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Collection N: World War II, 1939 - 1945
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Western
Civilization PicturePack
Collection N:
World War II, 1939 - 1945
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
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WCN01: World
War II Begins
● Hitler calls for
war against Poland ● German workers assemble
airplanes ● A German division moving Into
Poland ● A German PzKpfw IV medium tank going
to the front ● German Junkers Ju. 87 "Stuka"
in flight ● A French World War II poster
● German invaders in Norway, April 1940
● German troops on the Norwegian coast ●
A German Junkers Ju. 52 trimotor airplane ● A
Belgian mother and children in the ruins ●
Houses in Luxembourg destroyed, May 10, 1940 ●
A German assault gun in action ● British
troops retreat at Dunkirk, May 1940 ● British
troops captured at Dunkirk, 1940 ● Harold Lord
Alexander (1891-1969) ● French surrender to
Germany, June 22, 1940 ● Hitler elated over
the capitulation of France ● The Wehrmacht in
Paris, June 1940 ● Hitler after defeating
France in 1940 ● Hitler and Goering in Berlin,
1940 ● Paul Reynaud, wartime premier of France
● Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain (1856-1951)
● Cartoon, Vichy regime above all parties
● Pierre Laval (1883-1945), French politician
● Hitler meets Pétain, with Ribbentrop on
right ● Admiral Jean Darlan arrives to meet
Hitler ● Anti-Semitic French cartoon during
occupation ● Map: Hitler's empire, 1942
● Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) ●
Cartoon re: de Gaulle and Darlan’s assassination
● Infantryman honored by de Gaulle in 1942
● French general Henri Giraud, 1943 ● A
French Resistance poster ● Signing of the
Tripartite Pact, September 1940 ● Diplomats in
Tokyo celebrate Tripartite Pact
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WCN02: WWII: Air Bombardment
of England and Germany
● Hitler and
Franco meet, October 23, 1940 ● John Bull's
War Aim ● A German Messerschmitt Me. 109
fighter airplane ● A Heinkel He. 111 medium
bomber ● A German aircrew en route to bomb
London ● The German Focke-Wulf FW 190 fighter
airplane ● "Never was so much owed by so
many to so few." ● London underground
used as air raid shelter ● Air raid shelter
pass used during the Blitz ● British troops
arrive at a London station ● Observer scans
London skies for German aircraft ● "Let
us go forward together." ● Fireman helps
homeless people over rubble ● How to Get Help
after Air Raid Damage ● Family in the wreckage
of their Liverpool home ● A Plymouth milkman
picks his way through rubble ● Lend-Lease:
bacon from U.S. in England ● British woman
carpenter at a shop in England ● Woman welder
in an English factory in 1943 ● A British
Short Stirling 4-engine bomber, 1942 ● The
city of Nuremberg, Germany, in ruins ● German
woman searches through bombed house ● Family
lives in the only remaining room
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WCN03: WWII: The Sea War &
Eastern Front
● The sinking of
the Graf Spee, 1939 ● Atlantic convoy
seen from a destroyer’s bridge ● The German
World War II code machine Enigma ● A
British destroyer laying a smoke screen ● A
Royal Navy corvette, the H.M.S. Hibiscus ● A
U-boat tanker or "milch cow." ●
Aboard the Suffolk in the Denmark Strait
● Biplanes prepare to take off vs. Bismarck
● A typical British cruiser, the H.M.S. Aurora
● A British submarine arrives home ●
A German panzer unit moves into Salonika, 1941
● Oil tanks burning on the Salonika waterfront
● German soldiers with a loaded burro in Crete
● Fort St. Elmo in Valletta on Malta ●
German bombs bursting on Valletta, Malta. ●
Maltese people in shelter during German attack
● A British destroyer defending a Malta convoy
● A freighter in a Malta convoy under air
attack ● British troops landing in Malta,
February 1942 ● H.M.S. Ark Royal
sinking
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WCN04: The WWII Battle for
Russia
● Vyacheslav M.
Molotov (1890-1986) ● The German invasion of
Russia, 1941 ● German troops advancing on the
eastern front. ● An armored half-track of a
German grenadier unit ● General Guderian,
German panzer commander ● A German Fieseler
"Storch" [Stork] light plane ●
German He. 111 airplane bombing Russia ●
Russian soldiers taken prisoner by Germans ●
Soviet Marshal Timoshenko (1895-1970) ● Red
Army men defend Taganrog-Orel railway ●
Military car mired in Russian mud ● Winter on
the Russian front ● Women making felt boots
for the Russian Army ● Red Army Ski Troops
Move To Front ● German Retreat Begins in
Rostov-on-Don ● German prisoners taken by
Russians ● Red Army soldiers attacking a
German outpost ● Stalingrad, October 1942
● German soldiers during the assault on
Stalingrad ● Ruins in Stalingrad, 1942 ●
Women digging an anti-tank ditch ● A burning
Leningrad hospital, 1942 ● A German rocket
battery before Leningrad ● Russian nurses
receive instructions ● Russian factory workers
buying war bonds ● A poster,
"Workers'-Peasants' Regime." ● A
poster, "Death to the Fascist Serpent!"
● A Soviet World War II poster ● Russian
peasants on a collective farm, 1942 ● A woman
lathe operator in a Russian factory ● Soviet
girls in the guerrilla forces
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WCN05: Pearl
Harbor; The U.S. Enters the War ●
Pearl Harbor during
Japanese attack ● A burning battleship at
Pearl Harbor ● Roosevelt asking Congress to
declare war on Japan ● The surrender of the
Philippine Islands, May 1942 ● The Bataan
Death March ● Coast Guard cutter
depth-charging a U-boat ● U.S. bomb hits
German submarine ● RAF airfield turned over to
the USAAF ● B-24 "Liberator" bombers
● A wrecked American B-24
"Liberator" heavy bomber ● A stacked
echelon of P-51 "Mustang" fighters ●
B-17s attack Berlin, February 1945 ● B-17
"Flying Fortress" bombers on a mission
● The Moscow Conference, 1942
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WCN06: World War II in Africa
● The Cairo
Conference, November 1943 ● Map of the North
African war area ● British troops advance on
Bardia, Libya ● The Union Jack is hoisted in
Benghazi ● British troops in Palmyra, Syria
● British troops in the Roman Forum at Palmyra
● South African infantry in the battle of
Tobruk ● Axis signs in Tobruk, 1942 ●
General Erwin Rommel in North Africa ● A
British tank passes a burning German tank ●
Retreating British troops in the desert ●
Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery ● A column
of Axis prisoners in the desert, 1942 ● French
ships shell U.S. cruiser off Casablanca ● Free
French soldiers in North Africa ● The British
8th Army moves into Tunisia ● U.S.
artillerymen vs. Germans at Kasserine Pass ●
The Casablanca Conference, 1943
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WCN07: The Allies Take Italy
and France
● Free French
troops parade in Tunis, May 1943 ● The
Casablanca Conference, 1943 ● German
grenadiers in Italy south of Rome ● German
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring ● U.S. General
Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) ● American troops
in Rome, October 1945 ● U.S. Fifth Army
crosses Po River in Italy ● Pope Pius XII, who
ruled from 1939 to 1958 ● A German fortress on
the "Atlantic Wall." ● Hitler with
Keitel, Dönitz, Himmler, and Milch ● Albert
Speer In a captured U.S. Sherman tank ● Field
Marshal von Runstedt (1875-1953) ● Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel inspecting troops ●
Eisenhower before the D-Day invasion of Normandy
● The D-Day invasion across the English
Channel ● Normandy beach after landing on June
6, 1944 ● Allies begin to move inland after
D-Day landings ● U.S. infantrymen approach
Fontainebleau, France ● A map of the Allied
march to Berlin ● After the assassination
attempt against Hitler ● Count von Wartenburg
led to trial, 1944 ● 17-year-old member of
French Resistance ● Sniper fire interrupts
Paris victory parade ● Members of the French
underground, August 1944 ● French women
believed to be collaborators
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WCN08: German Surrender; WWII
Ends
● A German V-1
pilotless plane ● A captured V-1 launch site
in France ● A V-2 rocket in flight soon after
launching ● The Peenemünde scientific team
● Marshal Tito in Yugoslavian headquarters,
1944 ● 21-year-old in the Yugoslav People's
Army ● "Thus it will be with the Fascist
beast!" ● The Yalta Conference, February
1945 ● Molotov and Stalin confer at Yalta,
February 1945 ● Russian and U.S. soldiers meet
at Elbe river ● The bombed-out ruins of
Darmstadt, Germany ● A captured 13-year old
Hitler Youth fighter ● Leipzig mayor and
family who committed suicide ● Bormann, head
of Nazi Party affairs after Hess ● General
Alfred Jodl en route to sign surrender ●
Germany surrenders, May 7, 1945 ● British
royal family and Churchill ● Churchill,
Eisenhower at London's Guild Hall ● A map of
Europe after World War II ● A sign asking for
a united Berlin
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WCN09: The Holocaust
● German cartoon,
"A Million Dead for Jewry." ● A
Jewish-owned store after a Nazi bombing ●
Jewish man forced to sweep a street in 1939 ●
A poster for The Eternal Jew exhibition, 1937
● A poster for the 1940 German film Jew
Süss ● One of 20,000 children who fled
Vienna, 1938 ● British Jews with petition to
open Palestine ● Hyde Park protest against
German policies ● Londoners protest Nazi
treatment of the Jews ● Orthodox Polish Jew
has his beard shaved off ● Warsaw Jews herded
into ghetto ● Warsaw defenders arrested by the
Germans, 1943 ● Buildings on fire in the
Warsaw ghetto, 1943 ● Warsaw citizens' papers
reviewed during revolt ● U.S. soldier stands
over bodies of two SS guards ● Prisoners in
their bunks at Dachau ● Ovens in a German
concentration camp ● At Terezin, a Polish man
about to be murdered ● Women's ward at Belsen
concentration camp ● Irma Grese, in charge of
death cells at Belsen ● One of the first freed
from a concentration camp ● Bodies of Nazi
concentration camp victims, 1945 ● German
soldiers forced to uncover mass grave ●
Germans are forced to view dead bodies ●
Civilians of Nuremberg ordered to carry bodies
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WCN10: World War II in Asia
and the Pacific; Nuremberg
Trials
● Map of the
Japanese Empire, 1942 and 1945 ● Flying Tigers
of the Chinese Air Force ● H.M.S. Prince of
Wales in 1941 ● The last days of
Singapore, February 1942 ● Indian Sikh gunners
in Singapore ● Indian troops in Cyrenaica,
North Africa ● Mme. Chiang, Gandhi, Chiang,
Nehru, April 1942 ● Australians in action
against the Japanese, 1943 ● Lord Louis
Mountbatten (1900-1979) ● Gandhi after his
release from internment in 1944 ● Japanese
move to capture Burma, March 1942 ● British
& Indian troops on Imphal-Kohima Road ●
Gurkha soldiers in at recapture of Prome, Burma
● British troops prepare to shell Japanese
● Ancient & modern grading on the Stilwell
Road ● Generals Joseph Stilwell and Lewis Pick
confer ● First convoy to cross Stilwell Road
enters China ● Stalin, Truman, Churchill at
Potsdam Conference ● Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) ● The original atomic pile ●
Enrico Fermi at the controls ● Los Alamos
National Laboratory, aerial view ● The first
atomic explosion, July 16, 1945 ● Bomb damage
in Tokyo ● Hiroshima after the atomic
explosion ● Japanese surrender on U.S.S. Missouri
● Japanese Emperor Hirohito ● Top Nazi
leaders on trial at Nuremberg ● Goering at the
Nuremberg war crimes trial ● Hess in his cell
at Nuremberg, November 1945 ● General Tojo
Hideki at the war crimes trial
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