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An American torpedo boat marksman behind his machine gun off the coast of New Guinea, July 1943.

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Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles Beach in Normandy during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.

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Crowds gather on Paris' Champs Elysees as French tanks roll past in celebration of the liberation of France on August 26, 1944.

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The devastated remains of Hiroshima, Japan just days after U.S. forces dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing upwards of 140,000, on August 6, 1945.

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A pile of prostheses belonging to the murdered victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland following its liberation, January 1945.

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British and American forces charge a German soldier surrendering atop his tank during the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt on October 25, 1942.

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Children of an eastern suburb of London, who have been made homeless by German bombings, sit outside the wreckage of what was their home, September 1940.

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Victims of the massive Allied bombing campaign in Dresden, Germany, February 1945.

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Adolf Hitler joins key advisors Heinrich Himmler (left) and Martin Bormann (right) in surveying a strategic map at an unspecified location, 1939.

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U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during the initial landings at Leyte, Philippine Islands in October 1944.

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German soldiers arrest a Jewish man in Warsaw, Poland following the ghetto uprising that had recently occurred there, April 1943.

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A man holds a noose used for hanging prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation by U.S. forces in April 1945.

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U.S. soldiers wait in a landing craft as it approaches Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.

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A celebration of Germany's surrender takes place on Paris' Champs Elysees, as seen from the top of the Arc de Triomphe ,on May 8, 1945.

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U.S. Air Force bombers fly over Ploiești, Romania, following a raid on August 1, 1943.

Of the 16 cameramen accompanying this mission, the one who took this photo was the only one to survive.

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The entrance to the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland soon after its liberation by Soviet troops, January 1945.

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An 18-year-old Russian prisoner of Dachau concentration camp not long after its liberation by U.S. forces on April 29, 1945.

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The devastated remains of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Shaw following the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

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British soldiers shake hands from atop their vehicles in Tobruk, Libya, October 1942.

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Some of the 60,000 dead bodies found on the grounds of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following its liberation by British troops on April 15, 1945.

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Italian soldiers taken prisoner by British forces after the Allied landing in Sicily, July 1943.

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The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Special Naval Landing Forces, outfitted with gas masks, prepare for an advance amid the rubble of Shanghai, China, August 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which many historians contend falls under the umbrella of World War II.

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From left, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the historic Tehran Conference in Iran on November 28, 1943.

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A U.S. fighter plane spins its propellor on the deck of the USS Yorktown in the Pacific, November 1943.

Drastic changes in air temperature and pressure combine with the motion of the propellor to create the rings encircling the plane.

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Allied soldiers come across a herd of cows as they make their way through Normandy, France, June 1944.

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California's Manzanar War Relocation Center, one of ten internment camps in which the U.S. government held a combined 110,000 Japanese-Americans during the war (1943).

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The American ship Robert Rowan explodes after being attacked by a German bomber off the coast of Gela, Sicily on July 11, 1943.

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Citizens of Leningrad, Soviet Union vacate their houses, destroyed by German bombing, on December 10, 1942.

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Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signs the unconditional surrender of the German army at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin on May 8, 1945.

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Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945 as Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, watches from the opposite side of the table.

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U.S. infantrymen move through the destroyed town of Waldenburg, Germany on April 16, 1945.