The start of the Allied invasion of Sicily - zero hour has arrived and the men of the Allied forces receive the word 'Go.'
General Dwight D. Eisenhower , the supreme commander of Allied forces, with his fellow US and British officers in command.
Crowd of Japanese prisoners of war from the Imperial Japanese Army's Thirty-Second Army stand behind a barbed wire fence, inside a stockade camp...
Infantrymen of the United States 7th Army scramble from their assault boat and head up the eastern bank of the Rhine River near Frankenthal during...
Illustration depicting soldiers from the Allied countries of World War II, facing a central 'V' shape formed by the flags of their different...
Some of the men who partook in the 1,000 plane bombing raid on Cologne give the victory thumbs up on their return to Britain.
North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers from the 340th Bombardment Group United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force, drop their payload of...
The inhabitants of Reggio cheer the arrival of an Allied tank during the Allies' invasion of Italy, September 1943.
World War Two American propaganda poster US Army. 'United We are Strong' allies against Japan, Germany and Italy 1943.
General Wladyslaw Sikorski of Poland, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Charles de Gaulle of France gather with other officers for a tank...
Hawker Hurricanes flying in formation, Battle of Britain, World War II, 1940. Hawker Hurricanes of Fighter Command, a first line of defence against...
Residents of Palermo, Sicily, line the streets to greet the American Sherman tanks after the town had surrendered to the Allies.
Consolidated B-24 Liberator four engined heavy bombers, including a B-24 nicknamed Greenwich from the 506th Bomber Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group,...
Privates H McIvor, W Harton and D Mill from the 10th Highland Light Infantry,15th Scottish Infantry Division, XXX Corps, British 2nd Army roll a...
Italian men hold up a copy of the 'Il Risorgimento Liberale' newspaper which announces the liberation of the city of Rome by Allied forces, June 1st...
American tank crews operating an M4A3W Sherman tank from the 761st 'Black Panthers' Tank Battalion attached to the 79th Infantry Division, United...
Six-wheel-drive amphibious vehicle leads a column of Willys Jeeps of the United States Ninth Army across the Rhine River over a pontoon bridge during...
Two M24 Chaffee Light Tanks from the 18th Tank Battalion, 8th Armored Division of the United States Ninth Army drive off LCM's after crossing over to...
The crew of an M4A3E8 Sherman tank of the US 5th Armored Division, XIII Corps, United States 9th Army hold the western end of the Tangermunde Bridge...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal , Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse speak during a news conference about their recent trip to Ukraine, at the...
Pound Bombs falling from Formation of B-10 Bombers in Bombing Practice by 19th Bombardment Group, U.S. Army Air Corps, Office of War Information,...
Second World War-Naples, Italy October 1943 September procession led by the Italian flag, celebrating the liberation of Naples by the Germans and the...
Allies bombing of Paris on May 8 1944: On the eve of D-Day, 18 road and rail bridges over the Seine between the western suburbs of Paris and Rouen...
The Allies discovering the horror of the concentration camps. Some prisoners died in a railroad car during a journey, probably to the camp of...
Anti Aircraft gun crew seen here in a demonstration just prior to the outbreak of war September 1939.
American ace fighter pilot Captain Fred J. Christensen in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt fighter, circa 1944. Christensen flew bomber escort...
World War II, September 1939, England, Training in trench warfare at a training base of the Eastern command.
War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: April 1945, A Canadian soldier signs a momento for a Dutch girl as the Allies advance into Holland
The ruins of the city of Cologne, following heavy bombing by the Allies during World War II, 1945. The city's famous cathedral is visible in the...
Year-old Military Policewoman, Gladys Overthrow of the Auxiliary Territorial Service on patrol at a UK barracks, 24th February 1943. Overthrow, from...
Year-old Military Policewoman, Gladys Overthrow of the Auxiliary Territorial Service on patrol at a UK barracks, 24th February 1943. Overthrow, from...
Soldier kneels on the ice near the Joseph Stalin Icebreaker in the Greenland Sea during World War II.
French troops from Dunkirk arrive safely in Britain in June 1940. Advancing German troops forced the emergency evacuation of the allied forces.
Scots from the British Army write a warning on the side of the train car which says "Hitler! Look Out The Jocks Are Coming"
Italian soldiers enter a town near Messina in Sicily and wave white flags to signal their surrender to the Allies during World War II.
French troops in a town on the south coast of England after the mass evacuation from Dunkirk during World War II.
Group of Allied forces commandos rest on one of the Normandy landing beaches and watch equipment being unloaded from some of the landing craft. The...
Maps and plans are spread on the sand as the Brigadier takes his decisions and gives his orders' , from 'The Eighth Army' , 1944. At the beginning of...
The Soviet Faces West. Moscow, U.S.S.R.: Alarmed at the proximity of the European war to their own borders, Soviet leaders have ordered hundreds of...
In this digital composite image a comparison has been made showing British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery addressing Allied troops near Tiergarten...
Conference of the Allied leaders, Yalta, Crimea, USSR, February 1945. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , US President Franklin D Roosevelt ,...
Irish troops undertaking military maneuvers in assault boats during World War Two, Northern Ireland, circa 1939-1945.
Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Alliance Pact pact to join forces if either is attacked by Allied forces. Germany's Foreign Minister...
The famous American 'Eagle' Volunteer Air Squadron now takes its place in the fighting ranks of the Royal Air Force. Three 'Eagles' in full kit wait...
