
Guarding 1000-pound bombs
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Manning the searchlights in Britain
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Germans writing messages on bombs -- "A greeting from the death squadron", "One must give gifts to those he loves"
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Largest conventional bombs of World War II (Hiroshima atomic bomb was the equivalent of 26 million lbs)
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T-12 Cloudmaker 44,000 lb bomb, developed by USA for use by the B-36 bomber, but war ended before it could be used
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British bomb types (top to bottom) 22,000 lb, 2 types of 12,000 lb, 8,000 lb with 40 lb on top, 1,900 lb and 2,000 lb
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Night raid on Bremen, Germany
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British boy collects souvenirs from downed German plane
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Searchlights on Gibraltar
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USS Arizona, just after being attacked at Pearl Harbor -- Dec. 7, 1941
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USS Arizona, resting on the bottom at Pearl Harbor, 3 days after the attack
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Japanese surrender! -- Aug. 14, 1945
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Hitler speaking at Volkswagen auto factory, 1938
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Hitler in Paris -- June 23, 1940
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Eva Braun, Hitler's longtime companion and eventual wife
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U.S. Pentagon in the 1940s
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Memorial to the 96th Heavy Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, at Snetterton Heath, U.K.
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Bob Hope in New Guinea -- Aug. 31, 1944
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Germany and its occupied territories, 1939
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Germany and its occupied territories, 1942
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Soviet flag is raised over Reichstag in Berlin -- April 30, 1945
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Princess Elizabeth, Britain's future queen, working on a truck during the war
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British bomb grabber, for use with incendiary bombs (non-explosive firebombs)
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Bomb snuffers, for use with incendiary bombs
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Aerial view of Auschwitz concentration camp --
August 23, 1944. Smoke from furnaces can be seen rising at left.
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Japanese Kamikaze (suicide) pilot attacks USS Missouri.
Plane ricocheted harmlessly, but pilot was ejected and his body destroyed part of a gun mount.
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