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Women represented approximately one third of the workers at Ford Motor Company's Willow Run plant during World War II. Women did everything from clerical work in the offices to riveting and welding on the assembly line. Labor shortages made women…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Ford Motor Company's Willow Run bomber plant on September 18, 1942. The Roosevelts, accompanied by Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and Charles Sorensen -- the production manager behind…

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

Japanese people finding time for extracurricular entertainment at the internment camps following Pearl Harbor.

The USS Utah is depicted as it's wreckage has come ashore in the hours following the bombings of Pearl Harbor. A desolate tone is set by the overturned vessel.

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.…