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After German soldiers swept through Belgium and Northern France in a blitzkrieg in May of 1940, all communication and transport between Allied forces were cut, leaving thousands of troops stranded. Operation Dynamo was quickly put in place to evacuate the Allies stuck along the beaches of Dunkirk, France. Soldiers waded through the water hoping to ...
On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval base Pearl Harborwas the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces. Japanese fighter planes destroyed nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans (including civilians) died in the attack, with another 1,000 Americans wounded. Thi...
With the United States now involved in the war, men were joining the fight by the millions. Women stepped in to fill the empty civilian and military jobs once only seen as jobs for men. They replaced men in assembly lines, factories and defense plants, leading to iconic images likeRosie the Riveter that inspired strength, patriotism and liberation ...
This photograph, taken in 1942 by Life Magazine photographer Gabriel Benzur, shows Cadets in training for the U.S. Army Air Corps, who would later become the famous Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black military aviators and helped encourage the eventual integration of the U.S. armed forces. With racial segregation still remaini...
After Hitler’s invasion of Poland, more than 400,000 Jewish Poles were confined within a square mile of the capital city, Warsaw. By the end of 1940, the ghetto was sealed off by brick walls, barbed wire and armed guards as other Nazi-occupied Jewish ghettos sprung up throughout Eastern Europe. In April 1943, residents of the Warsaw ghetto staged a...
The photographs that emerged from the Nazi-led concentration camps are among some of the most horrifying ever produced, let alone during World War II. The images remain clear in one’s mind, families being captured and separated, emaciated bodies in barracks. This 1944 photograph shows a pile of remaining bones at the Nazi concentration camp of Majd...
This photograph titled “Taxis to Hell- and Back- Into the Jaws of Death” was taken on June 6, 1944, during Operation Overlord by Robert F. Sargent, United States Coast Guard chief petty officer and “photographer’s mate.” The photograph was originally captioned, “American invaders spring from the ramp of a Coast Guard-manned landing barge to wade th...
On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitzand found approximately 7,600 Jewish detainees who had been left behind. Here, a doctor of the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army helps take survivors out of Auschwitz. They stand at the entrance, where its iconic sign reads “Arbeit Mecht Frei,” (“Work Brings Freedom”). The Soviet Army also di...
This Pulitzer Prize-winning photo has become synonymous with American victory. Taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, it is one of the most reproduced, and copied, photographs in history. During the battle, marines took an American flag to the highest pointon the island: Mount Suribachi. U.S. Marine phot...
The Battle of Iwo Jima image was so powerful in its time that it even caused copycats to stage similar images. This photograph was taken on April 30, 1945, during the Battle of Berlin. Soviet soldiers took their flag in victory and raised it over the rooftops of the bombed-out Reichstag. The photograph was also manipulated. The photographer conceal...
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Jun 4, 2019 · The hospital had 1,725 beds, seven miles of corridors and 1,000 caregivers during World War II. Throughout the war, 15,000 wounded soldiers and POWs were cared for in Parma.
May 22, 2014 · A bit of history… Starting as a celtic settlement, Parma became a Roman colony on the Via Aemilia in 183 BC. It was subsequently ruled by the Ostrogoths, the Lombards, the Franks, the Visconti, the Milanese Sforza and the French before being annexed by the Papal state in 1513.
Much of what we know today about World War II are the visual images—both still and moving—that combat photographers took to document all phases of this costly human tragedy. Millions of images were taken by professional and amateur photographers alike.
Aug 31, 2022 · Two of the most famous photographs immortalized the end of fighting and the stillness of victory: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal and Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei. In February 1945, the US army captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima.
In 1831 and 1848 it took part in the risings for independence and in 1861 became part of united Italy (see also Parma and Piacenza, Duchy of). During World War II the city was extensively damaged by Allied bombardment.
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Within six weeks, the Allies had pushed Axis troops (primarily Germans) out of Sicily and were poised for the invasion of mainland Italy and one of the most arduous 20 months of the entire war: the long, often brutal Italian Campaign.
