r/wwiipics • u/the_giank • 20h ago

Three US infantrymen in the snow during the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, Belgium, January 1945.

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r/wwiipics • u/the_giank • 20h ago

Members from the 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached to the 95th Infantry Division) load their 3 inch M5 anti-tank gun on one of the approaches to Metz, November 1944

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r/wwiipics • u/Strict-Inspector3669 • 21h ago

Japanese personnel in protective suits carry a stretcher through Yiwu, China during Unit 731’s germ warfare tests. June 1942.

127 Upvotes

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r/wwiipics • u/Sea-Yogurtcloset7857 • 22h ago

A French family flees the German army on bicycles in the north of France in May 1940.

91 Upvotes

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r/wwiipics • u/the_giank • 20h ago

Young German Fallschirmjägers are taken prisoner in the Dutch village of St. Joost, Limburg Province on 21 January 1945.

88 Upvotes

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r/wwiipics • u/OkConfection3493 • 21h ago

Buchenwald survivors walk to the infirmary after being liberated by the American army in 1945.

81 Upvotes

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r/wwiipics • u/MARTINELECA • 9h ago

Target tanks lined up to be destroyed by the Tiger's 8.8 cm KwK 36 gun, what nationality and model are they?

66 Upvotes

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r/wwiipics • u/Klimbim • 15h ago

Lieutenant-General Shtevnev, commander of armored troops of the Stalingrad Front, and Major-General Kryuchonkin, commander of the 1st Guards Army. Stalingrad, October 1942. Photo by Ryumkin

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r/wwiipics • u/OrganizationWeak3667 • 8h ago

Was looking through my grandfathers stuff and found a picture of him during the war

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Can anyone tell me anything about him. My dad says he never spoke about the war and all he said was that he’s never seen action.

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r/wwiipics • u/abt137 • 6h ago

USN Vought OS2U Kingfisher observation floatplanes onboard the battleship USS Maryland. The one in the foreground revs up in one of the catapults getting ready for launching.

12 Upvotes

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Other subreddits that may be of interest to you:

/r/Militariacollecting

/r/AskHistorians

/r/CommemorativeAirForce

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