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| Japanese soldiers guard American prisoners of war on Bataan during the 1941 “death march.” The World War II Philippines campaign saw nearly 100,000 U.S. personnel taken as prisoners of war. During the campaign, the United States had to operate from as far away as Hawaii. |
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| A Japanese aerial view of the Pearl Harbor attack. |
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| A World War II Japanese-centric map of Hawaii. |
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| Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. |
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| The fate of the USS Arizona (BB-36). |
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| The Last Moments of Admiral Yamaguchi, Japanese war art by Kita Renzo. |
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| A German Panther in winter camouflage rumbles through a village during Operation Konrad in January 1945. |
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| Soviet troops slain in combat lay in a snow-covered ditch in Hungary. |
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| Soviet machine gun teams in action in Hungary. |
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| Generalleutnant Willi Bittrich. |
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| Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin. |
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| SS Panzer Grenadiers and police units fought side-by-side in Hungary during the spring offensive. |
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| Soviet self-propelled guns helped stem the German advance in Hungary. |
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| At the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1940, a flight crew poses for a photographer with its Dornier Do 17 reconnaissance aircraft. |
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| Helmut Rau, seated in the observer position aboard a Heinkel He 111 reconnaissance plane, takes weather readings. |
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| Heinkel He 111 on an airfield in Norway. |
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| GIs move up an old hillside trail in Italy, accompanied by a pack mule. |
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| Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, the Allied Deputy Commander of the Mediterranean Theater, presents the Medal of Honor to Second Lieutenant Ernest “Red Eagle” Childers on April 12, 1944. He participated in the Allied landings at Salerno and Anzio. |
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| Childers served in the Army through Korea and the start of the Vietnam War, and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel before retiring from the Army in 1965. |
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| American GIs move through the streets of a shelled Italian town. |
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| Japanese Mitsubishi G4M2 Betty bombers wing their way toward a target. |
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| A Heinkel He 111Z 'Zwilling' (twin) lifts off from the airfield in Hildeshein, Germany, with two Gotha Go 242 gliders in tow. Date unknown. |
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| Illustration representing World War II ships built under the Bethlehem Steel program across various shipyards, totaling 1,121 ships. |
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| Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in the doorway of a bunker on Midway Island while on an inspection trip after the Battle of Midway, June 1942. |
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| With one man carrying a small motor scooter on his shoulder, men of 48 Commando disembark from landing craft at Juno Beach near St.-Aubin-sur-Mer, June 6, 1944. |
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| Making the initial landing at Nan Red Beach, on the left flank of Juno Beach, Canadian infantry disembark from their landing craft under German fire shortly after 8 am on D-Day. |
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| Making the initial landing at Nan Red Beach, on the left flank of Juno Beach, Canadian infantry disembark from their landing craft under German fire shortly after 8 am on D-Day. |
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| Men from 48 Commando and Canadian infantry with their bicycles take cover from German mortar fire in ditches near St.-Aubin-sur-Mer. |
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| Typically disregarding his personal safety, Lt. Col. James L. Moulton, commander of 48 Commando, watches a Canadian M-10 tank destroyer approaching a disabled Royal Marine Centaur tank (in the distance) during the attack on the strongpoint known as WN 26 at Langrune. |
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| Canadian infantrymen from the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment cautiously approach another German strongpoint, WN 27, at St.-Aubin-sur-Mer. |
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| During a stay on Guadalcanal with men of the 1st Marine Division, 1st Lt. Dwight Shepler, a Navy combat artist, witnessed scenes such as the one shown in his painting of gun crews servicing 155mm howitzers. |
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| Colonel Chesty Puller (second from left) visits men of the 7th Marines in camp at Cape Gloucester. |
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| An ever-present figure near the front line, Chesty Puller (left) discusses troop dispositions with another officer. |
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| The five Sullivan Brothers, all of whom were lost in the sinking of the U.S.S. Juneau, November 13, 1942. |
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| Calutron Operators in Oak Ridge, Tennessee During World War II. |
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| Hiroshima after atomic bombing, March 1946. (National Archives Identifier 148728174) |
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| Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic physicist and head of the Manhattan Project, ca. 1944. (National Archives Identifier 558579) |
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| Little Boy on trailer cradle in pit, 1945. The inside of the open bomb bay doors of the Enola Gay can just be seen at the top of the photo; the aircraft was moved over the pit to allow room to load the bomb safely. (National Archives Identifier 76048653) |
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| Topographical map, Hiroshima. (National Archives Identifier 166126365) |
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| Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, waves from the cockpit before takeoff, August 6, 1945. (National Archives Identifier 535737) |
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| Enola Gay returns after strike at Hiroshima, 1945. (National Archives Identifier 76048622) |
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| President Truman announces Japan’s surrender, August 14, 1945. (National Archives Identifier 520054) |
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| Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) Captain Charity Adams drilling her company at the first WAAC Training Center in Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Major Charity Edna Adams commanded the battalion and over 800 volunteers joined the 6888th Central Postal Battalion throughout the war. |
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| Original Caption: Somewhere in England, Maj. Charity E. Adams, Columbia, S.C., and Capt. Abbie N. Campbell, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., inspect the first contingent of negro members of the Women's Army Corps assigned to overseas service. February 15, 1945. (National Archives Identifier 531249) |
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| Original Caption: “One of the two similar buildings, in France, which house the vast quantities of Christmas mail en route to American soldiers.” The 6888th would sort similar piles. (National Archives Local Identifier 111-SC-197654) |
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| Original caption: As a Scottish piper instructs Pfc. Edith Gaskill, Arlington, Va., in the art of playing bagpipes, Pvt. Marie McKinney, Washington, D.C., examines his kilt. The WACs are members of the first negro all-WAC postal unit to arrive in the European theater of operations. The unit will handle the Army Postal Directory Service for the entire theater. U.S. Army port, Greenock, Scotland. February 14, 1945. (Local Identifier: 111-SC-202080; National Archives Identifier: 175539147) |
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| Original Caption: “General view of parade which followed ceremony in honor of Jean D’Arc, at the market place where she was burned at the stake.” (Local Identifier: 111-SC-426441; National Archives Identifier: 175539237) |
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| Original Caption: “General view of ceremony in honor of Joan of Arc Day, in which the first negro WAC unit to be on continent took part. Rouen, France.” (Local Identifier: 111-SC-209550; National Archives Identifier: 175539161) |
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| 6888th at the Snack Bar in Rouen, France. (Local Identifier: 111-SC-209179; National Archives Identifier: 175539159) |
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| Original Caption: “WACs sort packages, taken from the mail sacks by French civilian employees, at the 17th Base Post Office. Paris, France.” (Local Identifier: 111-SC-337995-1; National Archives Identifier: 175539203) |
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| Original Caption: “After the battalion had set up its facilities at Rouen, France, it held an 'open house', which was attended by hundreds of Negro soldiers. Pvt. Ruth L. James,…of the battalion area is on duty at the gate.” (Local Identifier: 111-SC-237072; National Archives Identifier: 531333) |
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| Original Caption: “First contingent of negro members of Women’s Army Corps assigned to overseas service shown in formation in front of WAC quarters somewhere in England.” (Local Identifier: 111-SC-200585; National Archives Identifier: 175539133) |
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| Women's Army Corps Private First Class Isabella Hardacre handles the information phones at the headquarters switchboard at the Potsdam Conference. July 15, 1945. (Local ID: 63-1457-76; National Archives Identifier 348307719) |