Mid-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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A captured Canadian Ford-built CMP truck converted to carry a 2cm Flak 30 cannon in the German Afrika Korps, North Africa, 1943.	A Commando aircraft being prepared for a 'Hump' run, circa late-1943 to 1945

A company of US Army African-American WAAC personnel assembled for review by the Honorable Lester A. Walton, US Minister to Liberia, at an American camp near Monrovia, Liberia, circa 1940s	A Consolidated Liberator Mk.IIIa (B-24D) bomber with the Royal Air Force Coastal Command’s No. 86 Squadron operating from RAF Ballykelly in Northern Ireland, 1943.

A creek running through Suva, Fiji, 1942-1944	A crewman finds the only shade there is on the airstrip on Green Island (now Nissan Island), Northern Solomons, beneath an F4U-1D Corsair fighter of Marine Squadron 222, 1943-44.

A Dauntless dive bomber releasing a bomb, May 1942-Jun 1943	A factory in Germany producing Bf 109 fighters, 1943

A few possessions of the Yonemitsu family at the Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 1943	A formation of A-20 Havoc bombers in flight, circa 1943

A formation of G4M bombers in flight, circa 1940s	A formation of G4M bombers in flight, circa 1940s

A formation of G4M bombers in flight, circa 1940s	A formation of G4M bombers of Japanese Navy 705th Naval Air Group in flight, circa 1940s

A formation of G4M1 Model 11 bombers of Japanese 701st Naval Air Group in flight with a mountain in the background, circa 1940s	A formation of OS2U Kingfisher aircraft in flight, 1943

A French resistant fighter shortly after being arrested by the occupation administration in France, date unknown	A German armored halftrack vehicle being loaded into the nose doors of a six-engine Luftwaffe Me 323 Gigant transport, 1940s

A German soldier in a small shop in Finland or Norway, 1942-1943	A German soldier in white camouflage, Norway or Finland, 1942-1943