EVB2944907: Two women workers standing through the bombardier's hatch at the Vega aircraft plant. Burbank, California, during World War 2, August 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944854: Marine with a flame-thrower, running to assault a Japanese pillbox on Motoyama Airfield Number Two. Iwo Jima. c. Feb. 20-March 16, 1945. 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

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

EVB2944935: Canadian woman munitions worker tightening the nose plugs on 500-pound aerial bombs. 1942-43, during World War 2 / 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

EVB2944462: Doolittle Raid, April 18, 1942. An Army B-25 bomber takes off from the USS HORNET in first U.S. air raid on Japan lead by General James Doolittle during World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944534: Aircraft spotter searches the sky with binoculars during the Battle of Britain. St. Paul's Cathedral is in the background. World War 2, c. 1940-41 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944564: General Georg Patton's pet bull terrier 'Willie', lying beside his dead master's trunks. Patton was fatally injured in an auto accident on Dec. 8, 1945 and died on Dec. 21, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944567: Red Army machine gun crew. c. 1941-1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944547: World War 2, Battle of Britain. Young boys with pitchforks and rakes start a garden next to buildings damaged by air raids. Between 1940-1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944627: U.S. Marine 'Raiders' and their dogs, heading for the front lines on Bougainville. The dogs were used for scouting and running messages during operations against the Japanese. Nov-Dec. 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944559: General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces during World War 2, 1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944675: Marines use ox carts to transport supplies to the front lines on Saipan. They are part of Operation Forager, which took the Mariana Islands from the Japanese to establish air bases for long range bombers. c. June 1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944464: Battle of Midway, June 4-6, 1942. U.S. Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bomber from the USS Hornet continues the attack on the burning Japanese cruiser Mikuma, June 6, 1942. The World War 2 battle stopped the Japanese Pacific expansion and sank four Japanese aircraft carriers / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944643: World War 2 German prisoners paraded through Moscow in 1944. Near the People's Commissariat of Communications, Soviet workers watch and jeer German generals and soldiers taken prisoners on the Byelorussian front in 1944 / 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

EVB2944667: Burial at sea for 2 of the 644 sailors killed in the sinking of USS Liscome Bay, Nov. 24, 1943. The aircraft carrier was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Gilbert Islands. In the foreground are some of the 272 survivors of the Liscome Bay / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944560: Gen. George Marshall and Army-Air Force Gen. Hap Arnold during World War 2. Chief of Staff Marshall was a mentor and friend to Arnold, and a promoter of the Air Force's growth and independence during the war. c. 1942-45 / Bridgeman Images

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

EVB2944761: Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte Island, Philippines. Oct. 20, 1944 / 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

EVB2944767: General Dwight Eisenhower, plays golf at St. Andrews Course, Scotland, Oct. 9, 1946. He plays a chip shot at the 16th green / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944794: 'Murderers Row', U.S. Air Craft Carriers at Ulithi Atoll, Dec. 1944. Foreground to background: USS Wasp, USS Yorktown USS Hornet, USS Hancock, USS Ticonderoga, USS Lexington. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944816: Douglas Dauntless dive bomber balanced on nose after crash landing on carrier flight deck. June 21, 1943. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944853: Marine flame-throwing tank and Marine snipers, during the battle of Iwo Jima. c. Feb. 20-March 16, 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944873: USS Bunker Hill aircraft carrier was hit by two Kamikazes in 30 seconds, May 11, 1945. 352 were killed the attack and fires that followed. Battle of Okinawa, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944827: Surrounded by F6F Hellcat fighters, seamen prepare bombs on hangar deck of USS Yorktown. c. 1943. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / 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

EVB2944890: Aviator Jacqueline Cochran with Capt. Norman Edgar, from the British Transport Auxiliary Service. Cochran, an accomplished flier, was organizing licensed American woman pilots into the U.S. Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, 1942. The service was reorganized into Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) in 1943. 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

EVB2945014: Soldiers on leave with young women in a crowded soda fountain. In Minnesota, during World War 2. c. 1942-45 / 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

EVB2944950: African American actress Lena Horne at a gas stove. She was promoted fuel conservation during World War 2, c. 1942-45 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944959: 70 MPH speed limit sign on the empty Pennsylvania Turnpike during World War 2. Before the war, the Turnpike has no speed limits. Sept. 1942 / Bridgeman Images