Image Credits

We believe historical images deserve the same care as historical claims. The wartime photographs on this site were, in almost every case, taken by U.S. Army photographers and are in the public domain. We still credit each one, note where it can be found, and caption it with what it shows. If you hold rights to an image you believe is credited incorrectly, please contact us and we will correct or remove it.

Homepage, “Who Were They?”, Members & The Dirty Dozen Connection

• Clarence Ware applies war paint to Charles Plaudo, England, 5 June 1944 — U.S. Army photograph, VIRIN 440605-A-ZZ999-102, released by the U.S. Army through DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, photo ID 1392632); also on Wikimedia Commons as “File:D-Day 70th anniversary 440605-A-ZZ999-102.jpg”. Public domain — U.S. federal government work. Identification note: the Army’s own caption for this release names only Jake McNiece, at right, and does not identify the other men; the Ware and Plaudo identification follows Killblane & McNiece, The Filthy Thirteen (2003) and other published accounts.
• Members of the Filthy Thirteen in Mohawk haircuts before the Normandy jump, June 1944 (Who Were They?) — U.S. Army photograph, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
• “Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division load a C-47 on the evening of 5 June 1944” (Homepage) — U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, via the U.S. National Archives / Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain — U.S. federal government work.

Jake McNiece

• “Sgt. Jake McNiece, HQ Company, 506th PIR” — U.S. Army photograph, via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain — U.S. federal government work.

Missions

• Paratroopers just before they took off for the initial assault of D-Day, 5 June 1944 (Normandy & D-Day) — U.S. Army Air Forces photograph, via the U.S. National Archives (National Archives Identifier 12003986; local identifier 342-FH-51766AC). Public domain.
• 101st Airborne parachute drop over the Netherlands, September 1944 (Market Garden) — U.S. Army Signal Corps, via NARA. Public domain.
• C-47 transports drop supplies at Bastogne, December 1944 (Bastogne & the Pathfinders) — U.S. Army Signal Corps, via NARA. Public domain.

Normandy & D-Day

Operation Market Garden

Bastogne & the Pathfinders

Timeline & campaign maps

• Currahee mountain, Camp Toccoa, Georgia — source and licence unconfirmed. The image’s file metadata indicates a modern digital photograph, not a wartime U.S. Army image, so it should not be assumed public domain. We are working to confirm rights or replace this image; if you hold rights to it, please contact us via our Contact page.

Campaign maps

The campaign maps on this site are from the atlases of the Department of History, United States Military Academy at West Point (dhc.westpoint.edu/atlases) and from the official histories published by the U.S. Army Center of Military History. They are works of U.S. Government employees and are in the public domain. One of them is drawn from a map in Gordon A. Harrison, Cross-Channel Attack, published by the U.S. Army Center of Military History, and is credited accordingly.

• “Europe, 1939-1945: Major Operations of World War Two” — U.S. Military Academy, Department of History. Used on the Timeline page. Public Domain – U.S. federal government work.
• “Western Europe: the OVERLORD Plan, Combined Bomber Offensive, and German Dispositions, 6 June 1944” — U.S. Military Academy, Department of History. Used on the Normandy & D-Day page. Public Domain – U.S. federal government work.
• “Utah Beachhead: VII Corps D-Day Operations, 6 June 1944” — U.S. Military Academy, Department of History, after Gordon A. Harrison, Cross-Channel Attack (U.S. Army Center of Military History). Used on the Normandy & D-Day page. Public Domain – U.S. federal government work.
• “Normandy, 1944: The Invasion and Operations, 6-12 June 1944” — U.S. Military Academy, Department of History. Used on the Normandy & D-Day page. Public Domain – U.S. federal government work.
• “The Ardennes Area, 1944: Initial German Attack and Operations, 16-25 December 1944” — U.S. Military Academy, Department of History. Used on the Bastogne & the Pathfinders page. Public Domain – U.S. federal government work.
• “The Ardennes Area, 1944: Operations, 26 December 1944 – 16 January 1945” — U.S. Military Academy, Department of History. Used on the Bastogne & the Pathfinders page. Public Domain – U.S. federal government work.
• “Invasion from the Sky: Operation MARKET-GARDEN, 17-26 September 1944” — U.S. Army Center of Military History, Map V in Charles B. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign. Used on the Operation Market Garden page. Public Domain – U.S. federal government work.
• “Northwestern Europe, 1944: 21st Army Group Operations, 15 September – 15 December 1944” — U.S. Military Academy, Department of History (Plate 68, West Point atlas of the Second World War, European Theatre). Used on the Operation Market Garden page. Public Domain – U.S. federal government work.

A note on rights

“Public domain — U.S. federal government work” means the image was created by a U.S. government employee as part of their official duties and is not subject to copyright in the United States. We do not use colorized versions of these photographs (colorization creates a new copyright), film stills or posters from The Dirty Dozen, or book cover art, except where a rights holder or affiliate program permits it.