Medical orderlies tend to the wounded in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette in 1916. The man on the left is suffering from Shell Shock. The Battle of Flers–Courcelette in 1916 was fought during the Battle of the Somme in France, by the French 6th Army and the British 4th Army and Reserve Army, … Read more
The Operation Barbarossa, or Unternehmen Barbarossa, was the German codename for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which commenced on June 22, 1941. Operation Barbarossa was the turning point of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The Operation resulted in the eventual defeat of Nazis. Operation Barbarossa opened the Eastern Front would … Read more
An iconic photo “Bloody Saturday” showing a crying baby amid the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station after a Japanese air strike against civilians on August 28, 1937 The “Bloody Saturday” photo became known as a cultural icon demonstrating Japanese wartime atrocities in China. Photographer H. S. “Newsreel” Wong took the photo a few … Read more
The “Big Three of World War II” – Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill –- meeting at the Tehran Conference (1943) The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill from November 28, to December 1, 1943. The Conference was held in the Soviet Union’s embassy in Tehran, Iran. It … Read more
German soldier shooting a woman with a child in her arms, Ivanograd (1942) Executions of Kiev Jews by Nazi mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivanograd, Ukraine. The executioner in the photo appears to be standing over the body of an already executed person. You can see the gun barrels of other executioners at the left … Read more
A brother’s love knows no boundaries. There’s also a caption that says: ‘The young boy’s sadness is expressed only in his gesture of biting his lips which are oozing blood.’ US Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell War photographer Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document … Read more