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Women welders, Gary, Ind., 1943. history

Real-Life Rosies: Female Factory Workers in World War II

French performers in first organized show for American troops after D-Day, Normandy, July 1944. history

After D-Day: The First Show for U.S. Troops in Normandy

American Gen. Omar Bradley in June 1969, looking out over the area of Omaha Beach where, 25 years earlier, he came ashore the day after the first Allied troops invaded France during Operation Overlord. history

Ghosts of D-Day: Omar Bradley at Omaha Beach, June 1969

U. S. Coast Guardsmen assist a wounded Marine returning from the fight on Iwo Jima, 1945. history

World War II, After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell

history

Meet the Actress Who Set Out to Kiss 10,000 Soldiers to Boost Morale

Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945. history

After the Fall: Photos of Hitler’s Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin

A young girl reads a comic book at an Anchorage, Alaska, supermarket in 1958. arts & entertainment

Reading The Comics: A True American Pastime

A boy badly burned by the Hiroshima bomb four years earlier, seen in 1949. history

After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors

Troops watch the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1944. nature

Mount Vesuvius: Photos From the Volcano’s Last Great Eruption, 1944

Alfred Hitchcock directing Shadow of a Doubt in 1942 arts & entertainment

Alfred Hitchcock ‘Directs’ a LIFE Magazine Story, 1942

Anne Frank's Friends, 1959 people

Anne Frank’s Friends: Photos of the Girls Who Lived

Univ. of New Hampshire coeds training in 1942 history

Readying for Battle: Coeds Training in the Snow, New Hampshire, 1942

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