EVB2945253: Long lines of C-47 transports loaded with paratroopers at an English airfield, Sept. 17, 1944. Operation Market Garden would drop 34,600 airborne troops near key bridges in the Netherlands. A BRIDGE TO FAR, was a 1977 film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1974 book about the disastrous battle. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945553: German nationals leave Polish territory, supposedly fleeing persecution at hands of the Poles. Women and children pass through the German border fence, not far from Danzig. August 23, 1939. German propaganda was creating a crisis to justify their upcoming Sept. 1, 1939 invasion of Poland / Bridgeman Images