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Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes.

Pvt Theodore James Miller (12 February 1925 – 24 March 1944) from Minnesota returns to attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at 14:00 after…

Pearl Harbor - Approximate position of United States Ships

Photograph of navy map of U.S. naval facility and location of ships just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor naval base and U.S.S. Shaw ablaze after the Japanese attack

The US Naval base in Pearl Harbor and the USS Shaw powerfully ablaze following the Japanese bombings.

Effects of impact and explosions.

- Half-title page: Summary technical report of the National Defense Research Committee.
- "Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were…

“I Was a Nazi, and Here’s Why”

Melita Maschmann, who was at the center of the image and how with time realized what he did was wrong.

What was life like for children in Nazi Germany?

Germans change what children learn, they learn how to be pure and handle weapons, also that being a Nazi is the way.

Burnt leg of a victim of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, 1945.

This image shows burns on the legs of a victim of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Newsmap for the Armed Forces : 1945: Year of Victory - Volume 4, Number 37, 1945.

This is one in a series of issues of "Newsmap" that were published from 1942 to 1946 by the U.S. Army. This issue covers the week of December 4 to…

Waiting For Evacuation

Soldiers of the 16th Infantry Regiment, wounded while storming Omaha Beach, France, wait by the chalk cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for…