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Teen posing in rolled up jeans, saddle shoes, belt buckle to the side and over the pocket and short sleeves shirt, 1950s
Sailors from the American submarine ‘Finback’ pull a downed pilot from the water, September 2, 1944. The pilot had a torpedo bomber that was shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft guns and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The pilot was George Bush Senior.
‘Never forget that England imposed this war on us’ – Goebbels speaks at the NSDAP district rally in the Berlin Sportpalast, 4 December 1942.
A German soldier with his French girlfriend in the occupied Paris, 1942.
Grim-faced Rangers of the 2nd Battalion prepare to assault Pointe Du Hoc. 60% of them will be dead or wounded in the next 48 hours. It should be noted that this was the first time the 2nd Rangers Battalion had been in combat. They were very well trained but had no combat experience.
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  • A British soldier scolding a German civilian for laughing at a screening of concentration camp conditions. She was ordered to rewatch the film. (May 1945)(1296×958)
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  • Hugh Thompson, the hero who stopped a massacre committed by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by landing his helicopter in the line of fire, 1968.
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  • 3 girls strolling past two British soldiers keeping watch for snipers after a spate of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1981)
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  • ‘Come on in, I’ll treat you well!I used to know your daddy! ‘ Anti-war poster by C. D. Batchelor from 1936 showing how European young men are getting involved in war
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  • A boy carrying oversized pretzels in post-war Germany, 1950s. A symbol of recovery, resilience, and the joy of simple things.
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  • A caricature of the war in Afghanistan, 2019
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  • A Rhodesian soldier wearing sneakers takes a smoke break during the Rhodesian Bush War, 1970s
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  • Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972.
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  • Two Soviet soldiers sitting together Circa 1970
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  • U.S. Soldier picking up the corpse of a dead Viet Cong soldier, 1960s
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  • German soldiers hang teenagers suspected of aiding Soviet soldiers, 1942
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  • Auschwitz officer Irma Grese on trial for war crimes at only 22 years old, September 1945
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  • A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, Serbia, 1914.
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  • Soviet cartoon from the Second World War (1942) showing a concerned Goebbels inspecting soldiers at the front while holding a propaganda image of a cheery soldier behind his back. Artist: Kukryniksy.
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  • A mother in Chicago offers her children for sale during extreme post-war poverty. USA, 1948.(750 × 600)
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  • Soviet soldiers holding the captured German banners at the Moscow Victory Parade, June 24, 1945
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  • Former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny in Madrid, Spain, 1970. Skorzeny led the famous 1943 Gran Sasso raid in which Mussolini was rescued from captivity. After the war he escaped allied captivity & worked as an arms dealer, advising authoritarian leaders like Nasser & Peron, as well as Mossad. (1300×859)
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  • A marine mourns the loss of a friend during the battle of Okinawa 1945
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  • Wehrmacht troops smile and laugh after handing out cigarettes to a group of Ukrainian children. 1941.
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  • Waffen-SS troops taking a loyalty oath at a Nazi rally in Munich, September 5th, 1938.
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