World War II

U.S. Army Pfc. Fred Linden of Detroit, MI, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, holding and talking to a young French boy following the liberation

Myth: American forces were filled with eager volunteers large part of the naive yet persistent American notion that World War II was “the good war” is the

Both during and soon after World War 1, politicians and pundits began referring to the devastating conflict as “the war to end all wars.” One

Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is returned to the Louvre after WWII.

Wounded combat dog during action on the Orote Peninsula, 1944.

A German child meets her father, a WWII soldier, for the first time since she was 1 year old, 1956.

German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945.

A lone man refusing to do the Nazi salute, 1936

Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train, 1945.

Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

German soldiers executing a smiling French resistance fighter

This gives a whole new meaning to being packed in like sardines.

This photo was taken in 1942, somewhere in the Volkhov area of Russia and shows a German soldier sharing bread with an orphaned boy.

During the Saipan battle of 1944, nearly 22,000 Japanese citizens lost their lives- many to suicide due to the Emperor’s command to kill themselves rather