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Private Joe Louis, center, is seen jogging with fellow soldiers at Camp Dix, N.J. on March 10, 1942. The heavyweight boxing champion meets Abie Simon at Madison Square Garden on March 27 to defend his title to benefit the Army Emergency Relief Fund. (AP Photo)

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur, center, is accompanied by several U.S. and Filipino officers as he wades ashore during initial landing operations at Leyte, Philippines, on October 20, 1944, after U.S. forces recaptured the beach of the Japanese-occupied island. (AP Photo)

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Smoke and flames from neighboring buildings surround St. Paul's Cathedral in the aftermath of another blitz over London, England, June 7, 1941 during World War II. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth)

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A sailor and a nurse kiss passionately in Manhattan's Times Square, as New York City celebrates the end of World War II, on August 14, 1945. The celebration followed the official announcement that the Japanese had accepted the terms of Potsdam and surrendered. (AP Photo)

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Inside the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in England, which was devastated by German air raids in 1940, clergymen are seen forming a procession, on March 12, 1943, during World War II. (AP Photo)

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Pfc. Paul Oglesby from the 30th Infantry Regiment stands in reverence before the altar of a damaged catholic church in Acerno, Italy, on September 23, 1944. Even though the bomb-shattered roof is strewn around the sanctuary, pews on the left appear undamaged. (AP Photo)

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A U.S. Marine of the 1st Division takes aim and fires with his machine gun at a Japanese sniper as his comrade ducks for cover, during the divisions advance to take Wana Ridge near the town of Shuri, on Okinawa, in 1945. (AP Photo)

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U.S. soldiers stand on the remains of a house, as they inspect the damage in Caretan, in the Normandy region of France, in July 1944. (AP Photo)

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An A.R.P. warden in east London helps a homeless family move to a place of greater safety, after many bombs were dropped in a raid the night before, Sept. 8, 1940 during World War II. (AP Photo)

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French Gen. Charles de Gaulle, center, is followed by a crowd of people in a welcome parade as he walks through the streets of liberated Bayeux, France, on June 15, 1944. De Gaulle returns to France after four years following Allied liberation of German-occupied France during World War II. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

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In the Pacific theater of World War II, U.S. Marines hit the beach and charge over a dune on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands Feb. 19, 1945, the start of one of the deadliest battles of the war against Japan. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)

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With its No. 3 engine out, this Tinian based U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress continues its bombing run over Osaka, Japan, on June 1, 1945. (AP Photo)

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F4U and F6F fighter planes are flying in formation over the USS Missouri, while the surrender ceremonies to end World War II take place aboard the U.S. Navy battleship, on September 2, 1945 (AP Photo)

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American infantrymen in heavy winter gear halt their advance to La Roche, Belgium, taking time out for a short meal on January 13, 1945. (AP Photo)

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One of two U.S. Liberator bomber planes of the 15th Air Force is ablaze as it careens into an overturned position after being hit by German flak during an attack on Blechhammer, Germany, Dec. 6, 1944 during World War II. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Air Force)

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On August 24, 1942, while operating off the coast of the Solomon Islands, the USS Enterprise suffers a heavy attack by Japanese bombers. Several direct hits on the flight deck kill 74 men, among them the photographer who took this picture. (AP Photo)

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Sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. (AP Photo)

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A column of German prisoners are searched by a U.S. military patrol as they arrive at Maugeuge, Belgium, in July 1945. Seen in the foreground is a pile of confiscated items, including a photograph of "The Fuehrer" Adolf Hitler lying on top. (AP Photo)

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Nazi German prisoners of war, who surrendered to General Patton's 3rd Army, form an endless line on their march through farmland East of the Rhine, on April 21, 1945, in the final days of World War II. (AP Photo)

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While under attack of heavy machine gun fire from the German coastal defense forces, these American soldiers wade ashore off the ramp of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft on June 6, 1944, during the Allied landing operations at the Normandy. (AP Photo)

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U.S. Marines receive communion from a Marine chaplain on Iwo Jima, the largest of the Japanese Volcano Islands, on March 3, 1945 during World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)

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A Belgian refugee family is seen walking in front of a destroyed house during the Nazi German invasion of Belgium in 1940. The location is unknown. (AP Photo)

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U.S. soldiers, bearded and weary, plod along a road toward an American Base of Operations in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in Feb. 1943. They have been relieved after a 21-day period of fighting the Japanese in World War II. (AP Photo)

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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects damage to the House of Commons after Germany's May 10, 1941 air raid on London, England. The German Luftwaffe bombed the English cities and civilian territories in attempt to demoralize the people during World War II. (AP Photo)

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The destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit by a bomb during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. (AP Photo)

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About 350 miles from the Japanese mainland, U.S. invasion forces establish a beachhead on Okinawa island, on April 13. 1945. Pouring out war supplies and military equipment, the landing crafts fill the sea to the horizon, where stand the battleships of the U.S. fleet. (AP Photo)

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U.S. Gen Douglas MacArthur observes a military operation from a B-17 Flying Fortress gun port on Sept. 5, 1943 during World War II. In the exercise, 1,500 paratroopers landed in Markham Valley near Nadzab to entrap Japanese forces at Lae and Salamaua section in New Guinea. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps)

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With fighter plane flying overhead, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands silhouetted at an unknown location, on January 16, 1941. (AP Photo)

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Two U.S. Marines, slumped in death, lie where they fell on Iwo Jima, among the first victims of Japanese gunfire as the American conquest of the strategic Japanese Volcano Island begins on Feb. 19, 1945 during World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)

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German soldiers are seen as they move through a burning Norwegian village, in April 1940, during the Nazi German invasion of the Scandinavian country. (AP Photo)

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After he was wounded by a shrapnel, Pvt. Roy Humphrey, of Toledo, Ohio, is being given blood plasma by his comrade Pfc. Harvey White, from Minneapolis, Minn., at an unknown location in Sicily, on August 9, 1943. A group of local inhabitants, sitting on the doorstep of their home, is watching the scene. (AP Photo)

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A French girl places flowers over the freshly-dug grave of an American Airborne trooper as a token of appreciation of arrival of Allied liberators on the northern coast of France, June 12, 1944. The trooper was killed when his glider landed in the Normandy area of France in World War II. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)

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U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf as they land at Normandy in the days following the Allies' June 1944, D-Day invasion of occupied France. (AP Photo)

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Lithuanian Jews are seen from behind as they display their compulsory "J" badges parting them from the Aryan population on the streets of Wilno, Lithuania, July 25, 1941 during World War II. (AP Photo)

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Looking north from 44th Street, New York's Times Square is packed Monday, May 7, 1945, with crowds celebrating the news of Germany's unconditional surrender in World War II. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)

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A Japanese destroyer is sinking after being hit by a torpedo, in June 1942, photographed through the periscope of the USS Nautilus or USS Wahoo. (AP Photo)

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Nurses are seen clearing debris from one of the wards in St. Peter's Hospital, Stepney, East London, April 19, 1941 during World War II. Four hospitals were among the buildings hit by Nazi bombs during a full scale attack on the British capital. (AP Photo)

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A U.S. Marine is seen as a silhouette while he dashes through Japanese machine gun fire while crossing a draw on Okinawa, May 10, 1945. After the Marines sustained more than 125 casualties in eight hours in the attempt to cross this draw, the men named the location "Death Valley." (AP Photo)

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Silhouetted against the sun, men of the 124th Cavalry Regiment, 5332nd Brigade (Prov), are seen at Pandu Ghat on October 25, 1944, under way from Ramgarh Training Center to Myitkyina, in northern Burma. (AP Photo)

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The first wave of U.S. Infantrymen leave their higgins boats and race through the surf for the beach during the invasion of Wakde Island, Dutch New Guinea, in 1944 during World War II. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps)

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As protection against a possible air raid, sandbags are piled as high as the second story of the telephone company's building in San Francisco, on December 13, 1941. (AP Photo)

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Members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion, on June 6, 1944. The men reached the zone code-named Utah Beach, near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, on a life raft, after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses. (AP Photo)

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Jimmy Stewart is fingerprinted by Sgt. Frank Zapata as he is inducted into the U.S. Army in this March 1941 photo. (AP Photo)

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A Japanese prisoners of war sits behind barbed wire after he and some 300 others were captured by the 6th U.S. Marine Division within the last 24 hours of the battle of Okinawa, in June, 1945. (AP Photo)

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Following in the cover of a tank, American infantrymen secure an area on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, in March 1944, after Japanese forces infiltrated their lines during the night. (AP Photo)

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This April 16, 1945 photo shows inmates of the Nazi German KZ Buchenwald inside their barrack, a few days after U.S troops of the 80th Division liberated this concentration camp near Weimar. The young man seventh from left in the middle row bunk is Elie Wiesel, who would later become an author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. (AP Photo)

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The dead German soldier seen in this June 1944 photo was one of the "last stand" defenders of German-held Cherbourg. According to Capt. Earl Topley, right, who led one of the first American units into the city on June 27, he is the shooter responsible for killing three of his men. (AP Photo)

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U.S. Marines approach the Japanese occupied Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942 during World War II. (AP Photo)

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Storm Troopers of the National Socialist Party march in columns through the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, on Sept. 11, 1938 as part of the Nazi congress festivities. (AP Photo)

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Standing among other residents of Marseille, a Frenchman weeps as he watches the flags of France's historic regiments depart into exile in North Africa, on February 19, 1941, during the Nazi German occupation in World War II. (AP Photo)

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