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A Sudeten woman from the area that is now the Czech Republic salutes the conquering German forces while crying at the fall of her people to the Nazis, circa 1942-1945.

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Firefighters put out a blaze caused by a round of German bombings in London, 1941.

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Soviet and American airmen pose with the bombs on which they'd written messages for the Nazis at a Russian air base on June 2, 1944.

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Bystanders look on as a boy's burning corpse lies next to the jeep he was in, which was struck by a German V-2 rocket in Antwerp, Belgium on November 27, 1944.

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A Grumman F6F Hellcat (VF-2) plane crash lands on the deck of the USS Enterprise as Lt. Walter L. Chewning, Jr. climbs up the side of the plane to assist the pilot, Ensign Byron M. Johnson, who escaped without serious injury. The crash landing occurred as the Enterprise was making its way toward Makin Island in the South Pacific on November 10, 1943.

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A young man sits on an overturned stool next to a burnt body inside the Thekla concentration subcamp outside Leipzig, Germany soon after its liberation by U.S. forces on April 18, 1945.

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U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives instructions to paratroopers in England in preparation for the imminent D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.

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Five U.S. Marines and one sailor raise an American flag over Mount Suribabachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945.

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Māori soldiers from New Zealand perform a traditional war cry known as a haka in Helwan, Egypt, June 1941.

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A dejected German soldier taken prisoner by Soviet forces at the Battle of Kursk -- one of the largest in history, and the one that marked the turning point against the Nazis on the Eastern Front and the war as a whole -- in mid-1943.