August 15, 1944 - History Education Network

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A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome. Italy – Rome, late June 1944 (WW2)

My Great Grandfather Heinz, November 1942 (Served In The Wehrmacht And Was Captured in 1945 And Sent To A POW Camp In Nebraska

Bonde Gaza, a Hungarian musician who survived the Gardelegen massacre where over 1,000 slave laborers were burnt alive, demonstrates to American soldiers how he managed to escape from the barn which the SS had set on fire. Germany, April 14–18, 1945, .

Family Values, 1996, Art by Rob Rogers for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators await their fate in the post-war scrapyard at Kingman AFB, Arizona, 1946