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Three men of an American artillery brigade are seen operating a howitzer as they bombard the German forces retreating, near Carentan, France, on July 11, 1944. (AP Photo)

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U.S. soldiers of Pennsylvania's 28th Infantry Division march along the Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe in the background, on Aug. 29, 1944, four days after the liberation of Paris, France. World War II began in September 1939 with Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland. He launched the Holocaust and history's most destructive war, leaving 17,000,000 soldiers and 60,000,000 civilians dead. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)

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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, September 23, 1944. Even though the bomb-shattered roof is strewn around the sanctuary, pews on the left appear undamaged. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

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Jack Benny, violinist and comedian, is carried on the shoulders of a group of soldiers July 4,1945 through a crowd of 40,000 GIs. The GIs were attending Benny's show for servicemen at the Stadium at Neunberg, Germany. (AP Photo/William C. Allen)

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Smoke and flames from neighboring buildings surround St. Paul's Cathedral in the aftermath of another blitz over London, England, May 11, 1941 during World War II. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth)

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A Russian soldier, right, hugs a photographer from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, which was attached to the British 2nd Army, May 1945, Grabow, Germany. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

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Following heavy artillery raids by the 63rd Division, American infantrymen of the 255th regiment move down a street, looking out for German snipers in Waldenburg, on April 16, 1945. (AP Photo)

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Londoners sleep on the platform and on the train tracks at Aldwych Underground station,London, during heavy all night Nazi bombing raids, Oct. 8, 1940. (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/Sargent, US Coast Guard)

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After the U.S. 7th Army captured this mammouth German 274-mm railroad gun in an advance near Rentwertshausen, men line up to pose on the barrel, on April 10, 1945. Although of an 1887 French design, the gun still has the ability to strike a powerfull blow. (AP Photo)

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With a fighter plane flying overhead, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands silhouetted at an undisclosed location, on January 16, 1941. (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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Some of the more than 1,000 soldiers found in a German Prisoner of War camp captured by American troops near Sarreguemines, France, look through the barbed wire on Dec. 20, 1944 during World War II. The camp held Russians, Italians, Serbians, Poles and Frenchmen. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)

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American troops rest in the Aachen Stadt forest in Germany on Sept. 20, 1944, during World War II. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

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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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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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An East London family moves to safer quarters after losing their home on the opening night of the Blitz. The first German air raid on central London took place on the night of August 23, and the British retaliated with an attack on Berlin two days later. The Blitz, Hitler's attempt to demoralize the English people through concentrated bombing of population centers, particularly London, and industrial facilities, began on the night of September 7, 1940, and lasted until May 11 the next year. (AP Staff/AP Archives)

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Pfc. Harvey White, of Minneapolis, Minn., gives blood plasma to Pvt. Roy Humphrey, of Toledo, Ohio, wounded by shrapnel at an unknown location in Sicily, on August 9, 1943. A group of locals, sitting on the doorstep of their home, is watching the scene. (AP Photo)

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A displaced Belgian 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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Actress-comedian Martha Raye entertains servicemen of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force on a makeshift stage on the edge of the Sahara Desert in North Africa in 1943 during World War II. (AP Photo)

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth walks through the rubble in front of her husband, King George VI, as they view damage to their home after a bombing raid at Buckingham Palace in London, England, Sept. 11, 1940, during Word War II. The workers are unidentified. (AP Photo)

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German school teachers and children wear gas masks as they are drilled in how to conduct themselves in the event of a war in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 31, 1939. (AP Photo)

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Martin B-26 Marauder bombers, of the U.S. 9th Air Force, return to England from a mission over Charleroi, Belgium, April 18, 1944. The bombers' targets were a railway yard and power station. Allied bombing missions against communication and transportation targets in northern Europe were important to the success of the Normandy invasion in June. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Wever)

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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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Occupying German troops shop for familiar tourist souvenirs in October 1940, in Paris, France. The German occupation of Paris, which lasted until 1944, was relatively peaceful, and the city escaped the war more or less unscathed. (AP Photo)

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An unidentified woman mourns her sister killed by German machine-gun fire while she was picking potatoes in a field outside Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939. (AP Photo/Julien Bryan)

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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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German infantrymen, armed with rifles and grenades, rush forward into action at an unknown location along the Eastern Front line, in October 1941, during the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union. (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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Comedian and actor Bob Hope entertains the U.S.A.A.F. personnel crowd on an American airfield in Britain during World War II on July 27, 1943. Hope is on his United Service Organizations (USO) tour to entertain troops overseas. (AP Photo)

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An American troop convoy heads for the front along a mountain road near Nicosia, Sicily, Italy, August 1943. (AP Photo)

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A U.S. reconnaissance unit searches for enemy snipers in Messina, Sicily, Italy, Aug. 1943. (AP Photo)

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An Italian woman kisses the hand of a soldier of the U.S. Fifth Army after troops move into Naples in their invasion and advance northward in Italy, Oct. 10, 1943 during World War II. (AP Photo)

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Canadian infantrymen of the Carleton and York Regiment advance under sniper fire on an uphill backstreet in Campochiaro, Italy, on October 23, 1944. (AP Photo).

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Allied shells are bombarding Nazi German positions at Monte Cassino and Cassino city, Italy, in February 1944, during World War II. (AP Photo)

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A boarding party from the USS Pillsbury (DE 133) works to secure a tow line to the newly captured German U-boat U-505 on June 4, 1944. Note the large U.S. flag flying from the periscope. (AP Photo)

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A crowd cheers as soldiers of the U.S. Fifth Army make their way through Rome, Italy, June 5, 1944. Americans first entered Rome the night of June 4 and carried on in pursuit of the German army while most civilians stayed indoors. When the rest of the Allied troops appeared in force the following day, a festive mood took hold. (AP Photo)

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U.S. serviceman attend a Protestant service aboard a landing craft before the D-Day invasion on the coast of France June 5, 1944. (AP Photo/Pete Carroll)

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U.S. paratroopers fix their static lines before a jump before dawn over Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944, in France. The decision to launch the airborne attack in darkness instead of waiting for first light was probably one of the few Allied missteps on June 6, and there was much to criticize both in the training and equipment given to paratroopers and glider-borne troops of the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions. Improvements were called for after the invasion; the hard-won knowledge would be used to advantage later. (AP Photo/Army Signal Corps)

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British troops move on the Normandy shore from their landing craft on June 6, 1944 during the D-Day invasion of German occupied France during World War II. (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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American soldiers lie on stretchers and sit propped against a sea wall awaiting transportation back to England for treatment after being wounded in the Normandy invasion, northern France, June 1944 during World War II. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)

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U.S. troops and equipment are on the move at an established beachhead in the Normandy region of France, on June 10, 1944. (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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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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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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A wounded Nazi German soldier is being towed by his companions on their way to a prisoner of war camp, in Cherbourg, France, in July 1944. (AP Photo)

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Covered with the Star-Spangled Banner, the body of an U.S. Army officer rests amidst the ruins of St. Croix church, while his men hold position at their machine gun in a bomb crater, on July 23, 1944, in St. Lo, France. (AP Photo)

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Members of the French Resistance, the underground civilian movement organized to fight the German occupation, carry French and British flags as they collect medical supplies for villages to the south after the British liberation of Caen July 27, 1944, Caen, France. The Allies had hoped to take Caen on D-Day, but tough resistance made that impossible until late July. (AP Photo)

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Frenchman kick and jeer German prisoners as they are led through the town of Jouy-en-Josas, 11 miles from Paris, August 24, 1944, one day before the French capital was liberated. (AP Photo/Dan Grossi)

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