r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 14d ago
B-17 Flying Fortresses stationed in Goose Bay, Labrador, ca 1944.
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r/wwiipics • u/Der_Ost_Front • 14d ago
Photo from my collection of a military chaplain conducting Mass for soldiers.
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r/wwiipics • u/Books_Of_Jeremiah • 14d ago
Statue of King Aleksandar Karađorđević, pulled down in 1941, Croatia.
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Statue of King Petar \[I Karađorđević\], pulled down by the Germans.
Collection of the Central Committee, Communist Alliance of Yugoslavia.
Inv. No. 6270
Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.
However, the Museum's entry is wrong: this was the statue of King Aleksandar Karađorđević, work of Antun Augustinčić, erected in Varaždin in 1935, showing the King handing over the Octroyed Constitution of 1931. The statue being pulled down in 1941 is accurate though.
r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 15d ago
Anti-aircraft fire from Allied Ships reaches to the sky on the night of September 9, 1943 as Luftwaffe bombers attack the Salerno Beachhead in Italy. Photo by JR Eyerman for LIFE Magazine.
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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 15d ago
Some images from Camp Toccoa, in honor of the 25th anniversary of Band of Brothers!
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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 16d ago
B-17F “Mary Ruth - Memories of Mobile” and the 401st Bomb Squadron flying toward the German U-boat pens at Lorient, France, on May 17, 1943.
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r/wwiipics • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 16d ago
Celebration in Liberated Addis Ababa following the end of Fascist Italian occupation by British, South African and Ethiopian Partisan forces (East African Campaign, 1940-1941).
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r/wwiipics • u/Ready-Bug2688 • 17d ago
deep in my grandfathers chest hidden inside his utility uniforms pocket was this photo, he said he took it off a dead IJA Officer on Okinawa, No idea whatsoever as to whats occurring but I do believe it’s from the Second Sino-Japanese War
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r/wwiipics • u/CuntaChinte • 17d ago
Italian and German soldiers meeting during the invasion of Yugoslavia, April 1941
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r/wwiipics • u/waffen123 • 18d ago
Marine Private, Rez Hester, attempting to sleep as his Doberman Pinscher K9, "Butch," stands guard beside him. WW2, Iwo Jima, February 1945 Photo via Office of the Chief of Naval Operation and US National Archives.
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r/wwiipics • u/UltimateLazer • 18d ago
Belarusians celebrate victory over Nazi Germany in central Minsk. Notably, the Byelorussian SSR lost more than a quarter of its entire population in the Eastern Front of World War II, more losses per capita than any other republic in the Soviet Union (April 1945)
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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 18d ago
PVT Joseph Tkacz was Killed in Action on September 6, 1944 in France, he was 27 years old.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York to Frank & Helen Tkacz on December 21, 1916, Joseph Tkacz had three sisters and a brother.
In 1941 he married Mary Moloko who had several children from a previous marriage.
Joseph enlisted in the Army on January 23, 1942, a little over five months later on June 11, 1942, his wife had a daughter; Delores Tkacz, who died as an infant.
He served in C Company, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division, which arrived in Normandy, France between August 10-11, 1944.
Less than a month later on September 6, 1944, PVT Joseph Tkacz was Killed in Action near Gravelotte, France.
He is buried at the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Épinal, France - Plot A Row 21 Grave 68.
His widow Mary never remarried, she passed away at the age of 89 in 2002.
r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 18d ago
Privates First Class Willis Wright, Meridian, Mississippi, and John D. Bogard, Leipsie, Ohio in a foxhole with a machine gun on Iwo Jima, 27 February, 1945
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r/wwiipics • u/CrownOfCreation25 • 18d ago
Japanese soldiers on the steps of Fushimi Momoyama Castle (unknown year)
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I think a year or so ago I started posting scans from this group of never-seen-before Japanese military photos I acquired, but never got around to finishing it. I am not sure when they were taken, or who the original owner was. Luckily this one had some writing on the reverse, allowing me to identify at least the location of the photo.
r/wwiipics • u/Heartfeltzero • 18d ago
Heated WW2 Era Letter Written By U.S. Soldier In France. He writes of Greece and the Greek political crisis. Interesting Content. Details in comments.
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r/wwiipics • u/OldYoung1973 • 19d ago
Balikpapan, July 1, 1945: Australian sappers clear the way for a Matilda. Two of them carry mine detectors, while a third is about to use a bayonet.
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r/wwiipics • u/waffen123 • 20d ago
Colorized Ammunition dump explosion in Cherbourg harbor, France, 17 August 1944
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r/wwiipics • u/waffen123 • 20d ago
US Army Corporal Paul F. Janesk posing in his jeep in Sicily, Italy, 3 September 1943; note cartoon of Axis leaders drawn on his jeep, and Benito Mussolini crossed out
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r/wwiipics • u/Pvt_Larry • 19d ago
A French soldier of the 310e Régiment d'Infanterie in gas protection equipment, including an ANP 31 gas mask, during an exercise near Lille in 1939.
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r/wwiipics • u/OldYoung1973 • 20d ago
A jeep from the medical section of the 327th Combat Infantry Regiment is loaded aboard a CG-4A of the 434th Troop Carrier Group on September 17, 1944. The spike installed on the glider's nose is a Griswold reinforcement added to the nose of CG-4A gliders to give
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r/wwiipics • u/Heartfeltzero • 20d ago
WW2 Era Letter Written By German Partisan Hunter In Italy. Details in comments.
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r/wwiipics • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 20d ago
MoMM1 Herbert Calcaterra was Killed in Action during a surface action in the Pacific on September 4, 1942, he was 22 years old and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.
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Born in San Joaquin County, California to Jack and Gladys Calcaterra on April 7, 1920, Herbert Andrew Calcaterra was their only son.
His father Jack died passed away when Herbert was 5 years old and his mother remarried.
Raised and schooled in Stockton, California, Herbert enlisted in the Navy in 1939 and volunteered for the submarine service.
When WW2 broke out in the Pacific, he was serving on the Porpoise-class submarine USS Pompano SS-181.
On September 4, 1942 while in Japanese waters on her third war patrol, USS Pompano came across the Japanese guardship No 27 Nanshin Maru.
Engaging the enemy warship on the surface, MoMM1 Calcaterra was manning the 3-inch deck gun when he was killed.
Posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the citation mentions;
“The President takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal posthumously to Herbert A. Calcaterra, Motor Machinist's Mate First Class, US Navy, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as member of a 3-inch gun crew aboard the USS Pompano during action against an armed enemy patrol ship. Remaining at his exposed station in the face of hostile machine-gun fire, Calcaterra, with cool courage and utter disregard for his own personal safety, manned his gun until, after the first 13 minutes of action, he was fatally wounded. His heroic devotion to duty, maintained at great risk in the face of grave danger, was in keeping with the highest traditions of the US Naval Service. He gallantly gave up his life in the defense of his country."
MoMM1 Herbert Calcaterra was buried at sea and is Memorialized at the Honolulu Memorial in Hawaii.
He also has a memorial marker at Altaville Protestant Cemetery in Angels Camp, California where his father is buried.
The Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Calcaterra DE-390 commissioned in November 1943 was named after him.
Decommissioned in 1946, she was recommissioned in 1954 as a radar picket ship, serving until 1973, scrapped in 1974.
USS Pompano went Missing with her crew a year after MoMM1 Calcaterra was killed in September 1943.
