Iwo Jima, Japan: February 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal’s “Flag Raising on Iwo Jima”. Taken on Mount Suribachi four days after the Marines landed, it was a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph.
Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 May 2016. http://quest.eb.com/search/183_365391/1/183_365391/cite. Accessed 21 April 2017.
WORLD WAR II: D-DAY, 1944. Men of Company E, 16th Infantry Regiments, 1st U.S. Infantry Division, landing of Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, from the landing craft USS Samuel Chase on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Photographed by U.S. Coast Guard Chief Photographer’s Mate Robert F. Sargent.
Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 May 2016. http://quest.eb.com/search/140_1642747/1/140_1642747/cite . Accessed 21 April 2017.
Locator map of the major battles in Europe and Northern Africa during World War II.
Battles in Europe during World War II. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 May 2016. http://quest.eb.com/search/309_1155437/1/309_1155437/cite. Accessed 21 April 2017.
After being ordered to withdraw to Australia in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines as he promised the Philippine people. Here he is seen debarking from a barge on a Lingayen beach (Philippines), in 1945.
Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 May 2016. http://quest.eb.com/search/170_2986792/1/170_2986792/cite. Accessed 21 April 2017.
Japanese Aggression with regards to:
War in the Mediterranean with regards to:
The African Campaign with regards to:
Eastern Front and Italy:
American Involvement:
War in the Pacific:
