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You Never Know Who’s Listening: Careless Talk Costs Lives

This British World War II propaganda poster shows two women talking on a bus while Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring sit behind them and secretly…

WWII veteran Joe Gortiz entered the Navy in 1942 and returned home from the Pacific, four years later.

We Won!

This 1945 Soviet propaganda poster by V. Ivanov shows a soldier holding two large red flags and celebrating victory. The poster uses strong patriotic…

We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death

World War II propaganda poster by Ben Shahn showing three French laborers with their hands raised. The poster warns American workers that defeat by…

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…

WAVE Demonstrating Bombe

A historical photograph showing a U.S. Navy WAVE demonstrating the operation of a Bombe machine, the electromechanical device used to decrypt Enigma…

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…

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.…

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…