Mid-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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Crewman on HMS King George V with 7-inch anti-aircraft rockets, 1941	CW-21 aircraft, China, circa 1941

CW-21 B fighters on an airfield in the Netherlands, 1941	Damaged DC-3 aircraft at Suifu, Sichuan Province, China, 1941

DC-2 passenger aircraft at Loiwing (Leiyun) airfield, Yunnan Province, China, date unknown	Dead Soviet soldier next to his Maxim M1910 heavy machine gun, circa 1940s

Deck opening aboard Bismarck with weather guard, 1940-1941	Diagram of the early DUKW from the US Army Service Manual

Do 217 J-2 nightfighter, 1940s	Dodge WC27 1/2 ton ambulances and CCKW 21/2 ton trucks loaded on railway flat cars for shipment from manufacturing plants to points of embarkation, circa 1941

Dodge WC54 3/4-ton field ambulance converted for use by the US Army Signal Corps; conversions of this type were not unique but they were rare	DShK machine gun and other weapons atop a Soviet armored train, 1941

Early DUKW engaged in training, United States, 1940-1944	Early GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 closed cab long wheel base transport with winch, date unknown

Early GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 closed cab short wheel base transport with winch and optional gun ring, date unknown	Electronic schematic showing the effects of a capacitor on a circuit that, supposedly, led to the creation of the Mr. Chad face that was later adopted for “Kilroy Was Here.”

Entrance to RAF Station Sembawang, Singapore, circa 1941	F2A Buffalo fighter being serviced, date unknown

F4F-3 Wildcat (foreground), SBD-3 Dauntless (center forward and background), and TBD-1 Devastator (center rear) aircraft on the flight deck of USS Saratoga, fall 1941	Factory photo of an early GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 closed cab long wheel base transport with winch, Pontiac, Michigan, United States, 1940-1942