Pictures from 1945

"Air Tactics" against Bulge, from Time 1/45

"Battering the Bulge", from Time 1/45

"Counter Attack", from Time 1/1/45

"Counterattack Clipped" after Bulge battle, from Time 1/8/45

"Reach to the Reich" - Eastern Front, from Time 2/45

"Punch & Pressure" from western and eastern fronts, from Time 1/45

"Attack" by 2 US armies on Dusseldorf and Cologne, from Time 3/45

"Beginning of the End" - east and west, from Time 3/45

"Road to Rangoon" by combined allied attack in Burma, from Time 3/45

Remagen bridgehead , from Time 3/45

Russian designs on Japan, from Time 3/45

"The Floods Come", from Time 4/09/45

"In the Net" - attacks on Borneo and Rangoon tighten the net around Dutch East Indies is SW Pacific, from Time 5/45

"Trouble Spots" , from Time 5/45

"Chinese Puzzle" - surronded on 3 sides by Russia, US, Britain, from Time 5/45

"Occupation or Partition?" for Poland and Germany , from Time 5/45

WWII poster "Rumors Cost Us Lives" and newspaper illustr "U-Boat Captain Kills 22 Sailors" from National Cryptologic Museum, Fort Meade, MD

Purple machine - "This is the largest of three surviving pieces of the famous Japanese Diplomatic Cipher machine. It was recovered from the wreckage of the Japanese embassy in Berlin, 1945" from National Cryptologic Museum, Fort Meade, MD

"Purple Analog No. 1" from National Cryptologic Museum, Fort Meade, MD

Army Purple analog machine operated by WACs in WWII, with WAC (left) setting analog selector switches, from National Cryptologic Museum, Fort Meade, MD

Ike as Man of the Year, from Time 1/1/45

Patton, from Life 1/15/45

concentration camp victims, photo by Margaret Bourke-White, from Life 1945

FDR and Churchill at Yalta, with Steven Early standing between, from FDRL 2/45 - bg

FDR and Churchill at Yalta, with Steven Early standing between, from FDRL 2/45

FDR and Stalin at Yalta, from FDRL 2/45

FDR and Stalin at Yalta, from FDRL 2/45

FDR, Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, from FDRL 2/45

"A Navy Curtiss Helldiver (SB2C) is snapped against the background provided by its carrier as it returns from a strike at Jap shipping. Far below other planes are being spotted on the flight deck to which the SB2C will soon return." (NWDNS-80-G-320999), from NA 1/45

"General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, at his headquarters in the European theater of operations. He wears the five-star cluster of the newly-created rank of General of the Army." (NWDNS-80-G-331330), from NA 2/1/45

Flag raising on Iwo Jima, 2/23/45 from NA (NWDNS-80-G-413988)

antisub warfare chart since 1941, 3/45 from NA

"New York City celebrating the surrender of Japan. They threw anything and kissed anybody in Times Square." (NWDNS-80-G-377094), from NA 8/14/45

Marshall and Army Supreme Command, from FDRL 3/45

map of Nazi concentration camps, from Arno Mayer (1988)

map of Nazi concentration camps, from Arno Mayer (1988)

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