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On their advance through the city of Dinard, in the Brittany region of northwestern France, a group of American infantrymen are seen as they move forw...

This is a general view of Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown, Ma., July 25, 1944. (AP Photo)

This view from Grand Street shows Mott Street and the street merchants with their pushcarts along the sidewalk in New York's Lower East Side on July 1...

Leonard Bernstein, 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, plays the piano during a rehearsal at his apartmen...

U.S. Marines move through the burning ruins of Garapan, the main town on Saipan, during the invasion of the island in the Mariana group, in July 1944....

The bodies of American soldiers, killed in combat by German mortar shells, are sprawled across the ground, somewhere in the Normandy sector of France,...

With their rifles ready, U.S. Marines watch the entrance of a Japanese foxhole after blowing it up with demolition charges, during the invasion at Sai...

U.S. Marines take advantage of the natural ground cover while establishing a beachhead near Agat, on Guam, during landing operations to reconquest the...

On the search for hidden Japanese snipers, these U.S. Marines advance through a destroyed village at Garapan, Saipan, in the Mariana Islands, in July...

A wounded German soldier is being towed by his companions on their way to a prisoner of war camp, in Cherbourg, France, in July 1944. (AP Photo/Horace...

A young German soldier has his hands clasped behind his head as he is taken prisoner with thousands of other Wehrmacht soldiers, at St.George d'Elle,...

Brazilian expeditionary forces participating in the Allied campaign in Italy are seen as they march through the harbor of Naples, in July 1944. Seen i...

Surrounded by personal belongings and the household goods they could salvage as they fled their homes, these French civilians are gathered at their re...

Canadian soldiers examine a captured German 20mm antiaircraft gun on an airfield in Carpiquet, France, in July 1944. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marines disembark from landing craft as they reach the shore at Agat, on Guam, in July 1944, during landing operations to reconquest the Japanese...

A B-17 Flying Fortress remains in formation as smoke trails from its wing that is on fire as its load of bombs drop toward targets in Berlin, Germany,...

Children relax atop a rock and swim in the north end of the Central Park Lake while others enjoy boating in Central Park, New York City, June 29, 1944...

American author Ernest Hemingway, left, who is now an accredited war correspondent to the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, exchanges a few words with h...

Actress Joan Blondell, left, is seen with her younger sister Gloria at the Brown Derby Diner, in Hollywood, Calif., on June 26, 1944. (AP Photo)

Maj. General Joseph Lawton Collins, commander of the 7th U.S. Corps, is flanked by two German Wehrmacht leaders, shortly after they surrendered their...

One of the German V-1 rockets dives down on its deadly mission over an unknown city in southern England, on June 22, 1944. (AP Photo)

Italian partisans armed with rifles force a man to crawl out from behind a steel gate, as they conduct a search for fascists throughout Rome after the...

General Mark Clark, commander of the 5th U.S. Army, stops his jeep to talk to a priest of Saint Peter's Basilica, on June 14, 1944, in Rome, Italy, du...

Coming down Via del Corso, a convoy of the 5th U.S. Army enters Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Italy, on June 12, 1944, during the days of liberation in...

Joyful Roman citizens pole up on an American jeep as they celebrate the entry of the 5th U.S. Army into Rome, Italy, on June 12, 1944. An Italian girl...

U.S. troops and equipment are on the move inland from an established beachhead at Omaha Beach in the Normandy region of France, June 10, 1944. (AP Pho...

Joe Nuxhall, age 15, is shown in a Cincinnati Reds uniform in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 10, 1944, when he entered a game and pitched two-thirds of an...

A long line of German prisoners of war from D-Day invasion on the French beachheads march through a coastal town in England on their way to an internm...

The first group of German prisoners of war disembark the train as they arrive at a POW camp, somewhere in England, on June 8, 1944, following their ca...

Roman citizens gather to watch a convoy of American troops crossing the square in front of the famous Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on June 6, 1944, durin...

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt is seen shortly before adressing the public

U.S. soldiers are seen as they march past the famous Colosseum in Rome, Italy, following the retreating Axis troops, on June 5, 1944, during World War...

U.S. Marines, supported by amphibious tanks, establish a beachhead while under heavy enemy gun fire, during initial landing operations at Saipan, in t...

U.S. Marines walk away from a Japanese foxhole after blowing it up with explosives, during the invasion at Saipan, in the Mariana Islands, in July 194...

U.S. Navy battleships are seen en route to landing operations in the Mariana Islands, in the Central Pacific area, June 1944. (AP Photo)

Marshal Josip Broz Tito, leader of the united Yugoslav Partisan Armed Forces to fight the German invaders and their Croatian Fascist allies, is seen p...

Flak fills the sky as antiaircraft guns of the U.S. Navy task force, covering the amphibious landing operations at Saipan, fight off a Japanese attack...

U.S. Marines move up the beach on Saipan under heavy machine gun fire, during landing operations at the island of the Mariana group, in June 1944. (AP...

As the invasion of the Mariana Islands continues, U.S. Marines are seen on their advance toward Garapan, on Saipan, in June 1944. (AP Photo)

Led by a British soldier, a line of German prisoners of war is marched along a barbed-wire barricaded lane as they arrive at a POW camp somewhere in E...

With smoke trailing from a burning wing, this B-17 Flying Fortress still remains in the flight formation during a U.S. Army Air Forces bombing mission...

Several U.S. landing craft loaded with troops and equipment churn through heavy sea bound for the beaches of Saipan, Mariana Islands, in June 1944. (A...

While the battleships of the U.S. fleet stand in the background, numerous landing crafts filled with war supplies and troops are being unloaded, durin...

U.S. Marines aim their weapons toward the entrance of a Japanese dugout, during the invasion of Bougainville island, in May 1944. (AP Photo)

This sequence of three photographs shows a German Me-109 as it goes down in flames after being hit by a U.S. fighter, over an unknown location, in May...

Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the U.S. 8th Air Force wing over Berlin during a daytime air attack on the German capital on April 29, 1944 in Wor...

Subaltern Mary Churchill, daughter of Britain's Prime Minister WInston Churchill, christens the new Flying Fortress,

Popular performer Red Skelton is doing his

Major James M. Stewart, newly promoted from squadron commander to operations officer of a U.S. Liberator Bomber B-24 squadron, talks over final detail...

"Z" rocket guns at an unknown English city go into action to repel German night attacks, in April 1944. (AP Photo)