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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

Alfred Hitchcock directing Shadow of a Doubt in 1942 arts & entertainment

Alfred Hitchcock ‘Directs’ a LIFE Magazine Story, 1942

Anne Frank's Friends, 1959 people

Anne Frank’s Friends: Photos of the Girls Who Lived

Univ. of New Hampshire coeds training in 1942 history

Readying for Battle: Coeds Training in the Snow, New Hampshire, 1942

A rally at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, December 1941. history

After Pearl Harbor: Rare Photos From the American Home Front

Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945 history

Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945

American Lt. Gen. (later General) George S. Patton in North Africa during WWII, 1943. history

LIFE in WWII: Rare and Classic Photos From North Africa, 1943

Unidentified young women, Kutno, Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939. history

The Brink of Oblivion: Color Photos From Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1940

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Iowa, 1942 history

‘Take off the Silk, Put on the Khaki’: America’s First Women Soldiers, 1942

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