[Crowds watching a parade commemortaing the thirteenth anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's death and the first anniversary of the Sino-Japanese War, Hankou, China]

[Second-hand clothes for refugee children, Hankou, China]

[Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Hankou, China]

[Chiang Kai-shek at a meeting of his Supreme War Council, Hankou, China]

[French fishermen looking at the bodies of some of the men killed during the D-Day landings, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben (left), the commander of the German garrison in Cherbourg, after having surrendered to the Americans, Cherbourg, France]

[General Matthew B. Ridgway (center, facing camera) discussing strategy with his staff, Cherbourg, France]

[Welcoming American troops, Alençon, Normandy]

[German soldiers surrendering to American troops, Cherbourg, Normandy]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, Normandy]

[German soldiers surrendering to American forces, Saint-Malo, France]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, Saint-Malo, France]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, Saint-Malo, France]

[French woman, who had had a baby by a German soldier, and her mother (left) punished by having their heads shaved, Chartres, France]

[General Charles de Gaulle addressing a crowd in the newly liberated town, Chartres, France]

[French civilians and members of the Resistance helping the French troops root out pockets of German snipers after the entry into the city of the French 2nd Armored Division, Paris]

[French civilian helping the French troops root out pockets of German snipers in street fighting after the entry into the city of the French 2nd Armored Division, Paris]

[German soldiers surrending to French forces, Paris]

[French troops and Resistance fighters in the liberated city, Paris]

[French troops and Resistance fighters in the liberated city, Paris]

[Crowd on the pavement after snipers in buildings overlooking the Place de l'Hotel de Ville opened fire on the triumphal parade, Paris]

[Dead soldier on frozen field during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[German soldier captured by American forces during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[American paratrooper ready to board the plane for the jump across the Rhine, Arras, France]