Tokyo burning under a firebomb assault from American Boeing B-29 Superfortresses during the Bombing of Tokyo on May 26, 1945.

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Panzer Grenadiers of German 12th SS Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend' lined up during an Iron Cross awarding ceremony in July, 1944.

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Armorers loading belts of .50 caliber ammunition into the four ammo trays in one wingtip of a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.

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Major Richard Winters, Captain Lewis Nixon, and other men of Easy Company (portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers) celebrate V-E day in Hitler's private residence at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps on May 8, 1945.

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A U.S. Marine with an M2-2 flamethrower strapped to his back stops to light his pipe during a break in the fighting on the island of Iwo Jima in February, 1945.

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Combat footage from the Battle of Berlin, 1945.

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A U.S. Marine provides water to a stray kitten found hiding under a knocked out Japanese Type 95 Ha-Gō light tank on the Tarawa Atoll on November 24, 1943.

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Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) is struck and severely damaged by two Japanese kamikazes while supporting the invasion of Okinawa on the morning of May 11, 1945.

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A U.S. Marine with an M2-2 flamethrower strapped to his back stops to light his pipe during a break in the fighting on the island of Iwo Jima in February, 1945.

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Flight Sergeant J Morgan, the rear gunner of an Avro Lancaster of No. 630 Squadron RAF at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, checks his guns before taking off on a night raid on the marshalling yards at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, on April 18, 1944.

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Major Richard Winters, Captain Lewis Nixon, and other men of Easy Company (portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers) celebrate V-E day in Hitler's private residence at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps on May 8, 1945.

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A defeated German soldier sits in front of a burning Reichstag in Berlin in May, 1945.

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A massive crowd celebrating the surrender of Germany in Times Square, New York City, on May 7, 1945.

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A massive crowd celebrating the surrender of Germany in Times Square, New York City, on May 7, 1945.

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A defeated German soldier sits in front of a burning Reichstag in Berlin in May, 1945.

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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill fires a 'Tommy' gun alongside American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as American soldiers look on in March, 1944.

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A captured Japanese MXY7 Ohka Model 11 rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft at Yontan Airfield on Okinawa, in April, 1945.

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A captured Japanese MXY7 Ohka Model 11 rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft at Yontan Airfield on Okinawa, in April, 1945.

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M3 Lee medium tanks at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in June 1942.

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Happy Birthday, Ida!
Today is Survivor Ida Paluch Kersz's birthday. Like many Jewish children in Poland, Ida was sheltered by a Catholic family. Her father found her after the war and she stayed with him on Poland until they immigrated to Israel in 1957. buff.ly/4dq59LV