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.