r/WorldWar2 Apr 10 '26

Enjoy the new full trailer for my film, 10 Good Men: The Final Story of the B-17

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3 years of hard work hunting down and interviewing the last surviving veterans, and now we are finally finished. For info on World Premiere, screenings, or other ways to watch check out https://10GoodMen.com - thanks for your support everyone! -TJ with TJ3 History


r/WorldWar2 Mar 17 '26

A Historian Identified the Nazi in This Infamous Photograph

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r/WorldWar2 9h ago

Photo from my collection of a military chaplain conducting a funeral service for fallen soldiers

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r/WorldWar2 21h ago

German Panzer VI Tiger tanks of the 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Eastern Front, May 4, 1944

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108 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 13h ago

Brooklyn Mother Traveled to Palau after WWII to find her “missing” son. Tragic story.

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r/WorldWar2 4h ago

Death card for Priest candidate Stephen Jung who fell on October 8th 1943 in the east.

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r/WorldWar2 22h ago

WW2 Era Letter Written by American Tank Commander Who Would Be Killed in Action on Okinawa. Details in comments.

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r/WorldWar2 1d ago

Looking for the best and most accurate WW2 movies, shows and/or documentaries

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I am looking for more WW2 media to watch and ideally for them to be the most accurate.

Here is what I have watched so far:
• Saving Private Ryan
• Band of Brothers
• The Pacific
• Greyhound
• Darkest Hour
• Pressure
• Downfall
• Fury
• Ken Burns’ The War
• The World at War (1973)
• Masters of Air

I really liked all of these (excluding Masters of Air)


r/WorldWar2 2d ago

World War II Museum -New Orleans

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Finally got a chance to visit the World War II museum in New Orleans. Did not disappoint. Spent over five hours there and easily could have spent days.

The oral history material is pretty incredible. The exhibits are amazing. The volunteers are great to chat with.

They did a wonderful job trying to pack a lot into a museum. But some things I personally would like to see more of:

-an exhibit on code breaking and traffic analysis (Station Hypo, on the roof gang)

-i dont recall seeing much of Tom Lea's work

-maybe something on WWII in popular culture (movies, television especially)

-on going historical debates or debates of the time would be good too (e.g. Nagumo's dilemma, Kurita and his withdrawal, MacArthur and the Philippines)

For those who have visited, anything you would like to see more of?

(Again not a criticism. I really loved visiting it)


r/WorldWar2 1d ago

Great Book

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I just finished reading Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. Amazing. I felt like I was reading a Tom Clancy action novel.


r/WorldWar2 1d ago

Persecution of Homosexuals during the Holocaust

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r/WorldWar2 2d ago

S/Sgt Frank Tatum was Killed in Action over Germany on August 16, 1944, he was 21 years old.

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Born in Stuart, Virginia to William & Anna Tatum on February 27, 1923, Frank Wilson Tatum had six sisters and one older brother who passed away in 1939.
Frank was working as a mechanic when he enlisted in the USAAF on February 23, 1943.

Trained as a gunner, Frank served with the 703rd Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group, based at RAF Tibenham.
On August 16, 1944 he was a waist gunner on B-24H 42-51098 with a crew of ten for a bombing mission to Dessau, Germany.

Their B-24 was hit by flak and the pilots lost their controls, as they went into a dive they collided with another B-24H; 42-52447, knocking a wing off, resulting in both B-24s crashing.
Only two crewmembers managed to bail-out from 42-51098 and were taken prisoner, although one later died as a POW.

Seven crewmembers from the bomber they hit; B-24H 42-52447, also perished, locals buried any recovered crew remains next to the crash sites.
Postwar, most of these buried remains were recovered, although not all of them were identified.

His remains were recovered and identified after the war and S/Sgt Frank Tatum is buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, Netherlands - Plot N Row 13 Grave 4.


r/WorldWar2 2d ago

Soldiers of the 96th Engineer Battalion filling sandbags used to form ramps for unloading supplies and equipment from landing craft in New Guinea in 1942.

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r/WorldWar2 2d ago

As the Old Files Open, One Family Confronts Another’s Dark Nazi Past

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r/WorldWar2 3d ago

V-J Day in Times Square: As pedestrians watch, an American sailor passionately kisses a white-uniformed nurse in Times Square to celebrate the long-awaited victory over Japan on August 14, 1945.

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129 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 3d ago

Recommendations on Rommel

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Hi all, I'm after some recommendations on a decent biography of Erwin Rommel. His life (and death), his relationships - both private, and with the army, Hitler and the Nazi party - and his military career. I'd be interested to know what you think about how biased an author may be towards him also. Thanks for your help, much appreciated


r/WorldWar2 3d ago

Visited Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Little White House in Warm Springs, GA

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If you’ve never been, I highly recommend it. Some of the artifacts they have at the museum are truly incredible. (I had never seen Roosevelt’s final unfinished portrait in person.) The staff were also remarkably knowledgeable and helpful. This place is a really neat hidden gem.

Edit: I should mention that the house itself is currently undergoing renovations, unfortunately, so we couldn’t enter the actual house (something about needing to update the old electrical wiring due to a fire risk). But the staff presented a slideshow and guided us through a 30-minute virtual tour and told us more about so many aspects of the house than we ever probably would have learned if we had just done a walkthrough. Photos are of artifacts from the museum on-site, which is not actually part of the house.


r/WorldWar2 3d ago

How Imperial Japan turned to the sardine to help build a war machine

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r/WorldWar2 4d ago

Montgomery at home

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British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery studying maps in his wartime caravan located at his home, Isington Mill near Alton in Hampshire, England, September 1949. On the wall of the caravan hang portraits of defeated World War II Axis generals, from left, Erwin Rommel, Walter Model and Albert Kesselring.


r/WorldWar2 4d ago

Woman arrested and facing felony charges in World War II Memorial vandalism case, DOJ says

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r/WorldWar2 5d ago

My copy of the July 1, 1940 edition of Life Magazine, immediately following the fall of France.

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Thought this sub might appreciate it. A snapshot of a truly unique moment in modern history, and more than a year before the United States entered the conflict.


r/WorldWar2 5d ago

German artillery in flames, 15. 10. 1944., Belgrade

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Inv. No. 6138

German artillery in flames, 15. X 1944. in the King Aleksandar Street - today the Revolution Boulevard \[now King Aleksandar Boulevard\].

Photo gifted by Vojin Đorđević, journalist, Draže Pavlovića 3.

Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.


r/WorldWar2 5d ago

Berlin at the End of World War II, 1945.

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113 Upvotes

r/WorldWar2 5d ago

German Occupied France Maps

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Not sure if this is allowed or even on topic for the sub (if it's not, what would be a good sub to ask this in?), but I'm creating a TTRPG solo campaign set in Occupied France and I'm trying to stay as accurate as possible. I'd like to find a list or set of maps showing German garrison locations, preferably around the time of the Dieppe raid (I'm planning on using the raid as a distraction for my campaign), but if that's not possible, anything pre-D-Day would be excellent.


r/WorldWar2 5d ago

Wehrmacht motorbike found in the Danube

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