Thompson Photographs | World War II Database

42 items in this album on 3 pages.


Men of UK 1st East Surreys regiment, 16 Dec 1943	Waco CG-4 with US 101st Airborne men; note BAR, M1 Garand, Thompson M1A1, M1A1 Bazooka, Springfield 1903; possibly a training jump due to peeling PFC stripes; circa early 1944

US Army Sargeant Louis Reid with a Chinese soldier, northern Burma, Feb-Mar 1944	Canadian 1st Special Service Force troops relaxing near Anzio, Italy, 20-27 Apr 1944

Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell awarding a Silver Star medal to a Chinese soldier in the field, about six miles south of Laban, northern Burma, 28 Apr 1944	Polish resistance fighters Wlodzimierz Denkowski (with Thompson submachine gun), Lech Zubrzycki, Jan Baginski, and Zygmunt Siennicki (with MP35 submachine gun) of the Kedyw (Directorate of Sabotage) on Stawki Street in Wola district, Warsaw, Poland, circa 11 Aug 1944

Clyde Covault of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) cleaning his Thompson submachine gun, Camp Landis, Kachin, northern Burma, Dec 1944	US 7th Army troops checking a house for snipers, western Germany, 16 Dec 1944

John Blackburn of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) cleaning his submachine gun, Burma, circa 1945	Mail call with members of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), probably Burma, 1945; Bartello (handing out mail), Mahl, Routson, Rokita, Frederick, and two unidentified men

Members of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) having a meal in the field, Burma, 1945; T. Smith, Thompson, Rappert, Horton, R. Smith, Winters, Knight, J. W. Simpson, J. R. Simpson, and Strubel	Jake Rand, A. K. Bartlow, Okie, and George Beal of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Burma, 13 Feb 1945; note 75mm howitzer in background

American troops crossing the Rhine under fire at Sankt Goar, Germany, late Mar 1945	Corporal Luther E. Boger of US 82nd Airborne Division reading a warning sign in front of Cologne Cathedral, Köln (Cologne), Germany, 4 Apr 1945; note Thompson submachine gun and Panther tank wreck

M24 Chaffee light tank of US Army 1st Armored Division in Bologna, Italy, 14 Apr 1945	A Marine of the US 1st Marines Division pointed his Thompson submachine gun at a Japanese sniper, Okinawa, Japan, Apr-Jun 1945

US Marines PFC Lester Walker, Corporal Francis Penrodk, and PFC Frank Bondelk patrolling southern Okinawa, Japan with war dogs Zingo, Jack, and Major, Jun 1945	US Marine Private Bruce Rutherford cleaning his Thompson submachine gun while playing with puppies Nanci, Shoto, Sake, Zero, Banzai, and Okinawa on Okinawa, Japan, 1 Jun 1945

Japanese Navy Vice Admiral Ruitaro Fujita arriving at Government House, Hong Kong, for the surrender ceremonies while escorted by a Royal Marine, 16 Sep 1945. Note Thompson M1A1.	US Army 1LT Kingston M. Winget with a Thompson submachine gun, Chipyong-ni, Korea, circa Feb 1951