A Source for battle field photos from WW2

[Rate_of_Twist]

So Im sitting here sick, in 3 blankets on the couch with my 4th day of the military channel on ( its been the WORST flu Ive EVER had) and I had a project I thought might be fun to add to my mil-surp collection. I would like to build a photo album of original battle filed photos that contain all of the mil-surp firearms I own from the WW2 era. I dont own anything too rare in terms of firearms so thats not an issue, but I do want authentic photos and not reproductions or copies.

Is there a place where anyone has had luck with such items? I know there are 1000's of listings on ebay, but I dislike ebay and distrust most of the sellers selling "collectibles"

drb

 

[SteelShooter]

I use this site quite a bit, you can actually order prints from them too

http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/

 

[System6ix]

Thanks for the link SteelShooter, I never tire of seeing WWII images. I'm more than a bit obsessed with reading about WWII military history. Oh, and hope you're feeling better **DRB**.

Cheers,
Z

 

[Boris]

German bundesarchive has tons on action in Europe. Not sure on link, but it would take you weeks to go through part of them.

 

[bch1988]

I use this site quite a bit, you can actually order prints from them too

http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/

You just murdered all productivity at work today.

 

[System6ix]

German bundesarchive has tons on action in Europe. Not sure on link, but it would take you weeks to go through part of them.

Thanks Boris, I'm going to have to pursue that.

 

[SteelShooter]

This picture I think, is amazing, Soldiers scrambling back as one has covering fire. You can see the shell ejecting after the shot. Bayonets ready as they know it's going to be a tight battle.

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[Boris]

Thanks Boris, I'm going to have to pursue that.

we should make it a sticky, there are a couple of other sites that I remember. One is Russian and nice thing about it is that comments are enabled for each photo which gives mil buffs and idiots to comment on the content of the photos, like specific weapons, uniform ranks and bits of relevant history.

in one extreme example, not sure which forum, one epic thread, there was a photo of a girl in parts of Nazi uniform. Over several years of investigation, people located the actual place etc. and probably figured out who she was too.

 

[Boris]

ok, here is one, it's all in Russian, but many photos are of Allies and non-Soviet origin:

http://waralbum.ru/category/war/
http://waralbum.ru/category/weapons/

there are something like 14 thousand of photos and new being added daily. Say good bye to free time

 

[Billsail]

http://blogs.denverpost.com/capture...-blog-the-pacific-and-adjacent-theaters/1547/


I know these have been posted before, but here's tons of pics from the South Pacific.

 

[Rate_of_Twist]

ok, here is one, it's all in Russian, but many photos are of Allies and non-Soviet origin:

http://waralbum.ru/category/war/
http://waralbum.ru/category/weapons/

there are something like 14 thousand of photos and new being added daily. Say good bye to free time

Damn wow..... Its real hard to look through a site where not a single word is readable. perhaps I should learn Russian

 

[Bankjob]

Here's a later model

http://store.colemans.com/cart/german-army-field-phone-2-pack-p-2771.html

 

[JuergenG]

Histomil.com has tons of pics, a lot of them taken from the German Bundesarchiv.
There is a HUGE specific thread here http://www.histomil.com/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=3918