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A rally at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, December 1941. history

After Pearl Harbor: Rare Photos From the American Home Front

Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945 history

Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945

American Lt. Gen. (later General) George S. Patton in North Africa during WWII, 1943. history

LIFE in WWII: Rare and Classic Photos From North Africa, 1943

Unidentified young women, Kutno, Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939. history

The Brink of Oblivion: Color Photos From Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1940

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Iowa, 1942 history

‘Take off the Silk, Put on the Khaki’: America’s First Women Soldiers, 1942

Jimmy Stewart on the phone, 1945 history

Jimmy Stewart, 1945: A War Hero Comes Home

Hundreds of corpses on the ground beneath trees at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, April 1945. history

At the Gates of Hell: The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, April 1945

Farewell to departing troops at New York's Penn Station, April 1943. history

The Heartache of Wartime Farewells, 1943

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It All Falls Apart: Stalingrad, and a Photographer’s Film, in Ruins

Londoners sleep in the city's Underground for protection during German bombing raids, 1941. history

Down, Not Out, in London: LIFE in the Underground, 1940

Troops are carted by tractor to the movies from an isolated camp in Massacre Vally, Attu Island, Aleutian Campaign, Alaska, 1943. history

World War II’s Forgotten Front: LIFE in the Aleutians

An American soldier holds a wounded Japanese boy in an airplane on Saipan as they await a flight to the nearest field hospital in 1944. arts & entertainment

Photographer Spotlight: Peter Stackpole

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