EVB2944561: General George Patton talking with Col. Lyle Bernard, near Brolo, Italy, August 1943. On August 11, 1943, Lt. Col. Bernard led an amphibious assault on German forces near Brolo, Sicily. This photo was likely taken a day or two afterwards as Patton resumed his drive for Messina / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944562: Gen. George Patton, pins the Silver Star on Private Ernest A. Jenkins. African American Jenkins of NYC was honored for 'his conspicuous gallantry' in the liberation of Chareaudeau, France, Oct. 13, 1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944578: Soviet Ace pilot Boris Safonov, next to his I-16 airplane. Words on the aircraft read 'For Stalin'. Lt. Colonel Safonov shot down 24 German aircraft before he was killed in action off Murmansk on May 30, 1942. 1941 photo by Evgenii Khaldei / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944580: Allied Generals, Bernard Montgomery, Dwight Eisenhower, and Georgii Zhukov share a Victory toast. 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944588: German Admiral Erich Raeder visiting the crew of the battle cruiser SCHARNHORST. April 1942, after their escape from Brest through the English Channel / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944603: Earl Father (Fatha) Hines, with Pvt. Charles Carpenter, former manager of the Hines orchestra. Camp Lee, Virginia, during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944609: Marva Louis, wife of boxer Joe Louis, entertains African American regiments during World War 2. U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, c. 1943. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944645: Dead Japanese soldiers and their destroyed landing boat on the beach of Buna Mission. New Guinea. March 1943 / 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

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

EVB2944657: Navy pilots celebrate on the USS LEXINGTON, after shooting down 17 Japanese planes during Battle of Tarawa. Nov. 20-23, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944660: U.S. Marines in the sand shoot across No Man's Land with rifle fire. American fighter flies overhead to strafe the Japanese hidden in their coral trenches. Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, February 1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944663: U.S. Marines use flame throwers against a Japanese block house on Kwajalein Island, Feb. 4, 1944. Any enemy soldiers who emerged, faced Marine rifles / 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

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

EVB2944674: Dead Japanese soldier in Tanapag Harbor on Saipan. He was among a group attempting to escape the island by boat. July 5, 1944 / 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

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

EVB2944688: Japanese plane shot down during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19-21, 1944. As U.S. naval forces supported the Mariana invasions, a Japanese fleet attacked. U.S. planes dominated the battle, sinking three Japanese carriers and downing 90% of the enemy planes, in what was named, 'The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot' / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944690: World War 2 armistice celebrations in Lovech, Bulgaria, Sept. 1944. Young man in front and the crowd make the clenched fist, an anti-fascist salute. Signs in background display slogans of 'Death to Fascism' and 'Long live the leader'. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei, Khaldei, Yevgeny (1917-1997) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944691: World War 2 anti-tank barriers along the river in Budapest. Retreating Germans and Hungarian forces destroyed the Chain Bridge as Soviet forces took the city. Feb. 1944 photo by Yevgeny Khaldei, Khaldei, Yevgeny (1917-1997) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945002: United we are strong, United we can win, 1943 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945008: 'Back Them Up!', 1940 (poster) / 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

EVB2945027: German displaced persons wait in Berlin's Anhalter Station in 1945. Refugees are carrying their few belongings, as the stand behind a rope and double strand of barbed wire. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945046: First African American Marines decorated by the Second Marine Division in the Pacific, 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945050: Sgt. Franklin Williams, on leave from army duty, with his best girl Ellen Hardin, splitting a soda. May 1942, during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945053: Marine on the stretcher at a dressing station on Tarawa smokes as he is attended by medics. He has a wounded arm and leg. Nov. 20-23, 1943 during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945059: American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown hit by a Japanese bomb in the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942. A torpedo attack later that day crippled the ship, which sunk on June 7. World War 2 combat against Japanese / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944930: Muscular woman lathe operator machining aircraft parts during World War 2. Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas. Oct. 1942 / 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

EVB2944988: North American Aviation employees go to work in Inglewood, California, during World War 2. Employees must display their badges and identification cards before admittance. c. 1941-45 / Bridgeman Images