While history books can teach us a lot of things there is to know about the World War II, nothing can capture the brutal reality as well as photos of real people who were affected by it.
During WWII, war photographer and writer James Allison working for the Houston Press noticed that many photos not printed in the newspaper were discarded. He asked the permission Houston Press to collect and save the discarded photographs. As the end of the the war, Allison collected more than 4,600 photographs of World War II.
In August 1977, James Allison donated his collection to the Arkansas Museum of Science and History. Thanks to him, we can now view the haunting images that will remind us of the brutality and great suffering of war at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History.
A Bit of Chiselling for Der Fueher
A Nazi Souvenir
American Dead in Italy
Behind Wires of a Nazi Camp
Bombs rain on London’s west end
Boy received the care of the soldiers
Breaking the trail
Bred to Warfare
Cave Dwellers Emerge
Cherbourg Defense Ends in Death
China’s Human Cargo
Coup De Grace
Crippled children’s home bombed
Casualties of war
Don’t Lose Your Head
Don’t Lose Your Head
Don’t Lose Your Head
Fighting Through the Downpour
First aid for an invader
First aid
First Glimpse Inside Stalingrad
Hands Up – Give Up
Hand-trucking the Aged to Safety
Hollanders Pray for Nazi Victims
Home Is Where The Nazis Aren’t
Hunger Appeased
Invasion!
Good to Be Clean
Magazine Bites the Mud
Main Street
Marine Battle Tricks
Nazis Executing Soviet Civilians
New Burma Road – Shortcut to Tokyo
New Leg for Crippled Veteran
New ‘Water Buffalo’ Packs a Wallop
One Price for Rome’s Liberation
One Price for Rome’s Liberation
Pillar of Fire Against Foe
Prelude to invasion
Rocket targets for ack-ack training
Sky Trail Markers
Sorrowful farewell
Sugar baby – A refugee
Survivor of U.S.S. Calhoun Gets First Aid
Tell Tale of Nazi Horror
The Infantry School’s “West Wall”
Two Uses for Motorcycle
U.S. Invasion Casualty
U.S.S. Marblehead Rescues Army Bomber Crew
Uncle
Welcome to Our Coop
Wildcat Division Tastes Real War
Woman Killed Fighting With Nazis in Holland
Yank Looks Toward Vesuvius
Yanks Barge Through Shell Burst
Young nurses
