[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]

[American paratroopers, many who had crash-landed in gliders, near Wesel, Germany]

[German soldiers and civilians, captured by American forces, lying on the ground, near Wesel, Germany]

[American soldiers shooting from an apartment building on Gustav-Adolf Strasse, Leipzig, Germany]

[American soldier killed by a German sniper, Leipzig, Germany]

[American soldier killed by a German sniper, Leipzig, Germany]

[American soldier kicking a German soldier, Leipzig, Germany]

[Family standing on road in front of ruined buildings, Nuremberg]

[American soldier selling a watch to a Russian soldier, Berlin]

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

[Fountain rubble in city square, Stalingrad]

[Robert Capa photographing John Steinbeck through a mirror, Moscow]

[Café along the Danube, Budapest]

[Basket full of kittens amidst the ruins, Warsaw]

[European immigrants gathered on the railing of a boat arriving in port, Haifa, Israel]