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Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif.

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., p...

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

Boeing Flying Fortress, Southern Methodist University collection

Boeing Flying Fortress, Southern Methodist University collection

Title: Boeing Flying Fortress..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: April 1943..Place: Mount Rainier, Washington..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection..Description: Boeing B-17F Fly... More

Blade and Mounting for a Sword (Katana)

Blade and Mounting for a Sword (Katana)

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Kobayashi Kiyochika - Heian Period Courtier on a Moonlit Beach

Kobayashi Kiyochika - Heian Period Courtier on a Moonlit Beach

Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915) Meiji period (1868–1912) Public domain photograph of 19th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Relations - Arizona, National Forest Service photograph.

Public Relations - Arizona, National Forest Service photograph.

Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Japanese music. Public domain, Post-war Japan.. Public domain image of 1950s Japan.

Japanese music. Public domain, Post-war Japan.. Public domain image of...

ID number: HOBJ5213.Photographer: Phillip Oliver Hobson.Place: Kure, Japan..Recording Japanese musical instruments for a Britcom Broadcasting Station program...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..Thi... More

Two unidentified soldiers enjoy some recreation time at a sandbagged Navy Army Air Force Institute (NAAFI)

Two unidentified soldiers enjoy some recreation time at a sandbagged N...

ID Number: HOBJ3241 . .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: c... More

Åsheim gjestgiveri ved Storsjøen i Ytre Rendal.

Åsheim gjestgiveri ved Storsjøen i Ytre Rendal.

Åsheim gjestgiveri ved Storsjøen i Ytre Rendal. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, National Socialism, The Third Reich, Europe under Nazi occupation, free to use, no copyright restrictions imag... More

Familie maaltijd - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication image

Familie maaltijd - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication image

Een groep mensen zittend rond een tafel aan een maaltijd. Centraal een heer met hoed en bril en met een jongen op schoot. Onderdeel van het familiealbum 1933-1944.

Berlin 1937 - Norway. Public domain image

Berlin 1937 - Norway. Public domain image

Beskrivelse: Pyntede gater i Berlin, Arbeidets dag (1. mai)/ Berlins 700 års jubileum. .Fotograf: Thomas Neumann.År: 1937.Kamera: Leica.Film: Agfa color neu.Arkivreferanse: PA1456Ub1_1_1_35..Description: decora... More

Berlin 1937 - Norway. Public domain image

Berlin 1937 - Norway. Public domain image

Beskrivelse: Ukjent sted i Berlin..Fotograf: Thomas Neumann.År: 1937.Kamera: Leica.Film: Agfa color neu.Arkivreferanse: PA1456Ub1_1_4_3..Description: people, among them a little boy outside an uknown place in B... More

Negro boys at Gees Bend, Alabama

Negro boys at Gees Bend, Alabama

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

A group of flags hanging from the side of a building. Swastikas flags berlin.

A group of flags hanging from the side of a building. Swastikas flags ...

Flags. Free images of flags. Use free pictures of flags without any copyright restrictions.

Inspectie van de Duitse Reichsarbeitsdienst, opgesteld op het Museumplein

Inspectie van de Duitse Reichsarbeitsdienst, opgesteld op het Museumpl...

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

Show van de Duitse Luftwaffe - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication image

Show van de Duitse Luftwaffe - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication im...

Show van de Duitse Luftwaffe ter ere van Hitlers verjaardag in Charlottenburg, een deel van Berlijn. Op het gebouw op de voorgrond prijkt een Duitse adelaar met swastika

Evacuees in Montgomeryshire, World War II photo

Evacuees in Montgomeryshire, World War II photo

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Faciwis yn Sir Drefaldwyn.Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002).Dyddiad/Date: September 9, 1939..Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd / Negative.Cyfeiriad/Reference: (gcc00933).Rhi... More

Avfotografering. Portrett, tre menn i et apotek leser en avis, på tysk.

Avfotografering. Portrett, tre menn i et apotek leser en avis, på tysk...

Avfotografering. Portrett, tre menn i et apotek leser en avis, på tysk.

The famous picture taken by Associated Press photographer

The famous picture taken by Associated Press photographer

The famous picture taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal actually captured the second flag-raising event of the day. A U.S. flag was first raised atop Suribachi soon after it was captured early i... More

Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. 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

Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the ...

12002-39. 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

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Wort...

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

Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, Calif. 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

Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other job...

Photo shows a woman and man working on a Douglas Aircraft Company cockpit shell identified as a C-47 based on the window outline. Although sometimes called a 'biscuit bomber, 'the plane was for transport. (Sou... More

(Vor Tromsö) - Norway. Public domain image

(Vor Tromsö) - Norway. Public domain image

RAFA-3309 U71_0198..Vil du bla i albumet, kan du gjøre det i Digitalarkivet: arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/13188/2/?size=medium&mo... ( http://arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/13188/2/?size=medium&mode=0 ) ..If yo... More

Girl rodeo performer, San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

Girl rodeo performer, San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, 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

US Army (USA) Soldiers, 1ST Battalion (BN), 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), Fort Benning, Georgia (GA), relax before loading onto four US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III cargo aircraft. They will be part of a 16 aircraft paratroop drop celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day Normandy invasion during World War II (WWII)

US Army (USA) Soldiers, 1ST Battalion (BN), 507th Parachute Infantry R...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cherbourg State: Normandy Country: France (FRA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Wayne Clark, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milita... More

Curacao. Wi / Anefo Londen serie. Nederlandse koloniën tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Curacao. Wi / Anefo Londen serie. Nederlandse koloniën tijdens de Twe...

De ingang van de Sint Annabaai haven van Willemstad (Curaçao). Links het fort Amsterdam, rechts de muren van het rif fort, beide forten dateren uit 1827. De tanker die de haven verlaat is speciaal geconstrueerd... More

[ Danny Kaye dressed as Hitler salutes Hitler (Bobby Watson) while escaping from Nazi soldiers in a scene from "On the Double"]

[ Danny Kaye dressed as Hitler salutes Hitler (Bobby Watson) while esc...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Public domain photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye, free to use, no copyright re... More

One of the four US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagles, 494th Fighter Squadron (FS), 48th Fighter Wing (FW), Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, United Kingdom (UK) begins to break away for the Missing Man formation flyover Utah Beach. The formation is part of the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day Allied invasion of Europe in WW II (WWII) at the landing site memorial near St Marie du Mont, France (FRA)

One of the four US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagles, 494th Fighter...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Utah Beach State: Normandy Country: France (FRA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Marie Cassetty, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

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.

B-25 in flight - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

B-25 in flight - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Images of the 77th Bomber Squadron, serving in the Aleutian Campaign during World War II

Major Cooke and Mr. O.E. Miller, personnel director for the construction company, inspecting beds inside barracks where construction workers live at Camp Blanding, Florida

Major Cooke and Mr. O.E. Miller, personnel director for the constructi...

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

Artwork: "Link Trainer," WWII. Artist: Sandor Kline. Catalog Number: P.9.1.84

Artwork: "Link Trainer," WWII. Artist: Sandor Kline. Catalog Number: P...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Hafenrundfahrt (Trondheim) - Norway. Public domain image

Hafenrundfahrt (Trondheim) - Norway. Public domain image

RAFA-3309 U71_0008..Vil du bla i albumet, kan du gjøre det i Digitalarkivet: arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/13188/2/?size=medium&mo... ( http://arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/13188/2/?size=medium&mode=0 ) ..If yo... More

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld (right), Secretary of Defense, meets with actor Clint Eastwood on Aug. 8, 2005, in Arlington, Va. during the filming of the World War II epic movie 'Flags of Our Fathers,"which centers on the Battle of Iwo Jima. The 1945 battle will forever be remembered because it was a turning point in World War II and a lasting image of the U.S. servicemen raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by TECH. SGT. Kevin J. Gruenwald) (Released)

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld (right), Secretary of Defense, meets ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Kevin J. Gruenwald, USA Release Status: Relea... More

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft (left), flies in formation with a restored World War Two (WWII) era P-51 Mustang aircraft over the Arizona desert during a USAF Heritage Conference 2002 training flight. The conference brings together civilian Heritage pilots and USAF Demonstration Team pilots to discuss safety and practice formation flying in a non-air show environment

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft (left), flies in ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Greg L. Davis, USAF Release... More

In a barroom. Mogollon, New Mexico

In a barroom. Mogollon, New Mexico

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

Poster designed by Steven Dohahos, well-known magazine illustrator, for the War Production Board (WPB). The orginal is 29 12 x 40 inches and is in four colors -- brown, yellow, red and black. 50,000 copies of this poster have been printed for distribution in war plants. Requests should be sent to Distribution Section, Office of War Information (OWI), Washington, D.C

Poster designed by Steven Dohahos, well-known magazine illustrator, fo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

King and Anderson Plantation, Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

King and Anderson Plantation, Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississip...

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

Poster, 'Victory Is In Your Hands!'

Poster, 'Victory Is In Your Hands!'

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

Glückwünsche der Heimat (Weitere U-Boote machen fest)

Glückwünsche der Heimat (Weitere U-Boote machen fest)

RAFA-3309 U71_0148..Vil du bla i albumet, kan du gjøre det i Digitalarkivet: arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/13188/2/?size=medium&mo... ( http://arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/13188/2/?size=medium&mode=0 ) ..If yo... More

War Manpower Commission poster. Farm labor poster distributed to Department of Agriculture. War boards for display in small town post offices, community centers and other public buildings. The original, size 28 12 inches by 40 inches, is printed in yellow and black on white and is from a photograph by Carola Gregor who specializes in outdoor photography of children and youth. Copies of the poster may be obtained by writing to the War Manpower Commission, Washington, D.C

War Manpower Commission poster. Farm labor poster distributed to Depar...

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

Assault wave, Salerno. Allied troops pour ashore at Salerno, wading through the surf under heavy machine gun and shell fire from hidden enemy positions back of the beaches. One of the landing craft is set aflame by an enemy shell. Another shell just misses an LCVP (landing craft, vehicle personnel) and sends up a plume of smoke and water. Allied cruisers come in close to shore to blast the enemy whose positions are relayed by naval spotters advancing with the landing parties

Assault wave, Salerno. Allied troops pour ashore at Salerno, wading th...

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

Retired World War II Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) listen as Deputy CHIEF of STAFF for Warfighting Integration, Lieutenant General (LGEN) Leslie F. Keene, introduces the preview screening of the film "Above and Beyond: 100 Years of Women in Aviation." All were attending the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, in the Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), Arlington, Virginia

Retired World War II Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) listen as ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Jim Varhegyi, USAF Release Status: Released t... More

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.

Medical ward on TSS ORANJE II, World War II photo

Medical ward on TSS ORANJE II, World War II photo

This photographs depicts the medical ward on TSS ORANJE II. On 28 June 1941, after a refitting at Cockatoo dock, Prime Minister Robert Menzies hoisted a Red Cross flag on the Dutch liner TSS ORANJE. The ceremon... More

Mr. Fred Boswell, a World War Two (WWII) Veteran, stationed with the US Army Air Force's, 78th Fighter Group, at Royal Air Force (RAF) Duxford, United Kingdom (UK), is interviewed by US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Stacia C. Tieman, Public Affairs Journeyman, 100th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), for an up-coming article on the rededication of the American Air Museum In Britain

Mr. Fred Boswell, a World War Two (WWII) Veteran, stationed with the U...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cambridge State: Cambridgeshire Country: England / Great Britain (ENG) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Andrew E. Lynch, USAF Release Status: Release... More

Vlnr. Rijksmaarschalk Göring, de Hongaarse

Vlnr. Rijksmaarschalk Göring, de Hongaarse

Vlnr. Rijksmaarschalk Göring, de Hongaarse minister-president Von Bardossy, de Slowaakse minister-president prof. Tuka, Adolf Hitler, de Deense minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Scavenisus, de Roemeense vice-mini... More

Seamen in hiring hall, New York City

Seamen in hiring hall, New York City

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 1874-1965, bust, facing left

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 1874-1965, bust, facing left

J33335 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by J. Russell & Sons. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf.

Army tent manufacture. Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Colorado. ninety-five tents a day to house the expanding defense Army. Rigging and inspecting of eight-man pyramidal tents which are being manufactured to rigid Army Quartermaster Corps specifications

Army tent manufacture. Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Colo...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Pearl Harbor Attack, National Memorial - Battleship Row

Pearl Harbor Attack, National Memorial - Battleship Row

Battleship Row at the start of the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Poster - Journée des mères 25 mai 1941 - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Journée des mères 25 mai 1941 - Public domain lithograph

lithographie Public domain scan of French poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Junk man. New York City, World War II photo

Junk man. New York City, World War II photo

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

Adolf Hitler en Benito Mussolini bezoeken het Oostfront.

Adolf Hitler en Benito Mussolini bezoeken het Oostfront.

Adolf Hitler en Benito Mussolini bezoeken het Oostfront. Soldaten groeten hen bij het hoofdkwartief van de opperbevelhebber, veldmaarschal Von Brauchitsch. Rechts de Italiaanse staf-chef, generaal Cavallero

First U.S. Army Signal Corps photos of the bombing of Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941: remains of tent barracks after fire caused by attack of Japanese bombers. Wheeler Field

First U.S. Army Signal Corps photos of the bombing of Hawaii, Dec. 7, ...

Photo by USASC, SC-127034. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Now LOT 11710. World War, 1939-1945.

Photograph of USS Arizona Exploding Fiercely at Pearl Harbor after Japanese Attack

Photograph of USS Arizona Exploding Fiercely at Pearl Harbor after Jap...

Original caption: USS Arizona explodes fiercely at Pearl Harbor after Japanese attack. General Photographic File of the Department of Navy

Photograph of USS Arizona on Fire after Attack on Pearl Harbor

Photograph of USS Arizona on Fire after Attack on Pearl Harbor

Original caption: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. USS Arizona (BB39) afire. General Photographic File of the Department of Navy

Photograph of the Capsized USS Oklahoma and the USS Maryland after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

Photograph of the Capsized USS Oklahoma and the USS Maryland after the...

Original caption: The capsized USS Oklahoma (BB37) and the USS Maryland (BB46) after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941 General Photographic File of the Department of Navy

THE WAR ADVERTING COUNCIL - Public domain propaganda poster

THE WAR ADVERTING COUNCIL - Public domain propaganda poster

Original Artwork for World War II Posters Public domain scan of World War Two propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Submarine chasers. Shipwrights preserve many hand skills. Brace and bit are needed to fit coamings to machine gun wings just aft of the wheelhouse of a wooden subchaser under construction in an Eastern boatyard. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Shipwrights preserve many hand skills. ...

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

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Lockheed P-38 pursuit ships are made ready for test flights at a large Western aircraft plant. These planes, powered by twin Allison liquid-cooled engines, have performed brilliantly in action, notably in the Aleutians. The P-38 has long range and great firepower and rates at its best altitude as one of the world's fastest fighting ships

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Lockheed P-38 pursuit ships ...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Men and women work together in every department at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. In the engineering department, two employees discuss a drawing of a new plane part. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Men and women work together...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Defienda Su Libertad - Libertad De Cultos [Xavier Gonzalez]

Defienda Su Libertad - Libertad De Cultos [Xavier Gonzalez]

Original Artwork for World War II Posters Public domain photograph - United States military, propaganda free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

We MUST Win! (Information on back: Not Used) [Edward Millman]

We MUST Win! (Information on back: Not Used) [Edward Millman]

Original Artwork for World War II Posters Public domain photograph - United States military, propaganda free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Old man holding out hand while nurse holds a baby.] [Jeff Keat]

[Old man holding out hand while nurse holds a baby.] [Jeff Keat]

Original Artwork for World War II Posters Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated sections of a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat are clamped in place at a large Southern shipyard. The hulls of these speedy boats are built indoors and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated sections of a ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. Pressman reading first edition as it comes off presses on conveyor, to detect defective press work

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. Pressma...

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

Pearl Harbor bombing. Destruction. Smoke pours from the USS Shaw, bombed dry dock (right center) while in the foreground lies the capsized USS Oglala, a minelayer. To the left is the 10,000 ton cruiser, USS Helena, struck by an aerial torpedo on the starboard side. The concussion caused the Oglala, formerly berthed alongside the Helena to flood and she turned over after being brought to dock. At the extreme left, may be seen some of the superstructure of the USS Pennsylvania and at the right appears to be the USS Maryland burning

Pearl Harbor bombing. Destruction. Smoke pours from the USS Shaw, bomb...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Tobruk, Libya. Signposts printed in German and Italian point to former Axis offices at a street corner

Tobruk, Libya. Signposts printed in German and Italian point to former...

Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ab... More

Cooling down with an ice block under summer skies in New Zealand

Cooling down with an ice block under summer skies in New Zealand

ID number: 150875.Photographer: George Silk.Date: June 1942.Place: North Island, New Zealand...Sick and wounded Australian and New Zealand troops from the Middle East were brought home safely on the hospital sh... More

Mitchell Field. Eagle ready for battle. An American pursuit pilot in combat gear is all set to climb into his plane. His flying equipment includes a combined oxygen mask and throat-type microphone, headphones, parachute and Mae West life jacket

Mitchell Field. Eagle ready for battle. An American pursuit pilot in c...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Help Prevent Forest Fires! PUT OUT Match, Cigarette, Pipe, Camp Fire

Help Prevent Forest Fires! PUT OUT Match, Cigarette, Pipe, Camp Fire

Original Artwork for World War II Posters Public domain photograph of food advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Food to make America strong. Women near Rochelle, Illinois, many of them schoolteachers and pupils, work in asparagus canning factories during the summer months

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Food to make America strong. Wom...

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

A stretch in the Alcan Highway which connects Edmonton, Canada, with Fairbanks (Fort Nelson), Alaska

A stretch in the Alcan Highway which connects Edmonton, Canada, with F...

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

Joseph Stalin, Secretary-general of the Communist party of Soviet Russia

Joseph Stalin, Secretary-general of the Communist party of Soviet Russ...

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

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle apply outer "skins" to fuselage sections for new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers, while assembly and fitting operations go forward in the interiors. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plan...

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

[Jamaican agricultural laborers doing laundry in buckets at a Farm Security Administration camp]

[Jamaican agricultural laborers doing laundry in buckets at a Farm Sec...

U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 28687. Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Public Domain Images - "DEMOCRACY IN ACTION!!"

Public Domain Images - "DEMOCRACY IN ACTION!!"

Booker T. Washington Liberty Ship. Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort and Original Sketches by Charles Alston

Washington, D.C. Firehouse Station No. 4. Sergeant Briscoe smiling at a good hand dealt him

Washington, D.C. Firehouse Station No. 4. Sergeant Briscoe smiling at ...

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

Photograph of Lt. Lou Zamperini, Bombardier, Examining the Damage a Japanese Cannon Shell did to His Liberator

Photograph of Lt. Lou Zamperini, Bombardier, Examining the Damage a Ja...

Original caption: Theatre #23 Funafuti, Ellice Island - Lt. Lou Zamperini, bombardier, examines damage a Jap cannon shell from an intercepting Zero over Nauru did to his Liberator, The Zero got three other cann... More

A black and white photo of a military truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a military truck. Office of War Information...

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

[Mark Wayne Clark, 1896- , head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in major general uniform]

[Mark Wayne Clark, 1896- , head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, i...

Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps. Referred to from caption card for LC-USZ62-36956 (a negative number that was apparently cancelled). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Washington, D.C. Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, is shown at a desk in historic Blair House following a press conference at the United States State Department

Washington, D.C. Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, ...

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

Planes in flight. The P-40 single-engine fighter plane--which the British have used in its various models as the "Tomahawk," "Kittyhawk" and "Warhawk"--is a fast pursuit ship in the 400-mile-per-hour class. It has an approximate service ceiling of 30,000 feet and a range of about 900 miles. Carrying various combinations of light and heavy caliber guns, it has performed notably with the RAF (Royal Air Force) in England and Africa, with the AVG (American Volunteer Group--Flying Tigers) in China and. with the AAF (Army Air Forces) in the South Pacific

Planes in flight. The P-40 single-engine fighter plane--which the Brit...

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

Two men working on a car in a parking lot. Office of War Information Photograph

Two men working on a car in a parking lot. Office of War Information P...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Official British photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

A Sicilian boy carrying water from the town fountain

A Sicilian boy carrying water from the town fountain

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

From National Youth Administration (NYA) to Washington navy yard. Beginning as a helper at $4.56 a day in the Washington navy yard, Miss Juanita E. Gray graduate trainee of the National Youth Adminstration War Production and Training Center now earns $45 a week. More than 300 NYA trained Negro women are now working in the Washington navy yard and scores are being added monthly

From National Youth Administration (NYA) to Washington navy yard. Begi...

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

Elmer Davis, Office of War Information (OWI) director, faces a line-up of microphones representing the country's major networks in his weekly broadcast on news developments, foreign and domestic, of the past week. Mr. Davis reports to the nation every Friday evening at 10:45 pm, EWT

Elmer Davis, Office of War Information (OWI) director, faces a line-up...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cyclists at Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen (1940-45)

Cyclists at Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen (1940-45)

More images from The Museum of Danish Resistance: erez.natmus.dk/FHMbilleder/Site/index.jsp ( http://erez.natmus.dk/FHMbilleder/Site/index.jsp )

M-4 Sherman Tanks Lined up in a Snow Covered Field, near St. Vith, Belgium

M-4 Sherman Tanks Lined up in a Snow Covered Field, near St. Vith, Bel...

Original caption: Lined up in a snow-covered field, near St. Vith, Belgium are the M-4 Sherman tanks of the10th Tank Bn. Color Photographs of Signal Corps Activity

Snowsuited Soldiers Walk through the Snow Covered Streets of St. Vith, Belgium

Snowsuited Soldiers Walk through the Snow Covered Streets of St. Vith,...

Original caption: Snowsuited soldiers walk through the snow-covered streets of St. Vith, Belgium. These men are with the Co.C, 48th Bn, 7th Armored Div. Color Photographs of Signal Corps Activity

Be a Cadet Nurse. The girl with a future!

Be a Cadet Nurse. The girl with a future!

Recruitment poster showing head and shoulders of two U.S. Cadet nurses, facing forward. Caption below image reads "A lifetime education free for high school graduates who qualify. For information write or call ... More

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist. Transfer; Un... More

A black and white photo of a woman and a child, Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a woman and a child, Harris and Ewing, Wash...

A black and white photo of a woman and a child, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington... More

American troops moving on toward Fontainebleau en route to Paris, France, with smoke from blasted German armor filling the sky. Infantryman with bazooka in foreground following tank destroyer

American troops moving on toward Fontainebleau en route to Paris, Fran...

No. SC 193562. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Chron; Geogr.; WWII France; U.S. Army; Bazookas; Armor.

[June 10, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.

[June 10, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Bird's-eye view of landing craft, barrage balloons, and allied troops landing in Normandy, France on D-Day] / U.S. Maritime Commission photo.

[Bird's-eye view of landing craft, barrage balloons, and allied troops...

Photo by U.S. Maritime Commission. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Mulberry harbor at Cherbourg, France]

[Mulberry harbor at Cherbourg, France]

Photograph showing Mulberry harbor assembled in preparation for the invasion of Normandy, with military vehicles crossing a floating roadway.

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