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WWII

A collection of the historical photos of WWII

World War II, alternately known as the Second World War, began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and ended on September 2, 1945 with the formal surrender of Japan. World War II involved countries from all over the w ... Show More

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BRITISH MARINES AFRICA LANDING
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BRITISH MARINES AFRICA LANDING
Down the ramps, through the surf and up the beach dash Royal British Marines from a U.S. Coast Guard-manned landing craft during final amphibious assault maneuvers on the coast of North Africa in 1944. (AP Photo)

Date : January 01, 1944 03:00:00 AM

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WWII ATOMIC BOMB NAGASAKI
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WWII ATOMIC BOMB NAGASAKI
A giant column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air, after the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare explodes over the Japanese port town of Nagasaki, on August 9, 1945. Dropped by the U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 plane "Bockscar," the bomb killed more than 70,000 people instantly, with ten thousands dying later from effects of the radioactive fallout. (AP Photo)

Date : August 09, 1945 04:00:00 AM

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WWII Poland Children 1940
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WWII Poland Children 1940
These are the faces of children living in the Polish ghetto of Szydlowiec under Nazi occupation, Dec. 20, 1940. (AP Photo/Al Steinkopf)

Date : December 20, 1940 03:00:00 AM

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Nazi Invasion Of Austria
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Nazi Invasion Of Austria
Heinrich Himmler, left, chief of the German secret police, and his aide, Reinhard Heydrich are seen leaving a hotel in Vienna, March 21, 1938. He was among a number of important German leaders who went to Austria with Hitler to help bring the country swiftly under Nazi control. (AP Photo)

Date : March 21, 1938 03:00:00 AM

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WWII West Indies Bahamas U.S. Forces
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WWII West Indies Bahamas U.S. Forces
The crash boat at a United States naval air station in the Bahamas, (Great Exuma Island), makes a practice run in training for the time when one of the big flying boats operating out of the base may get into difficulty. Aviation Machinist’s Mate First Class John R. Gelsinger of Chambersburg, Pa., signals from the tail structure of a plane in Bahamas Oct. 28, 1943. (AP Photo/Shugars )

Date : October 28, 1943 12:00:00 AM

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WWII IWO JIMA JAPANESE POW
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WWII IWO JIMA JAPANESE POW
U.S. Marines offer a Japanese prisoner of war, whose face is obliterated by censors, a cigarette after he is captured during American invasion of Iwo Jima, Japanese Volcano Island stronghold, on Feb. 28, 1945 in World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)

Date : February 28, 1945 03:00:00 AM

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WWII NAZI OCCUPATION POLAND
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WWII NAZI OCCUPATION POLAND
Bystanders render the Nazi salute as German cavalry troops on horseback enter Lodz, Poland, Sept. 9, 1939 . (AP Photo)

Date : September 09, 1939 04:00:00 AM

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WWII Nazi Occupation Of Poland
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WWII Nazi Occupation Of Poland
German infantry parade in front of Hitler, seen giving the Nazi salute at bottom right hand corner, at Warsaw, Oct. 5, 1939 when the fuehrer paid his first visit to the Polish capital since the outbreak of war. (AP Photo)

Date : October 05, 1939 04:00:00 AM

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WWII ARK ROYAL TORPEDO ATTACK
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WWII ARK ROYAL TORPEDO ATTACK
British aircarft carrier HMS Ark Royal is listing heavily to starboard, after a torpedo hit from a German submarine, East of Gibraltar, on November 14, 1941. The 22,000-ton escort carrier capsized and sank later the same day. (AP Photo)

Date : November 14, 1941 03:00:00 AM

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WWII England Coventry Cathedral
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WWII England Coventry Cathedral
All that now remains of the beautiful cathedral, following the large-scale Nazi raid on the midland city in Coventry, England, Dec. 9, 1940. Just the walls remain of the body of the nearly 500 years' old building. (AP Photo)

Date : February 09, 1940 12:00:00 AM

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WWII West Indies Bahamas U.S. Forces
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WWII West Indies Bahamas U.S. Forces
Twice a week a flying boat operated by the Naval Air Transport service alights to bring mail and an occasional visitor to an isolated Naval Air Base in the Bahamas (Great Exuma Island). A crash boat from the station goes out to the plane to land the mail and visitors. Here a sailor dressed up in his whites in Bahamas Oct. 28, 1943 waits anxiously to learn whether there is room aboard the plane for him to fly to the United States for a furlough. (AP Photo/Shugars )

Date : October 28, 1943 12:00:00 AM

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NAGASAKI SHELTERS 1945
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NAGASAKI SHELTERS 1945
Some of the tunnel shelters very close to ground zero in Nagasaki are shown. The few people who were able to get to the shelters survived the atomic blast and thermonuclear radiation. (AP Photo)

Date : August 01, 1945 04:00:00 AM

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NAGASAKI DEVASTATION 1945
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NAGASAKI DEVASTATION 1945
Survivors of the atomic bomb attack of Nagasaki walk through the destruction as fire rages in the background, Aug. 9, 1945. (AP Photo)

Date : August 09, 1945 04:00:00 AM

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NAGASAKI DEVASTATION 1945
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NAGASAKI DEVASTATION 1945
A Japanese family eats rice in the crude shack they built from the wreckage left on the spot where their home once stood in Nagasaki, Sept. 14, 1945. (AP Photo)

Date : September 14, 1945 04:00:00 AM

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NAGASAKI MITSUBISHI FACTORY
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NAGASAKI MITSUBISHI FACTORY
All that is left of the Mitsubishi weapons factory is a sagging, skeletal hulk, seen Sept. 14, 1945, over a month after atomic attack of August 9. The bomb flattened 18,000 buildings and killed over 26,000 people. (AP Photo)

Date : September 14, 1945 04:00:00 AM

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WWII NAGASAKI A BOMB AFTERMATH
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WWII NAGASAKI A BOMB AFTERMATH
This aerial view shows the extensive damage caused by the atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Nagasaki, Japan, Sept. 6, 1945 in World War II. About one-third of the Japanese city was destroyed when the atomic bomb was dropped on Aug. 9. (AP Photo)

Date : September 06, 1945 04:00:00 AM

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WWII West Indies Bahamas U.S. Forces
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WWII West Indies Bahamas U.S. Forces
Raymond Perry, Aviation machinist’s mate, first class, of Wilsondale, W.Va. scratches the back of Mike, a macaw, which he picked up at the Naval Air Station on a lonely Bahamas island Oct. 29, 1943. The United States bars the entrance of macaws into the country so Mike is Perry’s pet for the duration. The station is one of the bases we got from England in a swap for destroyers. (AP Photo)

Date : October 29, 1943 12:00:00 AM

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Historic Meeting At Berchtesgaden
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Historic Meeting At Berchtesgaden
This is the scene during a tense meeting in Berchtesgaden, Germany, of Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, left, and Reich Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, following Chamberlain's unprecedented flight seeking a solution to the Czechoslovakian controversy, Sept. 24, 1938. At right are Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, and Sir Neville Henderson, British ambassador to Berlin. (AP Photo)

Date : September 24, 1938 04:00:00 AM

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13486 **OLD INDEX NEG E9651** ##IN AP BOOKS "WORLD WAR II" PG. 24-25 & "WAR IN EUROPE" PG.17## PIX INC. OUT

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NAGASAKI DESTRUCTION 1945
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NAGASAKI DESTRUCTION 1945
An entire section of Nagasaki is shown, gutted by one atomic bomb dropped on the city by an American B-29. The remains of a factory can be seen at upper left, Sept. 4, 1945. (AP Photo)

Date : September 04, 1945 04:00:00 AM

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HIROSHIMA DESTRUCTION 1945
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HIROSHIMA DESTRUCTION 1945
The shell of an apartment building 2,600 feet from ground zero in Hiroshima is all that is left following the dropping of the atom bomb on this Japanese city in 1945. (AP Photo)

Date : January 01, 1945 03:00:00 AM

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JAPAN HIROSHIMA JAHRESTAG
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JAPAN HIROSHIMA JAHRESTAG
** FILE ** A huge expanse of ruins left the explosion of the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 in Hiroshima. On Friday, Aug. 6, 2004 it is 59 years ago that 140.000 people died because of the disastrous explosion. (AP Photo)

Date : August 01, 1945 12:00:00 AM

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AUG. 6, 1945 FILE PHOTO

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WWII West Indies Bahamas U.S. Forces
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WWII West Indies Bahamas U.S. Forces
The personnel of a United States Naval Air Station in the Bahamas (Great Exuma Island) lines up for a formal inspection on the ramp where the big flying boats are serviced Oct. 28, 1943. Lieut. Comdr. D.C. Higgins of Los Angeles, the commanding officer, keeps the isolated base in ship shape. (AP Photo/Shugars

Date : October 28, 1943 12:00:00 AM

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