EVB2944650: U.S. Army troops look at the ruins of a Japanese seaplane in the lagoon near Makin Island, Tarawa Atoll. The Japanese used it as a machine gun nest. Nov. 19-23, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944673: Army reinforcements wade ashore on Saipan without enemy opposition. They will relieve Marines in the battle of attrition raging in the island's interior. The ships of Task Force 58 are behind them in the Pacific ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944680: Marine patrol on Saipan found a Japanese family sheltering in a hillside cave, June 21,1944. 1,000 of the 25,000 civilians on Saipan committed suicide in the last days of the battle / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944731: British soldier in the Western showers in a mobile bath unit. The mobile unit carried its own water supply as it traveled to soldiers locations in the Libyan desert during World War 2. c. 1940-42 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944734: Libyan Arab assistant in the Royal Air Force carries ammunition for a 'Kittyhawk' fighter. c. 1940-42, during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944737: American Air Transport Command plane flies over the pyramids of Egypt. Flights from the U.S. supplied strategic battle zones of North Africa during World War 2. 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944773: H.M.S. Ark Royal was hit by torpedoes from German submarine, U-81. She was ferrying supplies to Malta in the Mediterranean when attacked on November 13, 1941. After 14 hours the listing aircraft carrier sunk. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944785: USS Franklin aircraft carrier on fire and listing after a strike by a Japanese dive bomber. USS Santa Fe (at left) assists the crippled carrier, that suffered 800 crewmen killed. March 19, 1945. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944797: Marines crossing the beach and on the initial landing Ngedbus Island, just north of Peleliu. c. Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 1944. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944803: U.S. airplane drop bombs on the enemy area in the hills of Peleliu Island. Sept.-Nov. 1944. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944806: A wounded U.S. Marine takes is given water while waiting for stretcher-bearers to come for him. Peleliu Island. Sept.-Nov. 1944. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944836: Lt. General Holland Smith, Commander of the Invasion, and Col. Dudley Brown on Iwo Jima. They had not planned for the soft volcanic sands of the beach to trap Marine vehicles for easy destruction by Japanese guns. c. Feb. 19-March 16, 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944839: Marines moving near Iwo Jima's airport on Feb. 22, 1945. They are with the 5th Division, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines. Photo taken between air strip #2 and purple beach. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944866: U.S. Marine firing a bazooka at Japanese held ridge on Okinawa, May 4, 1945. The action took place two miles north of Naha, the capital of Okinawa. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944879: U.S. Marine observation plane flies low over Naha, capital of Okinawa, May 1945. The small plane drew small arms and anti-aircraft fire from the city which was in Japanese control at the time. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944888: American Women's Voluntary Services, posed on steps, wearing various AWVS uniforms, 1942. AWVS was founded in January 1940 by Alice Throckmorton McLean and other wealthy internationalist women in New York City. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944649: U.S. Army assault wave on Yellow Beach Two, Makin Island of the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Green troops were under Japanese machine gun fire as they advanced in the coral bottom waters. Nov. 20, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944666: USS Lexington's command center while in Japanese waters in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. Dec. 1943. Photo by Edward Steichen, Steichen, Edward (1879-1973) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944669: U.S. amphibious invasion of Tinian Island in the Marianas, July 1944. Marines wade ashore on the Japanese held island. The ships of Task Force 58 are in the Pacific ocean behind them / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944682: Fire and destruction after a mid-day Japanese air raid on U.S. Army Air Force base at Saipan Island. The first U.S. bombing raid on Japan's home islands flew from the Marianas on Nov. 24, 1944. This attack followed a few days later / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944736: South African Women's Auxiliary Services sergeant is fitted with a gas mask. Unknown location during World War 2. April 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944742: Royal Army Medical Corps ambulance convoy under attack in the Western Desert, Egypt. Two soldiers assist a wounded driver who escaped his blazing vehicle. c. 1940-42 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944755: U.S. Military leaders meet with Secretary of War Woodring, Dec. 1, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944781: Marine riflemen moving up behind flame-throwing tank on Okinawa. c. May 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944790: Coast Guardsmen gather as mail call takes place aboard a troop transport, c. 1945. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944846: U.S. Marine artillery shells Japanese positions concealed back from the beaches of Iwo Jima. Between Feb. 23 and March 26, 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944859: Armored amphibious tractors in the first waves of the Marine invasion of Okinawa. April 1, 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944868: Marine Pfc. Paul E. Ison runs through Japanese machine gun fire on Okinawa, May 10, 1945. He was the first of his unit to cross 'Death Valley' when the 29 year old father of four was photographed by Pvt. Bob Bailey. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944871: Japanese bomber explodes after direct hit by 5 inch shell from USS Yorktown, Dec. 4, 1943. Off Kwajalein Atoll. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944910: Woman war workers assembling oxygen masks at American Anode Company, in Akron, Ohio. During World War 2, c. 1942-45 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944942: African American woman working on the Liberty Ship, SS George Washington Carver. Eastine Cowner, works as a scaler at the Kaiser shipyards, Richmond, California. May 7, 1943, during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944957: 'How many points will it take?', a shopper asks before she buys food during World War 2. The government issued ration book discouraged use of commodities needed for the War effort. March 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944960: A bombed out London women carrying a few belongings talks with an Air Raids Precautions worker. 1940 during the Battle of Britain in World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944987: German production minister, Albert Speer, addressed workers at a German munitions factory. Speer thanked the men and women for their speedy return to production after the factory was damaged by a bombing raid. 1944. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945002: United we are strong, United we can win, 1943 (poster), Koerner, Henry (1915-91) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945016: Two German women pushing their belongs in a cart past demolished buildings, Aachen, Germany. The battle of Aachen took place from October 2-21, 1944 and was the first major city occupied by Allies in World War 2 / Bridgeman Images