls around his area. Columbus, Georgia."
1942-04-13
Two grandmothers are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida.
c. 1942
Aviation Radio Chief Evans, USN, speaks at Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Mill, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, 1942
1942
C-857 - A member of the Signal Corps wearing a field pack sends a message over a field telephone during training in the field.
1942
Mitsubishi G4M1 bombers fly low through anti-aircraft fire between Guadalcanal and Tulagi on 8 August 1942 (NH 97766)
1942-08-08
Foundry of U.S. Naval Gun Factory in World War II
1942–1945
Operation Torch - map
1942 · map
T32 HMC at Fort Knox
1942
Collapsible assault boats being used by US infantrymen to cross Siwori Creek
1942
سماء مضيئة بنيران المضادات الأرضية (مدينة الدار البيضاء في الجزائر) - Anti-Aircraft Fire Night Sky (Dar El Beida city in Algeria) - Ciel nocturne de tirs antiaériens dar el beida
1942-11-21
African-American workers laying railroad ties for spur line, 1942
1942
USS Hornet Air Group on deck May 1942
1942-05
American army in Wallis island in 1942 - unloading a 155mm coast artillery gun
1942-08-24
Japanese cruiser Chikuma under air attack during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942 (NH 82404)
1942-10-26
3 inch gun section, Battery C, 206th CA, Dutch Harbor, AK
1942
SGT Vineyard, George Woolslayer, and ACRM Evans with WWII poster, 1942
1942 · poster
Captain G. Eklund, Merchant Marine, checks a ship's radio direction finder, 1942
1942
Crew members of USS Quail (AM-15) in motor launch at Darwin 1942
1942-06-07
USMC tanks after Battle of the Tenaru on Guadalcanal 1942
1942-08-21
German light cruiser Köln in Fættenfjorden on 19 July 1942
1942-07-19
USS John Penn AP-51
1942-09-13
King George VI at Alconbury.4
1942
USS Iowa (BB-61)
1942-08
Japanese Army in World War II: The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942-43
1942
POW Survivors From U-352 Eating Lunch
1942-06
3rd Squadron light Leader R.T. Smith alongside Curtiss Tomahawk II, “40,” AVG, Kunming, China, 23 May 1942
1942-05-23
USS Juniata IX-77
1942–1945
PX aboard USS Wichita (CA-45), in World War II
1942–1945
Evacuees Aboard Trains Heading for Merced Assembly Center
1942-05-20
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. View of one of the lath house where seedlings are.
1942-06-28
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Johnny Fukazawa, foreman of fields Numbers 3, 4,.
1942-06-30
George J. Yokomizo and Guayule plants
1942-06-29
Dorothea Lange pledge of allegiance
1942-04
A typical interior scene in one of the barrack apartments at this center. Note the cloth partition which lends a small amount of privacy. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorothea -- Manzanar, California. 6/30/42 Identifier: Volume 22 Identifier: Section C Identifier: WRA no. C-848 Collection: War Relocation
1942-06-30
George J. Yokomizo
1942-06-29
Yokomizo with Guayule seedlings
1942-06-29
Lathe House at Manzanar
1942-06-29
Japanese war relocation
1942-05-09