Wartime cartoon by Dr. Seuss.



An interesting photo…

Pvt. Allenburg of Co. I, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, dressed in Wehrmacht attire; somewhere near Rodewich, Germany - June 1945


B-26 Marauders from the 323rd Bombardment Group, 9th US Air Force fly over France.


A mother finds her son who had been separated from her during the war upon the arrival of a refugees boat coming from Europe; New York City - 1947

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson


Troops of the 327th US Army Combat Engineers, 102nd Infantry Division, load explosives into a disabled German tank. The engineers blow up the vehicle to prevent the tank’s use as a pillbox in the event of an enemy counter-attack; Apweiler, Germany - 6 January 1945

Photo by Joseph D. Karr (US Army Signal Corps)


A US M36 tank destroyer during the Battle of the Bulge in Dudelange, Luxembourg - 3 January 1945


Various models of the Sherman tank quayside on the Cherbourg harbor; France - 1944


Pvt. Fred Boone of Kentucky scans the horizon in the direction of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue from Quinéville, France - 15 June 1944


Wehrmacht POWs are escorted along the beach in front of US LCI(L)-500; Normandy, France - 7 June 1944


Model airplanes of various design decorate the ceiling of the train concourses at Union Station; Chicago, Illinois - 1943

Photo by Jack Delano (via)


Close up photo of tied hands of a murdered Polish officer during the investigation of the Katyn Massacre; near Smolensk, Soviet Union - 1943


Private H.E. Goddard of the Perth Regiment, Canadian Infantry Corps, carries a Bren gun while advancing through a forest north of Arnhem; Netherlands - 15 April 1945

Photo by Jack H. Smith


US soldiers stand with a little boy in Eindhoven, Netherlands - September 1944

The man on the right was later identified, 62 years after the photo was taken by veterans visiting Eindhoven, as 1LT Herbert Viertel, B Company, 1st BN, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne Division.


US Marines of the 1st Marine Division wade ashore from their LST in rough water to take the beach at Cape Gloucester on New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 26 December 1943