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Before and After D-Day: Color Photos From England and France

American Pvt. Joe Demler, photographed on the day that the notorious prison camp, Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, was liberated by Allied troops, spring 1945. history

The POW Who Lived: Joe Demler, WWII’s ‘Human Skeleton’

Neighborhood reduced to rubble by atomic bomb blast, Hiroshima, 1945. history

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Photos From the Ruins

Near Sochaczew during the German invasion of Poland, 1939. history

World War II Erupts: Color Photos From the Invasion of Poland, 1939

League of German Girls dancing during the 1938 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany. history

A Brutal Pageantry: The Third Reich’s Myth-Making Machinery, in Color

Women welders, Gary, Ind., 1943. history

Real-Life Rosies: Female Factory Workers in World War II

French performers in first organized show for American troops after D-Day, Normandy, July 1944. history

After D-Day: The First Show for U.S. Troops in Normandy

U. S. Coast Guardsmen assist a wounded Marine returning from the fight on Iwo Jima, 1945. history

World War II, After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell

Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945. history

After the Fall: Photos of Hitler’s Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin

A young girl reads a comic book at an Anchorage, Alaska, supermarket in 1958. arts & entertainment

Reading The Comics: A True American Pastime

A boy badly burned by the Hiroshima bomb four years earlier, seen in 1949. history

After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors

Troops watch the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1944. nature

Mount Vesuvius: Photos From the Volcano’s Last Great Eruption, 1944

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