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Galleries tagged: World War II

Farewell to departing troops at New York's Penn Station, April 1943.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

'40s

True Romance: The Heartache of Wartime Farewells, 1943

United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima, 1945.

Behind the Picture

'40s

LIFE Behind the Picture: Marines Blasting a Cave, Iwo …

American combat engineers eat a meal atop boxes of ammunition stockpiled for the impending D-Day invasion, May 1944.

Frank Scherschel

'40s

Before and After D-Day: LIFE in England and France, 1944

1937 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany.

History

'30s

A Brutal Pageantry: The Third Reich’s Myth-Making …

Gruesome severed head of a Japanese soldier propped up below gun turret of a disabled Japanese tank.

Behind the Picture

'40s

LIFE Behind the Picture: ‘Skull on a Tank,’ …

POLAND. 1948. Teresa, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of 'home' on the blackboard.

History

'40s

Picturing Misery: David Seymour’s ‘Children …

Thomas D. McAvoy—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

History

'40s

Stalingrad, 1947: A World in Pieces

Londoners sleep in the city's Underground for protection during German bombing raids, 1941.

Hans Wild

'40s

Down, Not Out, in London: LIFE in the Underground, 1940

William Seabrook demonstrates the proper tom-tom rhythm for a legitimate hex, while Florence Birdseye -- of the Birdseye frozen-food family -- keeps the beat on the right.

Curiosities

'40s

Putting a Hex on Hitler: LIFE Goes to a ‘Black …

A "Free French" soldier races to aid a Resistance fighter firing at a German sniper on Aug. 25, 1944.

Great Places

'40s

LIFE at the Liberation of Paris: A Photographer’s Story

German POWs, Battle of the Bulge, January 1945.

History

'40s

LIFE at the Battle of the Bulge: Photos From …

Scene from a Christmas party in Munich thrown by Adolf Hitler for his generals, 1941.

History

'40s

Inside a Nazi Christmas Party, 1941

Training with gas masks in Hawaii, early 1942.

History

'40s

After Pearl Harbor: LIFE in the Pacific and on the Home Front

George Lott, 22, wounded in both arms by German mortar fire, suffers as doctors mold a plaster cast to his body, 1944.

Behind the Picture

'40s

LIFE Behind the Picture: George Lott, Casualty of War

Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Dmitri Kessel

'40s

LIFE in the Aleutians: Photos From WWII’s …

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