 Guarding 1000-pound bombs |
 Manning the searchlights in Britain |
 Germans writing messages on bombs -- "A greeting from the death squadron", "One must give gifts to those he loves" |
 A stag's view of war |
 The moment WW2 began -- German soldiers remove barrier at border with Poland and begin invasion -- Sept. 1, 1939 |
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 Largest conventional bombs of (Hiroshima atomic bomb was the equivalent of 26 million lbs) |
 T-12 Cloudmaker 44,000 lb bomb, developed by USA for use by the B-36 bomber, but war ended before it could be used |
 British bomb types (top to bottom) 22,000 lb, 2 types of 12,000 lb, 8,000 lb with 40 lb on top, 1,900 lb and |
 Night raid on Bremen, Germany |
 British boy collects souvenirs from downed German plane |
 Searchlights on Gibraltar |
 USS Arizona, just after being attacked at Pearl Harbor -- |
 USS Arizona, resting on the bottom at Pearl Harbor, 3 days after the attack |
 U.S. Pentagon in the 1940s |
 Hitler speaking at Volkswagen auto factory, 1938 |
 Hitler in Paris -- |
 Eva Braun, Hitler's longtime companion and eventual wife |
 Hitler on his 50th birthday -- April, 1939 |
 Memorial to the 96th Heavy Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, at Snetterton Heath, U.K. |
 Bob Hope in New Guinea -- |
 Germany and its occupied territories, 1939 |
 Germany and its occupied territories, 1942 |
 Soviet flag is raised over Reichstag in Berlin -- |
 Princess Elizabeth, Britain's future queen, working on a vehicle during the war |
 British bomb grabber, for use with incendiary bombs (non-explosive firebombs) |
 Bomb snuffers, for use with incendiary bombs |
 Aerial view of Auschwitz concentration camp -- |
 Japanese Kamikaze (suicide) pilot attacks USS Missouri. Plane ricocheted harmlessly, but pilot was ejected and his body destroyed part of a gun mount. |
 The Japanese accept unconditional surrender on |
 Japanese delegation at surrender ceremony on USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay -- |
 Japanese General Yoshijiro Umezu signs Instrument of Surrender. |
 Allied aircraft fly over USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay at conclusion of Japanese surrender ceremony. |
 U. S. World War II Memorial -- Washington, D.C. |