View in National Archives Catalog. The Second World War was documented on a huge scale by thousands of photographers and artists who created millions of pictures. American military photographers representing all of the armed services covered the battlefronts around the world. Every activity of the war was depicted--training, combat, support services, and much more.
On the home front, the many federal war agencies produced and collected pictures, posters, and cartoons on such subjects as war production, rationing, and civilian relocation.
Others were selected from the records of 12 additional agencies. Pictures are listed by subject and campaign. Original captions are in quotation marks. Photographers, artists, locations, and dates, when known, are also included. The National Archives Identifier number is linked to the online catalog where a digitized file of the photograph will be available for download. The images included in this list are only available in black and white.
The selected photographs are in the public domain and have no Use Restrictions. Jonathan Heller researched, selected, and arranged the items for this list and wrote these introductory remarks in Additional updates to this introduction were made as recently as May Photograph of President Franklin D.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan, December 8, National Archives Identifier: Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, at his headquarters in the European theater of operations. He wears the five-star cluster of the newly-created rank of General of the Army. Messerlin, February 1, June Conference of the Big Three at Yalta makes final plans for the defeat of Germany.
