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.

#16 While U.S. B-24 (Liberators) soar high above the Japanese airbase on Iwo Jima, bombs dropped from the planes explode on the island, 1944.

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#32 While his buddies stand around to watch, a Third Division Marine brings in a Japanese prisoner, one of the few enemy taken alive during the fighting on Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945.

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#48 Mt. Suribachi, is seen from Invasion Beach on Iwo Jima, Japan, 2013.

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#14 Eight photographers with their cameras in a demonstration in a converted C-54 aircraft, at Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell, New Mexico, 1946.

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#10 Grande Guillotte, a 23 year-old French girl collaborated with the Germans in Normandy. When her town was liberated by Allied troops, French patriots dragged her from her house and cut off all her hair. A French patriot cuts off Grande Guillotte’s hair while another holds her in France, 1944.

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#26 An American soldier and a French peasant assist a wounded Nazi prisoner into a cart in which he and others captured in a small French village, in Normandy, 1944, were transported back to the beach en route to England and internment.

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#42 Old and young, these refugees from the French town of St. Lo, in Normandy, 1944, take up temporary quarters in a former mansion following their return to the newly liberated town. Straw has been placed on the floor to provide a little comfort in the house that are being cared for by Allied Civil affairs authorities.

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#13 Harold Harris, Associated Press staff photographer and war correspondent assigned to the London bureau, is seen. 1944

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#2 Operation Dynamo: Members of the British Expeditionary Force arrive back in Britain with a Union Jack after being evacuated from Dunkirk, 1940.

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#18 A long drink for a member of the BEF at the end of his journey home from Dunkirk, 1940.

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