×
Home Intro People Events Equipment Places Maps Books Photos Videos Other Reference FAQ About
  ☰   

World War II Database

29 items in this album on 2 pages.

Metal frames placed on the beach to deter amphibious invasions, Normandy, France, Jun 1944Rhino ferry RHF-19 landing CCKW trucks and other vehicles on Omaha Beach, circa 10 Jun 1944. Note Soldier in the right foreground, with waterproofing taped around his rifle.
Metal frames placed on the beach to deter amphibious invasions, Normandy, France, Jun 1944Rhino ferry RHF-19 landing CCKW trucks and other vehicles on Omaha Beach, circa 10 Jun 1944. Note Soldier in the right foreground, with waterproofing taped around his rifle.
Stormy weather in the English Channel, Jun 1944The first meeting on French soil between Bernard Montgomery and generals Omar Bradley and Miles Dempsey, Normandy, France, 10 Jun 1944
Stormy weather in the English Channel, Jun 1944The first meeting on French soil between Bernard Montgomery and generals Omar Bradley and Miles Dempsey, Normandy, France, 10 Jun 1944
Tracer fire from Allied warships lighting up the sky off Ouistreham, France, 10 Jun 1944; photo taken from HMS Mauritius, seen in foregroundTraplin, Heldon, and Kennedy of the Canadian Army manning a 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun in Normandy, France, mid-Jun 1944
Tracer fire from Allied warships lighting up the sky off Ouistreham, France, 10 Jun 1944; photo taken from HMS Mauritius, seen in foregroundTraplin, Heldon, and Kennedy of the Canadian Army manning a 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun in Normandy, France, mid-Jun 1944
US Army patrol examining a German 88 mm FlaK anti-aircraft gun with its barrel splayed by the retreating Germans near Montebourg, France, June 1944US Army vehicles moved inland from a Normandy invasion beach, Jun 1944
US Army patrol examining a German 88 mm FlaK anti-aircraft gun with its barrel splayed by the retreating Germans near Montebourg, France, June 1944US Army vehicles moved inland from a Normandy invasion beach, Jun 1944
US Coast Guardsmen John Smith, African-American on left, and Daniel Kaczorowski, on right, manning a 20-mm Oerlikon autocannon aboard a landing craft, circa mid- or late-1944 off France
US Coast Guardsmen John Smith, African-American on left, and Daniel Kaczorowski, on right, manning a 20-mm Oerlikon autocannon aboard a landing craft, circa mid- or late-1944 off France

29 items in this album on 2 pages.



Change View
Desktop View

Search WW2DB
News

Random Photograph

1948 staged photo of physicists Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd recreating their collaboration on a 1939 letter to Franklin Roosevelt urging the development of atomic weapons.


Current Site Statistics

Famous WW2 Quote
"Goddam it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"

Captain Henry P. Jim Crowe, Guadalcanal, 13 Jan 1943


Support Us

Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Even $1 a month will go a long way. Thank you!

Or, please support us by purchasing some WW2DB merchandise at TeeSpring, Thank you!