Two servicemen sit on the wreckage of a bomber after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese-controlled areas of China
Iwo Jima, February 1945 – U.S. Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi. Image: Joe Rosenthal/AP
Iwo Jima: U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels landing supplies on the Marine beachhead, February 1945. Image: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Anti-tank gun fires against Japanese cave positions in the north face of Mount Suribachi, February 1945
Japanese expansion in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
US troops move through Porto Empedocle on the south coast of Sicily, July 27, 1943.
Fake identity card created for Major Martin with a photo of Ronnie Reed (AP Photo)
Planning the Invasion of Sicily: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, center, meets with Allied leaders, including Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, second from right, at their headquarters in Algiers , May 27, 1943 (AP Photo)
Sicily: A US tank rolls off a landing craft, July 1943. (AP Photo)
