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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.

#6 Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo of the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, was originally misidentified by military sources. Originally identified, from left, in this vintage graphic: Pfc. Franklin R. Sousley; Pfc. Ira Hayes; Sgt. Michael Strank; Pharmacist’s Mate 2nd Class John H. Bradley; Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon; Sgt. Henry O. Hansen. The Marine at far right was later correctly identified as Cpl. Harlon Block, not Hansen, 1945.

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#22 The booted feet of a dead Japanese soldier, protrude from beneath a mound of earth on Iwo Jima during the American invasion of the Japanese Volcano Island stronghold, 1945.

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#38 U.S. Marines with a coast guard combat photographer found crouching in a listening post dug in Iwo Jima’s coffee grounds sands, Japan, 1945.

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#4 An illustration shows a mushroom cloud created in the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests conducted at Bikini Atoll, 1946.

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#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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