greatest generation

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President Truman announces Japan’s surrender. I thought this was another interesting shot involving reporters and a turning point in history. Look at the ones up front with their notepads ready, how attentive everyone in the room is, and how manypeople are in the room.

"World War Two was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century. It redefined human cruelty but also embodied amazing courage and compassion. It gave rise to some of the greatest villains and their atrocities but it also allowed heroes to demonstrate immeasurable depths of kindness."

— Ray Harris Jr.

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This is a little different than the pictures we normally share here but I thought it was interesting. This is a group of White House reporters “dashing” to the telephones after first being notified that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. With information traveling so much faster these days, I think it’s hard for us to imagine what it was like for FDR and his administration to try to get a handle on the situation.

German newsreel about the invasion of Normandy

"Our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making. Perhaps we will be forgiven if we claim we are about midway to our objective."

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Admiral Chester Nimitz

June 1942

(Source: worldwar-2.net)

I’m proud of my two soldiers

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Members of a British RAF bombing squadron give the thumbs up after an attack on German warships off Bergen, Norway. April 22, 1940.

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75 Panama City, Florida WWII by rich701 on Flickr.

(Source: senanima)