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Soviet sappers use wire cutters to clear barbed wire in front of a fortified German position whilst trying to avoid mortar shells - Zhitomir, Ukraine, Dec 1943

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A young child called Barbara James is carried from her home by a rescue worker after it was hit by a V1 rocket - London, England, 30th July 1944

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A British Royal Naval convoy risks the dangers of the Mediterranean - 1941

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One of the first detachments of US troops to be based in Britain marches through London - March 1942. By 1945 over two million US troops landed at Southampton alone

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A British Bren carrier uses a wrecked house for cover as it keeps watch - Nisper, Holland, Oct 1944

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German motorcycle riders make their way through an unknown village, thought to be near the German border with France - 1939

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US troops escort captured German pow’s along a road in Cherbourg, France - June/July 1944. Around 39,000 German soldiers were captured in Cherbourg before being sent on to Paris

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British RAF Spitfire PR.XI PM151 of 400 Sqn at Kleine Brogel Air Base - Belgium, April 1945. Unfortunately the plane was destroyed in an accident whilst landing later that year. CREDIT : @usafphantom2 / SpitfireAA810

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Canadian soldiers sit in their landing craft as it makes its way to Juno beach as the D-day landings get underway - Normandy, France, 6th June 1944

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Soviet soldiers with captured German vehicles - March 1942, location unknown. In the picture is a Panzer III, possibly an Ausf.J and a StuG III assault vehicle

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A German soldier uses a destroyed building for cover as he watches for the enemy- Demyansk Pocket, Feb 1942

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A US Airforce Douglas A-20 “Havoc” bomber is on target as it hits a vital rail junction at Busigny, northern France - 15th April 1944

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A German Panzer III sits knocked out in the desert near Tel-el-Eissa Station just south of El Alamein - Alam Halfa - Aug 1942

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A US jeep stops for directions on a road in the town of Sainte-Mère-Eglise, France after its liberation - June 1944

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A German Tiger tank stands abandoned on a street in Marle, northern France after it was liberated - Sept 1944

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Around 24,000 British, US and Canadian paratroopers were dropped behind enemy lines to assist with the D-day landings - 5th to 7th June 1944

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Members of the Belgian resistance chat with a Canadian dispatch rider during the liberation of Bruges - Sept 1944