A crowd reads newspaper headlines, &quot;Bombs Rain On Warsaw&quot; as they stand outside the U.S. State Department building where diplomats held a conference on war conditions in Europe, on September 1, 1939.

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American troops in front to Rome Area Command, in the Assicurazioni Generali Venezia’s Palace on Piazza Venezia, Rome, June 1944. Note the white helmets of MP, the American Military Police. In background the Victor Emmanuel II Monument. On the far side of Piazza Venezia is the Palazzo Venezia. The Allied troops entered in Rome on 4 June 1944. Victor Sierra