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American soldiers, injured while storming Omaha Beach on D-Day, recover just after the landings in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.

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American sailors stand amid wrecked planes at the Ford Island seaplane base, watching as the USS Shaw explodes in the center background during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

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“Into the Jaws of Death — U.S. Troops wading through water and Nazi gunfire."

A U.S. landing craft approaches Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.
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On May 17, 1945, a German girl is overcome with emotion as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by SS guards at Nammering, Germany, and laid here so that townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders.

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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.

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An unidentified boy raises his arms as German soldiers capture Polish Jews during the Warsaw ghetto uprising sometime between April 19 and May 16, 1943.

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Human bones litter the grounds of the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland following its liberation by Soviet forces on July 24, 1944.

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In celebration of Japan's surrender, a U.S. Navy sailor kisses a women during festivities in New York City on August 14, 1945.

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Two women stand amid the leveled ruins of the almshouse that was their home before a German bombing raid destroyed it in Newbury, England on February 11, 1943.

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The atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan by the U.S. on August 9, 1945.

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Burnt bodies lie on the grounds of the Thekla concentration subcamp, outside Leipzig, Germany, April 1945.

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Roger Godfrin, the only survivor of a massacre during which Nazi troops locked 643 citizens (including 500 women and children) inside a church and set fire to it on June 10, 1944 in Oradour sur Glane, France.

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Soviet soldiers charge during the Siege of Leningrad, January 1, 1943.

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French women accused of collaborating with the Nazis have their heads shaved by French Resistance fighters in Paris on June 21, 1944.

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A young boy greets his father, a soldier allowed to return home for Christmas, 1944.

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A British plane in Gibraltar prepares for its flight to the United Kingdom as searchlights shine in the background (date unspecified).

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A young French girl clings to her mother in May 1940 as French civilians flee the German Army offensive in the north of France.

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Adolf Hitler (standing, center) declares war on the United States at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany on December 11, 1941.

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Battered religious figures stand amid the rubble of Nagasaki, Japan on September 24, 1945, six weeks after the U.S. destroyed the city with an atomic bomb.

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Photo taken at the instant that bullets from a French firing squad hit a French man who had collaborated with the Germans in Rennes, France on November 21, 1944.

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A French man weeps as German soldiers march into Paris on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France.

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U.S. Navy sailors rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia amid the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

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The crematory ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp, April 1945.

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Adolf Hitler and his entourage walk near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on June 23, 1940, following the occupation of France by the Nazis.

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French anti-aircraft fire during a Nazi raid on Algiers, 1943.