Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1940s
879 photos, in date order; 481–540 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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Crossed rifles in the sand
1944-06-06
Preparing for Invasion3
1944-06-05
MulberryA - floating causeway
1944
Cliffs at Pointe du Hoc 02
1944-06-06
Damaged German pillbox at Pointe du Hoc
1944-06-06
HMS Glasgow w BB35 Jun 1944
1944-06-26
Omaha Beach Landing Craft
1944-06-06
Omaha Beach First Wave
1944-06-06
Omaha Beach American Casualty
1944-06-06
Admirals Sir Bertram Ramsay, RN, and John L. Hall, USN, aboard USS Ancon (AGC-4) on 25 May 1944 (80-G-45713)
1944-05-25
Omaha beach-aerial-view
1944-06-06
Omaha beach east f 1944 2
1944-04-21 · map
Omaha beach west f4 1944
1944-04-21 · map
Żołnierze kompanii G, 2. batalionu, 38. pułku 2. Dywizji Piechoty schodzą z plaży Omaha, 7.06.1944
1944
How Omaha Beach looked during the afternoon of 6 June 1944
1944-06-06
USS LST-982 Omaha Beach November 1944
1944-11
26-G-2963 Normandy Invasion, June 1944
1944
Into the Jaws of Death
1944-06-06
USCG-1, formerly the 83300, escorting the first waves of landing craft to Normandy
1944-06-06
Omaha Mulberry Harbour
1944
LCVP landing craft put troops ashore on Omaha Beach
1944-06-06
Normandy Invasion, June 1944
1944
Omaha beach aerial view draws
c. 1944
Into the Jaws of Death 23-0455M edit (cropped)
1944-06-06
Monsters at Omaha Beach" - original D-Day + Normandy Invasion painting by Lawrence Beall Smith
1944 · painting
Landing Craft Infantry ship
1944-06
Landing Craft Infantry ship
1944-06
16th Infantry Regiment D-Day Commanders
1944
Face In the Surf
1944
John L Hall Jr during Normandy
1944-06
Omaha Beach Landing Craft Approaches
1944-06-06
LST-357 loading
1944-06
Dried out LST discharges at Omaha Beach
1944
To the beaches of normandy
1944-06-06
The Tough Beach
1944
HQ Battery X Corps Artillery
1944-07-04
El Shatt refugee camp for Yugoslavs 1944-09 - -FSA.8d37900-8d37934v
1944-09
442 regimental combat team
1944
Ernest Gallego with first cousin Alex Mahlovich
1944-10-05
El Shatt refugee camp for Yugoslavs 1944-09 - -FSA.8d37900-8d37936v
1944-09
MP. Pvt. Mahlon Smith of Phoenixville, PA., is assisted in directing traffic in San Vittore area by 9-year old Vicenzo Biscardo, formerly a homeless waif, outfitted in complete GI cop's uniform.
1944
Foo Fighter WWII germany
1944
El Shatt refugee camp for Yugoslavs 1944-09 - -FSA.8d37900-8d37960v
1944-09
64th Fighter Wing at Ludres
1944
El Shatt refugee camp for Yugoslavs 1944-09 - -FSA.8d37800-8d37895v
1944-09
Ordnance men paint "Easter Specials" for Hitler near a B-24 of the 15th Air Force in Italy for an Austrian NAZI aircraft factory target in April 1944
1944-04
El Shatt refugee camp for Yugoslavs 1944-09 - -FSA.8d37900-8d37996v
1944-09
President of Brazil Speaks to Soldiers
1944-06-30
Pilot house aboard USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), circa in 1944
c. 1944
El Shatt refugee camp for Yugoslavs 1944-09 - -FSA.8d38000-8d38056v
1944-09
B-24 Liberators of the 15th Air Force drop "a stick" of 100 pound bombs on Bologna, Italy
1944–1945
Foo fighter WWII 1944
1944
El Shatt refugee camp for Yugoslavs 1944-09 - -FSA.8d37800-8d37894v
1944-09
RADM Ralph W Christie and LCDR Walter T Griffith on USS Bowfin
1944-01-26
US Navy Photo 114-1 Bombing Manila 14 Nov 1944
1944-11-14
Foo fighter 415th Night Fighter
1944
5 Ruth R. Clarke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Clarke
1944
Sgt. Ralph Butterfield, left, Alhambra, Cal., finds an oasis in the midst of a Normandy heat wave, and judging by the smile on his face, it hit the spot. Granville, France. 3 August, 1944
1944-08-03
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, Advanced Section Communication Zone
1944-02-25
Hogan's 400 soldiers surrounded during the Battle of the Bulge after hiking back to friendly lines
1944-12-26