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37,189 Pacific War Images and Stock Photos

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Former German U-boat from World War II anchored in Japanese waters, circa 1947.

Aerial view showing smoke and explosions after US Navy bombers blast Yap City, on Yap Island, Palau, 1944.

Attack On Yap City, Palau

Anti-Japanese propaganda poster 'This is the enemy' 1942.

This is the enemy.

1940s DECEMBER 7 1941 DAY OF INFAMY BATTLESHIP USS ARIZONA IN PEARL HARBOR HI AFTER SURPRISE ATTACK BY JAPANESE AIR FORCES

1940s DECEMBER 7 1941 DAY...

In South East Asia Japanese invasion of Burma from January 1942: bomber pilots of the Japanese Air Force receiving mission orders before their flight...

WW II in South East Asia Japanese invasion of Burma from January 1942: bomber pilots (Bomber Mitsubishi Ki 21) of the Japanese Air Force receiving mission orders before their flight to Rangoon - January/February 1942

The radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki City, as seen from 9.6 km away, in Koyagi-jima, Japan, August 9, 1945. The US B-29...

Atomic Bombing Of Nagasaki

These headlines were from a New York newspaper telling of the start of the American-Japanese war, December 7, 1941.

PM Daily on United States Backing War Against Japanese

Okinawa: In Suburbs Of Naha--Tired Sixth Marine Division Leathernecks, fighting the stubborn Japs for the possession of Naha on Okinawa Island, rest...

American Soldiers Resting Besides Wall in War Torn Area

Poland-World War II, which ended with the surrender of Japan to the allies, began on September 1 when Adolph Hitler sent his armed might marching...

German Army Riding on Motorbikes Through Polish Town

It Isn't Over Over There--on Okinawa. Okinawa: Marine private First Class Lucien J. Vanasse, of Northhampton, Massachusetts, and his devil dog...

Lucien J. Vanasse and Dog Standing Guard

Nakajima B6N Tenzan torpedo bomber, known to the Allies as "Jill", flies through anti-aircraft fire during a battle in the Truk Islands. | Location:...

Japanese Torpedo Bomber in Battle

Filipino and American prisoners of war marched from Mariveles to San Fernando. This march was named the Bataan Death March because of the high number...

Prisoners Along the Bataan Death March

Tokyo, Japan: Tojo Suicide Attempt-Japs prop former premier Tojo up shortly after he shot himlself.

Tojo On Floor After Shooting Himself

Pearl Harbour naval base and USS Shaw ablaze after the Japanese attack.

Pearl Harbour naval base and U.S.S. Shaw ablaze.

Detainee woman and children in their quarters at the Santa Anita Assembly Center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California, 1942. The camp is a...

Japanese American Detainees

Low-angle view of US Marines, carrying packs and equipment, as they crouch and run towards the cover of smoke during the inland drive, Iwo Jima,...

Marines On Iwo Jima

Browning heavy automatic machine gun crew maintaining a position overlooking Japanese resistance, during the Pacific Campaign of World War Two,...

Pacific Campaign Of World War Two

View of a map, signed by the men who bombed Tokyo, Japan, in the famous Doolittle Raid, April 18, 1942.

Doolittle Raid Signatures

New school in Nagasaki, made up of pupils born just after the atomic bombings following World War Two, Japan, 1949.

Blazing Japanese installations send up huge puffs of smoke as Roi Island, the Japanese airbase on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, rocks...

Japanese troops marching from their base camp.

Troops advance on Bougainville Island against the Japanese occupation troops.

Japanese tank in the jungle.

Members of the British forces in Burma prepare to search a village for Japanese soldiers.

An action shot from the film 'Wake Island' where marines fight to hold an American base on a Pacific Island during World War II. The film was...

Students in a Primary school class in Hiroshima, 10 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7849 -...

Japanese School

General Douglas MacArthur looks down on dead Japanese soldiers after a fierce battle on Bataan.

Crowds in Piccadilly Circus celebrate the news of the Japanese surrender to the Allies.

Piccadilly Crowds

B25s from the US airforce bomb the Japanese Headquarters in West Borneo. The 'Mitchels' razed the town to the ground.

The USS Arizona sinking in a cloud of smoke after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, Hawaii.

Headshot portrait of Naval Mess Attendant 3rd Class Doris 'Dorie' Miller, wearing a Navy Cross pinned to his sailor's uniform, under the headline,...

View of clouds of black smoke rising from the USS 'Bunker Hill' aircraft carrier after it was hit twice by Japanese Kamikaze planes during World War...

USS Bunker Hill Burns

Parachute bombs about to land and explode on a Japanese plane, camouflaged with branches and covered in graffiti, on the ground during a low-level...

The ground and flight crew of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' at Tinian in the Mariana Islands, after the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima.

Black smoke billows into the air from a kamikazi plane which hit the SS Bunker Hill during a Japanese air strike near Okinawa.

Black smoke and flames pour out of a battleship on fire in Pearl Harbour , Oahu Island after a surprise attack by the Japanese which brought America...

Battleship Destroyed

Japanese kamikaze pilot tying on the honorary ribbons that were always worn when on a suicide mission. 'Kamikaze', which means 'winds of the gods',...

An Imperial Japanese Army tank advances in the jungle during the Malaya Campaign of the Pacific War circa 1942 near Yong Peng, Malaya.

Imperial Japanese Army Advances Toward Siganpore

japanese banner at pearl harbor - pacific war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Japanese Banner at Pearl Harbor

wwii m4 sherman tank crew on d day - pacific war stock illustrations

WWII M4 Sherman Tank Crew on D Day

School pupils wave national flags in front of a world map showing the course of the war at Wakaura Elementary School circa February 1942 in Wakayama,...

Home Front Of Pacific War

People visit Yasukuni Shrine during the commemoration ceremony on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Japan's declaration of defeat in World War II in...

Yasukuni Shrine marking 80th anniversary of World War II's end in Tokyo

Damaged buildings in the Ginza district of Tokyo after American air-raids on the city, June 1945.

Bomb Damage In Ginza

Soldiers from Company B, 172nd Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division of the XIV Corps, United States Army shelter behind palm tree trunks after...

World War Two: The Pacific 1943

Arizona, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

A United States Navy LSM-188-class Landing Ship Medium fires a barrage of rockets in salvos on to the shores of Tokishi Shima in a prelanding...

World War Two: The Pacific 1945

Viewed from above the three-gun turrets of 14-inch /50 caliber guns of the United States Navy battleship the USS New Mexico, two Vought OS2U...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

World War II poster - The War Against Japan

The War Against Japan

Douglas A-20 Havoc Light Bomber of the USAAF in flight c. 1945.

USA: A Douglas A-20 Havoc Light Bomber of the USAAF (US Army Air Force) in flight c. 1945

The USS Idaho, a New Mexico-class battleship, shelling Okinawa on 1 April 1945.

Japan/USA: The USS Idaho, a New Mexico-class battleship, shelling Okinawa on 1 April 1945

Pearl Harbor, on the southern coastline of the Hawaiian island Oahu, aerial photograph looking southwest, 30 October 1941.

USA: Pearl Harbor, on the southern coastline of the Hawaiian island Oahu, aerial photograph looking southwest, 30 October 1941

The Nitta Maru was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1938-1940 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co....

Japan: Advertising poster for the Japan Mail Steamship Company (1940). 'Three new sister ships' were launched just before the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific

An illustration depicts a war zone with a plane flying above a city with fire and explosions beneath, ca. 1943.

French WWII prisoner of war arrives in April 1945 at Paris "gare de l'Est" railway station after he was released by Allied forces in occupied...

FRANCE-WWII-PRISONERS-RAILWAY STATION

1940s AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF PEARL HARBOR HAWAII PRIOR TO BOMBING ATTACK BY THE JAPANESE ON DECEMBER 7 1941

1940s AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF...

American military commander General Douglas MacArthur , accompanied by Lieutenant General George C. Kenney , Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland...

MacArthur On Leyte

Reactions where strong to a graphic film clip of nuclear explosions during the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee Discussion, "The Consequences of...

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee

Reactions where strong to a graphic film clip of nuclear explosions during the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee Discussion, "The Consequences of...

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee

Reactions where strong to a graphic film clip of nuclear explosions during the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee Discussion, "The Consequences of...

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee

diver at htms sattakut - pacific war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Diver at HTMS Sattakut

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