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Rarely Seen Color Photos Of World War II That Truly Bring History To Life

 

Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, American servicemen watch high-ranking Japanese and American officials sign the former’s instrument of surrender, which finally brought the hostilities of World War 2 to an end.United States Navy/Wikimedia Commons

 

British Army Corporal M. Smith poses at the main headquarters of the Eighth Army near Monte Sant’Angelo, Italy. Circa 1944.Capt. Tanner/War Office/Imperial War Museums/Wikimedia Commons

 

American tank crew servicemen post at Fort Knox, Ken., in June 1942.Alfred T. Palmer/Office of War Information/Library of Congress

 

Both U.S. Navy servicemen and projectiles line the deck of the battleship USS New Mexico just prior to the invasion of Guam in July 1944.United States Navy/Wikimedia Commons

 

German forces march through Paris. Date unspecified.Wikimedia Commons

 

An American soldier trains at Fort Knox, Ken., in June 1942.Alfred T. Palmer/Office of War Information/Library of Congress

 

Canadian soldiers hold a Nazi flag that they’d captured south of Hautmesnil, France on August 10, 1944.Library and Archives Canada/Wikimedia Commons

 

A group of U.S. Army soldiers, rifles in hand, wears gas masks during a training exercise in California related to chemical attacks. 1943.The Frank S. Errigo Archive/Getty Images

 

 

Canadian soldiers disembark at Juno Beach in Normandy, France during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.Library and Archives Canada/Wikimedia Commons

 

At an evacuation hospital near the Italian front lines, actress Marlene Dietrich sits on a piano while troops and wounded soldiers gather around to listen to her sing. May 1944.PhotoQuest/Getty Images

 

U.S. Air Force planes fly over Germany. Circa 1944-1945.National Museum of the U.S. Air Force/Wikimedia Commons

 

An American soldier from 7th Armored Division mans the machine gun of his tank while on maneuvers. Circa 1943.PhotoQuest/Getty Images

 

U.S. Army soldiers are engage in combat with German forces near the cathedral in Cologne. April 1945.Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images

 

A U.S. landing craft filled with troops approaches the French coast for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images

 

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (front left), U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (front center), and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (front right) sit at the grounds of the Livadia Palace in Crimea, USSR during the Yalta Conference, held to discuss the reorganization of postwar Europe. February 1945.War Office/Imperial War Museums/Wikimedia Commons

 

U.S. Marine Corps planes fly over Midway Atoll, the site of what is widely regarded as the most decisive American victory over the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. Circa 1942-1943.United States Navy/Wikimedia Commons

 

U.S. Navy aviator Jesse Rhodes Waller tries out a machine gun he had just installed on a plane at the air base in Corpus Christi, Tex., in August 1942.Howard R. Hollem/Office of War Information/Library of Congress

 

Crowds gather on Paris’ Champs Elysees as French tanks roll past in celebration of the liberation of France on August 26, 1944.Jack Downey/Office of War Information/Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons

 

U.S. Army Rangers sit on board a landing craft assault vessel in Weymouth Harbour, England on June 6, 1944. The ship is bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France.

Clockwise, from far left: First Sergeant Sandy Martin, who was killed during the landing, Technician Fifth Grade Joseph Markovich, Corporal John Loshiavo, and Private First Class Frank E. Lockwood.Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images

 

Thick smoke billows from stricken American warships (from left, USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee) along battleship row during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.US Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images

 

A lathe operator forges parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant in Fort Worth, Tex., in October 1942.Howard R. Hollem/Office of War Information/Library of Congress

 

Central Hiroshima lies in ruins in September 1945, the month after U.S. forces dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images

 

American sailors onboard a destroyer. Circa 1940.Hulton Archive/Getty Images

 

Adolf Hitler and several Nazi officials survey the Great Gustav, the largest artillery cannon ever built at 155 feet long, 1350 tonnes in weight, with 11-foot shells weighing seven tonnes each. Date unspecified.manhhai/Flickr

 

A German solider fires a backpack flamethrower across a field of tall grass in the Soviet Union. Circa 1941-1942.R. Grimm/PhotoQuest/Getty Images

 

A French sailor and two U.S. Army soldiers gaze at the Eiffel Tower after the liberation of Paris. September 1944.Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images

 

U.S. troops, among the first to land during the D-Day invasion, approach the beaches of Normandy, France, likely near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, on June 6, 1944.Robert F. Sargent/United States Coast Guard/Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images

[Nosey]

Nice set of pictures, thanks for sharing!

Didn’t know they had masks for dogs…

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