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Speeches
editCategory:Audio files of speeches about World War II
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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declaring war on Germany on September 3, 1939, at the start of World War II.
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1941, Dec. 8, Franklin D. Roosevelt speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor: part 1 - Comments on the attack.
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1941, Dec. 8, Franklin D. Roosevelt speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor: part 2 - Declaration of War.
Officers
editWorld War II military officers, generals and other ranks of Army, Air Force and Navy. See also: Category:People associated with World War II
Canada
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Flight Lieutenant George Beurling
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General Harry Crerar
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Canada
China
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General Chiang Kai-shek(蒋介石将军)
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General Sun li-ren (孙立人将军)
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General Zhang zi-zhong (张自忠将军)
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from China
France
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General Charles de Gaulle
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General Henri Giraud
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from France
Marocco
editFor more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from France
Germany
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Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Chief of the Navy 1939-43
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Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Chief of the Navy 1943-45
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Reichs Marshal Hermann Göring, Chief of the Air Force
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General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff
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Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command
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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Commander of the Afrikakorps
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Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler
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SS Lt. General Ernst Kaltenbrunner, RSHA Director
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Germany
Italy
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Amedeo D'Aosta, Commander of AOI forces
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Rodolfo Graziani, Marshal of Italy
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General Vittorio Ambrosio
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Valerio Borghese, Chief of X MAS
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General Guglielmo Nasi
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Italy
Japan
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Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
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Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
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General Tomoyuki Yamashita
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Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
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Kamikaze
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Japan
See also Category:Poland in World War II
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General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
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Brigadier General Władysław Filipkowski
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Lt. Colonel Jan Kowalewski
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General Leopold Okulicki
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Major Bolesław Orliński, fighter pilot
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from Poland
Soviet Union
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Marshal Joseph Stalin at Berlin conference in 1945
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Marshal Zhukov and Allies in 1945
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Public interrogation of the German Major-General Alfons Hitter by Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Field Marshal Ivan Chernyakovski after the battle of Vitebsk during Operation Bagration.
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The Deputy Supreme Commander in Chief of the Red Army, Marshal G Zhukov, the Commander of the 21st Army Group, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, Marshal Rokossovsky and General Sokolovsky of the Red Army leave the Brandenburg Gate, 1945.
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Marshal Ivan Bagramyan
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Aviator, Colonel General Gromov
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first military commandant of Berlin General Berzarin
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from the Soviet Union
United Kingdom
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Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck
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Air Chief Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham
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Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris
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Lt. General Brian Horrocks
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Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
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Lt. General Arthur Percival
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General Neil Ritchie
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Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder
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Field Marshal Archibald Wavell
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from the United Kingdom
United States
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General J. Lawton Collins
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Admiral Charles M. Cooke
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Major James Devereux
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General Jimmy Doolittle
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Admiral Frank J. Fletcher
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Lt. General James M. Gavin
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Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.
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Fleet Admiral Ernest King
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Admiral Husband Kimmel
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General Douglas MacArthur
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Admiral Marc Mitscher
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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
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General George S. Patton
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Rear Admiral Norman Scott
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Admiral Forrest Sherman
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General Holland Smith
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Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
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General Alexander A. Vandegrift
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Major General Edwin F. Harding
For more pictures see also: Category:People associated with World War II from the United States
Battles
editFor more pictures see: Category:Battles of World War II
European Eastern Front
editFor more pictures see: Category:Battles of the Eastern Front (World War II)
European Western Front
editFor more pictures see: Category:Battles of the Western Front (World War II)
Africa campaign
editFor more pictures see Category:Battles of Africa Campaign (World War II)
Pacific Theater
editFor more pictures see Category:Battles of the Pacific War
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map
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Battle of the Philippines
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Kamikaze
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Yamoto
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Yamato
For detailed maps see: Category:Maps of World War II in the Pacific
Air War
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Australian poster
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China
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Bombing of Berlin by the U.S. Air Forces (around 1942)
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V-1 offensive against Antwerp
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Aftermath of the bombing of Vallø in Norway, April 1945
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Dresden
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Slovakia
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Romania
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Fritz-X guided bomb
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Mustang mk3
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Mitsubishi zero
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Mitsubishi MXY-8
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Nakajima Kikka
Propaganda posters
edit- Articles
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Let's catch him with his "panzers" down!
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Loose lips might sink ships
Other
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Australian Puckapunya 1942
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The American 442nd Regimental Combat team, made up of Japanese-Americans
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Tiger II "King Tiger"
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Tiger II "King Tiger" (rear)
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Invasion of Poland (1939)
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Prisoners of War - Kriegsgefangene
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Yalta summit 1945
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Persian Corridor train
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Finland-USSR battle
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Finland-USSR battle in 1941
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Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen - now a gas station
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"Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri
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"Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri
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French resistance
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French trains bombed 1944
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French trains bombed 1944
The Blitz
editGerman World War II and pre-war in color
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Umzugswagen Sparkasse
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Umzugswagen Sparkasse 2
Peace
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Colonal General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff under the Doenitz Regime, signs the document of unconditional surrender in Reims, 7 May 1945.
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Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel submitted the capitulation of the Wehrmacht to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst, 8 May 1945.
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Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin. 8 May 1945
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Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945
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Two young women standing on Saint Catherine Street in Montreal, read the front page of The Montreal Daily Star. The title "Germany Quit" announces the German surrender and the impending end of the World War II in Europe.
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GI's at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris, France, whoop it up after buying the special edition of the Paris Post, which carried the banner headline, `JAPS QUIT.' August 10, 1945
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At the White House, President Truman announces Japan's surrender. Washington, DC, August 14, 1945
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander. Behind Gen. MacArthur are Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival
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Japanese surrender
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The Japanese Garrison at Wake Island surrenders (1945)
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Shanghai people celebrating Japanese surrender
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Crowds celebrating V-J Day in Times Square
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Photo of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
Nuremberg Trials
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Post War Pictures
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Painting of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden in Berlin, 3 June 1945
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The Reichstag after the allied bombing of Berlin, 3 June 1945
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Graffiti left by Russian soldiers covers the pillars inside the ruins of the German Reichstag building, 3 July 1945
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Scene of destruction in a Berlin street just off the Unter den Linden, 3 July 1945
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Scene of destruction in the Linden Passage, the famous Berlin shopping archade on the Unter den Linden, 3 July 1945
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German women doing their washing at a water hydrant in a Berlin street, a knocked out German scout car stands beside them, 3 July 1945
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The war damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin, 7 July 1945
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British soldiers queue for tea at NAAFI Mobile Canteen No.750 beside the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. This van was the first mobile NAAFI to operate in Berlin, 16 July 1945
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Victory parade in Antwerp 1945(?)
Cemetries, Memorials and Museums
editCemeteries
edit- World War II Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial
- World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
- Colleville-sur-Mer
- La Cambe
- Ehrenfriedhof Daleiden
Memorials
edit- Sowjetisches Ehrenmal (Tiergarten)
- Sowjetisches Ehrenmal (Treptower Park)
- Category:USMC War Memorial
- Category:Kranji War Memorial
- Category:Soviet military cemeteries of World War II in Poland
- Category:Soviet military memorials in Hungary
- Category:Soviet military memorials in Slovakia
- Category:Memorials of the Great Patriotic War
- Category:Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
- Category:Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
For more pictures see: Category:World War II memorials and Category:Monuments and memorials of World War II
Museums
editMuseum for Peace
edit- Benouville Pegasus Bridge Museum
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original Pegasus Bridge
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Hawker Typhoon
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Re-construction of a French wall during World War 2
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Soviet partisan uniform (WWII)
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German V1 (WWII)