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

FileTitleAuthorLicenseSource
hero-st-lo.webpSC 191953 - A Yank patrol picks its way through the blasted ruins of St. Lo, France, toward the Notre Dame cathedral. 25 July 1944US Army Signal Corps (photographer: Salvas)Public domain (PD-USGov-Military-Army)Wikimedia Commons
Original: US National Archives via Signal Corps Archive
crossroads.webpOperation Crossroads Baker (wide), Bikini Atoll, 25 July 1946United States Department of DefensePublic domain (PD-USGov-Military)Wikimedia Commons
Original: Library of Congress
landing.webpInto the Jaws of Death (23-0455M), Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944Chief Photographer's Mate Robert F. Sargent, US Coast GuardPublic domain (PD-USCG)Wikimedia Commons
Original: US National Archives
map-room.webpMembers 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 ArmyPublic domain (PD-USGov)Wikimedia Commons
Original: Library of Congress
chess.webpSC 207318 - Pfc. Cuorro Esposito and Pfc. Phillip Stough, 96th Sig. Co., play chess. Okinawa, 23 April 1945US Army Signal Corps (photographer not given)Public domain (PD-USGov-Military-Army)Wikimedia Commons
Original: US National Archives via Signal Corps Archive
link-trainer.webp330-PS-2022 (USN 710060): WAVE PO3 Margaret Fudine and the Link trainer, released 16 July 1951US 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

TypefaceDesignerLicenseSource
Source Serif 4Adobe (Frank Grießhammer)SIL Open Font License 1.1Google Fonts
IBM Plex MonoIBM / Mike Abbink, Bold MondaySIL Open Font License 1.1Google Fonts