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A Balloon Site, Coventry, by Laura Knight
Kissing the War Goodbye at V-J Day in Times Square, by Victor Jorgensen (restored by JayCubby)
Troops and equipment going up the bluff of Omaha Beach, by the United States Army Signal Corps (restored by Bammesk)
Thousand-yard stare, by Ray Platnick (restored by Yann)
The US Navy ferries troops across the Rhine at American logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany, by the United States Army Signal Corps (restored by Adam Cuerden)
A woman being taught to drive a streetcar at American women in World War II, by Esther Bubley (restored by Adam Cuerden)
An appeal to self-interest during World War II, by the United States Office of War Information (restored by Yann)
Wait for Me, Daddy, by Claude P. Dettloff (restored by Yann)
Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau at Auschwitz Album, by the Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst (restored by Yann)
"The United Nations Fight for Freedom" at Declaration by United Nations, by the United States Office of War Information (restored by Bammesk)
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag, by Yevgeny Khaldei (restored by Adam Cuerden)
Thousand-yard stare, by Thomas C. Lea III
Auxiliary Territorial Service women working on a tank, by Lt. Taylor (restored by Adam Cuerden)
Princess Elizabeth in her Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform, by the Ministry of Information (restored by Angerey)
Aftermath of the bombing of Hamburg, by Dowd J
Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, by Stephen E. Korpanty (restored by Adam Cuerden)
Bombing of Romania in World War II, by Richard R. Ganczak (restored by Buidhe)
Belgian version of the Yellow Badge at The Holocaust in Belgium, by DRG-fan
Short film about the Women Airforce Service Pilots, by the United States Army
Wilhelm Keitel signs the German Instrument of Surrender, by Lt. Moore (restored by Adam Cuerden)
Bill Hosokawa's home at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, by the Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority (restored by Adam Cuerden; edited by Janke)
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal (restored by Bammesk)
Kombat, by Max Alpert
Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn, by Väinö Oinonen (edited by Manelolo)
Māori Battalion survivors performing a haka, author unknown (restored by Adam Cuerden)
British propaganda poster from World War II, by Whitear (edited by Brandmeister)
Sinking of Japanese destroyer Yamakaze, by the United States Navy
Newsreel about the Doolittle Raid, by Castle Films
Occupation registration card of Pah Wongso at Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, by the Japanese occupation government (edited by Crisco 1492)
Parade after the liberation of Paris, by Jack Downey (edited by Yann, Julielangford, ElHeineken, Director and Nagualdesign)
Battle of Guam, by Grandiose
USS Arizona burning during the attack on Pearl Harbor, by the United States Navy (edited by Mmxx)
Aftermath of the RAF bombing raid that destroyed the Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp, by James E. Myers
Anti-Bolshevik Nazi propaganda poster, by Herbert Agricola (restored by Jujutacular)
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference, by a US government photographer
Tuskegee Airmen, by Toni Frissell (edited by Durova)
Salvage Scrap To Blast the Jap at Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States, by Phil von Phul (edited by Staxringold & Durova)
D-day services at Congregation Emunath Israel at United States home front during World War II, by the Farm Security Administration (edited by Durova)
Tuskegee Airmen at Ramitelli, Italy, by Toni Frissell (edited by Jake Wartenberg)
USS West Virginia during the attack on Pearl Harbor, by the United States Navy (edited by Durova)
M8 Greyhound after the liberation of Paris, by the United States Office of War Information (edited by Mfield)
Situation map of the Normandy landings, by the Twelfth United States Army Group (edited by Durova)
Japanese Instrument of Surrender, by the United States Department of War (edited by Durova)
German Instrument of Surrender, by the United States Office of War Information (edited by Durova)
Aerial bombing of Nazi railroad yards during Operation Strangle, by the United States Office of War Information (edited by Durova)
Woman working on a Vultee A-31 Vengeance, by Alfred T. Palmer (edited by Diliff)
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Bill Genaust
Polish cavalry during the Battle of the Bzura, author unknown (edited by Durova)
Hitler and Mussolini at Kingdom of Italy, by Eva Braun
"We Can Do It!", by J. Howard Miller (restored by Adam Cuerden)
Waldenburg on 16 April 1945, by Jacob Harris (restored by MickStephenson)
Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings of the Battle of Leyte, by Gaetano Faillace (edited by Durova)
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II, by the United Newsreel
USS Franklin after a Japanese attack, by Albert Bullock
Female factory worker in 1942 at United States home front during World War II, by Howard R. Hollem
Inmates of Ebensee concentration camp after their liberation, by Arnold E. Samuelson
Mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, by Charles Levy
USS Bunker Hill after being struck by two Kamikazes, by United States Navy
A worker at the Vega Aircraft Corporation during World War II, by David Bransby (edited by Yann)
Slave laborers at the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, by H. Miller
Aftermath of a V-2 rocket impact, by the United States Army Signal Corps
Child soldier of the National Revolutionary Army, by the United States Army Signal Corps (restored by MickStephenson and Beao)
United States Army soldiers hunt Japanese infiltrators during the Bougainville campaign, by the United States Army
USS Shaw exploding during the attack on Pearl Harbor, by the United States Navy
A Grumman F6F Hellcat after crash landing on USS Enterprise, by the United States Navy
Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach at Operation Overlord, unknown author (edited by MIckStephenson)
Generals of the European Theater of Operations, United States Army, by the United States Army
Female internees practicing calisthenics at Manzanar, by Ansel Adams (edited by trialsanderrors)
Douglas MacArthur signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, by the United States Navy
Eisenhower addresses the 502nd Infantry Regiment, by United States Army
Warsaw Ghetto boy, by unknown author
USS Pennsylvania entering the Lingayen Gulf before the Battle of Luzon, by United States Navy
Into the Jaws of Death, by Robert F. Sargent

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