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09-03-2007, 02:14 PM
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British soldiers captured by the Germans at Dunkirk, France, in June 1940
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A French man weeps as the Nazis march into Paris, June 14, 1940 - beginning a four year occupation of the 'City of Lights.'
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Adolf Hitler and Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini together in Munich, June 18, 1940.
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Adolf Hitler visits Paris with architect Albert Speer (left) June 23, 1940
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View of Big Ben through barbed wire entanglement.
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At a London railway station, arriving troops pass by children who are being evacuated to the countryside.
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The first mass air raid on London, September 7 , 1940, showing the scene in London's dock area as Tower Bridge stands out against a background of smoke and fires.
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Firefighters at work in a bomb damaged street after a Saturday night raid in 1941.
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The London Necropolis Railway Station, a privately owned station in Westminster Bridge Road, after London's biggest night raid of the war
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A crowded scene in a West End air raid shelter reveals people making the best of the situation including two young men playing the harmonica.
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A double-decker tram silhouetted against the fire storm.
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A stately old building completely wrecked after fire bombs and high explosives rained on the capital for many hours. April, 1941.
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Saint Paul's Cathedral stands gloriously in the distance amid the wreckage caused by the German fire bombing of London. Sunday, December 29, 1940.
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German soldiers battle the Soviets after the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Four men with Einsatzgruppe A execute four Jews in the vicinity of Kovno, Lithuania, as spectators look on. Below -- German soldiers, along with members of the Waffen SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a man with Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling before a mass grave.
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard a warship off the coast of Newfoundland during the Atlantic Conference. The conference took place from August 9-12, 1941, and resulted in the Atlantic Charter, a joint proclamation by the United States and Britain declaring that they were fighting the Axis powers to "ensure life, liberty, independence and religious freedom and to preserve the rights of man and justice."
The Atlantic Charter served as a foundation stone for the later establishment of the United Nations, setting forth several principles for the nations of the world, including -- the renunciation of all aggression, right to self-government, access to raw materials, freedom from want and fear, freedom of the seas, and disarmament of aggressor nations.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Sunday, December 7, 1941
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Aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, crew members cheer departing pilots. Below -- A photo taken from a Japanese plane during the attack shows vulnerable American battleships, and in the distance, smoke rising from Hickam Airfield where 35 men having breakfast in the mess hall were killed after a direct bomb hit.
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The USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese air raid. Below -- The battleship USS Arizona after a bomb penetrated into the forward magazine causing massive explosions and killing 1,104 men. ExtremeBelow -- Dousing the flames on the battleship USS West Virginia, which survived and was rebuilt
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941.
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U.S. Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, Louisiana, fires his machine gun at German fighter planes during a bombing run in 1942
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Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca. Below -- At the conclusion of the conference on January 24, French Gen. Henri Giraud, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill. Roosevelt announced the Allies were now fighting for the "unconditional surrender" of Germany, Italy and Japan, a stand immediately endorsed by Churchill.
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British tanks and crews line up on Tripoli's waterfront after capturing the city.
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An Allied tanker that was torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean by a German submarine crumbles amidship under the heat of fire, then sinks.
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During the invasion of Sicily, an American cargo ship is hit by a bomb from a German plane and its cargo of munitions explodes, off Gela, Sicily. July 1943.
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In Teheran, Iran, the first meeting of the 'Big Three.' From Left - Soviet leader Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Topics during the four day conference included - Confirmation of the decision to invade Western Europe in the Spring of 1944 - Plans for the invasion of Southern France - And a promise by Stalin to join in the war against Japan when Germany was defeated.
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A 240 mm Howitzer of Battery B from the U.S. 697th Field Artillery Battalion prepares to fire into German held territory near Cassino, Italy. January 1944.
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Adolf Hitler, accompanied by other German officials, grimly inspects bomb damage in a German city in 1944.
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General Eisenhower gives the order of the day "Full victory - Nothing else" to paratroopers in England just before they board airplanes in the first D-Day assault.
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American soldiers wading through water into Nazi machine-gun fire on the coast of France.
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American troops invading Normandy.
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A German V-1 bomb in flight about to crash and explode in London
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A group of U.S. infantrymen pose in front of a wrecked German tank while displaying a captured swastika. The infantrymen were left behind to mop-up in Chambois, France, last stronghold of the Nazis in the Falaise Gap area. August 20, 1944
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German POWs are led through the streets of Paris. Below -- De Gaulle leads Paris in a Victory Parade. August 25, 1944.
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U.S. troops cross the Siegfried line and enter into Germany.
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Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroops from the 1st Allied Airborne Army land in Holland during Operation Market-Garden.
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The long, endless procession of German POWs after the fall of Aachen. October, 1944
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, along with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, attend the conference at Yalta. February 1945.
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U.S. 1st Army soldiers and equipment pour across the Remagen bridge into Germany.
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U.S. soldiers cross the Rhine River under heavy German fire
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Hitler's Bunker
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General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German High Command, signs the document of unconditional German surrender at General Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945. On Jodl's left is Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and on his right is Major Wilhelm Oxenius of the German General Staff.
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At Piccadilly Circus in London, a U.S. soldier gives a hug to a motherly looking English woman celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender
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Moments after the atomic bomb was dropped by a U.S. B-29 Superfortress, a cloud forms over the Japanese city of Nagasaki rising over 60,000 feet.
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After the bomb, a Catholic Cathedral on the hill is all that remains.
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At the White House, President Harry Truman announces the Japanese Surrender. August 14, 1945.
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Times Square, New York - Celebrating the Japanese surrender with a kiss, August 1945.
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The former leaders of Hitler's Third Reich on trial in Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg trial was conducted by a joint United States-British-French-Soviet military tribunal, with each nation supplying two judges. The four counts in the indictment were: Count 1 - CONSPIRACY to commit crimes alleged in the next three counts. Count 2 - CRIMES AGAINST PEACE including planning, preparing, starting, or waging aggressive war. Count 3 - WAR CRIMES including violations of laws or customs of war. Count 4 - CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY including murder, extermination, enslavement, persecution on political or racial grounds, involuntary deportment, and inhumane acts against civilian populations.
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British soldiers captured by the Germans at Dunkirk, France, in June 1940
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A French man weeps as the Nazis march into Paris, June 14, 1940 - beginning a four year occupation of the 'City of Lights.'
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Adolf Hitler and Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini together in Munich, June 18, 1940.
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Adolf Hitler visits Paris with architect Albert Speer (left) June 23, 1940
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View of Big Ben through barbed wire entanglement.
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At a London railway station, arriving troops pass by children who are being evacuated to the countryside.
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The first mass air raid on London, September 7 , 1940, showing the scene in London's dock area as Tower Bridge stands out against a background of smoke and fires.
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Firefighters at work in a bomb damaged street after a Saturday night raid in 1941.
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The London Necropolis Railway Station, a privately owned station in Westminster Bridge Road, after London's biggest night raid of the war
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A crowded scene in a West End air raid shelter reveals people making the best of the situation including two young men playing the harmonica.
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A double-decker tram silhouetted against the fire storm.
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A stately old building completely wrecked after fire bombs and high explosives rained on the capital for many hours. April, 1941.
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Saint Paul's Cathedral stands gloriously in the distance amid the wreckage caused by the German fire bombing of London. Sunday, December 29, 1940.
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German soldiers battle the Soviets after the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Four men with Einsatzgruppe A execute four Jews in the vicinity of Kovno, Lithuania, as spectators look on. Below -- German soldiers, along with members of the Waffen SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a man with Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling before a mass grave.
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard a warship off the coast of Newfoundland during the Atlantic Conference. The conference took place from August 9-12, 1941, and resulted in the Atlantic Charter, a joint proclamation by the United States and Britain declaring that they were fighting the Axis powers to "ensure life, liberty, independence and religious freedom and to preserve the rights of man and justice."
The Atlantic Charter served as a foundation stone for the later establishment of the United Nations, setting forth several principles for the nations of the world, including -- the renunciation of all aggression, right to self-government, access to raw materials, freedom from want and fear, freedom of the seas, and disarmament of aggressor nations.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Sunday, December 7, 1941
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Aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, crew members cheer departing pilots. Below -- A photo taken from a Japanese plane during the attack shows vulnerable American battleships, and in the distance, smoke rising from Hickam Airfield where 35 men having breakfast in the mess hall were killed after a direct bomb hit.
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The USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese air raid. Below -- The battleship USS Arizona after a bomb penetrated into the forward magazine causing massive explosions and killing 1,104 men. ExtremeBelow -- Dousing the flames on the battleship USS West Virginia, which survived and was rebuilt
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941.
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U.S. Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, Louisiana, fires his machine gun at German fighter planes during a bombing run in 1942
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Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca. Below -- At the conclusion of the conference on January 24, French Gen. Henri Giraud, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill. Roosevelt announced the Allies were now fighting for the "unconditional surrender" of Germany, Italy and Japan, a stand immediately endorsed by Churchill.
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British tanks and crews line up on Tripoli's waterfront after capturing the city.
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An Allied tanker that was torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean by a German submarine crumbles amidship under the heat of fire, then sinks.
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During the invasion of Sicily, an American cargo ship is hit by a bomb from a German plane and its cargo of munitions explodes, off Gela, Sicily. July 1943.
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In Teheran, Iran, the first meeting of the 'Big Three.' From Left - Soviet leader Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Topics during the four day conference included - Confirmation of the decision to invade Western Europe in the Spring of 1944 - Plans for the invasion of Southern France - And a promise by Stalin to join in the war against Japan when Germany was defeated.
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A 240 mm Howitzer of Battery B from the U.S. 697th Field Artillery Battalion prepares to fire into German held territory near Cassino, Italy. January 1944.
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Adolf Hitler, accompanied by other German officials, grimly inspects bomb damage in a German city in 1944.
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General Eisenhower gives the order of the day "Full victory - Nothing else" to paratroopers in England just before they board airplanes in the first D-Day assault.
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American soldiers wading through water into Nazi machine-gun fire on the coast of France.
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American troops invading Normandy.
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A German V-1 bomb in flight about to crash and explode in London
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A group of U.S. infantrymen pose in front of a wrecked German tank while displaying a captured swastika. The infantrymen were left behind to mop-up in Chambois, France, last stronghold of the Nazis in the Falaise Gap area. August 20, 1944
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German POWs are led through the streets of Paris. Below -- De Gaulle leads Paris in a Victory Parade. August 25, 1944.
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U.S. troops cross the Siegfried line and enter into Germany.
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Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroops from the 1st Allied Airborne Army land in Holland during Operation Market-Garden.
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The long, endless procession of German POWs after the fall of Aachen. October, 1944
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, along with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, attend the conference at Yalta. February 1945.
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U.S. 1st Army soldiers and equipment pour across the Remagen bridge into Germany.
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U.S. soldiers cross the Rhine River under heavy German fire
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Hitler's Bunker
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General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German High Command, signs the document of unconditional German surrender at General Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945. On Jodl's left is Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and on his right is Major Wilhelm Oxenius of the German General Staff.
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At Piccadilly Circus in London, a U.S. soldier gives a hug to a motherly looking English woman celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender
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Moments after the atomic bomb was dropped by a U.S. B-29 Superfortress, a cloud forms over the Japanese city of Nagasaki rising over 60,000 feet.
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After the bomb, a Catholic Cathedral on the hill is all that remains.
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At the White House, President Harry Truman announces the Japanese Surrender. August 14, 1945.
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Times Square, New York - Celebrating the Japanese surrender with a kiss, August 1945.
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The former leaders of Hitler's Third Reich on trial in Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg trial was conducted by a joint United States-British-French-Soviet military tribunal, with each nation supplying two judges. The four counts in the indictment were: Count 1 - CONSPIRACY to commit crimes alleged in the next three counts. Count 2 - CRIMES AGAINST PEACE including planning, preparing, starting, or waging aggressive war. Count 3 - WAR CRIMES including violations of laws or customs of war. Count 4 - CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY including murder, extermination, enslavement, persecution on political or racial grounds, involuntary deportment, and inhumane acts against civilian populations.