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“A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital Paris, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France”

“Seamen at Kaneohe Naval Air Station decorate the graves of their fellow sailors killed at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941”

“Like girls from Mars are these "top women" at U.S. Steel's Gary, Indiana, Works. Their job is to clean up at regular intervals around the tops of twelve blast furnaces. As a safety precaution, the girls wear oxygen masks”

“A little girl evacuee of Japanese descent watches the Memorial Day Services. Evacuee Boy Scouts took a leading part in the ceremony held at this War Relocation Authority center”

“United States Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, La. fires machine gun on enemy during aerial fight with German planes somewhere in the European theatre”

“Two bewildered old ladies stand amid the leveled ruins of the almshouse which was home; until Jerry dropped his bombs. Total war knows no bounds. Almshouse bombed February 10, Newbury, Berkshire, England”

“Prisoners. Copy of German photograph taken during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, 1943”

“Ack-Ack fire during an air raid on Algiers, by the Nazis”

“Private Roy Humphrey of Toledo, Ohio, is being given blood plasma by Private First Class Harvey White of Minneapolis, Minnesota, after he was wounded by shrapnel”

“Crash landing of F6F on flight deck of USS ENTERPRISE while enroute to attack Makin Island. Lieutenant Walter Chewning, catapult officer, clambering up the side of the plane to assist pilot, Ens. Byron Johnson, from the flaming cockpit”

“Lieutenant Colonel John Weber, commanding officer of a Marine battalion on Cape Gloucester, sitting on his helmet, receives a report from one of his company commanders. Private first class Vincent Miley, looking on, blows cigarette smoke out of his nose”

“American Assault Troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment, Injured While Storming Omaha Beach, Wait by the Chalk Cliffs for Evacuation to a Field Hospital for Further Medical Treatment”

“This girl pays the penalty for having had personal relations with the Germans. Here, in the Montelimar area, France, French civilians shave her head as punishment”

"This Negro combat patrol advanced three miles north of Lucca (furthermost point occupied by American troops) to contact an enemy machine gun nest. Here a bazooka-man cuts loose at the target some 300 yards distant" With the American soldiers there is also a civilian with a rifle, probably an Italian partisan

“German Gestapo agents arrested after the fall of Liege, Belgium, are herded together in a cell in the citadel of Liege”

“A German prisoner captured by the 16th Infantry Regiment”

“Private First Class Rez P. Hester, 7th War Dog Platoon, 25th Regiment, takes a nap while Butch, his war dog, stands guard”

“I drew an assault boat to cross in - just my luck. We all tried to crawl under each other because the lead was flying around like hail.” Crossing the Rhine under enemy fire at Saint Goar, March 1945”

“Russian slave laborer among prisoners liberated by 3rd Armored Division points out former Nazi guard who brutally beat prisoners”

"This Nazi officer is eating his words, and a can of C-rations, in the ruins of Saarbrücken. The day we hung our washing on this Siegfried line stronghold, we of the Seventh linked up with Third Army armor west of Kaiserlautern. Was that a day!"

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