WWII - The Second World War in 150 selected pictures
A journey through time from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to Victory Day 1945 with selected motifs from the "British Pathé" newsreel archive of our partner agency Mary Evans.
06.10.2020 - Smoke Drifting from Alongside a Waterway Near Danzig During German Navy Bombardment From the Battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Waving From A Balcony At Huge Celebrating Crowds In Trafalgar Square On Victory In Europe Day - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - Aerial View Of A Well Defended Beach Head. Soldiers and Vehicles, Including Tanks, Moving Along the Beach. A Large Number Of Warships Are Visible At Sea - Vichy France. Date: 1...
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06.10.2020 - Allied Soldiers Disembarking From Amphibious Landing Craft and Rushing Ashore During the D Day Landings At the Normandy Coast - Vichy France. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - Civilians Receiving Supplies While Sheltering From Bombs in the London Underground - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Relaxing With Cigarettes - Bastogne, Kingdom Of Belgium. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Inspecting Bomb Damage - United Kingdom. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - British Soldiers Disembarking From A Warship At Dover Following the Evacuation Of Dunkirk - Dover, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Allied Soldiers Releasing Balloons To Airdrop Leaflets To the German People - German Reich, Germany. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Marching at the Signing of the French Surrender at Compiegne - France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Heinkel He 111 Bombers - United Kingdom . Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Two Russian Soldiers Taking Cover in a Trench - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - Charles de Gaulle Laying a Wreath. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - A Supermarine Spitfire Flying Through the Air - United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Fuhrer Of Germany Adolf Hitler Talking With Il Duce Of the Italian Social Republic Benito Mussolini Through A Train Window - German Reich, Germany. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - Damaged American Military Equipment After Being Hit By Japanese Bombs - Pearl Harbour, United States of America. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - Scuttled Warship In the Empire Of Japanese - Empire Of Japan. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - Allied Soldiers In Open Topped Transport Trucks Driving Through A Liberated Rome To Cheers and Waves From Crowds - Rome, Kingdom Of Italy. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering Sitting Down in the 1918 Armistice Train Car at Compiegne to Receive the French Surrender With Others - France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - WAAF Plotters Working With Plotting Equipment - United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers and Tanks Held Up in a Traffic Jam - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - Allied Soldiers In Open Topped Transport Trucks Driving Through A Liberated Rome To Cheers and Waves From Crowds - Rome, Kingdom Of Italy. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - Russian Soldiers Advancing at Stalingrad - Stalingrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - British Soldier Looking Back At Dunkirk Smoking In the Distance As He Is Evacuated On A British Ship - Dunkirk, The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Bombs Landing on Biggin Hill - London, United Kingdom . Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery In Vichy France During the D Day Landings - Vichy France. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - Allied Amphibious Vehicles Crossing the Rhine River Carrying Soldiers - German Reich, Germany. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - A Bomber Gunner. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Sailor Aiming Anti Aircraft Weapon From Ship As Allied Soldiers Wade Into the Water To Board Ships For the Evacuation At Dunkirk - Dunkirk, The French Third Republic, France. D...
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06.10.2020 - Anti-Aircraft Guns on a British Maunsell Army Fort Off the British Coast - United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Army Blowing Up Train Tracks In Russia To Cover Their Retreat - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - British Soldiers Arriving To Liberate the Channel Islands. They Are Greeted By Cheering Crowds. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - Air To Air View From American Liberator Bombers Flying Back To Their Airfields - Berlin, German Reich, Germany. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - British Soldiers Attending the 21 Dance Club In London - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - British Soldiers Observing Artillery. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery Looking Over Defences With British Officers - German Reich, Germany. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at a Meeting - Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Advancing Through Dusty Fields On Military Vehicles To Cut Off Allied Units In France - The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - WAAF Plotters Working With Plotting Equipment - United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, King George V, and Princess Margaret On the Balcony Of Buckingham Palace Addressing Crowds On the Mall - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - Franklin D. Roosevelt Giving a Speech - United States of America. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Soviet Minister Of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet General Secretary Of the Commu...
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06.10.2020 - Two German Soldiers Reading A Newspaper Near the Eiffel Tower, Paris - Paris, Vichy France. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - Three Male German Army Soldiers Lying Low On a Slope Below a Fence While Columns of Smoke Rise From a Line of Trees in the Distance Behind Several Houses - Poland. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - Firefighters Surrounded by Bombed Out Buildings - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Bombs Dropping From the Open Bomb Bay Of An American Liberator Bomber Over Berlin - Berlin, German Reich, Germany. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery Receiving A Signature Of Surrender From Rear Admiral Gerhard Wagner - Luneberg, German Reich, Germany. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - British Soldiers Advancing Next to Barbed Wire Through the North African Desert. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - The German Battleship SWS Schleswig-Holstein Firing on the Port City of Danzig With Smoke From Her Guns Spreading Across the Vessel. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - People Standing Next to a Bombed Out Bus - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Allied Soldiers Disembarking From Amphibious Landing Craft and Rushing Ashore During the D Day Landings At the Normandy Coast - Vichy France. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - Devastation In Hiroshima, Empire Of Japan, Following the Detonation Of An Atomic Bomb Over the City - Hiroshima, Empire Of Japan. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - Funeral Procession Passing Through Washington District Of Columbia For the Funeral Of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Washington District Of Columbia, United States...
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Marching Past the Arc De Triomphe In Paris, Vichy France - Paris, Vichy France. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Leaving Number 10, Downing Street, For the Last Time - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - An American Soldier Holding an American Flag on a North African Beach as Part of Operation Torch. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Two French Soldiers in a Trench - France. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - A Male French Soldier Sitting in a Doorway Dug into the Side of a Trench. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - The Monastery at Monte Cassino Smoking Heavily, After Being Hit by Allied Bombs - Monte Cassino, Italy. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Allied Troops Coming Ashore at Anzio - Anzio, Italy. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt Talking to the Press - Casablanca, Morocco. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Italian Civilians Eating Food in a Bomb-Damaged Italian Town - Italy. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Allied Motorized Troops in Italy - Italy. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Members of the Casablanca Conference - Casablanca, Morocco. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Allied Soldiers Watching Supply Trucks Struggle Through a Muddy Road - Italy. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Commonwealth Troops Marching Through the Jungle. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - An American Tank Driving Through Rome With the Ruins of the Colosseum in the Background - Rome, Italy. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - The HMS Barham Exploding After a U-Boat Attack. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Enormous Crowds Gathering On the Mall Near Buckingham Palace To Celebrate Victory In Europe - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - German Prisoners of War in North Africa. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Allied Tanks Moving Across North Africa. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - American Troops Walking Onto a North African Beach as Part of Operation Torch. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Motorised Troops Moving Through the North African Desert. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - A Russian Soldier Advancing at Stalingrad - Stalingrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Russian Workers Practising Taking Cover - Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - Active Russian Factories in Leningrad - Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - German Tanks Advancing Along a Road. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Riding Tanks. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Advancing Through a Bomb-Damaged Town - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - Adolf Hitler Saluting German Troops - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - British Air Raid Wardens Clearing Up Rubble Around The Palace of Westminster - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - Civilians Sleeping in the London Underground - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Queen Elizabeth Knitting At A Large Sewing Group Hosted In Buckingham Palace - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Japanese United Nations Delegate Signing Peace Treaties In San Francisco - San Francisco, United States of America. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - Smoke-Obscured Wreckage, After the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbour - Pearl Harbour, United States of America. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - A View of the Attack on Pearl Harbor From a Planes Wing - Pearl Harbour, United States of America. Date: 1941
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Advancing Through Belgium On Half Tracks and Trucks - Kingdom Of Belgium. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - British Soldiers Marching Through A French Town - The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Officers Signing A Surrender Treaty In Berlin, German Reich - Berlin, German Reich, Germany. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - French Soldiers Digging Deep Trenches Near the Maginot Line - The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Two Royal Observer Corps Members in a Lookout Post - United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Advancing Through Dusty Fields On Military Vehicles To Cut Off Allied Units In France - The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - A Tanker Truck Driving Through an Oil Field - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - German Tanks Attacking - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Heavy Smoke Over Stalingrad - Stalingrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - A Line of Light German Tanks With Male German Soldiers Visible at the Turrets Travelling Along an Unpaved Road With a Line of Motorbikes With Sidecars to the Left of the Image - Po...
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06.10.2020 - Bombs Dropping Into the Water Around British Ships Evacuating Soldiers At Dunkirk - Dunkirk, The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - A Close Up of a Downed German Airforce Bomber Lying in a Scottish Field With Damage to the Fuselage and Spectators Visible Behind - Shetland, United Kingdom. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - German Army Vehicles With Male Soldiers In Them Driving Down a Street in Warsaw Past a Burnt Out Vehicle and Polish Civilians - Warsaw, Poland. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - American Troops Walking Onto a North African Beach as Part of Operation Torch. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - French Soldiers On A Hill Looking Out Over the Maginot Line - The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - A Russian Tank Being Lifted By a Crane - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - The Nose of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator Landing in Moscow - Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Other German Officers At the Signing Of A Surrender Treaty In Berlin, German Reich - Berlin, German Reich, Germany. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - Allied Tanks and Soldiers Rushing Ashore During the D Day Landings At the Normandy Coast - Vichy France. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - British Soldiers Disembarking At Dover Following the Evacuation Of Dunkirk - Dover, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Russian Soldiers Advancing at Stalingrad - Stalingrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Flaming Buildings Being Sprayed By Fire Hoses - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Troops Operating an Artillery Gun in the Caucasus Mountains - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Aerial View of Bombed Out Industrial Buildings in Warsaw - Warsaw, Poland. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - Fires Raging Along the Norwegian Coast As the British Royal Navy Commences Coastal Bombardment - Kingdom Of Norway. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Three Royal Observer Corps Members in a Lookout Post - United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Crowds Looking at Bombed Out Buildings - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Russian Troops Dragging a Mortar into Position - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - A U-Boat at Sea. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - German Soldiers Riding a Tank Through a Bombed Out Town - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Male Polish Soldiers Walking Along an Unpaved Road Beside a Line of Trees With Fences Beyond - Poland. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - Firefighters Surrounded by Bombed Out Buildings - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - A Bus in a Bomb Crater - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Bombed Out Buildings - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Tank Advancing Through Dusty Fields In France - The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - The Front Page of the Evening News on Friday September the First Reading POLAND INVADED BRITAIN AND FRANCE MOBILISE ALL TERRIERS (Including Women) CALLED UP Big German Offensive on...
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06.10.2020 - Russian Tanks Advancing - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - French Soldiers Digging Deep Trenches Near the Maginot Line - The French Third Republic, France. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Other German Officers At the Signing Of A Surrender Treaty In Berlin, German Reich - Berlin, German Reich, Germany. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - British Warship Bearing British Soldiers Returning To Dover Following the Evacuation Of Dunkirk - Dover, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Tank Groups Rolling Into the Netherlands - Kingdom Of the Netherlands. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Soldiers Resting At A Well Fortified Beach Head Following the D Day Landings - Vichy France. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - A Small German Army Tank with Male German Soldier Standing in the Open Turret Rolling Over a Temporary Bridge Towards a Wood Fascine With Trees in the Background and Two Other Male...
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06.10.2020 - Heavy Smoke Over Stalingrad - Stalingrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - The Ruined Reichstag Building In Berlin, German Reich - Berlin, German Reich, Germany. Date: 1945
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06.10.2020 - An Artillery Gun Sited Between Young Trees With a Male German Soldier Reaching His Hand Up to It - Poland. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - Smoke-Obscured Wreckage, After the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbour - Pearl Harbour, United States of America. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Arriving On the Normandy Coast To Meet Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery - Vichy France. Date: 1944
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06.10.2020 - British Soldiers Disembarking At Dover Following the Evacuation Of Dunkirk - Dover, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - British Expeditionary Force Retreating Through Belgian Town On Vehicles - Kingdom Of Belgium. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - German Troops and Horses Advancing Through the Caucasus Mountains - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1943
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06.10.2020 - Three Light German Tanks, Two With a Male German Soldiers Visible at the Turret, Travelling Along an Unpaved Road in Poland - Poland. Date: 1939
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06.10.2020 - Russian Soldiers Advancing at Stalingrad - Stalingrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia. Date: 1942
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06.10.2020 - Firefighters Surrounded by Bombed Out Buildings - London, United Kingdom. Date: 1940
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06.10.2020 - Male German Soldiers Riding Horses Pulling Carts Over a Bridge With Male Soldiers and Civilians Watching Nearby - Poland. Date: 1939
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