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.

#20 Two Bikini Atoll girls trudge away from their village carrying their possessions on their shoulders, 1946.

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#16 Two British soldiers taking part in the liberation of France from the Germans are rewarded by Frenchwomen, of a Normandy farm, by having their laundry washed for them in France, 1944.

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#32 A little French girl finds three admirers from the ranks of American forces who have made a speedy and successful advance through Normandy, France, 1944.

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#3 Associated Press photographer, George Bede Irvin was killed on July 25 near Pont Hebert in Normandy while working with the Ninth Air Force. 1944

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$#19 Associated Press war correspondent J. Wes Gallagher arrived in New York by plane on June 6, 1943, from the North African front with two reminders of the war, a cast around his body and a souvenir collection of axis guns. Gallagher suffered a compression-type spine fracture in a jeep accident near Bizerte. 1943$

#19 Associated Press war correspondent J. Wes Gallagher arrived in New York by plane on June 6, 1943, from the North African front with two reminders of the war, a cast around his body and a souvenir collection of axis guns. Gallagher suffered a compression-type spine fracture in a jeep accident near Bizerte. 1943

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#8 Children rush up to a train carrying BEF men back from Dunkirk, 1940.

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#24 Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of British and Allied troops from Dunkirk 27 May to 3 June 1940. Members of the British Expeditionary Force on a Royal Navy vessel docking back in Britain, 1940.

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#40 A street in Dunkirk under heavy bombardment during the German attempt to take the town before the evacuation of the allied armies, 1940.

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#13 European and Chinese canteen girls serving in a mobile canteen given by a civilian to the Singapore Passive Defense Services in, Jan. 31, 1942.

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#29 Housed in 20 underground tunnels Âsomewhere on the West Coast of England several hundred women are turning out war materials in complete safety from air raids.

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