Photos Taken in Washington, DC | World War II Database


US President Franklin Roosevelt delivering his annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, 6 Jan 1941	President Franklin Roosevelt being presented with a Japanese flag captured by US Marines on Makin Island by Marine Corps Commandant LtGen Thomas Holcomb, White House, Washington DC, 17 Sep 1942.

Song Meiling addressing the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, 18 Feb 1943	At the White House 18 Mar 1943, Henry Kaiser, right, and President Franklin Roosevelt looking at a model of a Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier, then under construction at Kaiser’s Vancouver, Washington shipyard.

View from the top of the Washington Monument looking at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, United States, 1944. Note the buildings of the Navy Department in the foreground that were removed after the Pentagon opened.	Secretary of War Henry Stimson presenting Brigadier General Theordore Roosvelt, Jr.’s posthumous Medal of Honor to his widow, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, Washington DC, 21 Sep 1944.

Captain Daniel Gallery presenting a German battle flag and flagstaff captured from submarine U-505 to Admiral Jonas Ingram. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal is behind Admiral Ingram. 16 May 1945, Washington, DC.	United States Navy Captain Joseph Rochefort in his position as Chief of the Pacific Strategic Intelligence Section in Washington, DC, 1945 (post-war).