The Casablanca Conference, January 1943. From the left, French General Henri Giraud, U.S. President Roosevelt, French General Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Mary Saverick stitching harnesses for the Pioneer Parachute Company Mills in Manchester, Connecticut, 1943.
General Douglas MacArthur, 1943.
American war propaganda poster from 1943.
A field hospital run by the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division in Italy, 1944.
A squadron of Stukas (German dive bombers) over the Russian front, April 1943.
A soldier from the 92nd Division, one of two all-Black Infantry Divisions, exploding anti-tank mines at Viareggio, Italy, 1944.
Axis prisoners at a temporary holding camp for POWs in Tunisia during the North African campaign, May 1943.
An American Sherman tank passing through a town in Southern Italy, 1944.
Sergeant William H. Bass of Memphis, Tennessee gives food to two Italian girls, 1944.
American soldiers await the signal to begin the D-Day invasion, England, June 1944.
Troops of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landing at Juno Beach on the outskirts of Bernieres-sur-Mer on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
A D-Day planning session in February, 1944. From the left, U.S. General Omar Bradley, Admiral Bertram H. Ramsay, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur Tedder, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, Royal Air Force Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory and U.S. General Walter Bedell.
American troops boarding an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) in Weymouth, England on June 5, 1944, in preparation for the invasion of France.
The ruins of the town of Monte Cassino, southeast of Rome, 1944.
American troops of the 7th Navy Beach Battalion training in Britain before their deployment at Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings, 1944.
Allied troops landing in Normandy, France, 1944.
Allied soldiers viewing their position in Normandy with two French policeman policemen, June 1944.
Allied soldiers under the Arc de Triomphe during the French liberation celebrations at the end of World War II, August 1944.
Ruins of the city Dresden after the Allied bombings in February, 1945.
U.S. Army vehicles driving through the ruins of Saint-Lo in Normandy, 1944. The town was almost totally destroyed by 2,000 Allied bombers when they attacked German troops stationed there during Operation Overlord.
From left, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and commander of the 21st Army Group, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in Normandy, June 12, 1944, six days after the D-Day landings.
A young Holocaust survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after the liberation of the camp by U.S. Army Forces, Germany, April 15, 1945.
An American solder of the 42nd Rainbow Division reacting to the conditions of the Dachau concentration camp, April 1945.
A group of inmates after liberation of Dachau concentration camp by the 42nd Rainbow Division and the 45th Thunderbird Division, Germany, May 2, 1945.
An American Sherman M4 tank in the Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive of World War II.
U.S. Army soldiers near the Cologne cathedral, 1945. The last tank battle took place March 6, 1945 and it took another five weeks to take the city.
The funeral procession of President Roosevelt moving from Union Station to The White House, April 14, 1945.
The ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industry Promotion Building, known as the Atomic-Bomb Dome, in September 1945.
Crowds gather in Times Square to celebrate the end of the war in Europe, New York, May 7, 1945.
Soldiers and sailors on the decks of the USS Missouri watch the Japanese surrender which was signed on board, September 2, 1945.
American Marines raising the United States flag at Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945.
Students at a camouflage class at New York University in 1943 made models from aerial photographs.
Crowds of French citizens line the Champs Elysees during a parade in celebration of the liberation of Paris, August 1944.
American soldiers march through the streets of Rome shortly after the arrival of General Mark Clark and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, July 4, 1944.
U.S. warships in the Fast Carrier Task Force (Task Force 58), under the command of Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher, in the Pacific Ocean, 1944.
Members of the United States 69th Infantry Division meet a Russian patrol south of Torgau, April 25, 1945.
Crewmen playing poker in the cramped quarters of the USS New Mexico during Pacific operations, 1944.
American troops with local residents at Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands, 1943.
American troops playing softball on the island of Tarawa in the Pacific, 1943.
The Nuremberg Trials, 1946. In the first row, from the left, Hermann Goering (with hand on his chin), Rudolf Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk and Hjalmar Schacht.
Hermann Goering during his cross-examination at the Nuremberg Trials, Germany, 1946.
General Alfred Jodl, Hitler’s military adviser, controller of German High Command and chief of the Operations Staff (center), signs the document of surrender of the German armed forces at Reims in General Eisenhower’s headquarters, May 7, 1945. Major Wilhelm Oxenius is on his left and Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Admiral of the Fleet is on his right.
Representatives of the Allied powers establishing a War Commission for the trial of European War criminals. From the left, seated, Professor Trainin of Russia, General Nikitchenko of Russia, Lord Jowitt of the U.K. and Justice Jackson from the U.S.
