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A #German paratrooper with an MG42 machine gun in France on June 21, 1944

Troops from 51st Highland Division unloading stores from tank landing craft on the opening day of the Allied invasion of #Sicily, Italy, on July 10, 1943.

#Soviet soldiers celebrate the retaking of Sevastopol, 1944.

#Russian female aircraft spotters on the roof of a building in Leningrad, Russia, in May, 1942.

#American soldiers clean captured #German MG 42 general-purpose machine guns in San Vittore del Lazio following the Allied success at the Battle of San Pietro Infine during thr #Italian Campaign on January

#English members of the Women’s Royal Navy Service (WRNS, or more popularly, Wrens) move a torpedo for loading into a British submarine at the Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in September, 1943.

The USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) aflame on her aft flight deck following a #Japanese kamikaze attack on October 30, 1944.

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush sitting in his Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber aboard USS San Jacinto, 1944. Bush flew 58 combat missions during #WWII and received the Distinguished Flying Cross,

#German troops with MP 40 submachine guns in Lapland, #Finland, in 1943.

#German troops inspecting a #British Daimler Scout Car captured during the failed raid on Dieppe in August, 1942.

U.S. Sgt. Frank Shiborski eats a #Thanksgiving⁠ ⁠turkey leg in Italy on November 22, 1944.

A #German Junkers Ju 52 transport airport on the #Greek island of Crete, 1943.

French resistance fighters working with American paratroopers in Normandy, France, 1944.

A close-up of Sgt. Loel Putnam in a gas mask and protective cloth permeable helmet at Chemical Warfare decontamination demonstration at Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1943.

POWs of German 4th Army, after being captured at Minsk in Byelorussia, being marched through the streets of Moscow, Russia, on July 17, 1944.

An American war poster used on the home front, 1942-43.

Japanese Myōkō-class heavy cruiser Haguro under air attack by USAAF 3rd Bomb Group, Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, on November 2, 1943

Two Soviet Army soldiers stop to use a field telephone during the Battle of Berlin as buildings erupt in flames behind them in April, 1945.

An American B-25D Mitchell bomber of the 13th Bomb Squadron departing Simpson Harbor after an attack, Rabaul, New Britain, on November 2, 1943.

The German 24th Panzer Division moving towards Stalingrad in August, 1942.