LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Pictures of World War II

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/

Provider: National Archives and Records Administration


Learn more

Legal

This catalog record is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This license applies to the content of this page only and does not apply to the referenced website.

During World War II, photographers covered every aspect of the war. Visitors to this site can see images take of both theaters of the war, of civilians working for the war effort, and of the Holocaust. Pictures are listed by subject and campaign. Each image has captions and information on the photographer/artist and can be enlarged for easier viewing. Many of these images are famous such as the “We Can Do It!” poster by J. Howard Miller or the “Conference of the Big Three at Yalta”

*Please note that some of these images are graphic in nature.