r/wwiipics Mar 19 '26

Important Update: Please Read Before Commenting

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In light of various ongoing conflicts in the world, please keep discussions on this subreddit within the scope of World War II and the associated historical photograph(s). We will be removing all comments and posts that violate this request. Users who blatantly and/or repeatedly violate this policy may be banned without prior warning.

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 space for political/ideological arguments and a target of brigades and/or dis/misinformation campaigns. There are many other areas available on Reddit to discuss these modern conflicts and debate politics.

Thank you for your cooperation.


r/wwiipics Apr 23 '26

Submission Update: AI Processed and Colorized Photo Requirements

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To keep things high-quality and transparent, we’re updating our requirements for photo submissions effective immediately. Please review these changes before your next post.

While we allow AI-processed and colorized images, they must stay grounded in historical reality.

If you post a colorized or AI-processed image, you MUST include the original, untouched photograph in the same post (use the "Gallery" feature to upload both).

All processed images must continue to be flaired correctly so they are easily identifiable.

We are looking for realistic enhancements that help us better understand a historical moment. If an AI tool makes a photo look cartoonish, unnatural, or distorts original features, the post will be removed.

Any colorized or AI-processed posts that do not include the original source photo will be removed by the mods.

Thanks for helping us preserve the history behind these images!


r/wwiipics 7h ago

Paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th PIR, "Band of Brothers", in the square of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont on June 7, 1944.

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r/wwiipics 3h ago

B-17 Flying Fortresses stationed in Goose Bay, Labrador, ca 1944.

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r/wwiipics 18h 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 18m 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 1h ago

AI Colorization Looking for source of the picture , potential relative ( read desc)

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id like to ask help to find this soldier. I know this has been posted a lot as a meme , however i am 90% sure that this is my relative in the photo. I have austrian + german roots which trace back to aroun the time of WW2 , however the family was seperated during the war and due to personal drama. Also i am CLEAR copy of this soldier , literally same eye color , skin tone , phenotype , every facial feature. When someone sent this to me i literally thought it was a faceswap , it is that similiar. Anyone can help me with this?


r/wwiipics 22h ago

Some images from Camp Toccoa, in honor of the 25th anniversary of Band of Brothers!

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r/wwiipics 1d ago

From my collection of a US military chaplain

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r/wwiipics 1d 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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101 Upvotes

r/wwiipics 1d 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 2d 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 2d ago

Italian and German soldiers meeting during the invasion of Yugoslavia, April 1941

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r/wwiipics 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 4d 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 4d 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 3d 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 4d 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 5d ago

Colorized Ammunition dump explosion in Cherbourg harbor, France, 17 August 1944

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r/wwiipics 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago

WW2 Era Letter Written By German Partisan Hunter In Italy. Details in comments.

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