Sources
Credits
Every photograph on this site is in the public domain, mostly as work of the US government. Here's where each one came from.
Photographs and maps
| File | Title | Author | License | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hero-st-lo.webp | SC 191953 - A Yank patrol picks its way through the blasted ruins of St. Lo, France, toward the Notre Dame cathedral. 25 July 1944 | US Army Signal Corps (photographer: Salvas) | Public domain (PD-USGov-Military-Army) | Wikimedia Commons Original: US National Archives via Signal Corps Archive |
| crossroads.webp | Operation Crossroads Baker (wide), Bikini Atoll, 25 July 1946 | United States Department of Defense | Public domain (PD-USGov-Military) | Wikimedia Commons Original: Library of Congress |
| landing.webp | Into the Jaws of Death (23-0455M), Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944 | Chief Photographer's Mate Robert F. Sargent, US Coast Guard | Public domain (PD-USCG) | Wikimedia Commons Original: US National Archives |
| map-room.webp | Members of the 477th Antiaircraft Artillery, Air Warning Battalion, study maps in the operations section at Oro Bay, New Guinea, 15 November 1944 (NARA 531348) | Unknown (US Government) | Public domain (PD-USGov) | Wikimedia Commons Original: US National Archives |
| sitmap.webp | (August 18, 1944), HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map (LOC 2004629112) | Allied Forces, Twelfth Army Group, Engineer Section; US Army | Public domain (PD-USGov) | Wikimedia Commons Original: Library of Congress |
| chess.webp | SC 207318 - Pfc. Cuorro Esposito and Pfc. Phillip Stough, 96th Sig. Co., play chess. Okinawa, 23 April 1945 | US Army Signal Corps (photographer not given) | Public domain (PD-USGov-Military-Army) | Wikimedia Commons Original: US National Archives via Signal Corps Archive |
| link-trainer.webp | 330-PS-2022 (USN 710060): WAVE PO3 Margaret Fudine and the Link trainer, released 16 July 1951 | US Navy (National Museum of the U.S. Navy) | Public domain (PD-USNavy) | Wikimedia Commons Original: US National Archives, RG 330-PS |
Images were resized, converted to grayscale where the original was black and white, and compressed for the web. Licenses were checked on each source page in November 2026.
Typefaces
| Typeface | Designer | License | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source Serif 4 | Adobe (Frank Grießhammer) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | Google Fonts |
| IBM Plex Mono | IBM / Mike Abbink, Bold Monday | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | Google Fonts |