intro - Militaria

Le porte-avion USS Franklin attaqué durant la seconde guerre mondiale, 19 mars 1945.
Photo prise par A. Bullock depuis les croiseur Santa Fe qui aidait à la lutte anti-incendie et aux secours. Le porte-avion est en feu et gite à tribord des suites d'une attaque aérienne japonaise survenue au large du Japon. L'équipage est clairement visible massé sur le pont. Après cette attaque, le porte avion était à la dérive, gitait de 13 degrès sur tribord, avait perdu tout lien radio avec l'extérieur, et était la proie des flammes. De nombreux membres d'équipage passèrent par dessus bord, furent tués, blessés ou brulés. Le bilan final fut de 724 morts et 265 blessés, et aurait pu être bien pire sans l'action exemplaire de nombreux membres de l'équipage.

Source
www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-f/cv13.htm
Date: mars 19, 1945
Auteur: PHC Albert Bullock

Corps d'un jeune homme mort, montrant l'horreur des destructions causées par un V-2 dans un grand carrefour d'Anvers, sur la principale voie de communication avec la Hollande.

Source: NARA National Archives and Records Administration
Date: 27 novembre 1944
Auteur: Signal Corps Photographs of American Military Activity

Cologne, Germany - Cpl. Luther E. Boger, Concord, N.C., skytrooper, reads a warning sign in the street. This street leads to the Rhine River and is under observation of the Germans who occupy a stronghold there. Cpl. Boger is with the 82nd Airborne Division. 4 April 1945. The German tank is burnt out and the torsion-bars have been destroyed by the immense heat of the fire.

   * Some extra information: Allied troops captured the western part of Cologne on 6th-7th March 1945. The German army still held the eastern shore of the Rhine and attacked the Allies with artillery. The rest of Cologne was captured between 12th and 15th April 1945. Until the 16th April a strip of about 500m along the shore had been declared as a restricted area and the cathedral was just within this zone.

Source: US-army history images

Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May, 1945. Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997). Public Domain.

A picture of the raising of the hammer and sickle flag over the Reichstag. The flag in this picture was made from a red tablecloth with the hammer and sickle themselves stamped on. It is not known whether the object missing in the allegedly edited version is a second wristwatch or a wrist compass. See also http://www.fahnenversand.de/fotw/flags/su%5Evctry.html and Image:Reichstag flag.jpg

Originally copyrighted TASS. Made by a TASS correpondent Yevgeny Khaldei, a journalist, during his official duties. All works copyrighted to Soviet organizations published before 1945 are Public Domain in Russia.