[Group of children with bundles on cart in front of rubble, Berlin]

[Men singing during the first Rosh Hashanah service to be held in any of the city's synagogues since 1938, Fraenkelufer Synagogue, Berlin]

[German woman registering with the Allied military government in this recently captured area, Breinich, Germany]

[Families of a collective farm seated for a meal, Ukraine]

[A man and woman secure beams on the roof of a house on a collective farm, Ukraine.]

[Woman, from a collective farm, smiling, Ukraine]

[Couples dancing barefoot, on a collective farm, Ukraine]

[Repairing war-damaged buildings on the Corso, the fashionable street that runs along the Danube on the Pest side of the river, Budapest]

[Parade celebrating Israel's Independence, Tel Aviv]

[Body of David Marcus, the American in charge of building the "Burma Road", carried on a stretcher through the cemetery, Tel Aviv.]

[Medics treat wounded on the beach, Tel Aviv]

[A man with vegetables, Jerusalem ]

[Child killed while trying to save his chicken and piglet during the Battle of Tai'erzhuang, Xuzhou front, China]

[Two women and a child seated next to cart, near Tai'erzhuang, Xuzhou front, China]

[Crowds leaning out windows to watch the air battle between Japanese and Chinese planes over Hankou, China]

[Crowds watching the air battle between Japanese and Chinese planes over Hankou, China]

[People at barricade at edge of the city's European enclave protected from Japenese bombing, Hankou, China]

[Throwing water on flames after a Japanese air raid, Hankou, China]

[Student civil-defense volunteers assisting the wounded, Guangzhou, China]

[Woman carrying bundle and holding child's hand, near Guangzhou, China]

[Woman eating in front of building with posters, China]

[Boy sitting on poster-laden balcony at Stillman's Gym, New York]

[Two men with rifles standing over a dead cow, New Mexico ]

[Four men gathered around a fireplace, New Mexico ]