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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing theDeclaration of War against Japan, December 8,1941.

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"General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme AlliedCommander, at his headquarters in the Europeantheater of operations. He wears the five-star clusterof the newly-created rank of General of the Army."T4c. Messerlin, February 1, 1945.




Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich,Germany, ca. June 1940.




"General MacArthur surveys the beachhead onLeyte Island, soon after American forces sweptashore from a gigantic liberation armada into thecentral Philippines, at the historic moment when theGeneral made good his promise `I shall return.'"1944.




"Conference of the Big Three at Yalta makes finalplans for the defeat of Germany. Prime MinisterWinston S. Churchill, President Franklin D.Roosevelt, and Premier Josef Stalin." February1945.




American generals: seated left to right are WilliamH. Simpson, George S. Patton, Jr., Carl Spaatz,Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney H.Hodges, and Leonard T. Gerow; standing are RalphF. Stearley, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Walter BedellSmith, Otto P. Weyland, and Richard E. Nugent. Ca.1945.




". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shallnot have died in vain . . . Remember Dec. 7th!"Color poster by Allen Saalberg, 1942.




"We French workers warn you . . . defeat meansslavery, starvation, death." Color poster by BenShahn, 1942.




"I Want You for the U.S. Army. Enlist Now." Colorposter by James Montgomery Flagg.




"Man the Guns. Join the Navy." Color poster byMcClelland Barclay, 1942.




"For your country's sake today--For your own saketomorrow. Go to the nearest recruiting station of thearmed service of your choice." Color poster bySteele Savage, 1944.




"Buy War Bonds." Color poster, 1942.




"SCRAP." Color poster by Roy Schatt, 1942.




"Harvesting bumper crop for Uncle Sam . Movie starRita Hayworth sacrificed her bumpers for theduration. Besides setting an example by turning inunessential metal car parts, Miss Hayworth hasbeen active in selling war bonds." 1942.




"I'm conserving wool, this bathing suit's painted on."Cartoon drawing by Charles Shows.




Sugar rationing.




"An eager school boy gets his first experience inusing War Ration Book Two. With many parentsengaged in war work, children are being taught thefacts of point rationing for helping out in familymarketing." Alfred Palmer, February 1943.




"We Can Do It." Color poster by J. Howard Miller.




"Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women fromall over central Florida are getting into vocationalschools to learn war work. Typical are these in theDaytona Beach branch of the Volusia countyvocational school." Howard R. Hollem, April 1942.




"Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replacethese factory lights reflected in the noses of planesat Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach, Calif., plant.Women workers groom lines of transparent nosesfor deadly A-20 attack bombers." Alfred Palmer,October 1942.




Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA.




"Line up of some of women welders including thewomen's welding champion of Ingalls [ShipbuildingCorp., Pascagoula, MS]." Spencer Beebe, 1943.




"Chippers." Women war workers of Marinship Corp.,1942.




"Man working on hull of U.S. submarine at ElectricBoat Co., Groton, Conn." Lt. Comdr. Charles FennoJacobs, August 1943.




"Launching of USS ROBALO 9 May 1943, atManitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wis.




"Someone talked!" Color poster by Siebel, 1942.




"Loose lips might sink ships." Color poster by Ess-ar-gee.




"A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry waits withthe family baggage before leaving by bus for anassembly center in the spring of 1942." ClemAlbers, California, April 1942.




"Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the SantaAnita Assembly Center from San Pedro. Evacueeslived at this center at the former Santa Anita racetrack before being moved inland to relocationcenters." Clem Albers, Arcadia, CA, April 5, 1942.




"Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority centerwhere evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spendingthe duration." Dorothea Lange, Manzanar, CA, July3, 1942.




"Mechanics check engine of SNJ at Kingsville Field,NATC, Corpus Christi, Texas." Lt. Comdr. CharlesFenno Jacobs, November 1942.




"Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3at NAS Norfolk, Va." September 1942.




"Victory cargo ships are lined up at a U.S. westcoast shipyard for final outfitting before they areloaded with supplies for Navy depots and advancebases in the Pacific." Ca. 1944.




"Corporal Charles H. Johnson of the 783rd MilitaryPolice Battalion, waves on a `Red Ball Express'motor convoy rushing priority materiel to the forwardareas, near Alenon, France." Bowen, September 5,1944.




"Invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 24 Dec.1943. Crammed with men and material for theinvasion, this Coast Guard- manned LST nears theJapanese held shore. Troops shown in the pictureare Marines." PhoM1c. Don C. Hansen.




"U.S. Convoy which operates between Chen-Yi andKweiyang, China, is ascending the famous twenty-one curves at Annan, China." Pfc. John F. Albert,March 26, 1945.




"U.S. Marine `Raiders' and their dogs, which areused for scouting and running messages, startingoff for the jungle front lines on Bougainville." T.Sgt.J. Sarno, ca. November/December 1943.




"Sgt. Carl Weinke and Pfc. Ernest Marjoram, SignalCorps cameramen, wading through stream whilefollowing infantry troops in forward area duringinvasion at a beach in New Guinea." T4c. ErnaniD'Emidio, April 22, 1944.




"Pfc Angelo B. Reina, 391st Inf. Regt., guards alonely Oahu beach position. Kahuku, Oahu."Rosenberg, Hawaii, March 1945.




"Marine Pfc. Douglas Lightheart cradles his 30-cal.machine gun in his lap, while he and his buddy Pfc.Gerald Churchby take time out for a cigarette, whilemopping up the enemy on Peleliu Is." Cpl. H. H.Clements, September 14, 1944.




"Sailor reading in his bunk aboard USS CAPELIN atsubmarine base New London, Conn." Lt. Comdr.Charles Fenno Jacobs, August 1943.




"Activities aboard USS MONTEREY. Navy pilots inthe forward elevator well playing basketball."Jumper at left identified as Gerald R. Ford.Attributed to Lt. Victor Jorgensen, ca. June/July1944.




"Liberty party. Liberty section personnel aboardLCM returning to USS CASABLANCA from RaraIsland, off Pitylieu Island, Manus." PhoM1c. R. W.Mowday, Admiralty Islands, April 19, 1945.




"Bing Crosby, stage, screen and radio star, sings toAllied troops at the opening of the London stagedoor canteen in Piccadilly, London, England."Pearson, August 31, 1944.




"Danny Kaye, well known stage and screen star,entertains 4,000 5th Marine Div. occupation troopsat Sasebo, Japan. The crude sign across the front ofthe stage says: `Officers keep out! Enlisted men'scountry.'" Pfc. H. J. Grimm, October 25, 1945.




"Pfc. Mickey Rooney imitates some Hollywoodactors for an audience of Infantrymen of the 44thDivision. Rooney is a member of a three-man unitmaking a jeep tour to entertain the troops." T5c.Louis Weintraub, Kist, Germany, April 13, 1945.




"Marlene Dietrich, motion picture actress,autographs the cast on the leg of Tec 4 Earl E.McFarland at a United States hospital in Belgium,where she has been entertaining the GIs." Tuttle,November 24, 1944.




"A youngster, clutching his soldier father, gazesupward while the latter lifts his wife from the groundto wish her a `Merry Christmas.' The serviceman isone of those fortunate enough to be able to gethome for the holidays." December 1944.




"Crewmen lifting Kenneth Bratton out of turret ofTBF on the USS SARATOGA after raid on Rabaul."Lt. Wayne Miller, November 1943.




Medics helping injured soldier, France, 1944.




"Private Roy Humphrey is being given blood plasmaby Pfc. Harvey White, after he was wounded byshrapnel, on 9 August 1943 in Sicily." Wever.




"Transfer of wounded from USS BUNKER HILL toUSS WILKES BARRE, who were injured during fireaboard carrier following Jap suicide dive bombingattack off Okinawa." PhoM3c. Kenneth E. Roberts,May 11, 1945.




"In an underground surgery room, behind the frontlines on Bougainville, an American Army doctoroperates on a U.S. soldier wounded by a Japanesesniper." December 13, 1943.




"Nurses of a field hospital who arrived in France viaEngland and Egypt after three years service."Parker, August 12, 1944.




"With a canvas tarpaulin for a church and packingcases for an altar, a Navy chaplain holds mass forMarines at Saipan. The service was held in memoryof brave buddies who lost their lives in the initiallandings." Sgt. Steele, June 1944.




"The crew of the USS SOUTH DAKOTA stands withbowed heads, while Chaplain N. D. Lindner readsthe benediction held in honor of fellow shipmateskilled in the air action off Guam on June 19, 1944."July 1, 1944.




"A PT marksman provides a striking camera studyas he draws a bead with his 50 caliber machine gunon his boat off New Guinea." July 1943.




"Officer at periscope in control room of submarine."Ca. 1942.




"PT's patrolling off coast of New Guinea." 1943.




"USS PENNSYLVANIA and battleship ofCOLORADO class followed by three cruisers movein line into Lingayen Gulf preceding the landing onLuzon." Philippines, January 1945.




"Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the U.S. CoastGuard Cutter Spencer watch the explosion of adepth charge which blasted a Nazi U-boat's hope ofbreaking into the center of a large convoy." Sinkingof U-175. WO Jack January, April 17, 1943.




Torpedoed Japanese destroyer photographedthrough periscope of U.S.S. Wahoo or U.S.S.Nautilus, June 1942.




Sixteen-inch guns of the U.S.S Iowa firing duringbattle drill in the Pacific, ca. 1944.




"Jap torpedo bomber explodes in air after direct hitby 5 inch shell from U.S. aircraft carrier as itattempted an unsuccessful attack on carrier, offKwajalein." U.S.S. Yorktown. CPhoM. Alfred N.Cooperman, December 4, 1943.




"Japanese plane shot down as it attempted to attackUSS KITKUN BAY." Near Mariana Islands, June1944.




"USS BUNKER HILL burning after Jap suicideattack." Near Okinawa, May 11, 1945.




"USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes in 30seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu. Dead-372.Wounded-264.




"A Chinese soldier guards a line of American P-40fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblemof the `Flying Tigers,' at a flying field somewhere inChina." Ca. 1942.




"Pilots aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier receivelast minute instructions before taking off to attackindustrial, and military installations in Tokyo."February 17, 1945.




"Dynamic static. The motion of its props causes an`aura' to form around this F6F on USSYORKTOWN. Rotating with blades, halo moves aft,giving depth and perspective." November 1943.




"Take off from the deck of the USS HORNET of anArmy B-25 on its way to take part in first U.S. airraid on Japan." Doolittle Raid, April 1942.




"TBF flying in formation over Norfolk, Va." Attributedto Lt. Comdr. Horace Bristol, September 1942.




"The first big raid by the 8th Air Force was on aFocke Wulf plant at Marienburg. Coming back, theGermans were up in full force and we lost at least80 ships-800 men, many of them pals." 1943.




"Photograph made from B-17 Flying Fortress of the8th AAF Bomber Command on 31 Dec. when theyattacked the vital CAM ball- bearing plant and thenearby Hispano Suiza aircraft engine repair depotin Paris." France, 1943.




"Pilots pleased over their victory during theMarshall Islands attack, grin across the tail of anF6F Hellcat on board the USS LEXINGTON, aftershooting down 17 out of 20 Japanese planesheading for Tarawa." Comdr. Edward Steichen,November 1943.




"Hitler accepts the ovation of the Reichstag afterannouncing the `peaceful' acquisition of Austria. Itset the stage to annex the CzechoslovakianSudetenland, largely inhabited by a German-speaking population." Berlin, March 1938.




German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland. PKHugo J.ger, September 1939.




"The tragedy of this Sudeten woman, unable toconceal her misery as she dutifully salutes thetriumphant Hitler, is the tragedy of the silentmillions who have been `won over' to Hitlerism bythe `everlasting use' of ruthless force." Ca. 1938.




Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotovsigns the German-Soviet nonaggression pact;Joachim von Ribbentrop and Josef Stalin standbehind him. Moscow, August 23. 1939.




British prisoners at Dunkerque, France, June 1940.




"A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers marchinto the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940,after the Allied armies had been driven back acrossFrance.




Adolf Hitler in Paris, June 23, 1940.




German troops in Russia, 1941.




Aircraft spotter on the roof of a building in London.St. Paul's Cathedral is in the background.




"Standing up gloriously out of the flames and smokeof surrounding buildings, St. Paul's Cathedral ispictured during the great fire raid of SundayDecember 29th." 1940.




"Over 500 firemen and members of the LondonAuxiliary Fire Fighting Services, including manywomen, combined in a war exercise over the groundcovered by Greenwich Fire Station." Ca. July 1939.




"Children of an eastern suburb of London, who havebeen made homeless by the random bombs of theNazi night raiders, waiting outside the wreckage ofwhat was their home." September 1940.




"Two bewildered old ladies stand amid the leveledruins of the almshouse which was Home; until Jerrydropped his bombs. Total war knows no bounds.Almshouse bombed Feb. 10, Newbury, Berks.,England." Naccarata, February 11, 1943.




Life in London during the war. View of a V-1 rocketin flight, ca. 1944.




Gen. Erwin Rommel with the 15th Panzer Divisionbetween Tobruk and Sidi Omar. Sdf. Zwilling,Libya, January or November 24, 1941.




"General Bernard L. Montgomery watches his tanksmove up." North Africa, November 1942.




"Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard, CO, 30th Infantry Regiment,a prominent figure in the second daring amphibiouslanding behind enemy lines on Sicily's north coast,discusses military strategy with Lt. Gen. George S.Patton. Near Brolo." 1943.




"Front view of 240mm howitzer of Battery `B', 697thField Artillery Battalion, just before firing intoGerman held territory. Mignano area, Italy." Boyle,January 30, 1944.




"Moving up through Prato, Italy, men of the 370thInfantry Regiment, have yet to climb the mountainwhich lies ahead." Bull, April 9, 1945.




"Americans of Japanese descent, Infantrymen of the442nd Regiment, run for cover as a German artilleryshell is about to land outside the building." Levine,Italy. April 4, 1945.




"Pvt. Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry, standing inreverence before an altar in a damaged CatholicChurch. Note: pews at left appear undamaged,while bomb-shattered roof is strewn about thesanctuary. Acerno, Italy." Benson, September 23,1943.




"From Coast Guard-manned "sea-horse" landingcraft, American troops leap forward to storm a NorthAfrican beach during final amphibious maneuvers."James D. Rose, Jr., ca. 1944.




"Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of theDay. 'Full victory-nothing else' to paratroopers inEngland, just before they board their airplanes toparticipate in the first assault in the invasion of thecontinent of Europe." Moore, June 6, 1944.




"Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazimachine gun fire are these American soldiers,shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guardlanding boat." CPhoM. Robert F. Sargent, June 6,1944.




"Crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade's tributeto this American soldier who sprang ashore from alanding barge and died at the barricades of WesternEurope." 1944.




"American howitzers shell German forces retreatingnear Carentan, France." Franklin, July 11, 1944.




An American officer and a French partisan crouchbehind an auto during a street fight in a French city,ca. 1944.




"General Charles de Gaulle speaks to the people ofCherbourg from the balcony of the City Hall duringhis visit to the French port city on August 20." 1944.




American troops in tank passing the Arc deTriomphe after the liberation of Paris, August 1944.




"American troops of the 28th Infantry Division marchdown the Champs Elysees, Paris, in the `Victory'Parade." Poinsett, August 29, 1944.




"This girl pays the penalty for having had personalrelations with the Germans. Here, in the Montelimararea, France, French civilians shave her head aspunishment." Smith, August 29, 1944.




Yanks of 60th Infantry Regiment advance into aBelgian town under the protection of a heavytank.Spangle, September 9, 1944.




Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroopsland in Holland during operations by the 1st AlliedAirborne Army. September 1944.




"A U.S. Infantry anti-tank crew fires on Nazis whomachine- gunned their vehicle, somewhere inHolland." W. F. Stickle, November 4, 1944.




"A Nazi soldier, heavily armed, carries ammunitionboxes forward with companion in territory taken bytheir counter- offensive in this scene from capturedGerman film." Belgium, December 1944.




"A lanky GI, with hands clasped behind his head,leads a file of American prisoners marching along aroad somewhere on the western front. Germanscaptured these American soldiers during thesurprise enemy drive into Allied positions."Captured German photograph, December 1944.




"Chow is served to American Infantrymen on theirway to La Roche, Belgium. 347th InfantryRegiment." Newhouse, January 13, 1945.




Canadian Infantry of the Regiment de Maisonneuve,moving through Holten to Rijssen, Netherlands. Lt.D. Guravitch, April 9, 1945.




"First U.S. Army men and equipment pour acrossthe Remagen Bridge; two knocked out jeeps inforeground." Sgt. William Spangle, Germany, March11, 1945.




"Then came the big day when we marched intoGermany--right through the Siegfried Line." 1945.




"I drew an assault boat to cross in--just my luck. Weall tried to crawl under each other because the leadwas flying around like hail." Crossing the Rhineunder enemy fire at St. Goar. March 1945.




"Two anti-tank Infantrymen of the 101st InfantryRegiment, dash past a blazing German gasolinetrailer in square of Kronach, Germany." T4c. W. J.Rothenberger, April 14, 1945.




"Infantrymen of the 255th Infantry Regiment movedown a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hunafter a recent raid by 63rd Division." 2d Lt. JacobHarris, April 16, 1945.




"Soldiers of the 55th Armored Infantry Battalion andtank of the 22nd Tank Battalion, move throughsmoke filled street. Wernberg, Germany." Pvt.Joseph Scrippens, April 22, 1945.




"Happy 2nd Lt. William Robertson and Lt.Alexander Sylvashko, Russian Army, shown in frontof sign [East Meets West] symbolizing the historicmeeting of the Russian and American Armies, nearTorgau, Germany." Pfc. William E. Poulson, April25, 1945.




"General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme AlliedCommander, accompanied by Gen. Omar N.Bradley, and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,inspects art treasures stolen by Germans andhidden in salt mine in Germany." Lt. Moore, April12, 1945.




"The 90th Division discovered this Reichsbankwealth, SS loot, and Berlin museum paintings thatwere removed from Berlin to a salt mine in Merkers,Germany." Cpl. Donald R. Ornitz, April 15, 1945.




Captured Japanese photograph taken aboard aJapanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor,Hawaii, December 7, 1941.




Captured Japanese photograph taken during theDecember 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. In thedistance, the smoke rises from Hickam Field.




"USS SHAW exploding during the Japanese raid onPearl Harbor." December 7, 1941.




"The USS ARIZONA burning after the Japaneseattack on Pearl Harbor." December 7, 1941.




"Pearl Harbor, T.H. taken by surprise, during theJapanese aerial attack. USS WEST VIRGINIAaflame." December 7, 1941.




Surrender of American troops at Corregidor,Philippine Islands, May 1942.




"The March of Death. Along the March [on which]these prisoners were photographed, they have theirhands tied behind their backs. The March of Deathwas about May 1942, from Bataan to Cabanatuan,the prison camp.




"This picture, captured from the Japanese, showsAmerican prisoners using improvised litters to carrythose of their comrades who, from the lack of foodor water on the march from Bataan, fell along theroad." Philippines, May 1942.




"U.S. troops go over the side of a Coast Guardmanned combat transport to enter the landingbarges at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, asthe invasion gets under way." November 1943.




"A Water Buffalo, loaded with Marines, churnsthrough the sea bound for beaches of Tinian Islandnear Guam." July 1944.




"165th Infantry assault wave attacking Butaritari,Yellow Beach Two, find it slow going in the coralbottom waters. Jap machine gun fire from the rightflank makes it more difficult for them." Dargis,Makin Atoll, Gilbert Islands, November 20, 1943.




"Army reinforcements disembarking from LST's forma graceful curve as they proceed across coral reeftoward the beach." Laudansky, Saipan, ca.June/July 1944.




"Marines hit three feet of rough water as they leavetheir LST to take the beach at Cape Gloucester,New Britain." Sgt. Robert M. Howard, December 26,1943.




"American troops of the 163rd Infantry Regiment hitthe beach from Higgins boats during the invasion ofWadke Island, Dutch New Guinea." Lt. Kent Rooks,May 18, 1944.




"Landing operations on Rendova Island, SolomonIslands, 30 June 1943. Attacking at the break of dayin a heavy rainstorm, the first Americans ashorehuddle behind tree trunks and any other cover theycan find.




"First flag on Guam on boat hook mast. Two U.S.officers plant the American flag on Guam eightminutes after U.S. Marines and Army assault troopslanded on the Central Pacific island on July 20,1944." Batts.




"Marines storm Tarawa. Gilbert Islands." WO ObieNewcomb, Jr., November 1943.




"The Yanks mop up on Bougainville. At night theJaps would infiltrate American lines. At Dawn, thedoughboys went out and killed them. This photoshows tank going forward, infantrymen following inits cover." March 1944.




"Retreating at first into the jungle of CapeGloucester, Japanese soldiers finally gatheredstrength and counterattacked their Marine pursuers.These machine gunners pushed them back."Brenner, January 1944.




"Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers tosmoke out Japs from a block house on KwajaleinIsland, while others wait with rifles ready in caseJaps come out." Cordray, February 4, 1944.




"A member of a Marine patrol on Saipan found thisfamily of Japs hiding in a hillside cave. The mother,four children and a dog, took shelter from the fiercefighting in that area." Cpl. Angus Robertson, June21, 1944.




"After the Marines captured this mountain gun fromthe Japs at Saipan, they put it into use during theattack on Garapan, administrative center of theisland." Cpl. Angus Robertson, ca. July 1944.




"Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes thisMarine after two days and nights of Hell on thebeach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His faceis grimey with coral dust but the light of battle staysin his eyes." February 1944.




"These men have earned the bloody reputation ofbeing skillful jungle fighters. They are U.S. MarineRaiders gathered in front of a Jap dugout on CapeTotkina on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, whichthey helped to take." January 1944.




"The gun crews of a Navy cruiser covering Americanlanding on the island of Mindoro, Dec. 15, 1944,scan the skies in an effort to identify a planeoverhead. Two 5'' guns are ready while inboard20mm anti-aircraft crews are ready to act.




"A line of Coast Guard landing barges, sweepingthrough the waters of Lingayen Gulf, carries the firstwave of invaders to the beaches of Luzon, after aterrific naval bombardment of Jap shore positionson Jan. 9, 1945." PhoM1c. Ted Needham.




"Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore duringinitial landings at Leyte, P.I." October 1944.




"Two Coast Guard-manned LST's open their greatjaws in the surf that washes on Leyte Island beach,as soldiers strip down and build sandbag piers outto the ramps to speed up unloading operations."1944.




"Veteran Artillery men of the `C' Battery, 90th FieldArtillery, lay down a murderous barrage ontroublesome Jap artillery positions in Balete Pass,Luzon, P.I." Morton, April 19, 1945.




"Marines of the 5th Division inch their way up aslope on Red Beach No. 1 toward Surbachi Yamaas the smoke of the battle drifts about them."Dreyfuss, Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945.




"Across the litter on Iwo Jima's black sands,Marines of the 4th Division shell Jap positionscleverly concealed back from the beaches. Here, agun pumps a stream of shells into Jap positionsinland on the tiny volcanic island." Ca. February1945.




"Smashed by Jap mortar and shellfire, trapped byIwo's treacherous black-ash sands, amtracs andother vehicles of war lay knocked out on the blacksands of the volcanic fortress." PhoM3c. Robert M.Warren, ca. February/March 1945.




"Flag raising on Iwo Jima." Joe Rosenthal,Associated Press, February 23, 1945.




"Corsair fighter looses its load of rocket projectileson a run against a Jap stronghold on Okinawa. Inthe lower background is the smoke of battle asMarine units move in to follow up with a Sundaypunch." Lt. David D. Duncan, ca. June 1945.




"A Marine of the 1st Marine Division draws a beadon a Japanese sniper with his tommy-gun as hiscompanion ducks for cover. The division is workingto take Wana Ridge before the town of Shuri."S.Sgt. Walter F. Kleine, Okinawa, 1945.




"With the captured capital of Naha as a background,Marine Maj. Gen. Lemuel Shepherd, commandinggeneral of the 6th Marine Division, relaxes on anOkinawan ridge long enough to consult a map of theterrain." Pfc. Sam Weiner, ca. June 1945.




"USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs droppingbombs on Hokadate , Japan." July 1945.




"Task Force 58 raid on Japan. 40mm guns firingaboard USS HORNET on 16 February 1945, as thecarrier's planes were raiding Tokyo." Lt. Comdr.Charles Kerlee, February 1945.




"Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY,the plane that dropped the atomic bomb onHiroshima, waves from his cockpit before thetakeoff, 6 August 1945.




"A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki,the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever usedin warfare, dropped on the industrial center August8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress.




"The patient's skin is burned in a patterncorresponding to the dark portions of a kimono wornat the time of the explosion." Atomic bomb survivor.Ca. 1945. 77-MDH-6.




In the background, a Roman Catholic cathedral on ahill in Nagasaki. Ca. 1945.




Prisoners in the concentration camp atSachsenhausen, Germany, December 19, 1938.




Jewish civilians: copy of a German photographtaken during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto,Poland, 1943.




"We were getting our second wind now and startedflattening out that bulge. We took 50,000 prisonersin December alone." American soldier with capturedGermans. Ca. 1944.




"The endless procession of German prisonerscaptured with the fall of Aachen marching throughthe ruined city streets to captivity." Germany,October 1944.




Nuremberg Trials: looking down on the defendants'dock. Ca. 1945-46.




"German Gen. Anton Dostler is tied to a stakebefore his execution by a firing squad in the Aversastockade. The General was convicted andsentenced to death by an American military tribunal.Aversa, Italy." Blomgren, December 1, 1945.




"American prisoners of war celebrate the 4th of Julyin the Japanese prison camp of Casisange inMalaybalay, on Mindanao, P.I. It was againstJapanese regulations and discovery would havemeant death, but the men celebrated the occasionanyway." July 4, 1942.




"Marines unloading Japanese POW from asubmarine returned from war patrol." Lt. Comdr.Horace Bristol, ca. May 1945.




"Correspondents interview `Tokyo Rose.' Iva Toguri,American-born Japanese." September 1945.




"Japanese POW's at Guam, with bowed heads afterhearing Emperor Hirohito make announcement ofJapan's unconditional surrender." August 15, 1945.




"Gaunt allied prisoners of war at Aomori camp nearYokohama cheer rescuers from U.S. Navy. Wavingflags of the United States, Great Britain andHolland." Japan, August 29, 1945.




"Starving inmate of Camp Gusen, Austria." T4c.Sam Gilbert, May 12, 1945.




"These are slave laborers in the Buchenwaldconcentration camp near Jena; many had died frommalnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Divisionentered the camp." Pvt. H. Miller, Germany, April16, 1945.




"This victim of Nazi inhumanity still rests in theposition in which he died, attempting to rise andescape his horrible death. He was one of 150prisoners savagely burned to death by Nazi SStroops." Sgt. E. R. Allen, Gardelegen, Germany,April 16, 1945.




"Some of the bodies being removed by Germancivilians for decent burial at Gusen ConcentrationCamp, Muhlhausen, near Linz, Austria. Men wereworked in nearby stone quarries until too weak formore, then killed." T4c. Sam Gilbert, May 12, 1945.




"A truck load of bodies of prisoners of the Nazis, inthe Buchenwald concentration camp at Weimar,Germany. The bodies were about to be disposed ofby burning when the camp was captured by troopsof the 3rd U.S. Army." Pfc. W. Chichersky, April 14,1945.




"Bones of anti-Nazi German women still are in thecrematoriums in the German concentration camp atWeimar, Germany, taken by the 3rd U.S. Army.Prisoners of all nationalities were tortured andkilled." Pfc. W. Chichersky, April 14, 1945.




"A German girl is overcome as she walks past theexhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workersmurdered by SS guards near Namering, Germany,and laid here so that townspeople may view thework of their Nazi leaders." Cpl. Edward Belfer. May17, 1945.




"The German ultimatum ordering the Dutchcommander of Rotterdam to cease fire wasdelivered to him at 10:30 a.m. on May 14, 1940. At1:22 p.m., German bombers set the whole inner cityof Rotterdam ablaze, killing 30,000 of itsinhabitants." Aerial view of the ruins of Rotterdam.




"Choked with debris, a bombed water intake of thePegnitz River no longer supplies war factories inNuremberg, vital Reich industrial city and festivalcenter of the Nazi party, which was captured April20, 1945, by troops of the U.S. Army.




"American soldiers, stripped of all equipment, liedead, face down in the slush of a crossroadssomewhere on the western front." Captured Germanphotograph. Belgium, ca. December 1944.




"With torn picture of his feuhrer beside his clenchedfist, a dead general of the Volkssturm lies on thefloor of city hall, Leipzig, Germany. He committedsuicide rather than face U.S. Army troops whocaptured the city on April 19. 1945." T5c. J. M.Heslop.




"Photo taken at the instant bullets from a Frenchfiring squad hit a Frenchman who collaborated withthe Germans. This execution took place in Rennes,France." Himes, November 21, 1944.




"The Tapel Massacre on 1 July 1945. Picture showsPedro Cerono, the man who discovered the group of8 skulls. Tapel, Cagayan Province, Luzon,Philippine Islands." T5c. Lewis D. Klein, November23, 1945.




"A Coast Guard seaman died at his battle stationaboard the USS MENGES, torpedoed by a nazi subin the Mediterranean. He represents the old CoastGuard expression, `You have to go out, but youdon't have to come back.'" PhoM1c. Arthur Green.




"Two enlisted men of the ill-fated U.S. Navy aircraftcarrier LISCOME BAY, torpedoed by a Japanesesubmarine in the Gilbert Islands, are buried at seafrom the deck of a Coast Guard-manned assaulttransport." November 1943.




"Standing in the grassy sod bordering row upon rowof white crosses in an American cemetery, twodungaree-clad Coast Guardsmen pay silent homageto the memory of a fellow Coast Guardsman wholost his life in action in the Ryukyu Islands." Benrud,ca. 1945.




"Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, signing the ratifiedsurrender terms for the German Army at RussianHeadquarters in Berlin." Lt. Moore, Germany, May7, 1945.




"Jubilant American soldier hugs motherly Englishwoman and victory smiles light the faces of happyservice men and civilians at Piccadilly Circus,London, celebrating Germany's unconditionalsurrender." Pfc. Melvin Weiss, England, May 7,1945.




At the White House, President Truman announcesJapan's surrender. Abbie Rowe, Washington, DC,August 14, 1945.




"GI's at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club inParis, France, whoop it up after buying the specialedition of the Paris Post, which carried the bannerheadline, `JAPS QUIT.'" T3c. G. Lempeotis, August10, 1945.




"New York City celebrating the surrender of Japan.They threw anything and kissed anybody in TimesSquare." Lt. Victor Jorgensen, August 14, 1945.




"Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme AlliedCommander during formal surrender ceremonieson the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. Behind Gen.MacArthur are Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Lt.Gen. A. E. Percival." Lt. C. F. Wheeler, September2, 1945.




"Happy veterans head for harbor of Le Havre,France, the first to be sent home and dischargedunder the Army's new point system." Pfc. Stedman,May 25, 1945.




"These Jewish children are on their way toPalestine after having been released from theBuchenwald Concentration Camp. The girl on theleft is from Poland, the boy in the center from Latvia,and the girl on right from Hungary." T4c. J. E.Myers, June 5, 1945.




"The famous British liner, QUEEN MARY, arrives inNew York Harbor, June 20, 1945, with thousands ofU.S. troops from European battles.




"F4U's and F6F's fly in formation during surrenderceremonies; Tokyo, Japan. USS MISSOURI leftforeground." September 2, 1945.



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