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.

#64 Battle of Stalingrad, 1940s.

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#9 Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1945. Elie Wiesel, who later received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, is the 7th person from the left on the 2nd row from the bottom.

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#25 An American Soldier of the 6th Armoured Division Carrying a Hungarian Woman from the Ambulance to the Hospital, After the Liberation of the Camp of Penig-Langenleuba, Close To Altenbourg, Germany, 1945.

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#41 Liberated prisoners from the camp at Buchenwald point to the numbered tattoos they received at the camp, 1945.

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#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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