WW2 Documents and Letters | World War II Database

440 items in this album on 22 pages.


Light cruiser Tenryu as seen on a postcard commemorating her visit to Kobe, Japan on 5 Oct 1926	Sasebo Naval Arsenal commemorative postcard, circa 1930	Nazi Party Hitler Youth recruiting poster 'H. J. Schwaben'	Postcard featuring Japanese ocean liner Tatsuta Maru, early 1930s

Schematic drawing of the United States Brooklyn-class light cruiser, of which there were nine. The Brooklyn-class design had a large influence on subsequent cruiser designs, both large cruisers and light.	Inaugural program of Franklin Roosevelt and John Garner, 4 Mar 1933	Calligraphy 'Rather be a ghost of a martyr, not a slave without a country' by General Song Zheyuan during the First Battle of Hebei, China, 15 Mar 1933	Chinese Japanese Occupation 100 Yuan note, series 1938, front and back

Manchukuo 15-fen stamp, printed in 1935, featuring the portrait of Kangde Emperor	Taihoku General Government Building damaged by fire, Taiwan, 1935	Japanese stamps issued on 2 Apr 1935 commemorating the visit of Emperor Puyi of puppet nation Manchukuo; note the White Pagoda of Manchukuo city Liaoyang and Japanese battleship Hiei	Commemorative card and stamp of Kangde Emperor's visit to Japan, stamped date 6 Apr 1935

Illustration of German concentration camp prisoner identification system, 1936	Schematic drawing of the St. Louis sub-class of the United States Brooklyn-class light cruiser, of which there were two.	Postcard featuring a AT-2 aircraft of Japan Air Transport airliner, circa 1937	A Japanese newspaper reporting a killing contest held by the Japanese Army in Nanjing, late 1937 or early 1938

Hitler Youth recruitment poster, date unknown	Postcard depicting cruiser Myoko, 1930s	Recognition drawing for cruisers Takao and Atago (post-1938 configuration) published by US Navy Office of Naval Intelligence	Telegram from Reinhard Heydrich coordinating SD involvement in Kristallnacht, 10 Nov 1938, page 1 of 4