On February 23, 1945, this picture was taken of six marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, which has become one of the most iconic photographs of the Pacific theater. The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles fought in the late stages of the Pacific War. 

Marines Raising The American Flag On Iwo Jima 

Brave American soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The Allied Invasion of Normandy, France was the largest seaborne invasion in history 

Storming The Beaches of Normandy

General Omar Bradley (center) with General George Patton  (left) and General Bernard Law Montgomery (right); 1944.

Meeting on further strategy

Captured German Infiltrator, December 1944. These German soldiers wearing GI uniforms were summarily shot. They caused havoc behind allied lines. That was their mission...

Captured in the Battle of the Bulge

RAF 312 Free Czechoslovak Squadron Mira Liskutin gun camera series shooting down Dornier near France

RAF 312 Free. Czechoslovak Squadron Mira Liskutin gun camera series shooting down Dornier near France 

Signature of Squadron Leader (General CZ Army)

Squadron Leader Miroslav Liskutin 

1942 Possibly RAF Harrowbeer. Colour cine film was taken by Ladislav Sitensky Armourer and film loader / film archiver for Czechoslovak squadrons (RAF)

RAF 312 Free Czechoslovak Squadron Sergeant Mira Liskutin Standing

Sergeant M.A.Liskutin RAF Angle January 25th, 1942 after bailing out of Spitfire R6833. Hitting the tail damaged his watch and head. notice Sergeant Liskutin is missing his wristwatch

Sergeant M.A.Liskutin RAF Angle January 25th, 1942 RAF 312 Free Czechoslovak Squadron

312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, RAF Redhill, 19th August 1942, Dornier 217 flew into the sea near the coast of France

Dornier Shot Down Sergeant Mira Liskutin shoots down Dornier 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron

312 Czechoslovak Squadron RAF Redhill 19th August 1942,Sgt pilot Mira LIŠKUTÍN landed safely at base with Spitfire damaged in combat Clash near Paris with the distance to the Redhill airbase, near London, a safe landing in that state was a miracle.

Miracle Spitfire Sgt pilot Mira LIŠKUTÍN Clash at Paris

A German motorized artillery column crossing the Don river by means of a pontoon bridge on July 31, 1942. Wrecked equipment and materiel of all kinds lies strewn around as the crossing is made.

Don river crossing

A German tank rolls up to its defeated enemy tank, which burns near the edge of a patch of woods, somewhere in Russia, on October 20, 1942.

Soviet tank up in flames

An M12 GMC from 737th Tank Battalion, 5th Infantry Division slogs its way through the mud near Berdorf, Luxembourg, near the German border; February 9, 1945.

Mud is the immediate enemy

U.S. infantrymen of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division,  U.S. First Army, crouch in a snow-filled ditch, taking shelter from a German artillery barrage during the Battle of Heartbreak Crossroads in the Krinkelter woods on 14 December 1944.

Preceeding the Ardennes Offensive

Pvt. Roy McDaniels, of Hartford City, Indiana, keeps a lookout for enemy activity from a 30th Infantry Division observation post in Stavelot, Belgium; December 1944.

Battle of the Bulge Offensive

American tank destroyers move forward during heavy fog to stem the German spearhead near the village of Werbomont, Belgium; December 20, 1944.

Battle of the Bulge is under way

A U.S. soldier trudges along a muddy road to Metz, eastern France. Some of the most difficult fighting on the Western Front took place in and around Fort Driant; Autumn 1944.

The Fort, that halted the Third Army

8-letnia Różyczka Goździewska pomagała w szpitalu powstańczym kompanii Koszta. 

Mała sanitariuszka z Powstania Warszawskiego

German Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) sitting with an MG-42 machine gun and observing the activity ahead of them; 1943.

Italian Front

Over Japanese-built foot bridge walk Americans on patrol. It connects Entrance Creek Island with Buna Mission (Buna Government Station). One end of it was blown up by the Japanese; Americans repaired it. December. 1942.

Papua New Guinea

Packed in a Navy LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) the US Third Army infantrymen cross the Rhine River near Boppard, Germany on March 25, 1945.
   The Navy would ferry more than 26 000 troops to the east bank of the river, greatly facilitating the Western Allies' drive to the heart of Nazi Germany.

Crossing the Rhine river

Australian wounded are brought in on stretchers and in makeshift canvas carriers to an advanced US Army dressing station during the Battle of Buna - Gona; 5 December 1942. 

New Guinea Campaign

A Feldwebel (segeant) with binoculars and a submachine gun and a soldier with a portable field radio in a foxhole; somewhere in the Soviet Union; 1943.

Advanced Forward Position

Wounded men wait at Buna, for evacuation after the battle of Buna–Gona - part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific Theatre. 1942.

Southwestern Pacific Ocean

Armor and vehicles roll on, while alomg the road infantry advances. Some of the soldiers carry Panzerfausts.

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