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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!

Pig Roast

Pig Roast

Troopers of the Ontario Regiment roasting a pig, Piucarelli, Italy, June 28th 1944.

(Left To Right): Troopers Harry Turner, F. Hoshoian, W. Kerr, Al Rice.

Sinking Ship off Omaha Beach

Sinking Ship off Omaha Beach

The sinking Coast Guard manned USS LCI(L)-85 comes alongside another ship to transfer her survivors, after she was hit by German shells off Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944.

Note casualties on deck, including a man on a stretcher (left center) whose face has been obscured by wartime censors.

Also note binoculars atop a chart in the LCI(L)'s conning tower (upper right) and life raft (at left) with paddles secured to its side.

View from the road

View from the road

View taken around 0926 hrs. in the morning of December 7th 1941, from an automobile on the road in the Aiea area, looking about WSW with destroyer moorings closest to the camera.

In the center of the photograph are: USS Dobbin (AD-3), with destroyers Hull (DD-350), Dewey (DD-349), Worden (DD-352) and MacDonough (DD-351) alongside. The ship just to the left of that group is USS Phelps (DD-360), with got underway on two boilers around 0926 hrs.

The group further to the right consists of: USS Whitney (AD-4), with destroyers Conyngham (DD-371), Reid (DD-369), Tucker (DD-374), Case (DD-370) and Selfridge (DD-357) alongside.
USS Solace (AH-5) is barely visible at the far left.

USS Arizona ablaze

USS Arizona ablaze

USS Arizona (BB-39) ablaze, immediately following the explosion of her forward magazines, December 7th 1941.
Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5).

Dressed up for Dinner

Dressed up for Dinner

Farewell dinner for The British Columbia Dragoons at British Columbia House, London, England, December 21st 1945.