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An alleged Soviet spy laughs at a Finnish soldier who is executing the spy in Rukajärvi, November 1942

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Children of an eastern suburb of London made homeless during the Battle of Britain, September 1940.

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Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes. February 1944.

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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, Germany, ca. June 1940.

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The D-Day invasion began in the pre-dawn hours of June 6 with thousands of paratroopers landing inland on the Utah and Sword beaches in an attempt to cut off exits and destroy bridges to slow Nazi reinforcements.