Recently Updated Articles
Newest Photos
Portrait of Minoru Ota, 1940s
Front angle close-up of Type 4 Chi-To medium t...
Side angle view of a Type 4 Chi-To medium tank...
Captured Type 4 Chi-To medium tank, Japan, lat...
Front angle view of a Type 4 Ho-Ro self-propel...
Type 1 Ho-Ni II tank destroyer, circa 1940s
Type 1 Ho-Ni I tank destroyers, 1944
Back of the superstructure of a Type 3 Ho-Ni I...
Type 4 Ho-Ro self-propelled gun, circa 1940s
Random Photos
US airmen gathering next to B-24J Liberator bo...
Firebrand aircraft in flight, 1940s
Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber over Stalingrad, Russi...

Search WW2DB


19 May 1942: A surprise German pincer movement threatened to trap a large contingent of Soviet troops at Izium near Kharkov, Ukraine. Joseph... Read More

19 May 1944: British troops captured the airfield at Aquino outside of Rome, Italy. Read More

19 May 1941: Alessandro Malaspina sighted an aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean at 1140 hours at the range of 1,000 meters and identified it as a... Read More


29 Dec 2023: WW2DB's 19th Anniversary Read More

2 Jun 2023: Looted Painting "Madonna with Child" Returned to Poland Read More

29 May 2023: Wreck of USS Mannert L. Abele Found Read More

25 Apr 2023: Wreck of Montevideo Maru Found Read More

10 Feb 2023: Accidental Detonation of a WW2-Era Bomb in Great Yarmouth Read More