It's hard to imagine what World War II was really like if you were born long after it ended. As more veterans die every day, fewer people are alive that can remember it. While books can teach you everything there is to know about the war, nothing can capture the reality as well as photos of the real people who were affected by it.
During World War II, James Allison, a sports writer working for the Houston Press, noticed that many photographs not printed in the daily newspaper were routinely discarded. He received permission to save these images, and by war's end he had amassed a collection of more than 4,600 photographs. In August 1977, Allison donated his collection to the Arkansas Museum of Science and History, located in the historic Arsenal building in MacArthur Park. Today, the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History owns and preserves these images.
During World War II, James Allison, a sports writer working for the Houston Press, noticed that many photographs not printed in the daily newspaper were routinely discarded. He received permission to save these images, and by war's end he had amassed a collection of more than 4,600 photographs. In August 1977, Allison donated his collection to the Arkansas Museum of Science and History, located in the historic Arsenal building in MacArthur Park. Today, the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History owns and preserves these images.
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| A Bit of Chiselling for Der Fueher |
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| A Nazi Souvenir |
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| American Dead in Italy |
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| Behind Wires of a Nazi Camp |
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| Bombs rain on London's west end |
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| Boy received the care of the soldiers |
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| Breaking the trail |
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| Bred to Warfare |
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| Cave Dwellers Emerge |
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| Cherbourg Defense Ends in Death |
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| China's Human Cargo |
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| Coup De Grace |
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| Crippled children's home bombed |
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| Dead Soldiers |
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| Don't Lose Your Head |
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| Dress Rehearsal for War |
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| Exit from Dunkirk |
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| Fighting Through the Downpour |
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| First aid for an invader |
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| First aid |
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| First Glimpse Inside Stalingrad |
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| Hands Up – Give Up |
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| Hand-trucking the Aged to Safety |
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| Hollanders Pray for Nazi Victims |
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| Home Is Where The Nazis Aren’t |
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| Hunger Appeased |
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| Invasion! |
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| It’s Good to Be Clean |
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| Magazine Bites the Mud |
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| Main Street |
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| Marine Battle Tricks |
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| Nazis Execute Soviet Civilians |
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| New Burma Road - Shortcut to Tokyo |
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| New Leg for Crippled Veteran |
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| New 'Water Buffalo' Packs a Wallop |
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| One Price for Rome's Liberation |
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| One Price for Rome's Liberation |
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| Pillar of Fire Against Foe |
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| Prelude to invasion |
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| Rocket targets for ack-ack training |
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| Sky Trail Markers |
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| Sorrowful farewell |
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| Sugar baby - A refugee |
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| Survivor of U.S.S. Calhoun Gets First Aid |
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| Tell Tale of Nazi Horror |
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| The Infantry School's "West Wall" |
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| Two Uses for Motorcycle |
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| U.S. Invasion Casualty |
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| U.S.S. Marblehead Rescues Army Bomber Crew |
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| Uncle! |
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| Welcome to Our Coop |
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| Wildcat Division Tastes Real War |
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| Woman Killed Fighting With Nazis in Holland |
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| Yank Looks Toward Vesuvius |
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| Yanks Barge Through Shell Burst |
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| Youthful pill-pushers |
