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Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, World War II photo

Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, World War II photo

Portrait, bust, 3/4 facing right. In portfolio: Portraits of Adolf Hitler. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Shack of war veteran with view along Nueces Bay. Corpus Christi, Texas

Shack of war veteran with view along Nueces Bay. Corpus Christi, Texas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic in the Assembly and Repair Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic ...

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A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, ...

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On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif

On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail s...

12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidate...

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C-54A Skymaster transport aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II

C-54A Skymaster transport aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Forces du...

(Source: researcher) Original title from negative or caption card erroneously identified plane as an Gruman Avenger torpedo bomber. Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on nega... More

Picking cotton is one of the most easily learned occupations for women in the U.S. Crop Corps. These two city girls, putting their vacation to good use, may well wear the cotton they are picking in the form of work slacks and shirts next year

Picking cotton is one of the most easily learned occupations for women...

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Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel one hundred feet underground dug out of solid rock in western England. The staff here works twenty-four hours a day handling Lend-Lease materials arriving from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United S...

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War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production Board (WPB) to U.S. employment service offices, beauty parlors, women's colleges, manufacturers, etc. The original is 28 12 inches by 40 inches and is printed in red, blue, and black on white. The poster was reproduced from a photograph by Office of War Information photographer, Howard Hollem. Copies may be obtained from Central Distribution Plant, Office for Emergency Management (OEM), 1509 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Leaves berth virtually surrounded by stricken ships. The U.S.S. Neosho, navy oil tanker, cautiously backs away from her berth (right center) in a successful effort to escape the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. At left the battleship U.S.S. California lists after aerial blows. Other crippled warships and part of the hull of the capsized U.S.S. Oklahoma may be seen in the background. The Neosho was later sunk in the Coral Sea

Leaves berth virtually surrounded by stricken ships. The U.S.S. Neosho...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sorting rivets may seem a lowly task in the making of war planes. But it plays an essential part in the mass production of aircraft and in the conservation of vital materials. These workers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company help to keep many others working. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sorting rivets may seem a l...

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General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish Premier and Commander-in chief

General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish Premier and Commander-in chief

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A black and white photo of three men in suits. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of three men in suits. Office of War Informati...

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A black and white photo of a gas station. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a gas station. Office of War Information Ph...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, to labor management committees. The original, size 28 1/2 inches by 40 inches, may be obtained from war production drive headquarters, War Production Board (WPB), Washington, D.C.

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the Ordnance Depart...

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Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas C-47 is the military version of the commerical transport DC-3 used by the airline companies. It is a twin-engined, low-wing monoplane capable of carrying heavy cargo. The main cabin is provided with a large loading door and a reinforced floor. It may also be arranged with folding benches to accomodate twenty-eight fully equipped fighting men

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas C-47 is the military versi...

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Let's go get 'em! U.S. Marines / Guinness, Captain USMC.

Let's go get 'em! U.S. Marines / Guinness, Captain USMC.

Poster showing Marines bearing rifles with bayonets and flags in a jungle. Reqn. - 469-1943, 7-11-42, 50M.

Transfer of the evacuees from the Assembly Centers to War Relocation Centers was conducted by the Army / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

Transfer of the evacuees from the Assembly Centers to War Relocation C...

Caption continues: Train lists were made up so that families would not be separated and in most instances groups associated by residence in pre-evacuation days were kept together. Here is a busy scene of famil... More

Manzanar, Calif., April 1942. Mealtime at the Japanese war relocation center

Manzanar, Calif., April 1942. Mealtime at the Japanese war relocation ...

Photograph showing several generations of Japanese Americans at meal time. Caption continues: In housing, as well as at mealtime, family life is preserved. LC-USE618-D-5074. Forms part of: Farm Security Adminis... More

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chicago, Illinois. Soldier kissing his girlfriend goodbye at the Union Station

Chicago, Illinois. Soldier kissing his girlfriend goodbye at the Union...

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Washington, D.C. Posing for a snapshot on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial

Washington, D.C. Posing for a snapshot on the steps of the Jefferson M...

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A violent explosion staggers Japanese destroyer escort frigate after bombing run by North American B-25's of Air Apaches Group off China Coast, April 6, 1945

A violent explosion staggers Japanese destroyer escort frigate after b...

Photograph by U.S. Army A.A.F. No. B-58114 AC. Ira Clarence Eaker Collection.

[Tuskegee airmen exiting the parachute room, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]

[Tuskegee airmen exiting the parachute room, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1...

Photograph shows Tuskegee airmen leaving the arachute room. Left to right: Richard S. "Rip" Harder, Brooklyn, NY, Class 44-B; unidentified airman; Thurston L. Gaines, Jr., Freeport, NY, Class 44-G; Newman C. Go... More

Hunger, the price of defeat / World Telegram & Sun photo by Emil Reynolds.

Hunger, the price of defeat / World Telegram & Sun photo by Emil Reyno...

Photograph shows two Berliners searching for food in a garbage dump.

[Aerial view of bomb damage in Tokyo, Japan, during the second world war]

[Aerial view of bomb damage in Tokyo, Japan, during the second world w...

U.S. Army A.A.F. photo. No. A-58577 AC. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dwight D. Eisenhower, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Dwight D. Eisenhower, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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The Fremont Theater is a historic movie theater in San Luis Obispo, California

The Fremont Theater is a historic movie theater in San Luis Obispo, Ca...

The theater, opened in 1942, is among the last Streamline Moderne theaters built by architect S. Charles Lee. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More

Manzanar from guard tower, summer heat, view SW, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Manzanar from guard tower, summer heat, view SW, Manzanar Relocation C...

Buildings and connecting roadways, mountain range in background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-5. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Man... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop & Arms Room, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop ...

Field notes for this record with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1928 is significant as a relatively unmodified example of an 800 Series Type CMS-1 structure that was used for vehicle maintenance and... More

In biology class, high school, Kiyo Yoshida, Lillian Wakatsuki, Yoshiko Yamasaki, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

In biology class, high school, Kiyo Yoshida, Lillian Wakatsuki, Yoshik...

Three young women seated in a classroom. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-44. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Cen... More

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press photo.

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press pho...

Poster showing U.S. Marines raising flag at Iwo Jima. Official U.S. Treasury poster.

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press photo.

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press pho...

Poster showing U.S. Marines raising flag at Iwo Jima. Official U.S. Treasury poster.

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc. / / R. Muchley

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc....

Poster encouraging skilled laborers to join the Seabees as part of the war effort.

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc. / / R. Muchley

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc....

Poster encouraging skilled laborers to join the Seabees as part of the war effort.

Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Rel...

Sumiko Shigematsu, standing at left, looking at row of women seated at sewing machines. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-45-Ax. Gift; Ansel Adams; 196... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Seventeenth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Se...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Seventeenth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Se...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pvt. Joe Louis says -- "We're going to do our part, and we'll win because we're on God's side"

Pvt. Joe Louis says -- "We're going to do our part, and we'll win beca...

Poster showing heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis charging with bayoneted rifle.

Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashville, Tennessee

Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashvill...

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Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with...

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Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is ...

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A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Ai...

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Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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Balloon barrage training center. Lilluputians at a weemie roast. This illustration is portrayed here by comparing the huge balloons and dwarfed trainees seated in picnic fashion around their instructor. Camp Tyson, Tennessee

Balloon barrage training center. Lilluputians at a weemie roast. This ...

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Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. A lend-lease tank coming over the side of a cargo ship in a United States Atlantic Coast port. Many tanks are carried as deck-load

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. A lend-lease tank coming over the ...

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Elmer Davis, Director, Office of War Information (OWI)

Elmer Davis, Director, Office of War Information (OWI)

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Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc. / / R. Muchley.

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc....

Poster encouraging skilled laborers to join the Seabees as part of the war effort. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Official United States Navy photograph; W-PH-24-8975. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; Unite... More

Save scrap for victory! Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rags.

Save scrap for victory! Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rag...

Poster for the Philadelphia Salvage Committee encouraging scrap drives to aid the war effort. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Approved and released by the Philadelphia Coun... More

I pledge allegiance and silence about the war

I pledge allegiance and silence about the war

Poster promoting patriotism and suggesting that careless communication may be harmful to the war effort, showing the American flag. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collect... More

Washington, D.C. International youth assembly. The delegate from Russia, Liudmila Pavlichenko, is addressing the convention

Washington, D.C. International youth assembly. The delegate from Russi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is an old story to this young woman employee of an Eastern hosiery plant which is now forty-percent converted to the manufacture of mosquito netting for the armed forces. These warp holders are used to determine the tensile strength of yarn and to keep it in place during machine operations. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mounting a navy flying ship at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, a former department store girl, is one of many women who are taking over jobs to release men for military service. She is a civil service crowler in the assembly and repair department at the base

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mounting a navy flying ship at ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Scott Field, Illinois. Gas mask drill. Lieutenant Edward W. Gopp, assistant sanitation officer, demonstrating to members of the nurse corps of the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command the proper way to put on the gas mask

Scott Field, Illinois. Gas mask drill. Lieutenant Edward W. Gopp, assi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a gas mask drill of the U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are the first official pictures released in the United States of the recent meetings of Premier I.V. Stalin, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain; and W. Averrell Harriman, representing President Roosevelt. The three men met in the middle of August, 1942, at the request of the Soviet leader, and held a series of conversations concerned with the future conduct of the war. Also present was V.M. Molotov, Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The meetings lasted four days. Left to right: Churchill, Stalin, Harriman at the Kremlin, Moscow

Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are...

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America's success in World War I are vital to our efforts in World War II. This Negro riveter is a veteran employee in a large Eastern shipyard. Another Negro broke the world record for riveting in World War I. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America'...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Another twin-engined pursuit plane, a Lockheed P-38, is rolled from the floor of a large Western aircraft plant. On the field it will be fitted with two sets of three-bladed propellers that will pull it through brilliant performances as interceptors of enemy planes

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Another twin-engined pursuit...

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Fort Knox. M-4 tanks and crews. One of our new battleships of the land, a mighty M-4 tank that will disturb a lot of Axis plans. In the welded hulls of these massive machines are armament that ensures tremendous firepower in the hands of tough, resourceful "tankers." Location: Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox. M-4 tanks and crews. One of our new battleships of the land...

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Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil Control sta., San Francisco, Apr. 1942

Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil C...

Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-92. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information... More

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. An American M-4 tank coming aboard a United Nations freighter that will carry it, as part of a lend-lease shipment, together with food and other war necessities, to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. An American M-4 tank coming aboa...

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Aircraft warning service. One of the thousands of volunteer spotters who relay information from a secret telephone and radio network to the filters and operations centers

Aircraft warning service. One of the thousands of volunteer spotters w...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Reciprocal aid. Wearing British flying kits, Lieutenant E.D. Schofield of Belleville, Ohio and Lieutenant R.F. Sargent, of Youngstown, Ohio, prepare to pilot a British Spitfire. Under the Reciprocal Aid Program, Britain is furnishing American air forces important equipment and supplies

Reciprocal aid. Wearing British flying kits, Lieutenant E.D. Schofield...

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Don't be a dope! Handle equipment right When the Stukas begin to attack ain't the time to make up for a lack of cleaning your gun - which won't shoot at a Hun with a month's gummy dust on its back! Clean it every 3 days / / Warrant Off. Will Eisner, Ordnance.

Don't be a dope! Handle equipment right When the Stukas begin to attac...

Poster shows Joe Dope being shot through by enemy fire as he oils his machine gun.

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Constructing a Liberty ship. Ten hours after the laying of the first keelplate the bottom of the ship begins to form. Bottom shell plates are added which are bolted at first and will be riveted together later

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Constructing ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tunis, Tunisia. Allied troops entering Tunis

Tunis, Tunisia. Allied troops entering Tunis

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Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill on portico of Russian Embassy in Teheran, during conference--Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 1943

Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill on portico of Russian Embassy in Tehe...

U.S. Signal Corps photo. No. S.C. 183218. Public domain photograph related to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Times Square and vicinity on D-Day

New York, New York. Times Square and vicinity on D-Day

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New York, New York. Children's school victory gardens on First Avenue between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Streets

New York, New York. Children's school victory gardens on First Avenue ...

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Woman kneeling next to bed of child, in an underground tunnel during the bombing of London during World War II

Woman kneeling next to bed of child, in an underground tunnel during t...

Date from information in related LOT 12457. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

Five starving men in German concentration camp at time of liberation by U.S. Army

Five starving men in German concentration camp at time of liberation b...

From United States Army Signal Corps. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, National Socialism, The Third Reich, Europe under Nazi occupation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl... More

Crimean Conference--Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Marshal Joseph Stalin at the palace in Yalta, where the Big Three met / /U.S. Signal Corps photo.

Crimean Conference--Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Frankl...

No. 199945-9. From the collections of Encyclopedia Britannica. Public domain photograph related to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harry S. Truman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front

Harry S. Truman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of unidentified German concentration camp at time of liberation by U.S. Army

View of unidentified German concentration camp at time of liberation b...

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Soviet soldiers in process of removing industrial equipment from Manchurian factories]

[Soviet soldiers in process of removing industrial equipment from Manc...

Photo by USAC. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Manchuria; Russians in foreign countries; 2; Shelf.

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

One of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collect... More

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.

Photograph of the "Library of Congress World War II Memorial Dedication," December 7, 1948

Photograph of the "Library of Congress World War II Memorial Dedicatio...

The World War II memorial dedication ceremony, held in the Library of Congress Great Hall.

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Dispatcher House, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Dispatcher House, North o...

Field notes for this record are with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1929 is a representative example of a Dispatcher House constructed according to the 800 Series of standard construction designs de... More

New York, New York. Photo mural to promote the sale of defense bonds, designed by the Farm Security Admininstration, in the concourse of Grand Central terminal.

New York, New York. Photo mural to promote the sale of defense bonds, ...

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Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop & Arms Room, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop ...

Field notes for this record with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1928 is significant as a relatively unmodified example of an 800 Series Type CMS-1 structure that was used for vehicle maintenance and... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop & Arms Room, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop ...

Field notes for this record with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1928 is significant as a relatively unmodified example of an 800 Series Type CMS-1 structure that was used for vehicle maintenance and... More

High school recess period, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

High school recess period, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / ph...

Students walking in road between buildings. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-30. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation... More

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a flight instructor

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Ir...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Victor Ratner, World War II photo

Victor Ratner, World War II photo

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Old residence converted into Negro church. Chicago, Illinois

Old residence converted into Negro church. Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Another "Line of Defense." The lunch-time whistle blows and workers file from an eastern Navy yard for re-fuelling during the dailey break in building ships and supplies for the two-ocean Navy

Another "Line of Defense." The lunch-time whistle blows and workers fi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia burning in the foreground. Smoke rolling out amidships shows where the most extensive damage occurred. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee is inboard

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 to...

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California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the U.S.S. California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but the hulk of the capsized U.S.S. Oklahoma at extreme right

California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the U.S.S. Cal...

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American fighter planes over Malaya American fighter plans have arrived in Malaya month after month and assembly has continued at high speed but without publicity ... and these are the first photos of Brewster Buffalo fighters flying in formation in Malaya.

American fighter planes over Malaya American fighter plans have arrive...

British official photograph: X-1226. No. BO-755. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Stalingrad-Süd. Historic map, Library of Congress

Stalingrad-Süd. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale 1:25,000. Map of Velikiy Burluk vicinity on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

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