World War II

Source Documents

Record	Title	Source Website	Type	Created
42-5951 - Page 21	US, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs), WWII, 1942-1947	Forces War Records	Image	Dec 5, 2007
42-5951 - Page 16	US, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs), WWII, 1942-1947	Forces War Records	Image	Dec 5, 2007
42-5951 - Page 12	US, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs), WWII, 1942-1947	Forces War Records	Image	Dec 5, 2007
42-5951 - Page 8	US, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs), WWII, 1942-1947	Forces War Records	Image	Dec 5, 2007
44-40825 - Page 4	US, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs), WWII, 1942-1947	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 8, 2008
Conference Of President Roosevelt, Premier Stalin And Prime Minister Churchill, November 28 To 1 December 1943, Inclusive. At That Historic Conference On The Portico Of The Russian Embassy At Teheran, Iran, Seated Left To Right: Premier Josef Stalin, Pr - Page 2	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 9, 2008
USSWestVirginia.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 8, 2008
1945-Aug-16 Askov American, Page 1		Forces War Records	Image	Apr 4, 2008
David R. Kingsley		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
Hitler and Mussolini.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Aug 29, 2007
Benito Mussolini After His Capture And Execution By Italian Partisans In Milan. Mussolini First Tried To Escape By Plane. The Italian Patriots Thwarted The Plan, Then He Fled In A German Convoy. Patriots Searched The Convoy And Found Him In An Ambulanc - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 7, 2008
Marianas Islands. Major Charles W. Sweeney, Pilot Of The B-29 'Bockscar' Which Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945, Is Shown Before His Mission Shaking Hands With Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Pilot Of The B-29 'Enola Gay' Which Atom-Bom - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Mar 17, 2008
HitertakenParis.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
spotterBofB.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
PearlHarbor.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
DDEisenhowerDday.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
normandy.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
Parisliberation.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
USandRussiameet.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
IwoJima.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
MacArthurreturns.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
Holocaust1.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
Holocaust2.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
A 9Th A.F. Photographer Accompanying Advance Elements Of Armor And Infantry Made This Picture At The Slave Labor Camp Near Nordhausen, Germany. Hundreds Of Workers Were Systemactically Starved To Death. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 8, 2008
Hundreds Of Slave Workers Were Systematically Starved To Death At A Labor Camp Near Nordhausen, Germany. A 9Th A.F. Cameraman, Accompanying Advanced Elements Of U.S. Armor And Infantry, Photographed This Section Of The Camp As German Civilians In The Bac - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 8, 2008
EndofWarII.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
VJday.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
Americangenerals.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 18, 2008
A North American B-25 Mitchell With "Finito Benito, Next Hirohito" Written At The Top Of The Plane. Flying Over The Mediterranean. 12Th Af. - Page 7	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Mar 17, 2008
ddaylanding.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 25, 2008
ddaylandingcraft.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 25, 2008
ddaymen.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 25, 2008
ddayinjured.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 25, 2008
Three Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Look Over Landing Operations At Normandy Beach, France. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 20, 2008
Landings On The Normandy Coast Of France On D-Day, 6 June 1944. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 20, 2008
Four of the Flag Raisers (Bradley, Hayes, Sousley & Strank) appear with their buddies		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
General Kuribayashi		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
1944 - D-Day Statement - Page 1	US, American Milestone Documents, 1776-1964	Forces War Records	Image	Jan 6, 2007
Avenge_December 7.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
IwoJimaFlagRaisers.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
IwoJimaUStroops4.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
firstflagraisingIwoJima.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
IwoJimaUStroops3.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
IwoJimaUStroops2.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
USMC-M-IwoJima-cvr.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 24, 2008
Americans Take Nazi Stronghold		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 20, 2008
Munich, Birthplace Of Nazi Party. Pictured In Front Of A Beer Hall In Which An Attempt Was Made On Hitler'S Life On 8 Nov. 1939 Are American Gis. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 8, 2008
Berchtesgaden Now A Gi Rest Stop -- The Eagle'S Nest Atop Obersalzberg Mountain In The Bavarian Alps, Where Hitler In One Of His Intuitive Moods Decided To Attack Russia, Is Now A Rest Lounge For American Soldiers, Shown At Their Ease While One Man Stands - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 8, 2008
United States 101st Airborne takes down Nazi flag		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 19, 2008
Hitler & Troops		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 19, 2008
hitler-wants-us-to-believe.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Apr 30, 2008
Ddaymap.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 7, 2008
Marine Maj Gen. Lemuel Shepherd Okinawa Jul 1945.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Apr 2, 2008
Frances Langford, Bob Hope And Tony Romano Pose With The Crew Of The Boeing B-17 (A/C 242) Of The 305Th Bomb Group At Station 105 In England. 5 July 1943. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 9, 2008
Bob Hope And Capt. Billy B. Southworth Listen As Colonel C.A. Marion Gives Them A Few Tips On The 'American Game' - Baseball. 303Rd Bomb Group, England. 6 July 1943. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 9, 2008
[None Entered] - Page 96	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 9, 2008
[None Entered] - Page 5	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 12, 2008
A Cocker Spaniel Balances Himself On Top Of A 500 Pound Bomb. Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 8, 2008
German surrender in Rheims, France - Page 2	US, Photos - Eisenhower, 1943-1961	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 6, 2007
Cpl. Jane Luella Bond Of Chardon, Ohio, Models The Wac Full Field Dress. She Is Assigned To The Officers' Section Of Wing Personnel At An Air Base Somewhere In The Hawaiian Islands. 13 March 1944. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 8, 2008
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Crew (No. 1 Seven Pictures) Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. Pilot Of The Enola Gay, The Plane That Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima, Waves From His Cockpit Before The Takeoff, 6 August, 1945. - Page 5	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Mar 17, 2008
The Ground Crew Of The B-29 'Enola Gay' Which Atom-Bombed Hiroshima, Japan. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, The Pilot Is In The Center. Marianas Islands. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Mar 17, 2008
1St Lt. D.A. Mcgovern, Buffalo, N.Y., Usaf, Member Of The Newsreel Pool, Stands At Exact Spot Where The Atomic Bomb Dropped At Nagasaki, Japan. This Spot Is Now Called "Zero". In The Distant Background May Be Seen The Urakami Cathedral. 8 September 194 - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Dec 5, 2007
German Civilians Remove The Bodies Of Slave Workers From The Labor Camp Near Nordhausen, Germany As U.S. Soliders Supervise The Grisly Work. Hundreds Of Workers Were Systematically Starved To Death By Their German Masters. Photograph By A 9Th A.F. Camer - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 8, 2008
Declaration of War Against Japan - Page 2	US, Photos - Franklin D Roosevelt, 1913-1945	Forces War Records	Image	Feb 6, 2007
Pearl Harbor Flag Flies At Hickam Field -- The Garrison Flag, Pictures, Which Flew Over Hickam Field, Hawaii, On December 7, 1941 At The Time Of The Japanese Attack, Was Raised Again At 7:55 Am Today (Hawaii Time) In Special Ceremonies At The Hawaiian Bas - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 7, 2008
Warsaw-Ghetto-Josef-Bloesche-HRedit.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Mar 22, 2008
Female Prisoners.gif		Forces War Records	Image	Jan 22, 2008
Holocaust victim's wedding rings.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Jul 8, 2008
Ebensee_concentration_camp_prisoners_1945.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Apr 2, 2008
Oskar Schindler.jpg		Forces War Records	Image	Aug 31, 2007
Jewish prisoner identifies SS guard		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 20, 2008
Buchenwald Concentration Camp		Forces War Records	Image	Nov 20, 2008
[None Entered] - Page 12	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Jan 28, 2008
FDRsocialsecurity.gif		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 12, 2008
"A Wing And A Prayer" - When A U. S. Army Airplane Crashed On A Fog Covered Peak In Newfoundland, Taking The Lives Of Two Officers And Three Enlisted Men, Chaplain Edward Saunders, (Major) Of Chicago, Illinois, Followed The Searching Party Through Miles O - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Nov 27, 2007
Men that will lead 8th Air force Bomber Group Shuttle Mission to Russia check the route on their map before take-off on the attack 21 June 44, that saw them take off from bases in Britain, attack targets in central Germany and then fly on to land - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Jan 17, 2008
Lt. Ralph K. Hover, Salem, Mo., gets last minute instructions from his intelligence officer, Lt. Charles Ashcroft, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the 21 June 44 long range fighter escort mission with bombers of the 8th Air force which attacked targets in - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Jan 17, 2008
[None Entered] - Page 79	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 8, 2008
[None Entered] - Page 12	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 8, 2008
[None Entered] - Page 9	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 8, 2008
[None Entered] - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Apr 8, 2008
ENGLAND-uponn returning from a mission over enemy occupied territory, these 8th Air force P-51 Mustang pilots have gone directly to the intelligence section to be interrogated. Giving their informationto the interrogation officer, they are left to - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Jan 17, 2008
Lt. Col. James M. Stewart, Group Operations Officer, interrogates airmen returning from Berlin. Left to right: 2nd Lt. Robert F. Sullivan, Chicopee Falls, Mass.; Capt. Ray L. Sears, Tomar, Mo., pilot of Consolidated B-24 "Spirit of Notre Dame"; 1st - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Jan 17, 2008
Clark Gable With Crew Of The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" 'Eight Ball' Lead Crew On Bombing Mission To Antwerp, Belgium, Pose Beside The Plane. 303Rd Bomb Group, England. 4 May 1943. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Jan 17, 2008
Evacuation Of Patients At 1340Th Aaf Base Unit (Atc), Kunming Army Air Base, China, 11 July 1945. - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Dec 3, 2007
Joe Louis In Eskimo Land Like Kids The World Over, These Eskimo Boys Are Probably Trying To Tell T/Sgt. Joe Louis All About Their Wonderful Dog -- Unsuccessfully, Inasmuch As The World'S Heavyweight Champion Doesn'T Speak Eskimo. The Scene Is The U.S. A - Page 1	US, WWII US Air Force Photos	Forces War Records	Image	Nov 27, 2007
Analysis by Target System - Page 673	US, Japanese Air Target Analyses, 1942-1945	Forces War Records	Image	Oct 12, 2007
USS NAVARRO		Forces War Records	Image	Sept 12, 2008
USS Leonard Wood USCG wwII		Forces War Records	Image	Apr 9, 2010
Montano, Robert Louis	US, World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949	Forces War Records	Child Record	Sept 28, 2013
Attack on Pearl Harbor		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 8, 2008
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 8, 2008
Adolf Hitler		Forces War Records	Memorial	Nov 20, 2008
The Holocaust		Forces War Records	Memorial	Nov 20, 2008
Nazi Germany		Forces War Records	Memorial	Nov 19, 2008
The Battle of Iwo Jima		Forces War Records	Memorial	Nov 24, 2008
D-day Normandy Invasion		Forces War Records	Memorial	Nov 25, 2008
John J. Pinder, Jr.		Forces War Records	Memorial	Nov 25, 2008
James H Doolittle		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 5, 2008
The Yalta Conference		Forces War Records	Memorial	Dec 1, 2008
Audie Murphy		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 5, 2008
Japan in World War II		Forces War Records	Memorial	Dec 2, 2008
World War I		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 8, 2008
William Rumford		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 3, 2008
Emerson R Jenkins		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 3, 2008
Michael A Pesarcik		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 3, 2008
Douglas Macarthur		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 3, 2008
Felice Benuzzi		Forces War Records	Memorial	Sept 8, 2008
Bernard R. Yglesias 1919-1945		Forces War Records	Memorial	Aug 3, 2009
Benjamin C. Fox 1925-1978		Forces War Records	Memorial	Jul 25, 2009
Joseph Stalin		Forces War Records	Memorial	Dec 6, 2008

Source URLs

URL	Events	Description
David Kingsley - The Ultimate Sacrifice
Bombing Raid on Ploesti, 1943		Read about the raid that David Kingston participated in when he earned the medal of honor.
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Other Sources

Source	Events
http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/amwars.asp