Portal:World War II/Selected picture
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The battleship USS Pennsylvania leads USS Colorado, USS Louisville, USS Portland, and USS Columbia into Lingayen Gulf before the landing on Luzon, Philippines in January 1945.
Credit:Photograph retrieved from the website of the National Archives, item number 80-G-59535.
Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May 1945.
Credit:Original photograph by TASS correspondent Khaldai, now in the public domain.
A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of the U.S. Army's First Division on the morning of June 6, 1944 (D-Day) at Omaha Beach.
Credit:Original photograph by an unknown United States Coast Guard service personnel or employee, retrieved from the USCG website.
Crewmembers salute as the Japanese Naval Ensign is lowered on the sinking Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, in the battle off Cape Engaño, 25 October 1944.
Credit:Kazutoshi Hando and the U.S. Naval Historical Center.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers on D-Day.
Credit:U.S. Army photograph. No. SC 194399.
Supermarine Spitfire XVI at Duxford, September 2006.
Credit:Taken by Chowells, Noise reduction and shadows lifted by Diliff.
Australian soldiers "advancing" during the Second Battle of El Alamein; the photograph is actually staged.
Credit:British army photographer Sergeant Len Chetwyn.
The mushroom cloud resulting from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Credit:Photograph by an unknown American serviceman, retrieved from the website of the National Archives and Records Administration.
USS Yorktown (CV-5) is hit by a Japanese aerial torpedo during an attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu, in the Battle of Midway, on June 4, 1942.
Credit:Unknown US Navy photographer, retrieved from the website of the Naval Historical Center.
Soviet troops advancing during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Credit:Photographis in the public domain, original photographer not known.
