Bombing Japan. Hokadate, 1945

USS Pennyslvania, Lingayen Gulf, Phillippines, January, 1945 preceding landing.  Other battleships follow.

Tank and "Doughboys", Bougainville,

Solomon Islands, 1944

Attack on Butaritari, Makin Atoll,

Gilbert Islands. 1943

Preparation to sign treaty by Japanese in SURRENDER.    Tokyo Bay 1945.

Flag raising.  Iwo Jima

February 23, 1945.

Five Marines and one Navy Hospital Corpsman. 

President Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca Convention 1/12-24,1943.  Roosevelt always photographed in a chair, not a wheelchair.

"My Girl" takes off at Iwo Jima

Churchill displaying  the victory sign with traditional cigar in his mouth.

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PHOTOGRAPHS WWII

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, pilot of B29 superfortress, ENOLA GAY before takeoff to drop the 9.000 lb. atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

The bastards on their way to bomb "Pearl Harbor "

" debated on whether or not to place this extremely offensive photograph"

  WWII  WEBSITES

POSTERS DURING WWII

USS Arizona December 7, 1941

after surprise attack by Japanese

WORLD LEADERS WWII

MUSSOLINI AND ADOLPH HITLER

Mussolini hanged by Italian Partisons  April 28, l945 Hitler commited suicide April 30, l945

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN  ATOMIC BOMB

August 6, l945

WAR WAS DECLARED AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN 1941 BY JAPAN, GERMANY, ITALY, BULGARIA, HUNGARY, COATIA, SLOVAKIA, ROMANIA

KANSAS CITY PARADE JUNE 1945 WELCOMING GEN. EISENHOWER

Enola Gay (named after Tibbets' mother)

BATTLE OF THE BULGE 

76,000 wounded or killed

worst battles- in terms of losses - to the American Forces in WWII

COLORS INSPECTION AIRCRAFT CARRIER

FIRST FLAG RAISING GUAM 1944

GENERAL EISENHOWER WEARING NEW "IKE"  JACKET

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNING DECLARATION OF WAR ON JAPAN

GENERAL McARTHUR

CORN COB PIPE

GENERAL HIDEKI TOJO

EXECUTED 12/23/48

FOR WAR CRIMES

WORLD  LEADER  BIOS

Atomic bomb Nagasaki

August 9, l945

ALLIED LEADERS

PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN 

Kamilkaze attacking

U.S. carrier

Bataan Death March

Although American trucks were available to transport the prisoners, the Japanese decided to march the Defenders of Bataan to their destinations. This march came to be known as the "Death March"

Jewish prisoners being rounded up by the Nazi  at Warsaw l943

ALLIED LEADERS WWII

Yalta (ARGONAUT), Feb. 4-11, 1945.

Conference: Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin.

Main results: Plans for dealing with defeat of Germany; policy for postwar Europe; agreement on forming a United Nations organization; agreement on conditions under which Russia would enter war against Japan.

Instrumental in ordering two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which ended WWII with the surrender of the Japanese

after a war which lasted from l941-1945.

WWII War Action

LINKS

"Gen. Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines, October 20, 1944."

PEARL HARBOR l2/7/41 Bombed by the Japs

New York Times Square.  Celebrating

VJ Day August 15, l945

Corsair 20 Boxer

SS NEW JERSEY AT PACIFIC 1944

ADOLPH HITLER

AND NAZI PARTY