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Canadian soldier running down a rubble-filled street in Ortona, Italy, December 1943.
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Adolf Hitler reviewing German troops in Warsaw after the Nazi conquest of Poland,...
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British and other Allied troops waiting to be evacuated from the beach at Dunkirk,...
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Supermarine Spitfire, Britain's premier fighter plane from 1938 through World War...
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An aircraft spotter scanning the skies above London, c. 1940.
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The German battleship Bismarck at anchor in Norway in May 1941, a few days...
U.S. Navy
German soldiers fighting in the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
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Color-tinted photo of sailors in a motor launch rescuing a survivor of the stricken...
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American survivors of the Battle of Bataan under Japanese guard before beginning...
U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Army Air Forces B-25B bomber taking off from the USS Hornet during the Doolittle...
U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Panoramic combination of two photos depicting the Battle of Midway. After being struck...
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Allied troops landing on a beach near Algiers during Operation Torch, November 8,...
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Wounded Australians returning from the front during the Kokoda Track Campaign, 1942.
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German Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus (left) and other prisoners of war after...
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Soviet forces using signal flares to illuminate a night attack during the Battle...
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Allied troops disembarking onto a beach near Licata, Sicily, from a barge after being...
U.S. Signal Corps/National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Allied military operations in Sicily, July−August 1943.
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(From left) Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British...
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Troops of the U.S. Army's 85th Division marching through Porta Maggiore as they occupy...
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U.S. infantrymen wading from their landing craft toward Omaha Beach on D-Day, June...
Robert F. Sargent—U.S. Coast Guard/National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Adolf Hitler (third from right) and Benito Mussolini (fifth from right) at the damaged...
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Free French Maj. Gen. Jacques-Philippe Leclerc (wearing kepi) during the liberation...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur (foreground, fourth from right) and others wading ashore...
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German troops advancing during the opening phase of the Battle of the Bulge, December...
U.S. Army photograph
U.S. Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, in February...
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U.S. Marine advancing through Japanese machine-gun fire during the Battle of Okinawa,...
U.S. Marine Corps
Soviet troops and artillery on a Berlin street, 1945.
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The first atomic bomb test, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945.
Jack Aeby/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, after the detonation of a U.S. atomic bomb on August 6,...
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U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur signing the agreement by which Japan surrendered to Allied...
Lt. C. F. Wheeler—Navy/U.S. Department of Defense