6. A U.S soldier struggles ashore under heavy German Fire during the first wave of the D-Day invasion on Omaha
Beach on the Normandy coast of France, June 6, 1944.
8. Spain. Barcelona. January 1939. Running for shelter during the air raid alarm. The city was being heavily
bombed by Fascist planes as General Franco's troops rapidly approached the city.
9. England. Dorset. Weymouth. 1-5 June 1945. The American troops of the Allied Forces leave the English port of
Weymouth.
13. A U.S. soldier lies
dead after being hit
by sniper fire during
house-to-house
skirmishing in
Liepzig, Germany, on
the last day of the
World War II fighting
in Europe.
14. Paris. August 25th, 1944. Members of the French Resistance and soldiers of the French army.
16. France. Paris. August
26th, 1944. Crowd on the
pavement after snipers in
buildings overlooking the
Place de l'Hotel de Ville
opened fire on the
celebrations after the
liberation.
17. France. Normandy. Omaha Beach. June, 1944. French fishermen looking at corpses on the beach after the
D-Day landing.
19. General George Patton in
North African desert during
Allied campaign, WWII.
Date taken:1943
20. Soldiers in position with guns during Allied campaign in North Africa,WWII.Location:Tunisia Date taken:1943 n
21. "A tank-artillery team stands on alert. This kind of unit -- a 105mm. howitzer mounted on a half-track -- has
proved a 'winning combination,' according to Army experts, in ground warfare in Tunisia.
24. Us Fifth Army In Italy
African-Amer.
artillerymen firing a
105-mm. Howitzer
behind sandbagged
barracade on the
Itallian front in the
Appennine
Mountains.Location:I
taly Date taken:April
1945
25. Post WWII German
Refugees and
Displaced Persons
Crowding Every
Square Inch of
Train Leaving
Berlin 1945
26. Survivors gaze at photographer Margaret Bourke-White and rescuers from the United States Third Army during the
liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945 .
38. George Lott, 22,
wounded in both
arms by German
mortar fire,
suffers as
doctors mold a
plaster cast to his
body, 1944
39. A "Free French" soldier races to aid a Resistance fighter firing at a German sniper, Paris, August 1944. The sniper
had opened fire during a tour of the city by Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
40. A family seeks safety beside a Jeep as French Resistance fighters and Free French troops try to take out a
German sniper during the Liberation of Paris in August 1944
41. Allied forces helping French woman during sniper fire during liberation of Chartres from the Germans,
WWII.Location:Chartres, France Date taken:August 1944
42. French women accused of
collaborating w. the Germans
sit w. freshly shaved heads
after being punished by
members of the French
resistance during
WWII.Location:Paris, France
Date taken:1945
44. One of the most famous and
emotive pictures of WWII was
taken, unknown by the two
subjects, on Christmas Day 1942,
by New Zealand photographer
George Silk. George Silk, as an
official photographer with the
Australian Department of
Information, was covering the
Pacific War against Japan in
Papua, now part of Papua New
Guinea.
The picture shows Private George
(Dick) Whittington of the 2/10
Infantry Battalian, accompanied
by a Papuan native, Raphael
Oimbari. Whittington, had been
injured in the head during the
battle for Buna.
45. Battle Of Bulge German POWs carrying body of American soldier killed in Battle of Bulge through snowy
Ardennes field, 1 among more than 180,000 US & German casualties of 6-wk. WWII battle.Location: Belgium
Date taken:February 1945
46. Cisterna, Italy...'44 American GI's search surrendering German soldiers amid the ruins of Cisterna following fierce
rearguard fighting by elite German units.Location:Cisterna, Italy Date taken:May 26, 1944
47. American soldiers pausing during the battle for control of Anzio underneath a sign stating ALL RANKS BRITISH
TROOPS WILL WEAR STEEL HELMETS Location:Anzio, Italy Date taken:1944
48. Cisterna, Italy...'44 Pair of German soldiers raising their arms in surrender after the US Army 3rd Infantry and 1st
Armored Divisions took Cisterna following fierce rearguard fighting by elite German units. Location:Cisterna, Italy
Date taken:May 26, 1944
49. American soldier firing back at unseen German sniper during the battle for Cisterna. Location:Cisterna, Italy Date
taken:June 1944
51. A U.S soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child during the battle
between Japanese and American forces
52. Fight for survival: In a July 1944 photograph, an American Marine lifts a nearly dead infant from a cave where
native islanders had been hiding during the battle for Saipan
53. While under fire, U.S. Marines advance on occupying Japanese forces in Tanapag, Saipan in June 1944
57. U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on
Feb. 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen
raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima.
58. In a second photo Rosenthal shot at Iwo Jima, Marines pose in front of the flag they just raised.
59. The booted feet of a dead Japanese soldier, foreground, protrude from beneath a mound of earth on Iwo Jima
during the American invasion of the Japanese Volcano Island stronghold in 1945 in World War II. U.S. Marines
can be seen nearby in foxholes.
60. As the invasion of Peleliu gets underway, U.S. Marines unload war supplies and ammunition boxes onto the
beach of the island in the Palau group, in September 1944. Note injured Marine on a stretcher at left center.
62. Vj Day A jubilant American sailor
clutching a white-uniformed nurse
in a back-bending, passionate kiss
as he vents his joy while thousands
jam Times Square to celebrate the
long awaited-victory over Japan.
Location:New York, NY, US Date
taken:August 14, 1945
63. Vj Day Celebration In Us
Joyful young man kissing girl
in the midst of confetti-strewn
street near the Latin Quarter
nightclub on V-J Day.
Location:New York, NY, US
Date taken:August 14, 1945
64. Hitler's Minister of
Propaganda Joseph
Goebbels glowers at
photographer Alfred
Eisenstaedt in the garden
of the Carlton Hotel
during a League of
Nations conference,
Geneva, September
1933.
65. Joseph Goebbels in garden of the
Carlton Hotel before delivering a radio
address, Geneva, September 1933
74. George Strock Three
dead Americans lie
where they fell in the
sand near a half sunken
landing craft on Buna
Beach in northern New
Guinea following a
Japanese ambush in
1943.
75. George Strock Fighting On Engebi Island American marine dragging a dead comrade out of the surf as
others duck machine gun fire from Japanese pillbox off to the left during assault on coral beachhead.
Location:Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands Date taken:March 1944
76. George Strock
American Marine holding
a pig captured near the
front lines during the fight
to retake the Marshall
Islands from the
Japanese.Location:Kwaja
lein, Marshall Islands
Date taken:1944
79. Hugo Jaeger Adolf Hitler salutes troops of the Condor Legion who fought alongside Spanish Nationalists in
the Spanish Civil War, during a rally upon their return to Germany, 1939.
81. Hugo Jaeger Scene from a Christmas party in Munich thrown by Adolf Hitler for his generals, 1941
82. Heinrich Hoffmann Chancellor Hitler saluting the athletes from balcony of the Olympic House during opening
ceremony of the IV Olympic Winter Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany, 6 Feb 1936
83. Heinrich Hoffmann Philippe Pétain and Adolf Hitler, Montoire-sur-le-Loir, France, 24 Oct 1940; note Paul
Schmidt and Joachim von Ribbentrop in background
