Mid-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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A Heinkel He-111H bomber captured on a landing strip in Libya after the Battle of El Alamein and repainted in RAF markings by No. 260 Squadron RAF. Note the distinctive squadron mark on the side. 1943.	A Japanese soldier guarding the Russo-Japanese border on Sakhalin Island at the 50th parallel, Karafuto Prefecture, Japan, circa mid 1940s

A Jeep loaded with radio and telephone equipment being used as a forward command post for a US Army artillery division, Territory of Alaska, 1943	A Mark XIII aerial torpedo being launched from a PT Boat by simply dropping it over the side during tests in the Rendova area of the Solomon Islands, 1943.

A newly bulit Tiger I heavy tank being loaded onto a rail car at the Henschel factory in Kassel, Germany, 1942-1944	A Norwegian female worker receiving Minister President Vidkun Quisling's autograph, circa 1943-1944

A PBY Catalina flying past the Escort Carrier USS Sangamon at anchor in the Solomons, 1943.	A PT boat patrolled off New Guinea, 1943

A section of the A-20 Havoc bomber being loaded onto a transport ship, 1943	A WAAF corporal checking a delivery of 20mm Hispano cannon shells before being loaded onto a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft of No. 96 Squadron RAF at RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943-1945

A WAAF driver turning the starting handle of a Standard 5-cwt van, Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1940s	A WAAF flight officer examining an aerial photograph with two Canadian photographic reconnaissance pilots, Benson, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943

A WAAF leading aircraftwoman driver at the wheel of a Fordson 15-cwt van at Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s	A WAAF member transposing a plain language message into perforated morse tape while the other threaded the tape into a high-speed transmitter, Headquarters No. 60 (Signals) Group, RAF Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown

A WAAF officer, acompanied by a flight sergeant, inspecting a squad of WAAF Policewomen, RAF Police School at RAF Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1940s	A WAAF orderly dispatching messages by Lamson tube, 1940s

A WAAF storewoman checking parts in the spares section at No. 16 Maintenance Unit, RAF Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown	A-20 Havoc bombers of US 410th Bomb Group based at RAF Gosfield, England, United Kingdom, date unknown

A-20 Havoc bombers of US 410th Bomb Group flying in formation, date unknown	A-20 Havoc bombers of US 9th Air Force flying over the French coast, circa 1943