The Three Allied Leaders: Winston Churchill(UK), President Franklin D. Roosevelt(USA), and First Secretary Joseph Stalin(USSR)

 

Benito Mussolini, leader of fascist Italy

 

Thousands of Holocaust victims at a Nazi extermination camp in Birkenau in 1944

 

Soviet soldiers raising the flag over the Reichtag at Berlin in 1945

 

Japanese Emperor, Hirohito

 

Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki rising over 60,000 feet into the air on August 9th, 1945. This explosion ended the war with Japan and ended WWII.

 

City of Derden, Germany after Allied bombing. 85% of the city was destroyed.

 

German facist leader, Adolf Hitler

 

Allied POWs at the Bataan Death March. 76,000 prisoners including 12,000 Americans were forced to march 60 miles with no food or water to a new POW shelter in the Phillipines in April 1942. 5,000 Americans died along the way.

 

US troops surrender to the Japanese in the Phillipines on May 6th, 1942. A total of 11,500 Americans became POWs under the Japanese.

 

US Marines celebrate July 4th, 1942. This was against the Japanese rgulations and could have gotten them executed.

 

Japanese torpedo bomber shot down by a 5 inch shell fired by the US aircraft carrier Yorktown on December 4th, 1943.

 

A US Marine after 2 days of fighting in the Marshall Islands. Feb. 1944

 

A US surgeon operates on a soldier wounded by a Japanese sniper. December 13th, 1943

 

Marines pose in front of a captured Japanese dugout on Cape Totkina in the Solomon Islands. January, 1944

 

US soldiers of the 163rd Infantry Regiment storm the beach on Wake Island. May 17th, 1944

A US Marine finds a Japanese family hiding in a cave to get away from the fierce fighting. June 21, 1944

 

These vehicles were smashed by Japanese mortar fire and tank shells on Iwo Jima. Feb. 1945

 

A group of five Marines and a Navy medic raised the US flag on top of Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. The flag is held up by a piece of Japanese pipe. Feb. 23rd, 1945. This picture soon became very famous, representing the Marines and the Pacific War.

 

A US Marine fires on a Japanese sniper on Okinawa. June 21, 1945

Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, waves just before he takes off. The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. The 9,000 lb. bomb was dropped from 31,600 feet and detonated at 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, about 1,900 feet above the center of Hiroshima.

 

US General Douglas MacArthur signs the paper formally declaring Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri. September 2nd, 1945

 

This picture shows the USS Arizona on fire after being heavily bombed by Japanese aircraft at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.