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Category: WWII

Relive the era of World War II through powerful vintage photographs. See the bravery, sorrow, and determination that defined the global conflict.
Each photo reveals human stories from the frontlines, the home front, and the aftermath that shaped our world.

#43 U.S. Marines dig graves in the Fifth Marine Division cemetery on Iwo Jima, Japan, for the shrouded bodies of their buddies, 1945.

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#9 American Army photographer Charles E Nerpel, visible through a camera port as he aims his high-speed Mitchell colour camera during a Joint Army-Navy Task Force demonstration in a converted B-29 aircraft, at Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell, New Mexico, 1946.

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#5 A French family living in the La Cambe area of Normandy, France, 1944, place flowers on the graves of the U.S. dead as part of the Bastille Day celebrations.

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#21 Two French civilians look over the wrecked birthplace of the French painter, Jean-Francois Millet in France, 1944. The house was situated at Gruchy near Greville, which was one of the most heavily fortified regions on the Normandy coast and the scene of many bitter battles before it was liberated by the Americans. Many Nazi soldiers were taken prisoner near here.

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#37 Many of the French refugees had not eaten for three or more days. They are seen receiving food from British troops in France, 1944.

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#8 J. Wes Gallagher, Associated Press war correspondent in London, takes lessons in the Tommy-gun with the Canadian Army’s Commando School. 1942

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#24 Henry Griffin, Associated Press war photographer takes cover in a fox hole on the banks of the Rhine. 1945

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#13 Voluntary helpers give refreshments to wounded soldiers, members of the British Expeditionary Force, on board a hospital train, 1940.

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#29 British troops being helped board rescue craft from the pier during the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II, 1940s.

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#2 Mrs. Montagu Norman, the wife of the governor of the Bank of England, handing out tea to the A.R.P. workers after she had opened the canteen at Islington Town Hall, Jan. 15, 1940.

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