"Global military conflict in which the United States and Canada fought alongside the Western Allies against the Axis Powers, led by the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy". - Source: Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2019.
Hitler accepts the ovation of the Reichstag after announcing the `peaceful acquisition of Austria. It set the stage to annex the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland, largely inhabited by a German- speaking population. Berlin, March 1938. 208-N-39843. National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails
Loading bus, leaving Manzanar for relocation, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.
Ansel Adams, 1902-1984, photographer
Corporal Jimmie Shohara, bust portrait, facing front. His two ribbons are for good behavior pre-Pearl Harbor and Rifle and Pistol Citations. He visited his parents who were confined at Manzanar (but who were American citizens by birth).
Ansel Adams, 1902-1984, photographer
Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes. February 1944.
National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails
Howard A. Wooten. Graduated December 1944 from Air Corps School, Tuskegee, AL. Ca. December 1944
National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails
Flag raising on Iwo Jima. Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press, February 23, 1945.
National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails
Survivor in the Woebbelin concentration camp. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dr. Alfred B. Sundquist
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1039428
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