View source for World War II

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== Speeches ==
[[:Category:Audio files of speeches about World War II]]

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File:Chamberlain-war-declaration.ogg|Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declaring war on Germany on September 3, 1939, at the start of World War II.
File:1941 Roosevelt speech pearlharbor p1.ogg|[[:en:1941|1941]], Dec. 8, [[:en:Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] speech after the [[:en:attack on Pearl Harbor|attack on Pearl Harbor]]: part 1 - Comments on the attack.
File:1941 Roosevelt speech pearlharbor p2.ogg|1941, Dec. 8, Franklin D. Roosevelt speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor: part 2 - Declaration of War.
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==Officers==
World 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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File:George Beurling Vancouver 1943.jpg|Flight Lieutenant [[George Beurling]]
File:General Crerar.jpg|General [[:Category:Harry Crerar|Harry Crerar]]
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from Canada]]

=== China ===
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File:Chiang Kai-shek Colour.jpg|General [[Chiang Kai-shek]]([[蒋介石]]将军）
File:Sun Liren.jpg|General [[Sun li-ren]]  ([[孙立人]]将军）
File:Tzu-Chung Chang.jpg|General [[Zhang zi-zhong]]  ([[张自忠]]将军）
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from China]]

=== France ===
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File:De Gaulle-OWI.jpg|General [[Charles de Gaulle]]
File:Henri Giraud 1943Jan19.gif|General [[Henri Giraud]]
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from France]]

=== Marocco ===

For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from France]]

=== Germany ===
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File:Erich Raeder.jpg|Grand Admiral [[Erich Raeder]], Chief of the Navy 1939-43
File:Karl Dönitz.jpg|Grand Admiral [[Karl Dönitz]], Chief of the Navy 1943-45
File:Hermann Goering - Nuremberg2.jpg|Reichs Marshal [[Hermann Wilhelm Göring|Hermann Göring]], Chief of the Air Force
File:Alfred Jodl USA-E-Ardennes-2.jpg|General [[:Category:Alfred Jodl|Alfred Jodl]], Chief of the Operations Staff
File:Wilhelm Keitel.jpg|Field Marshal [[Wilhelm Keitel]], Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-785-0287-08, Rommel with his aides (crop).jpg|Field Marshal [[Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel|Erwin Rommel]], Commander of the Afrikakorps
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<gallery caption="S.S.">
File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R99621,_Heinrich_Himmler.jpg|Reichsführer SS [[Heinrich Himmler]]
File:Ernst-Kaltenbrunner-72-916.jpg|SS Lt. General [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]], RSHA Director
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from Germany]]

===Italy===
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File:Amadeo Aosta3rd 01.jpg|Amedeo D'Aosta, Commander of AOI forces
File:RGraziani.jpg|Rodolfo Graziani, Marshal of Italy
File:VittorioAmbrosio.jpg|General Vittorio Ambrosio
File:Borghese.jpg|Valerio Borghese, Chief of X MAS
File:GeneraleGuglielmo Nasi.jpg|General Guglielmo Nasi
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from Italy]]

=== Japan ===
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File:ChuichiNagumoPDJapan.jpg|Admiral [[:Category:Chuichi Nagumo|Chuichi Nagumo]]
File:Yamamoto-Isoroku.jpg|Fleet Admiral [[Isoroku Yamamoto]]
File:Yamashita.jpg|General [[Tomoyuki Yamashita]]
File:Yonai Mitsumasa.jpg|Admiral [[:Category:Mitsumasa Yonai|Mitsumasa Yonai]]
File:Japanese-Kamikaze-Pilots-Group-Photo.png|Kamikaze
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from Japan]]

===[[Poland]]===
See also [[:Category:Poland in World War II]]

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File:Lviv 1939 Sov Cavalry.jpg|[[:Category:Soviet invasion of Poland of 1939|Soviet invasion]]
File:Katyn massacre 5.jpg|[[:Category:Katyń Massacre|Soviet Katyń Massacre]]
File:Polish kid in the ruins of Warsaw September 1939.jpg|[[:Category:Warsaw during World War II|German Destruction of Warsaw]]
File:Warsaw wwII 1.jpg|[[:Category:Warsaw Uprising|Warsaw Uprising]]
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File:Arbeit macht frei.jpg|[[:Category:KZ Auschwitz I|Auschwitz I]]
File:Auschwitz-birkenau-main track.jpg|[[:Category:Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp|Auschwitz II Birkenau]]
File:Bergen-belsen.jpg|[[:Category:Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen 2003]]
File:Bergen_Belsen_Liberation_03.jpg|[[:Category:Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen 1945]]
File:Buchenwald_2005-2.jpg|[[:Category:Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald 2005]]
File:Slave_laborers_at_Buchenwald.jpg|[[:Category:Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald laborers]]
File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1983-0825-303,_Gedenkst%C3%A4tte_Buchenwald,_Wachturm,_Stacheldrahtzaun.jpg|[[:Category:Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald compound]]
File:Arbeit_macht_frei_2.jpg|[[:Category:Dachau concentration camp|Dachau entrance]]<br>[[:de:Arbeit macht frei|<small>"ARBEIT</small>]] [[:en:Arbeit macht frei|<small>MACHT FREI"</small>]]
File:Krematorium_Dachau.jpg|[[:Category:Dachau concentration camp|Dachau]] [[:de:Krematorium|Krematorium]] [[:en:Crematorium|ovens]]
File:Dachau_Death_Train.jpeg|[[:Category:Dachau concentration camp|Dachau death train]]
File:KZ_Dachau_Denkmal_Nie_wieder.jpg|[[:Category:Dachau concentration camp|Dachau]] [[:en:Monument|Denkmal]]<br>"Nie wieder", Never again
File:Belzec oboz zaglady ostatnia droga.JPG|[[:Category:Belzec extermination camp|Belzec]]
File:Majdanek - ashes mount.jpg|[[:Category:Majdanek concentration camp|Majdanek]]
File:Sobibor.JPG|[[:Category:Sobibór extermination camp|Sobibór]]
File:Treblinkamemorial.JPG|[[:Category:Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]]
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====[[:Category:Poland before WWII|Lost Prewar Poland]]====
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File:Plac 04.jpg|[[:Category:Saxon Palace|Saxon Palace]]
File:Swietojanska 8 05.jpg|[[:Category:Old Town in Warsaw|Warsaw Old Town]]
File:Boczna 01.jpg|[[:Category:Mariensztat|Warsaw Mariensztat]]
File:Palac Bruhla rococo.jpg|[[:Category:Brühl Palace|Brühl Palace]]
File:Alexander Church Warsaw.jpg|[[:Category:Church of St. Alexander in Warsaw|St. Andrew Church]]
File:Warsawsynagoga1.jpg|[[:Category:Great Synagogue in Warsaw|Great Synagogue]]
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File:Bor.jpg|General [[Tadeusz Bór Komorowski|Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]]
File:Filipkowski.jpg|Brigadier General [[:Category:Władysław Filipkowski|Władysław Filipkowski]]
File:Jan Kowalewski.jpg|Lt. Colonel [[:Category:Jan Kowalewski|Jan Kowalewski]]
File:Leopold Okulicki 1.JPG|General [[:Category:Leopold Okulicki|Leopold Okulicki]]
File:Orliński Bolesław.jpg|Major [[:Category:Bolesław Orliński|Bolesław Orliński]], fighter pilot
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from Poland]]

=== Soviet Union ===

<gallery caption="Soviet Army">
File:Stalin_1945.jpg|[[Joseph Stalin|Marshal Joseph Stalin]] at Berlin conference in 1945
File:Montgomery receives Order of Victory HD-SN-99-02756 cropped.JPG|[[Marshal Zhukov]] and Allies in 1945
File:1944 kapitulation witebsk vasilevsky chernyakovski gollwitzer.jpg|Public interrogation of the German Major-General Alfons Hitter by [[:Category:Aleksandr Vasilevsky|Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chernyakhovsky Field Marshal Ivan Chernyakovski] after the battle of Vitebsk during Operation Bagration.
File:Allies at the Brandenburg Gate, 1945.jpg|The Deputy Supreme Commander in Chief of the Red Army, [[Marshal Zhukov|Marshal G Zhukov]], the Commander of the 21st Army Group, [[Bernard Montgomery|Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery]], [[:Category:Konstanty Rokossowski|Marshal Rokossovsky]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Sokolovsky General Sokolovsky] of the Red Army leave the Brandenburg Gate, 1945.
File:IS Konev 01.jpg|[[:Category:Ivan Stepanovich Konev|Marshal Konev]]
File:Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan.jpg|Marshal Ivan Bagramyan

File:Cujkov.jpg|[[:Category:Vasily Chuikov|General Chuikov]]
File:Gromov Mihail Mihajlovich 1934.jpg|Aviator, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Mikhaylovich_Gromov Colonel General Gromov]

File:Semyon Budyonny.jpg|[[:Category:Semyon Budyonny|Marshal Budyonny]]
File:Fotothek df pk 0000006 014 Tanzszenen.jpg|first military commandant of [[:Category:1945 in Berlin|Berlin]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Berzarin General Berzarin]
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from the Soviet Union]]

=== United Kingdom ===

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File:Auchinleck.jpg|Field Marshal [[Claude Auchinleck]]
File:Brooke-Popham & Wavell.jpg|Air Chief Marshal [[Robert Brooke-Popham]]
File:Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris.jpg|Air Chief Marshal [[Arthur Harris]]
File:Horrocks portrait.jpg|Lt. General [[Brian Horrocks]]
File:Bernard Law Montgomery.jpg|Field Marshal [[Bernard Montgomery]]
File:Arthur Percival.jpg|Lt. General [[Arthur Percival]]
File:Neil Ritchie.jpg|General [[Neil Ritchie]]
File:Tedder1943.jpg|Air Chief Marshal [[Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder|Arthur Tedder]]
File:Archibald Wavell.jpg|Field Marshal [[Archibald Wavell]]
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from the United Kingdom]]

=== United States ===
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File:J-lawton-collins-1948.jpg|General [[J. Lawton Collins]]
File:Charles-Cooke-g302333.jpg|Admiral [[Charles M. Cooke]]
File:James Patrick Sinnott Devereux.jpg|Major [[James Devereux]]
File:Lt. General James Doolittle, head and shoulders.jpg|General [[James H. Doolittle|Jimmy Doolittle]]
File:General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower 1947.jpg|General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
File:Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher.jpg|Admiral [[Frank J. Fletcher]]
File:James M. Gavin.jpg|Lt. General [[James M. Gavin]]
File:W Halsey.jpg|Fleet Admiral [[William F. Halsey, Jr.]]
File:Ernest King.jpg|Fleet Admiral [[Ernest King]]
File:Husband Kimmel.jpg|Admiral [[Husband Kimmel]]
File:MacArthur(2).jpg|General [[Douglas MacArthur]]
File:Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher during World War II (80-G-424169).jpg|Admiral [[Marc Mitscher]]
File:Chester Nimitz-fleet-admiral.jpg|Fleet Admiral [[Chester Nimitz|Chester W. Nimitz]]
File:Pattonphoto.jpg|General [[George S. Patton]]
File:Rear-Admiral-Norman-Scott-i02454.jpg|Rear Admiral [[Norman Scott]]
File:Forrest P SHerman.jpg|Admiral [[Forrest Sherman]]
File:Holland-smith-USA-P-Marianas-p194.jpg|General [[Holland Smith]]
File:Ray_Spruance.jpg|Admiral [[Raymond A. Spruance]]
File:Alexander A Vandergrift.jpg|General [[Alexander A. Vandegrift]]
File:Major-general-edwin-f-harding.jpg|Major General [[Edwin F. Harding]]
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For more pictures see also: [[:Category:People associated with World War II from the United States]]

== Battles ==
For more pictures see: [[:Category:Battles of World War II]]

=== European Eastern Front ===
For more pictures see: [[:Category:Battles of the Eastern Front (World War II)]]

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File:Fall of Warsaw in 1939.jpg|[[:Category:German invasion of Poland of 1939|Invasion of Poland]]
File:22june1941.jpg|[[:Category:Operation Barbarossa|Invasion of the Soviet Union]]
File:Ruined Kiev in WWII.jpg|[[:Category:Battle of Kiev (1941)|Battle of Kiev]]

File:RIAN archive 93172 Defenders of Leningrad.jpg|[[:Category:Saint Petersburg in the 1940s|Battle of Leningrad]]
File:The War in Finland, 1940 HU55566.jpg|[[Winter War]]
File:RIAN archive 611206 Soldiers of mopping up anti-tank battalion.jpg|[[:Category:Battles of Rzhev|Battles of Rzhev]]
File:Kharkov agosto 1943.jpg|[[:Category:Kharkiv in World War II|Battles of Kharkov]]
File:RIAN archive 668428 Brigade commissar Veselov trains soldiers.jpg|[[:Category:Battle of Sevastopol (1942)|Battle of Sevastopol]]
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1970-033-04, Russland, Kaukasus, Gebirgsjäger.jpg|[[:Category:Battle of the Caucasus|Battle of the Caucasus]]
File:Crossing_the_Dnieper.png|[[:Category:Battle of the Dnieper|Battle of the Dnieper]]
File:German paratroopers jumping From Ju 52s over Crete.jpg|[[Battle for Crete|Battle of Crete]]
File:Neretva most.jpg|[[:Category:Fall Weiß (1943)|Battle of Neretva]]
File:RIAN archive 606710 Tank assault force in Korsun-Shevchenkovski region.jpg|[[:Category:Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket|Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket]]
File:BALTICO.jpg|[[:Category:Baltic Offensive|Baltic Offensive]]
File:194407 abandoned german vehicles belarus (revised).jpg|[[:Category:Operation Bagration|Operation Bagration]]
File:RKKA Lviv.jpg|[[:Category:Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive|Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive]]
File:Powstanie warszawskie patrol.jpg|[[Warsaw Uprising]]
File:Nastupeni povstalci.jpg|[[Slovak National Uprising]]
File:FestungBreslau6V1945.jpg|[[:Category:Lower Silesian Offensive|Lower Silesian Offensive]]
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R98401, Königsberg, Volkssturm.jpg|[[:Category:Battle of Königsberg|Battle of Konigsberg]]
File:Poznań, Kr. Jadwigi, 1945.jpg|[[:Category:Battle of Poznań (1945)|Battle of Poznań]]
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-680-8282A-32A, Budapest, Panzer VI (Tiger II, Königstiger).jpg|[[:Category:Battle of Budapest|Battle of Budapest]]
File:Prague liberation 1945 konev.jpg|[[:Category:Prague Offensive|Prague Offensive]]
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=== European Western Front ===
For more pictures see: [[:Category:Battles of the Western Front (World War II)]]
<gallery>
File:Submarine attack (AWM 304949).jpg|[[Battle of the Atlantic]]
File:Dunkerque retreat.png|[[:Category:Battle of France|Battle of France]]
File:British rescued dunkirk.png|[[:Category:Operation Dynamo|Operation Dynamo]]
File:Matapan map.png|[[Battle of Cape Matapan]]
File:Battle of Greece WWII 1941 map-en.svg|[[Battle of Greece]]
File:Captured German troops norway.jpg|[[:Category:Operation Archery|Operation Archery]]
File:ItalySalernoInvasion1943.jpg|[[:Category:Operation Avalanche (World War II)|Allied invasion of Italy]]
File:6thbritairborneranville.jpg|[[Operation Tonga]]
File:'Nan White' Beach, JUNO Area at Bernieres-sur-Mer.jpg|[[Operation Overlord]]
File:American tank in Carentan.jpg|[[:Category:Battle of Normandy|Battle of Normandy]]
File:Snipercaen.jpg|[[Battle for Caen]]
File:Damagedcherbourg.jpg|[[:Category:Battle of Cherbourg|Battle of Cherbourg]]
File:US Army field gun in action.jpg|[[Battle of Brittany]]
File:Paris1944-improved.jpg|[[:Category:Liberation of Paris|Liberation of Paris]]
File:Metz1944-1.jpg|[[The Lorraine Campaign]]
File:Market-Garden - Landings.jpg|[[Operation Market-Garden]]
File:Walcheren Island 01.jpg|[[Battle of the Scheldt estuary|Battle of the Scheldt]]
File:Tanks and Infantrymen on the way.jpg|[[Battle of the Bulge]]
File:Jørstadelva railway bridge.JPG|[[:Category:Operation Woodlark Norway 1945|Operation Woodlark]]
File:Crossing the Rhine in a Buffalo.jpg|[[Crossing the Rhine]]
File:Bruecke von Remagen 1945 3.jpg|[[:Category:Operation Lumberjack|Operation Lumberjack]]
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=== Africa campaign ===
For more pictures see [[:Category:Battles of Africa Campaign (World War II)]]

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File:Keren Battlefield 021.jpg|[[Battle of Keren]]
File:Tobruk_1941_-_British_Matilda_tanks.jpg|[[Siege of Tobruk]]
File:El Alamein 1942 - British infantry.jpg|[[Second Battle of El Alamein]]
File:American troops landing on the beach at Arzeu.jpg|[[Operation Torch]]
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=== Pacific Theater ===
For more pictures see [[:Category:Battles of the Pacific War]]

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File:1944_Chapin_map_of_American_Progress_in_the_Pacific_during_World_War_II_for_TIME_Magazine.jpg|map
File:Surrender Singapore.jpg|[[Battle of Singapore]]
File:USSArizona PearlHarbor.jpg|[[Pearl Harbor|Attack on Pearl Harbor]]
File:Wheeler Field (7 Dec. 41).jpg|[[Fall of the Philippines|Battle of the Philippines
File:Battle of Los Angeles LATimes.jpg|[[Battle of Los Angeles]]
File:Coral Sea Lexington abandoning ship2.jpg|[[Battle of the Coral Sea]]
File:SBDs_and_Mikuma.jpg|[[Battle of Midway]]
File:M2A4 Stuart tank is hoisted from USS Alchiba (AK-23) into a landing craft off the Guadalcanal, 7 August 1942 (80-G-10973).jpg|[[Solomon Islands campaign]]
File:SavoIslandChicago.jpg|[[Battle of Savo Island]]
File:EasternSolomonsEnterpriseBurning.jpg|[[Battle of the Eastern Solomons]]
File:SantaCruzKate.jpg|[[Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands]]
File:Japanes_air_attack_on_shipping_off_Guadalcanal,_12_November_1942.jpg|[[Naval Battle of Guadalcanal]]
File:TassaMinneapolis6.jpg|[[Battle of Tassafaronga]]
File:ChicagoTow.jpg|[[Battle of Rennell Island]]
File:LST at Cape Gloucester.jpg|[[Battle of New Britain]]
File:Water Buffalo loaded with Marines.jpg|[[Mariana and Palau Islands campaign]]
File:LVTs attacking Saipan.jpg|[[Battle of Saipan]]
File:Marines wading ashore on Tinian.jpg|[[Battle of Tinian]]
File:First flag on Guam - 1944.jpg|[[Battle of Guam]]
File:Marines wait in their foxholes - Peleliu.jpg|[[Battle of Peleliu]]
File:Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and two destroyers under attack.jpg|[[Battle of the Philippine Sea]]
File:Princeton burning.jpg|[[Battle of Leyte Gulf]]
File:Stars and Stripes on Mount Suribachi (Iwo Jima).jpg|[[硫黄島の戦い|Battle of Iwo Jima]]
File:Marines land on Okinawa shores.jpg|[[沖縄戦|Battle of Okinawa]]
File:Kamikaze_hits_USS_Zellars_(DD-777)_on_12_April_1945_(NH_88066).jpg|Kamikaze
File:Explosion_of_the_Japanese_battleship_Yamato_on_7_April_1945_(80-G-413914).jpg|Yamoto
File:Yamato_(1945-04-06_09-47)3.jpg|Yamato
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For detailed maps see: [[:Category:Maps of World War II in the Pacific]]

==Air War==
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File:VOAC_-_(P043339).jpg|Australian poster
File:KI_48_ROC.jpg|China
File:Bombardierung Berlins.jpg|Bombing of Berlin by the U.S. Air Forces (around 1942)
File:Antwerp V1.jpg|V-1 offensive against Antwerp
File:Vallø_bilde5_april_mai_1945.jpg|Aftermath of the bombing of Vallø in Norway, April 1945
File:USAAF_bombs_Dresden,_1945-04-17_-a.png|Dresden
File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1978-106-25,_Deutsche_Luftwaffe.jpg
File:B-24_Liberators_over_Bratislava,_Slovakia_on_16_June_1944.jpg|Slovakia
File:Industria_Aeronautică_Română_I.A.R._80B_-_I.A.R._80_Jul1942.png|Romania
File:Fritz-X_EGWC.jpg|Fritz-X guided bomb
File:Mustang_Mark_III_of_112_squadron_in_Italy.jpg|Mustang mk3
File:A6M3_Model22_UI105_Nishizawa.jpg|Mitsubishi zero
File:Mitsubishi_MXY-8.png|Mitsubishi MXY-8
File:Nakajima_Kikka_02.png|Nakajima Kikka
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==Propaganda posters==
; Articles
* [[World War II Posters]]
;Main Gallery
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File:Ww2 poster oct0404.jpg|Let's catch him with his "panzers" down!
File:Loose_lips_might_sink_ships.jpg|Loose lips might sink ships
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==Other==
* [[Afrika Korps]]
<gallery>
File:2nd_Australian_Armoured_Brigade_Puckapunyal_June_1942.JPG|Australian Puckapunya 1942
File:442 regimental combat team.jpg|The American 442nd Regimental Combat team, made up of Japanese-Americans
File:King Tiger 1.jpg|Tiger II "King Tiger"
File:King Tiger rear.jpg|Tiger II "King Tiger" (rear)
File:Second World War Europe.png|Invasion of Poland (1939)
File:Kriegsgefangene.jpg|Prisoners of War - Kriegsgefangene
File:Yalta summit 1945 with Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin.jpg|Yalta summit 1945
File:Supply_train_through_the_Persian_Corridor.jpg|[[w:Persian Corridor|Persian Corridor]] train
File:Finnish advance in Karelia during the Continuation War.png|Finland-USSR battle
File:Continuation-War-1941.png|Finland-USSR battle in 1941
File:Shellhuset.jpg|Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen - now a gas station
File:Iva Toguri aka "Tokyo Rose" mugshot Sugamo Prison Tokyo JAPAN March 7, 1946.jpg|"Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri
File:Iva Toguri D'Aquino mug shot Sugamo Prison JAPAN March 7, 1946.jpg|"Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri
File:If_I_Should_Die_Before_I_Wake.jpg
File:Musée_de_la_Résistance_de_Vassieux_en_Vercors_06.jpg|French resistance
File:Bombardement_du_dépôt_de_Trappes_le_6_mars_1944.jpg|French trains bombed 1944
File:Bombardement_du_dépôt_de_Trappes_le_6_mars_1944._Une_2D2_522x.jpg|French trains bombed 1944
</gallery>

== The Blitz ==
''See [[:Category:The Blitz]]''
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File:LondonBombedWWII full.jpg
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== German World War II and pre-war in color ==
<gallery>
File:Ochsenfurt 1930er Umzug Wagen Sparkasse.jpg|Umzugswagen Sparkasse
File:Ochsenfurt 1930er Umzug Wagen Sparkasse 2.jpg|Umzugswagen Sparkasse 2
</gallery>

== Peace ==
<gallery>
File:Colonal General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff under the Doenitz Regime, signs the document of unconditional surrender.... - NARA - 195338.tif|Colonal General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff under the Doenitz Regime, signs the document of unconditional surrender in Reims, 7 May 1945.
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J0422-0600-002, Berlin-Karlshorst, Kapitulation, Shukow, Keitel.jpg|[[:Category:Wilhelm Keitel|Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel]] submitted the capitulation of the Wehrmacht to Marshal [[:Category:Georgy Zhukov|Georgy Zhukov]] in the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst, 8 May 1945.
File:Wilhelm Keitel Kapitulation.jpg|Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin. 8 May 1945
File:Churchill waves to crowds.jpg|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
File:News. V.E. Day BAnQ P48S1P12270.jpg|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.
File:JAPS QUIT.jpg|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
File:President Truman announces Japan's surrender.jpg|At the White House, President Truman announces Japan's surrender.  Washington, DC, August 14, 1945
File:Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the Second World War.jpg|{{FP star}} Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.
File:Douglas MacArthur signs formal surrender.jpg|Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander. Behind Gen. MacArthur are Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival
File:JapaneseSurrender.jpg|Japanese surrender
File:Wake island 1945 surrender.jpg|The Japanese Garrison at Wake Island surrenders (1945)
File:ShanghaiCelebratingJapaneseSurrender.jpg|Shanghai people celebrating Japanese surrender
File:V-J Day Times Square NYWTS.jpg|Crowds celebrating V-J Day in Times Square
File:Japanese instrument of surrender photo.jpg|Photo of the [[:en:Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japanese Instrument of Surrender]]
</gallery>

== Nuremberg Trials ==
'''See ''[[Nuremberg Trials]]'''''

== Post War Pictures ==
=== Europe ===
<gallery>
File:Painting of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden.jpg|Painting of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden in Berlin, 3 June 1945
File:Reichstag after the allied bombing of Berlin.jpg|The Reichstag after the allied bombing of Berlin, 3 June 1945
File:Graffiti inside the ruins of the German Reichstag building.jpg|Graffiti left by Russian soldiers covers the pillars inside the ruins of the German Reichstag building, 3 July 1945
File:Destruction in a Berlin street.jpg|Scene of destruction in a Berlin street just off the Unter den Linden, 3 July 1945
File:Destruction in the Linden Passage.jpg|Scene of destruction in the Linden Passage, the famous Berlin shopping archade on the Unter den Linden, 3 July 1945
File:German women doing their washing.jpg|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
File:The war damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.jpg|The war damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin, 7 July 1945
File:NAFFI Mobile Canteen No.750 beside the Brandenburg Gate.jpg|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
File:Antwerp V-1-2.jpg|Victory parade in Antwerp 1945(?)
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== Cemetries, Memorials and Museums ==

=== Cemeteries ===
* [[World War II Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial]]
* [[World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial]]
* [[Colleville-sur-Mer]]
* [[La Cambe]]
* [[Ehrenfriedhof Daleiden]]

=== Memorials ===
* [[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 ===

==== Museum for Peace ====
* Benouville Pegasus Bridge Museum
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File:PegasusBridge museum.JPG|original Pegasus Bridge
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* Museum for Peace (Mémorial de la paix, [[Caen]], [[Normandie]])
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File:Memorial Avion.jpg|Hawker Typhoon
File:Memorial maquette porteavion usa.JPG
File:Memorial Mur Resistance.jpg|Re-construction of a French wall during World War 2
File:Mémorial uniforme soviétique WWII.JPG|Soviet partisan uniform (WWII)
File:Memorial V1.jpg|German V1 (WWII)
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==See also==
* [[:Category:People associated with World War II|People associated with World War II]]
* [[:Category:World War II operations and battles|World War II operations and battles]]
* [[:Category:World War II ships|World War II ships]]
* [[Łódź Ghetto]]
* [[:Category:Manhattan Project|Manhattan Project]]
* [[:Category:Infantry weapons of World War II|Infantry weapons of World War II]]

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