[Aerial view of bomb-damaged harbor with its docks and assembly plants after an allied air attack on this devastated city]

[Aerial of arena where Mexico City's bullfighter Luis Procuna has finished his performance as crowd gives accolades]

Stage designer Nicola Benoit at La Scala backdrop of Rimsky Korsakoff's opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Milan

[In the city of Recife, in northeastern Brazil, the infant mortality rate was so high that children's graves were dug in advance]

[People lined up to get water from Allied tank trucks after Germans bombed the city's aqueducts, Naples]

Eddie Grant and Cleveland Sims. Washington Street maintenance men from the New York City Department of Urban Renewal

[General Charles de Gaulle leading the parade down the Avenue des Champs-Elysées to celebrate the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Red Cross workers looking for the wounded after the air battle between Japanese and Chinese fighter planes, Hankou, China]