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One sepia-toned reproduction photograph of Henry Ford touring the Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti, Michigan, on July 24, 1943. The four persons at the center include (left to right): Major James Kendrick, escort to Henry Ford; Henry Ford; Mead L.…

Black and white photographic print depicting Consolidated B-24 Liberators being constructed at Willow Run.

Refugees from Nazi Germany on board the St. Louis en route to Cuba. The passengers were denied entry into Cuba and the US and were forced to return to Europe.

Narrates the training and eventual combat of the first Black Fighter squadron in World War II.

Photograph shows a convoy of Russian tanks that have rumbled into Romania during the occupation of Bessarabia.

A Soviet soldier walks through a mound of victims' shoes piled outside a warehouse in Majdanek soon after the liberation. Majdanek, Poland

Jewish parachutist Hannah Szenes with her brother, before leaving for a rescue mission.

Between 1943 and 1945, a group of Jewish men and women from Palestine who had volunteered to join the British army parachuted into German-occupied Europe.…

"Sgt. Edward Hill, Manchester, England, captured five years ago at Dunkerque was freed when American Seventh Armored Division, First Army captured Dulag-Luft POW Camp"

View of General William S. Knudsen, Charles E. Sorensen and Edsel Ford posing with group of men in front of military plane at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Handwritten on back: "Knudsen, William S. (6th from left), Edsel Ford (8th from…

Japanese prisoner of war listening to Emperor Showa's surrender announcement, Guam, 15 Aug 1945