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German U-boat U-118 Attacked

This photograph shows the German submarine U-118 sinking after being attacked by aircraft from the escort carrier USS Bogue on June 12, 1943.

Turing's Treatise on the Enigma - A Photographic Copy of a Paper Prepared in GCCS, written ca. 1939-1942

A declassified internal manual written by Alan Turing and other codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the war. It gives a detailed breakdown of how…

Voilà comment ils Mentent!

This poster is an anti-British propaganda poster issued in occupied France around 1941. The poster uses a montage of black-and-white photographs and…

Dig for Victory

This British World War II propaganda poster was created in 1942 as part of the “Dig for Victory” campaign. The poster shows a booted leg pushing a…

Liberation of Harderwijk

Second World War, liberation. During the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of World War II, a joyful line of people stands together with Allied…

death notice of Dutch resistance fighter

Anno Sjoerd Titus Brandsma (1881–1942) was a Frisian Carmelite priest, professor, journalist, and Dutch resistance fighter during World War II. He was…

U.S.S. Nevada bombards Nazi positions blocking the forward surge of Allied troops in Normandy in June 1944

"478.Photograph. 'File No: 50420 June 9, 1944 U. S. Battlewagon Aids Land Forces Flame and smoke gush from the muzzles of 14-inch guns as the U.S.S.…

We beat ’em before..We’ll beat ’em again! (Propaganda poster by an unknown artist.)

Propaganda poster created between 1939 and 1945. The poster uses the slogan “We beat ’em before..We’ll beat ’em again!” and presents an anti-German…

"Gil Puyat Avenue, Lily Hill Street, Clark Freeport Zone A Buddhist shrine with a 5-ton granite statue of Kannon (Tibetan: སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས Chenrezig,…

Anti-communist and anti-Semitic propaganda poster

Anti-communist and anti-Semitic propaganda poster from the period of Nazi occupation in Poland. Printed on paper/newsprint. It depicts a German…