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Soldiers guard some of the thousands of planes employed in strategic bombing campaigns across Europe. Pictured are two Boeing B-17 heavy bombers.

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Equipment is massed at bases in England as the Allies prepare to launch their all-out assault on the shores of France: D-Day.

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A United States GI stands with his head out of the commanders hatch on a captured Tiger Tank as American troops finally turned the tide on the Germans late in the Tunisia campaign.

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Polish POWs are marched through Warsaw following the defeat of the greatly outnumbered and outgunned Polish Army in 1939.

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In a famous photograph, marines charge headlong into the frigid Atlantic ocean as their landing craft come to a half in the shallow water before the entrenched German army on D-Day, June 6th 1944.

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An Army jeep carrying several American regulars stops in front of the Eiffel Tower after Paris is liberated in August 1944.

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A map details the massive Soviet push to retake ground lost to the German Wehrmacht in an operation known as Bagration.

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The big three and their respective chiefs of staff meet at the negotiating table.

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Soviet troops duck for cover in the ruins of buildings in the once great city of Stalingrad. Over 1.8 million men would be killed in the bloodiest battle in the history of the human race.

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German troops cross a road past knocked out trucks and a light artillery piece as they launch a massive counterattack in the weak Ardennes region during what became known as The Battle of the Bulge. This was the last German counter-offensive during the course of the war.

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