World War II

A life-size replica of a Spitfire that sits in a quaint suburb.

An American lighthouse stands on an island cliffside in Taiwan.

A rare World War II-era siren still survives in the southern suburbs of Manchester.

A 20th-century naval quarantine center is now a local park.

These secretive tunnels were once the site of a Royal Air Force fuel reserve depot.

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

World War II air raids over Bristol dislodged this fragment of tram line that ended up embedded in a churchyard.

This 19th-century church was built for Sicilian immigrants, survived World War II, and today stands on a landfill.

This memorial commemorates where a Japanese commander surrendered to Allied forces on September 3, 1945.

This modest site memorializes a World War II mission described without hyperbole as “the greatest raid of all.”

The gnarled remains of an exploded German bunker from World War II sit along a breathtaking fjord.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.