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An ambulance truck is seen as it crosses a provisional bridge in Lunebach, Germany, in March 1945, after Allied forces captured the town on their adva...

British riflemen guard the slopes of Mandalay Hill as the battle rages around the Japanese military camp at Fort Dufferin below, in March 1945, during...

U.S. Marines bring ashore American equipment to continue battle for the Japanese Volcano Island stronghold on Iwo Jima, Feb. 28, 1945 during World War...

U.S. Marines offer a Japanese prisoner of war, whose face is obliterated by censors, after he is captured during American invasion of Iwo Jima, Japane...

U.S. Marines of the Fourth Division shield themselves in abandoned Japanese trench and bomb craters formed during U.S. invasion and amphibious landing...

A U.S. Marine driving an ambulance jeep struggles in the sandy beach at Iwo Jima during American advance on the strategic Japanese Volcano Island stro...

U.S. Corpsmen carry a wounded Marine on a stretcher to an evacuation boat on the beach at Iwo Jima while other Marines huddle in a foxhole during inva...

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, fifth division, cheer and hold up their rifles after raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, a...

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Strategically located only 66...

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division raise the American flag after capturing the 550-foot Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, the largest Vo...

A U.S. Marine, center, is shot dead during battle for Iwo Jima, Japanese Volcano Island stronghold, on Feb. 19, 1945 in World War II. (AP Photo/Joe R...

Two U.S. Marines, slumped in death, lie where they fell on Iwo Jima, among the first victims of Japanese gunfire as the American conquest of the strat...

U.S. Marines of the 5th Divsion inch their way up a sand dune on Red Beach No. 1 toward Mount Suribachi, as the smoke of the battle drifts over them d...

An armada of landing ships brings U.S. troops to the smoke-enveloped shore of Iwo Jima, during the first assault wave on the Japanese island, on Febru...

A U.S. Marine, killed by Japanese sniper fire, is still holding on to his weapon as he lies in the black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima, on February 19, 1...

During the Task Force 58's raid on Japan, artillerymen aboard the USS Hornet fire their 40mm large guns, in support of the carrier's bomber planes air...

U.S. Marine rocket trucks fire a barrage of missiles at Japanese positions, during the invasion on Saipan, in the Mariana Islands, February 14, 1945....

Kachin resistance fighters, armed with machine guns, are seen as they move through the jungle at an unknown location in northern Burma, in pursuit of...

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B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's Third Air Division bomb German Communications at Chemnitz Marshalling yard near Dresden, Germany...

B-17 Flying Fortresses are seen as they drop their bombs over German communication lines at Chemnitz, near Dresden, on February 6, 1945. (AP Photo)

A Japanese officer is bargaining at a roadside stand somewhere in the Philippines, on February 6, 1945. (AP Photo)

British Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery is shown on his arrival at the investiture in Germany, Feb. 1945, to decorate Canadian soldiers who had distinguish...

Battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur are seen on February 1, 1945, under way to support the reconquest of...

During the invasion on Iwo Jima, in February 1945, advancing U.S. troops spot a Japanese machine gun nest ahead of them. One of the men is establishin...

Marines of the 4th Division are seen as they shell Japanese inland positions during the invasion of Iwo Jima, in February 1945. (AP Photo)

A few hours after the U.S. Marines gained a foothold on the island, war supplies are being unloaded from Coast Guard and U.S. Navy landing crafts onto...

75th U.S. Division infantrymen, in heavy winter gear and armed with rifles and bazookas, are seen as they march through Belgian woods near St. Vith, o...

Artillerymen aboard a U.S. battleship fire their guns at Japanese installations on Luzon island, in the Philippines, on February 1, 1945. (AP Photo)

Sprawled across the porch of an emergency hospital, released American prisoners of war wait for transfer to a base hospital, on Luzon Island, January...

Men of an Allied Scottish regiment, clad in winter camouflage, are seen during patrol along the Zetten front line in Holland, on January 29, 1945. (AP...

Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division travel a snow-covered fire break in the woods as they move forward in the Ardennes region in Belgium, on January...

During the Battle of the Bulge, Allied soldiers in winter camouflage gear use sleds as they transport supplies to the front lines in the Ardennes regi...

A U.S. supply convoy is seen from above, under way through the woods of the Ardennes region in Belgium, on January 27, 1944. (AP Photo)

In the early morning hours of January 26, 1945, the 53rd Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, fires its 5.5 inch large guns in support of infant...

Men of the British 14th Army 36th Division pass a pagoda as they advance on a debris-littered street in an unknown Burmese town, January 26, 1945, dur...

German captives walk past a disabled tank as they are led into captivity by U.S. troops, on January 25, 1945, north of Foy, Belgium, in the final days...

Troops of the 3rd U.S. Army are seen as they march toward the village of Lutrebois, near Bastogne, on January 25, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge...

American infantrymen of an armored division march on a snow-covered road southeast of Born, Belgium, on January 22, 1945. (AP Photo)

A fleet of U.S. Army Air Forces Liberator bombers wings out from its base on Palau island to strike at Japanese airfields in the Philippines, on Janua...

2nd Battallion infantrymen of the 1st U.S. Division, clad in winter camouflage, are seen as they march along a snow-covered road near Faymonville, Be...

Members of a field artillery unit of the 30th U.S. Division are seen moving along the front line in the Ardennes region near Stavelot, Belgium, during...

American soldiers of the 347th U.S. Infantry in heavy winter gear halt their advance to La Roche, Belgium, for a short meal, January 13, 1945. (AP P...

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Allied and German fighter planes are engaged in a heavy dogfight, with a sky streaked with vapor trails testifying to the ferocity of the battle, on J...

Crewmen aboard a U.S. Navy carrier are seen as they install rockets on a F6F Grumman Hellcat in preparation of an aerial strike on enemy targets at Ma...

Infantrymen of the 32nd Division take cover from Japanese mortar fire as they advance in the Ormoc sector, in northwest Leyte Island, Philippines, Jan...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt shakes the hand of First Lt. Jack C. Montgomery of Gillisaw,Okla, Jan.10,1945, after presenting him with the Congressi...

U.S. Coast Guard landing crafts are under way in the waters of Lingayen Gulf, off the coast of Luzon island, Philippines, on January 9, 1945. Followin...

American soldiers are on the search for German snipers that might hide out in the ruins of Bastogne, Belgium, on January 8, 1945. (AP Photo)