Volkssturm militias during the oath ceremony in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Two militia members are armed with Panzerschreck anti-tank grenade launchers, the leftmost with the MG-42 machine gun. November 1944.

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American sailors, surrounded by New Yorkers, read a newspaper report about the outbreak of war with Japan; Dec. 7, 1941.

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Two young German women wander among the ruins of bombed-out houses on Bahnhofstrasse, near the railroad station in Bonn, Germany; March 1945.