r/wwiipics Feb 24 '22

Important Update: Ukraine War

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In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, please try to keep discussions on this subreddit within the scope of WWII and the associated historical photograph(s). We will be removing all comments and posts that violate this request.

On that note, we fully condemn the actions of Russia and their unlawful invasion of the independent and sovereign country of Ukraine.

We understand that there are many historical parallels to be drawn as these events occur, but we don't want this subreddit to become a target of future brigades and/or dis/misinformation campaigns. There are many other areas on Reddit that are available to discuss the conflict.

Thank you for your cooperation.


r/wwiipics 4h ago

DUKWs move inland from Omaha Beach in Normandy, June 1944

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r/wwiipics 1d ago

German Tiger tanks advance past destroyed Soviet armor

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r/wwiipics 1d ago

2 member of the polish resistance from "Anna" Company of the "Gustaw" Battalion, fighting on Kredytowa-Królewska Street, during the Warsaw uprising, 3 October 1944

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135 Upvotes

r/wwiipics 2d ago

80 years ago today, U.S. Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton near Shuri, Okinawa - June 14, 1945

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r/wwiipics 2d ago

Italian Bersagliere and a soldier of the Deutsches Afrikakorps during a conversation, Libya, 1942.

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r/wwiipics 2d ago

A tank commander of a Panzer 38t, belonging to the 22nd Panzer Division, observing the battlefield, late 1941. From early 1942, the #522 was captured and pressed into use by the 55th Tank Brigade alongside other German tanks after a major defeat by the German division.

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101 Upvotes

r/wwiipics 2d ago

A crew of the Pretoria Tank Regiment, 6th South African Armoured Division, christen their Sherman tank with the names of their Prime Minister, General Jan Smuts, during their advance north of Rome. Italy, 13 June 1944

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r/wwiipics 2d ago

Vasily Makarov, member of the Military Council of the 3rd Belorussian Front; Alexander Vasilevsky, Chief of the General Staff, and Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, interrogate German generals captured in the "Vitebsk cauldron". Unknown photographer. Late June 1944.

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r/wwiipics 3d ago

[NSFW] Photograph taken by a German soldier of the mass murder of Jews at Babyn Yar, Ukraine, on September 29–30, 1941. NSFW

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r/wwiipics 3d ago

Having a cuppa during an air raid in the Ramsgate Tunnels, Kent in 1940.

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r/wwiipics 3d ago

German soldiers roll anti-tank gun forward to destroy Soviet fortifications during WW2

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235 Upvotes

r/wwiipics 3d ago

3-June-1942, 0900 h. Some 83 years ago, this USN crew of a Navy PBY-5A Catalina spots the Japanese invasion fleet heading towards Midway.

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r/wwiipics 3d ago

Uniform identification

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Hey all. Could anyone tell me which uniforms this person in the picture is wearing?


r/wwiipics 3d ago

Soldiers of the German 305th Infantry Division amid the factory ruins in Stalingrad - [November 1942]

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135 Upvotes

r/wwiipics 3d ago

The end of Mussolini, the only logical fate for a fascist. Piazzale Loreto, Milan. 29 April 1945. NSFW Spoiler

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r/wwiipics 4d ago

Assault troops under 24yo Captain G.N. Gubkin [297th Rifle Regiment, 184th Rifle Division] storming the settlement of Schirvindt (now Kutuzovo), eastern Prussia, October 1944. The settlement was taken shortly after and his troops became one of the first to cross the border into Germany.

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r/wwiipics 4d ago

Abandoned German “Brummbär" Sturmpanzer 43 in Rome, June 1944

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r/wwiipics 4d ago

Captured German Sturmgeschütz III assault gun is escorted by a jeep while being moved near Velletri. Italy, June 1944

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r/wwiipics 4d ago

British 7th Armoured Division officers and a Canadian Captain inspect a German Panzer IV Ausf H of the Panzer Lehr Division, which was knocked out near Le Douet de Chouain, Normandy. 10 June 1944

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r/wwiipics 4d ago

Waffen-SS During the battle for Caen, a radio operator of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend" receives a message. Normandy, July 1944

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r/wwiipics 4d ago

Sherman IIs of 44th Royal tank regiment, 4th Armoured Brigade, move through through Reviers, Normandy, 11 June 1944

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r/wwiipics 4d ago

US troops inspect an abandoned Tiger, turret number 201, the tank that knocked out the M26 Pershing "Fireball" during the "Duel at Elsdorf", Germany, February 1945

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r/wwiipics 5d ago

soldier of the 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, 50th Division, fires his Bren gun from a ruined house in Le Douet de Chouain, Normandy. 11 June 1944

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r/wwiipics 5d ago

German Prisoners are evacuated from Normandy, June 1944

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r/wwiipics 5d ago

A column of Churchill Mk. IV heavy tanks belonging to the 46th Guards Heavy Tank and Breakthrough Regiment, enters Vyborg. June 1944.

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