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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.

#66 German soldiers following their capitulation to Soviet forces, 1943.

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#11 World War II Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945.

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#27 Weak and ill survivors of the Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald march towards the infirmary, after the liberation of the camp by Allied troops, 1945.

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#2 Iwo Jima is 650 miles from Tokyo, the US could launch its attack on the Japanese capital.

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#18 Near a truck on an Iwo Jima road in Japan, Jap soldiers with field packs scatter for cover, as an American plane comes in low to strafe the enemy during pre-invasion softening-up, 1945.

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#34 While a U.S. corpsman administers ether, Navy doctors operate to remove shrapnel from the abdomen of a wounded leatherneck at the Fourth Marine Division evacuation hospital in Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945.

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#50 Former U.S. soldier fighting on Iwo Jima during the World War II, Franklin Hobbs, right, and Chie Takekawa, whose father was killed in the same battle, hold a framed letter and a photo of her sister during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo, 2010.

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#16 U.S. Military Atomic Bomb Test and Resulting Explosion, Crossroads Target Fleet, Bikini Island, Pacific Ocean, 1946.

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#12 For the first time since 1939, French men and women in the liberated towns and villages of Normandy were able openly to celebrate on July 14th, Bastille Day, without fear of German reprisals. In the little town of Coursoulles near the coast, British troops played a football match against the local French team and all the towns folk turned out to watch the game, 1944.

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#28 A bright-eyed little French girl is persuaded to leave the spot, behind a pile of branches, where she made her home when the Allies swept into her community in Normandy, 1944.

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