Indiana University

Daubers Club Christmas Party, December 1944

 

Fifth grade class victory garden, July 1942

 Fletcher Henderson and His Band at Summer Prom, August 1942

  

 Girls buying defense bonds, 1942

  

 Miss Junior WAVE, March 1944

  

 Omicron Nu tea, March 1944

  

 W.A.T.C. map studying and planning, September 1942

  

WAVE dance, November 1943

 

WAVES getting breakfast in cafeteria, October 1942

 

Source: Indiana University Photo Collections

John Collier

Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, San Francisco, 

Monday morning, December 8, 1941, after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  

One man tin can band during blackout. 

San Francisco, California, December 1941

 

Picnic party from the mill towns enjoys the autumn foliage along 

the Mohawk Trail in Massachusetts. State-owned park, October 1941

 

USO (United Service Organizations) servicemen's club. 

Civic Center, San Francisco, California, December 1941

 

Washington, D.C. Sewing room in the self-help exchange, January 1942

V-E Day in Vancouver

Source: Vancouver Public Library Historical Photo Collection

Marjory Collins

Ms. Collins took these photos in Oswego, New York in June 1943.

A citizen showing his wife vegetables from his 

victory garden as she starts on her way to church

  

A hayride for the United Nations heroes and Oswego girls during United Nations week

  

A street

  

 Ames Ironworks float, drawn by horses because of the 

gas rationing, in the United Nations week parade

  

Belgian sailor leads singing on a hayride for the United Nations 

heroes and Oswego girls during United Nations week

  

 Boys recruited to work on the farms during the summer 

waiting to be picked up by the farmers at 7:30 am

  

 Diamond Match Company unit in the United Nations week parade

  

Greek sailor and his friends at the carnival during United Nations week

  

Belgian and Greek sailors talking with a Negro worker 

at the carnival during United Nations week

Oz at War

World War II photos from Australia.

A female from the crowd, carried away with excitement, kisses a member of the 9th Australian Division during the unit march through the city streets, 31 March 1943

  

 A section of the crowd in Martin Place, Sydney during 

the Victory Pacific celebrations, 15 August 1945

  

Air raid practice, Melbourne, 1942

  

Christmas on HMAS Benalla, 1944

  

 Craftsman A R Bennett, motor trimmer of the 110th Brigade 

Workshop, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, using 

a heavy duty "Singer" sewing machine to stitch canvas bags, May 1944

  

 During celebrations in the city for VJ (Victory over Japan) Day, 

an enthusiastic digger is at the front of the crowd lining 

Swanston Street, waving flags amid streamers, 15 August 1945

  

 Labuan, North Borneo. Peace at last - airmen of First Tactical Air Force RAAF 

celebrate the end of the Pacific War with a campfire singsong. 11 August 1945

    

Members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) give "eyes right" as they pass the saluting base during the Service Womens march through the city, 28 Sept 1942

  

Private Albert George Denovan, of Sydney NSW, 2/3 Pioneer Battalion, a former prisoner of war (POW) is reunited with relatives at the showground, 19 November 1944

  

 Six women sit around an aircraft tank sewing on the final cover by hand. 

They were involved in the manufacture of Beaufort and Beaufighter aircraft, 1944

  

Wewak Point, New Guinea. Some members of no. 8 platoon, A company, 2/8 infantry battalion, reading victory news and viewing the celebration pictures from home, 29 August 1945

Source: Australian War Memorial

Ann Rosener

California shipyard workers. Thousands of workers bound for the Richmond shipyards in San Francisco's East bay area leave the ferry and cross the ramp leading to the yards, February 1943

  

 Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Prior to the conversion of a Chicago piano factory to the manufacture of parts for trainer planes, Lorraine Avezzano operated this boring machine to prepare piano keyboards for further assembly. Today she uses the same machine to process connecting rods for trainer-plane motors. More than 1,000 of these rods pass through her hands each day. Gulbransen Company. July 1942

 

 Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland. August 1942

 

 Mrs. Evelyn Hauser, Red Cross nurse, prepares a volunteer blood donor at San Quentin for his donation. During the Red Cross mobile unit's visit to the penitentiary, 150 prisoners gave blood and more than twice that number volunteered but were unable to give to the bank because of lack of time and equipment. ca. 1943

 

 Coffee and cakes taste pretty good to these San Quentin prisoners who have just given blood to the Red Cross mobile unit. Of the hundreds of men who volunteered to give blood to the bank, 150 were taken care of during the unit's four-hour visit to the penitentiary. Warden Clinton T. Duffy, who encourages such activities at the prison, chats with several Red Cross workers. ca. 1943

 

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop. September 1942

Saying Goodbye

These poignant photos of servicemen taking leave of their sweethearts/wives in World War II were taken by famed photographer Alfred Eisenstadt.