WWII pictures

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

"A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress."

"F4U's and F6F's fly in formation during surrender ceremonies; Tokyo, Japan. USS MISSOURI left foreground." September 2, 1945.

At the White House, President Truman announces Japan's surrender. Abbie Rowe, Washington, DC, August 14, 1945

"A truck load of bodies of prisoners of the Nazis, in the Buchenwald concentration camp at Weimar, Germany. The bodies were about to be disposed of by burning when the camp was captured by troops of the 3rd U.S. Army." Pfc. W. Chichersky, April 14, 1945.

Nuremberg Trials: looking down on the defendants' dock. Ca. 1945-46.

. "Pearl Harbor, T.H. taken by surprise, during the Japanese aerial attack. USS WEST VIRGINIA aflame." December 7, 1941

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, Germany, ca. June 1940.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan, December 8, 1941.

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To learn more about posters during WWII click the following:

• World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University Library
• British propaganda, American Propaganda, German propaganda
• Nazi Posters: Pre-1933 and 1933–45
• World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art

The posters are divided into six key themes common in WWII.

Specialist Recruiting Industrial Production Maintaining Morale Security Concern Savings and Austerity Health and Safety Miscellaneous

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During World War Two, people were repeatedly told to keep any information they may have had about military planning to themselves.
Still good advice 70 years later.

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Savings and Austerity

The cost of waging total war imposed severe strains on Britain's limited economic resources, leading to appeals for public co-operation in financing the effort. This resulted not only in posters stressing the need for increased savings but also in campaigns against waste and unnecessary consumption, for the recycling of scarce materials, and for boosting food production from gardens and allotments.This wartime slogan encouraged people not to waste anything. With clothes rationed, it was a good idea to reuse old clothes or make new ones yourself. Sewing classes and leaflets showed people how to make coats from blankets, or baby clothes from old pillowcases. A tip for making shoes last longer was to paint the soles with varnish.

If a chair broke, you mended it. If your sock had a hole, you got a needle and wool to 'darn' (repair) it. Clothes rationing lasted from 1941 until 1949[http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/the_war_effort/]Scrap metal such as old cooking pans could be melted down and used again. Children with push-carts and old prams collected scrap metal from people's homes. They hoped old pots and pans would soon roar into the sky as a Spitfire plane!

Iron railings from parks and gardens were also melted down. In places, you may still see stumps of metal on old walls where railings were cut off. Paper, glass bottles, tins and silver wrapping paper were all 'salvaged' (saved) to be recycled[http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/schools/primaryhistory/images/world_war2/the_war_effort/ww2_children_east_end_scraps.jpghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D0U7MElAk2w/RRb7Jp9nABI/AAAAAAAAATg/lbK02XmVfEU/s512/ww0207-72.jpg

Health and Safety

During the Second World War, the hazards to which the population was exposed were greatly increased either as a result of enemy action or of counter-measures taken, such as the blackout. The total nature of the war, particularly the need to maintain industrial output, also ensured that concern for the general health of the population became inseparable from the war effort itself.

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This poster is from the March 1933 Reichstag election, the last one in which Germans had a choice. The poster shows President Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler. The caption: “The Reich will never be destroyed if you are united and loyal.” Courtesy of Dr. Robert D. Brooks . http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/1933ba.jpg

The text reads: “Unshakable, determined to fight, certain of victory!”

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30 Januarhttp://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/1943.jpgy 1943 was the 10th anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power. This poster suggests that the 1943 battle against the world is the continuation of the battle that led to Nazi victory in 1933. The caption: “30 January 1933-1943. One Battle! One Victory!” The theme is a takeoff on one of Mjölnir’s pre-1933 posters. This poster was withdawn after Stalingrad.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/vsturm.jpgThis fall 1944 poster is by Mjölnir. The Volksturm was the Nazi attempt to call on the last reserves. Those too young or too old for regular military service were called into service. The caption translates as “For freedom and life.” Courtesy of Dr. Robert D. Brooks.

The Germans worked to gather as much old material for the war effort as possible. This poster is for a 1943 clothing drive. The text translates as: “Get rid of old cloth and shoes!

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