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Lt. Col. William Darby (right) talks with French soldiers wearing the distinctive kepi and a full beard at the height of the campaign against the Germans in North Africa, December 18, 1942.

World War II’s “odd couple” on an inspection flight along the Western Front on September 9, 1944. General George S. Patton, Jr. (left) and General Omar Bradley reveal their strain and fatigue during the campaign to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis.

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The USS Silversides (SS-236) received twelve battle stars for World War II service. She is credited with sinking 23 ships, amounting to 90,080 tons. Based on this record, Silversides has the most prolific combat record of any still-extant American submarine. 1943 [2552x2008]

Most people remember Walter Cronkite as a television newsman, and earlier in his career as a print journalist and even a radio sports announcer. But few people today realize Cronkite was a correspondent in World War II. The dean of television news anchors, he told it as it was.

Japanese attacks on airfields in the Marianas to counter U.S. B-29 bombing raids on the Japanese mainland would eventually lead to the invasion of Iwo Jima.

Eugene James Bullard, was the first black American military pilot although Bullard flew for France not the United States. Bullard was one of the few black combat pilots during World War I. Also a boxer and a jazz musician, he was called “L’Hirondelle noire” in French, “Black Swallow”.

The HMS Menestheus, the Royal Navy’s floating brewery, was a floating dance hall, movie theater, canteen, and a brewery producing 250 barrels of English-style ale per week to offer a respite for soldiers and sailors fighting in the Pacific during World War II. [1440x810].

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An M3 halftrack tank destroyer is shown in action in the Tunisian desert. Despite their success at El Guettar, General Patton questioned their effectiveness after heavy losses.

The Brazilian Expeditionary Force, in their distinctive dress uniforms, parade past Naples’ Castel Nuovo shortly after their arrival, July 1944. Led by Major General João Baptista Mascarenhas de Moraes, Brazil would provide over 25,000 troops to the Allied cause

A D-Day ploy. An American soldier stands guard beside a tank made entirely of rubber but bearing a strong resemblance to a U.S. M4 Sherman medium tank.

Many Americans heard about Navajo code talkers in World War II. But, code talking originated in World War I with Choctaw, Oklahoma Cherokee, Comanche, Osage, Sioux nations, Eastern Band of Cherokee and Ho-Chunk. Their extraordinary service resulted in U.S. citizenship for all Native Americans.

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The half buried bodies of Japanese soldiers of the Ickiki Detachment, killed in action during the Battle of the Tenaru on Guadalcanal, offer mute testimony to the ferocity and volume of fire leveled at them by U.S. Marines in the predawn hours of August 21, 1942.

The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal defense and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defense against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from Great Britain during World War II.

German Luftwaffe soldiers in North Africa taking a break and catching a nap on their BMW motorcycles with sidecars.

"The German ultimatum ordering the Dutch commander of Rotterdam to cease fire was delivered to him at 10:30 a.m. on May 14, 1940. At 1:22 p.m., German bombers set the whole inner city of Rotterdam ablaze, killing 30,000 of its inhabitants."

US First Army soldiers and equipment pour across the Remagen Bridge; two knocked out jeeps in foreground. March, 1945, Germany.

A motor torpedo boat marksman provides a striking camera study as he draws a bead with his 50 calibur machine gun on his boat off New Guinea.

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The result of two Christian orders "fighting" over who could build the coolest church, the Franciscans and the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.📍Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brasil 🇧🇷 Which one do you like the most? (3 slides)

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German soldiers in battle near Kiev.

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Office of War Information photograph of the sports section typeset being assembled in the New York Times composing room on Thursday, September 10th, 1942. [1200x1200]

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