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World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, involving the vast majority of the world’s countries—including all the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

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World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, involving the vast majority of the world’s countries—including all the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

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Pearl Harbour Gallery Updated

Posted on November 21, 2020 by LieutenantClone

I just finished a complete overhaul of the Pearl Harbor Raid gallery. 56 of the 59 photos have been updated with larger, high resolution photographs, and some of the me are absolutely stunning, so why not check it out?

War In Photos Gets A Facelift

Posted on November 18, 2020 by LieutenantClone

Welcome to the newly redesigned warinphotos.com! The new design sports a fully responsive mobile-friendly layout, improved gallery pages which should be more pleasant to navigate, and improved photo pages which allow a larger and more prominent view of the photo.

In addition to the redesign, I have begun updating the galleries with higher quality, higher resolution copies of the existing photos, in many cases increasing the resolution by 3-4 times! The Tanks and D-Day galleries have already been totally overhauled, so check those out, and the rest of the galleries will be updated in the coming weeks.

If you have any feedback on the new design, it is always welcome via our contact page.

New Domain Name

Posted on November 2, 2013 by LieutenantClone

I registered a new domain name for this website today:
warphotos.basnetworks.net is now known as warinphotos.com!

I was meaning to register a proper domain name for a long time, but couldn't decide on one. Last week warinphotos.com popped in my head, sounded perfect, and wasn't already taken, so here we go! More updates incoming soon.

Website Update

Posted on January 1, 2011 by LieutenantClone

Today I rolled out a new update to the website. Most noticeably the layout and theme of the site has been tweaked and optimized, and hopefully looks a lot nicer. I removed support for "tags", because they were cluttery and not very useful, and added a search box to the search results page.

The rest of the updates are changes to the back-end systems which will allow me to upload photos faster, and with more control.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, hopefully more photos will be coming soon!

The massive scale of D-Day

The massive scale of D-Day

Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June 1944.

The Coast Guard-manned LST-262 is the third beached LST from the right, one of 10 Coast Guard-manned LSTs that participated in the invasion.

Among identifiable ships present are USS LST-532 (in the center of the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-310 (2nd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST-524.

Note barrage balloons overhead and Army "half-track" convoy forming up on the beach.

Onshore at last

Onshore at last

U.S. Army troops administer first aid to the survivors of sunken landing craft, on D-Day, June 6th 1944.

USS LCT-29 is in the background.

Note M1 rifles carried by some of these Soldiers.

USS Arizona burning furiously

USS Arizona burning furiously

USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, December 7th 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb.

At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship.

USS Nevada's deck in ruins

USS Nevada's deck in ruins

View on the deck of USS Nevada looking aft toward the forward 14"/45 gun turrets and superstructure, showing bomb damage received during the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th 1941.

Photographed was taken five days later, on December 12th 1941.

Collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, USN.

Advancing Towards Hatten, Germany

Advancing Towards Hatten, Germany

Infantrymen of Support Company, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, supported by a Sherman tank of The Fort Garry Horse, advancing south of Hatten, Germany, April 22nd 1945.