Watch WWII unfold day by day through original Cabinet Papers from 1940 held at The National Archives.
Russian soldiers race through rubble late in the Battle of Stalingrad, 1943. It was meant to be Germany’s crippling blow against the USSR — Russia still an ally, at that point, with America and Britain against the Axis powers — and a personal humiliation for Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the city’s namesake. Instead, it turned into the bloodiest battle in human history — between the Soviets and the Germans, anywhere from 1.5 to 2 million casualites — and marked the beginning of the end for Hitler’s war machine.
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A milkman delivering milk in a London street devastated during a German bombing raid. Firemen are dampening down the ruins behind him. (ph. Fred Morley)
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The following press clipping is on the back of the photograph:
Night Over Europe
Enemy tracer bullets weave an intricate pattern as they shoot towards the planes of the Royal Air Force during a night attack on Hamburg. This picture was made from one of the raiding planes.
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