(You Tube Link) See the last few minutes of W...  ...alt Disney's “Victory Through Air Power”,  a WWII propaganda film that shows a Japanese octopus ba...

A radio at the Montrose Air Station Heritage C...  ...and has been picking up radio broadcasts from the WWII era. The vintage radio set is kept in a recreati...

Victorious armies have employed graffiti to celebrate their conquests for millennia.  A photoessay at Poemas del río Wang utilizes images from the archives of LIFE magazine and other sources to document the extensive g...

Sixty five years ago, on April 30, 1945, Hitler an...  ...images are now available from LIFE Photo Gallery WWII : Inside Hitler's Bunker.This one above is caption...

[caption id="attachment_29472" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Photo: U.S. Air Force under Creative Commons"][/caption] As the United States became fully devoted to fighting in World War II, and Japanese subm...

Flickr links: Mustard Gas | PhosgeneYes, Minnesotastan has posted about the Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and Medicine's photo collection on Flickr before on Neatorama, but I found these poste...

Photo: Ronald Playforth Early in May, 1945, officers from the German army and Gestapo met with Allied commanders, including Field Marshall Montgomery to offer their country's surrender at his headquarters near Hamburg....

Last year, an archive of World War II maps was don...  ...e of them to prisoners of war. [...] During WWII hundreds of thousands of maps were produced by th...

This very interesting 14 minute video demonstr...  ...ffectiveness of Germany's infantry weapons during WWII . Listed is a description of the Karabiner 98K, MP...

A bag belonging to a World War II soldier from Lancashire has been discovered in the Egyptian desert after lying there for more than 60 years. Alec Ross, from Burnley, lost the bag containing personal letters and photos,...