Photo correspondent Robert Capa (1943-1954), second from left, among paratroopers of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, about to jump from a Douglas C-47 Skytrain over the east bank of the Rhine river, in the region of the city of Wesel, Germany; March 24, 1945.

Airborne drop

The commander in chief of the Allied Forces in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, American General Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), is looking at the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers on the island of Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, north of New Guinea. 


General takes a close look

American photojournalist Robert Capa (1913-1954) on the balcony of a house in liberated Naples, Italy; 1944. 
