Showing posts tagged world war ii
The girl in a glass house (Library of Congress) View high resolution

The girl in a glass house (Library of Congress)

Looking Back At Iconic Iwo Jima : The Picture Show : NPR Sixty-seven years ago today, photographer Joe Rosenthal trekked up a mountain alongside U.S. Marines and snapped this indelible scene on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. Oddly enough, he had been rejected from military service for his poor eyesight, but today his vision is iconic. View high resolution

Looking Back At Iconic Iwo Jima : The Picture Show : NPR

Sixty-seven years ago today, photographer Joe Rosenthal trekked up a mountain alongside U.S. Marines and snapped this indelible scene on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. Oddly enough, he had been rejected from military service for his poor eyesight, but today his vision is iconic.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan, December 8, 1941. (National Archives) Listen: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941— a date which will live in infamy…” Crafting The ‘Day In Infamy’ Speech More: Pearl Harbor Survivors | Attack | This Is Not Drill | It Begins | Days Before War  View high resolution

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan, December 8, 1941. (National Archives)

Listen: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941— a date which will live in infamy…”

Crafting The ‘Day In Infamy’ Speech

More: Pearl Harbor Survivors | Attack | This Is Not Drill | It Begins | Days Before War 

Pearl Harbor survivors acknowledge the crowd at a ceremony to observe the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP (Houston Chronicle) View high resolution

Pearl Harbor survivors acknowledge the crowd at a ceremony to observe the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP (Houston Chronicle)

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, 7 December 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5). USS Arizona Casualty List More: This Is Not Drill | And So It Begins | Days Before War Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives collection. View high resolution

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941

The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, 7 December 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5).

USS Arizona Casualty List

More: This Is Not Drill | And So It Begins | Days Before War

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives collection.

This Is Not Drill Naval dispatch from the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. (Library of Congress) More: Days Before War | And So It Begins | Pearl Harbor Attack View high resolution

This Is Not Drill

Naval dispatch from the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. (Library of Congress)

More: Days Before War | And So It Begins | Pearl Harbor Attack

Played 1,621 times

wnyc:

Listen: Seventy years ago today.

A word to listeners, your city station WNYC will remain on air for an indefinite period tonight, to bring New Yorkers news, emergency public service messages, and special announcements and orders from Naval and Army authorities in the city area. This is New York City’s own station, WNYC

(Reblogged from wnyc)
And So It Begins Photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. (National Archives) View high resolution

And So It Begins

Photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. (National Archives)

Days Before War The December 8, 1941, edition of LIFE was printed in advance of Pearl Harbor but chillingly alluded to the looming conflict with Japan: In his famous visit to FDR, the magazine said, Tokyo’s special envoy was told “frankly that Japan’s conquering course of empire had careened to its end, as far as the U.S. was concerned. Now a line was drawn, over which Japan cannot step without risk of war with the U.S….The stage was set for war, a distant, dangerous, hard, amphibious war for which the American nation was not yet fully prepared….” View high resolution

Days Before War

The December 8, 1941, edition of LIFE was printed in advance of Pearl Harbor but chillingly alluded to the looming conflict with Japan:

In his famous visit to FDR, the magazine said, Tokyo’s special envoy was told “frankly that Japan’s conquering course of empire had careened to its end, as far as the U.S. was concerned. Now a line was drawn, over which Japan cannot step without risk of war with the U.S….The stage was set for war, a distant, dangerous, hard, amphibious war for which the American nation was not yet fully prepared….”

Honor our veterans today. Photo: Rescue on Omaha Beach [D Day morning], 1944 © Walter Rosenblum  Courtesy Naomi Rosenblum (New York Public Library) View high resolution

Honor our veterans today.

Photo: Rescue on Omaha Beach [D Day morning], 1944

© Walter Rosenblum 

Courtesy Naomi Rosenblum

(New York Public Library)

Night light 20thcenturypix: An Auxiliary Territorial Service girl crew, dressed in warm winter coats, works a searchlight near London, on January 19, 1943, trying to find German bombers for the anti-aircraft guns to hit. View high resolution

Night light

20thcenturypix:

An Auxiliary Territorial Service girl crew, dressed in warm winter coats, works a searchlight near London, on January 19, 1943, trying to find German bombers for the anti-aircraft guns to hit.

(Reblogged from 20thcenturypix)
World War II: Before the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic Photo: A Japanese soldier stands guard over part of the captured Great Wall of China in 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been at war intermittently since 1931, but the conflict escalated in 1937. (Library of Congress) View high resolution

World War II: Before the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

Photo: A Japanese soldier stands guard over part of the captured Great Wall of China in 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been at war intermittently since 1931, but the conflict escalated in 1937. (Library of Congress)

While waiting on the deck of his troop transport ship to load into a landing craft on the morning of D-Day Sergeant George Kobe, of Roanoke’s Company D, 116th Infantry, passed this dollar bill around gathering signatures from as many of his comrades as possible. At least six of the men who wrote their names (some are illegible) were killed later that day. Virginia National Guard Historical Collection View high resolution

While waiting on the deck of his troop transport ship to load into a landing craft on the morning of D-Day Sergeant George Kobe, of Roanoke’s Company D, 116th Infantry, passed this dollar bill around gathering signatures from as many of his comrades as possible. At least six of the men who wrote their names (some are illegible) were killed later that day. Virginia National Guard Historical Collection

Navy fighters during the attack on the Japanese fleet off Midway, June 4-6, 1942. In the center of the picture, a burning Japanese fleet is visible.   View high resolution

Navy fighters during the attack on the Japanese fleet off Midway, June 4-6, 1942.

In the center of the picture, a burning Japanese fleet is visible.  

(Reblogged from todaysdocument)
And you think your iPad is cool V-mail is inspected for flaws on an enlarging “reader” at the Pentagon building, Washington, D.C. V-mail is available to and from the armed forces stationed outside the United States. It is only 1/65th the weight of ordinary mail and saves ninety-eight percent of the cargo space required for ordinary letters. 1,600 letters can be placed on a roll of film little larger than a pack of cigarettes. (1943, Library of Congress) MORE: A history of V-mail from the National Postal Museum View high resolution

And you think your iPad is cool

V-mail is inspected for flaws on an enlarging “reader” at the Pentagon building, Washington, D.C. V-mail is available to and from the armed forces stationed outside the United States. It is only 1/65th the weight of ordinary mail and saves ninety-eight percent of the cargo space required for ordinary letters. 1,600 letters can be placed on a roll of film little larger than a pack of cigarettes. (1943, Library of Congress)

MORE: A history of V-mail from the National Postal Museum