Ground crew refueling a Hawker Hurricane Mk I of No. 32 Squadron from a refueling truck whilst the pilot waits in the cockpit during the Battle of Britain at RAF Biggin Hill in August, 1940. #History #WW2

Soldiers of the 93rd Infantry Division, a segregated unit of the U.S. Army during World War II, cautiously advance through the jungle while on patrol in Japanese territory off the Numa-Numa Trail on Bougainville in May, 1944. #History #WW2

An RAF ground crew load a 4,000 lb "Cookie" blockbuster bomb that reads "Happy Xmas Adolf" onto a de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito of No. 128 Squadron at RAF Wyton, 1944. #History #WW2

U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the “Adam and Eve” oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Hermann Goering’s art bunker and load them into a truck near Berchtesgaden, Germany, in May, 1945. #History #WW2

A Russian Cossack and his son at the North Caucasian Front, 1942. #History #WW2

Major Cahill from the 2/32nd Battalion (Australia) and Flt Lt Sherman (right), board an RAAF Auster III observation aircraft for a reconnaissance flight and to drop surrender leaflets on Japanese positions at Labuan Island in June, 1945. #History #WW2

Pilots of No. 457 'Grey Nurse' Squadron RAAF pose for the camera in front of one of their Supermarine Spitfires in Morotai, Netherlands East Indies, on April 9, 1945. #History #WW2

Aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) refueling from Chicopee-class oiler USS Housatonic (AO-35) tanker in the Atlantic on July 17, 1942. #History #WW2

Soviet scouts on a British-made Universal Carrier armored personnel carrier during the Battle of Kursk, 1943. #History #WW2

Men of British 6th Airborne Division guarding a road junction near Ranville, France, on June 7, 1944. #History #WW2

A Navajo code talker speaks into his radio while clutching his carbine in his left hand during the Battle of Tarawa in November, 1943. #History #WW2

A synagogue in flames during Kristallnacht (also known as the Night of Broken Glass) in Siegen, Germany, on November 10, 1938. #History #WW2

American soldiers and French civilians inspecting an abandoned Tiger I heavy tank in Marle, France, in late 1944. #History #WW2

Two Coast Guard-manned LST's open their great jaws in the surf that washes on Leyte Island beach, as soldiers strip down and build sandbag piers out to the ramps to speed up unloading operations in October, 1944. #History #WW2

An ammunition carrier of the 11th Armoured Division explodes after being hit by a mortar round during Operation Epsom in Normandy on June 26, 1944. #History #WW2

Private First Class Gerald A. Cohan from the 75th U.S. Infantry Division with a Browning M1917 machine gun in a house in the village of Salmchâteau, Belgium, on January 16, 1945. #History #WW2

A Supermarine #Spitfire Mk VII fighter aircraft of No. 41 Squadron RAF flies over Eastbourne, East Sussex, on April 12, 1944. #History #WW2

A group of German soldiers captured by Polish resistance fighters during the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, in August, 1944. #History #WW2

A bugler blows taps at the close of Memorial Day service at the American Military Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands, on April 30, 1945. #History #WW2

Russian female aircraft spotters on the roof of a building in Leningrad, Russia, in May, 1942. #History #WW2

Captain Andrew D. Turner, 100th Fighter Squadron Commanding Officer, and Lieutenant Clarence P. (Lucky) Lester on the Marsden Matting of Ramitelli Airstrip, Italy on August 1, 1944. #History #WW2

A closeup view of a Martin B-26B Marauder medium bomber of the 450th Bomb Squadron, 322nd Group, 9th Air Force in flight on August 12, 1944. #History #WW2

A British BL 4.5 inch medium artillery gun firing south of El Alamein in July, 1942. #History #WW2

American Army soldier Albert Kotzebue and Red Army soldier Ivan Numladze at the time of the meeting on the Elbe River in Torgau, Germany, in April, 1945. #History #WW2

Soldiers of B Company, 1st New Guinea Infantry Battalion aboard the former Hawkesbury River (New South Wales) vehicle ferry the Francis Peat in Jacquinot Bay on November 6, 1944. History #WW2

A German worker at the Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory operating a boot making machine for the Wehrmacht in Herzogenaurach, Germany, in 1940. #History #WW2

General Bernard Montgomery standing up in his 1943 Humber Super Snipe staff car during a trip to inspect port facilities at Port-en-Bessin, France, during the Normandy campaign on June 10, 1944. #History #WW2

A German 88mm Pak 43/41 emplaced on a bandstand to cover the approach to the town in Nieuwland, Netherlands, in November, 1944. #History #WW2

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel studies a map with his staff officers in North Africa in August, 1942. #History #WW2

General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his senior commanders at Supreme Allied Headquarters in London, 1944. #History #WW2