World War 2 Leaders

Photos of World War 2 Leaders, General Douglas MacArthur, Franklin D Roosevelt, Hitler and Mussolini

We have gathered a collection of some of the best and most moving photos taken during the Second World War. They are from the National Archives in Washington D.C.
Please browse at your leisure. Meditate on the sacrifice given by these men and women in wartime.

This page is dedicated to Leaders of the War (both Allied and Axis).

General MacArthur surveys the beachhead on Leyte Island, soon after American forces swept ashore from a gigantic liberation armada into the central Philippines, at the historic moment when the General made good his promise 'I shall return.' 1944. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan, December 8, 1941.
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American generals: seated left to right are William H. Simpson, George S. Patton, Jr., Carl Spaatz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney H. Hodges, and Leonard T. Gerow; standing are Ralph F. Stearley, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Walter Bedell Smith, Otto P. Weyland, and Richard E. Nugent. Ca. 1945. Conference of the Big Three at Yalta makes final plans for the defeat of Germany. Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Josef Stalin. February 1945.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, at his headquarters in the European theater of operations. He wears the five-star cluster of the newly-created rank of General of the Army. T4c. Messerlin, February 1, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, P.I., October, 1944.
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, Germany, ca. June 1940  
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