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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.

#2 The USS Skate (SS-305), a submarine damaged by an atomic blast during Operation Crossroads, 1946.

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#18 Col. Paul W. Tibbets of Orlando, Fla., is shown in his office at Roswell Field where preliminary preparations are being made for the gigantic atomic bomb test scheduled for Bikini Atoll this summer, 1946.

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#14 For four long years, the French Underground bravely resisted the Nazi Oppressors of France. Gleaning vital information about German Fortifications the Patriots try to establish contact with Allied Forces moving thru Normandy. After turning all their information over to the Allies, the Frenchmen sit down to a meal with their American Friends in France, 1944.

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#30 French villagers welcomed members of a French Commando who landed in Normandy in Amfreville, North of Ranville, 1944. Chester Wilmot, BBC commentator was also there at the time.

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#1 Historical Photos of D-Day and World War II Reporters and Photographers Who Risked Their Lives for the Truth #

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#17 Kirk Simpson, Associated Press war analyst and Pulitzer Prize winner, retires to his typewriter and his maps to study the day’s war dispatches and report for Associated Press member newspapers. 1943

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#6 Troops continue to arrive home in their thousands following the rescue of the British Expeditionary Forces at Dunkirk. This member of the BEF has brought a German rifle home as a souvenir, 1940.

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#22 A wounded French sailor arrives in Britain, 1940.

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#38 Two soldiers arrive back in England after being evacuated from Dunkirk. One of them is only wearing his pyjamas, 1940.

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#11 Christopher Ounsted, driver of the mobile canteen, delivering a hot dinner to a woman during his rounds in London on Sept. 17, 1941. The canteen, a gift from the U.S., would be idle normally, as a result of the lull in the blitz, but it is put to use to feed the poor, aged and homeless.

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