US sailors among damaged planes as they watch USS Shaw getting hit with Japanese bombs during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
Months later the USS Shaw would be repaired and serve in the Pacific against Japanese forces throughout part of the war.
December 7, 1941
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Inmates of Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria playing “Leap frog”, while a guard watches amusedly.
The resilience of the human spirit.
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The aftermath from the firebombing of Dresden.
After three days of bombing, 15 square miles of the city were destroyed - taking along with it many medieval landmarks and thousands of lives.
Less than three months later Germany would surrender and end the war in Europe.
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