Time Snapshots

Soviet soldiers posing with a captured Sd.Kfz. 10/5 half-track at the Sandomierz bridgehead, winter 1944–45.

French children salvage food from a wrecked train on a destroyed Moselle River railway bridge, December 1944.

Canadian soldiers and a French woman with German POWs near Caen, July 1944.

On September 2, 1945, World War II officially ended when Japan signed the formal instrument of surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

PM Winston Churchill with General Montgomery's puppy "Rommel" in Normandy, France (August 7, 1944).

May 1945: American soldiers leave their mark on Hitler’s childhood home in Austria.

Two Soviet soldiers with PPSh-41s take cover in a Stalingrad trench, 1942.

British infantry in slit trenches between Hills 112 and 113, Odon Valley, July 1944.

A U.S. Army C-47 Skytrain flies over the Giza pyramids in 1943.

U.S. Army 19th Infantry troops disembark from the USS Elmore heading for the Leyte landing beaches, October 1944.