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Jul 12, 2017 · The North African Campaign in pictures, 1940-1943 Australian troops approach a German-held strong point under the protection of a heavy smoke screen somewhere in the Western Desert, in Northern Africa on November 27, 1942.
Leonard Siffleet, an Australian commando during World War II, served in the M Specia… Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators Through Old Photos, 1865 This set of pictures from 1865 shows the hanging execution of the four Lincoln c…
Jun 6, 2023 · When the war is covered and remembered today, there are a few classic pictures that repeatedly reemerge. But, of course, tens of thousands of photographs were taken during the war, and we wanted to find and resurface some lesser-known snapshots from the Big One.
Between 1942 and 1945 some 3,000 colour photographs were taken by The Ministry of Information for official records, which subsequently became part of the IWM archives in 1949. Here are 15 of the images that survived and reveal for the first time and in great detail the world as the people in them would have seen it.
Jul 6, 2017 · Among the shots submitted by veteran war photographer Joe Rosenthal was an eye-popping photo of six soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes on top of Mount Suribachi, the 528-foot peak that commands the five-mile-long volcanic island.
Apr 2, 2020 · Michelantonio Celestino Onofrio “Tony” Vaccaro was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944 and fought his way through Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany, taking pictures as he went. After the war, he became an in-demand fashion photographer.
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Jul 6, 2018 · With over 30 countries involved in World War II and the loss of over 50 million lives, war photography captured the destruction and victories of the deadliest war in history.
