EVB2944563: General George Patton receives the crowd's cheers in Los Angeles, June 9, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944566: Admiral Ernest King in full naval uniform, against a backdrop of the fleet. 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944579: Admiral Nikolaji Kuznetsov served as People's Commissar of the Navy during World War 2. The main role of Soviet navy was the protection of the Caucasus with Black Sea operations. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944599: Lt. Robert Taylor, USNR, standing beside a Navy trainer at a West Coast Naval Air Station, 1944. He was a flying instructor in Naval Air Corps, performed in instructional films, and narrated the documentary 'The Fighting Lady' / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944616: A Japanese bomb explodes on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, Aug. 24, 1942. Engaged in the 'Battle of the Eastern Solomon Islands', aircraft carrier guarded seaborne communication lines in support of the U.S. invasion of Guadalcanal. Enterprise returned to Pearl Harbor for repairs and was back in action in Oct. 1942. 77 crew were killed in the action, including the photographer of this picture / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944651: U.S. Marines take cover from Japanese fire behind a sea wall on Red Beach #3, Tarawa Island. Nov. 20, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944723: Dead Italian troops were transporting ammunition when struck by British artillery. Near Derna, Cyrenaica, during World War 2, c. 1940-42 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944738: British Army moves to forward areas around El Alamein and El Darba. Egyptian villagers watching a large British convoy of military trucks traveling along the road to the Western Desert during World War 2. c. 1940-42 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944768: General Dwight Eisenhower talks with African American Private Edward Clay. Clay is stationed at a gas dump on the Western Front. The sign in background, 'Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven', indicates the location is the coastal town in northwest Germany. c. 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944798: Marines fight from the shelter of an amphibious tractor on the beach at Peleliu, Sept. 14, 1944. Riflemen atop the vehicle fire at Japanese while their comrades get a breather. The AMTRAC is named 'The Bloody Trail'. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944810: U.S. Sixth Army soldiers lie low on Leyte Island's beach, but they met little Japanese opposition. Landing barges are in the distance. Oct. 20, 1944. Philippines, Pacific Ocean, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944775: Marine Maj. Gen. Lemuel Shepherd, commander of the 6th Marine Division on Okinawa. In the distance is the captured capital of Naha. June 10, 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944799: A Marine runs across the beach on Peleliu Island, Sept. 1944. He is a World War 2 'radio man', with a walkie talkie strapped to his back and a radio phone in his right hand. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944808: Marines smoke cigarettes, but keep their weapons close in a blasted landscape of Peleliu Island. Sept. 1944. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944814: Army nurse checks a soldier's glucose drip in the 36th Evacuation Hospital, Leyte, Philippines. The hospital is in the Church of the Transfiguration, and the Filipino congregation attends Christmas Eve services. December 24, 1944. Palo, Philippines, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944838: USS Randolph aircraft carrier after a strike by a Japanese Kamikaze suicide plane. The flight deck and hanger were damaged while she was anchored at Ulithi Atoll. March 11, 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944891: Nancy Harkness Love, wearing the uniform of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. She is standing on a airplane wing with her parachute harness slung over her shoulder. Sept. 16, 1942. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944908: Two women workers in a cramped aircraft space at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. During World War 2, c. 1942-45 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944917: African American woman lathe operator at a Midwest supercharger plant. In the background are white workers in the racially integrated workforce during World War 2. c. 1942-45 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944933: Woman electric wiring technician at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California. During World War 2, Oct. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944936: Women war workers wear oxygen masks while cleaning at U.S. Steel Works in Gary, Indiana. c. 1942-45, during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944958: Gasoline ration card B2 for American workers who needed extra gasoline during World War 2. There were A, B1, B2, and B3 cards issued by rationing authorities from 1942-1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944964: British women working on the sugar beet crops that, produced a large part of the sugar ration. During World War 2 Britain's farms were organized into field areas, and worked by 50,000 farmers. March 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944967: Youngsters hiring out their express wagons to haul groceries in suburban Greenbelt, Maryland. World War 2 tire and gasoline rationing created this business opportunity. Nov. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944985: Air raid drill in Washington, D.C. during World War 2. Civil Defense volunteers train in treating the injured. c. 1941-45 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945064: Wounded U.S. soldier's homecoming in New York City at the end of World War 2. He was wounded in Normandy and greeted by his baby sister, mother and wife. Aug. 1, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945077: Japanese soldier sits dejectedly in a prisoner of war enclosure on Okinawa. June 1945, during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945089: 10,000 German prisoners of war line up for lunch at an enclosure in France. The POWs were captured in the 1944 Allied drive through France, during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945121: U.S. Army assault wave on Yellow Beach Two, Makin Island of the Tarawa Atoll. Green troops were under Japanese machine gun eight hundred yards away. Nov. 20, 1943, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945199: U.S. tank advancing through the ruins of Saint Lo, July 19, 1944. The Norman town was a hub of main roads that lead in every direction on the Lower Normandy peninsula. France, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945202: U.S. field hospital in Saint Hilaire Petitville east of Carentan, Normandy. It opened on July 31, 1944. Normandy Campaign, France, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945208: Two U.S. soldiers observe smoke from the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. They were on a reconnaissance patrol, behind the Castle of Bourg St. Leonard. Location is on the southwest edge of the pocket encircling 150,000 German soldiers. August 12-20, 1944, Normandy, France, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945220: Eight dead U.S. paratroopers lie beside their destroyed Horsa glider in a Normandy pasture. They were among the 22,000 Allied Airborne soldiers that jumped behind the Normandy beaches to disrupt German counter attacks to D-Day invasions. June 6, 1944, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2945248: American gunners load a shell into the barrel of a gun M1 155mm 'Long Tom' in France. June-Sept., 1944. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939763: The Great Ziggurat of Ur was built by the Neo-Sumerians built under King Nabonidus 556-539 BC on the rubble of an older Sumerian structure constructed by Sumerian King Ur-Nammu ca 2100 BC. In the foreground are ancient burial grounds. May 18 2010 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939781: Newly commissioned officers toss their hats into the air at their 2006 graduation and commissioning ceremony. US Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. May 26 2006 / Bridgeman Images