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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.