These gorgeous colorized photos of the front lines of WW2 bring the conflict to life
This 1941 photo shows a German soldier surrendering to a Soviet troop during the Battle of Moscow.
Canadian infantrymen advance up stairs while dodging sniper fire in Campochiaro, Italy in 1943.
This 1944 photos shows US troops on a patrol in France.
The crew of the US Army 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division pose underneath their tank near the French town of Marigny.
A view from a broken window of US Marines firing at Japanese soldiers hiding behind debris in Saipan in 1944.
Three French boys stare at a destroyed Nazi Panther tank near Normandy, France in 1944.
US Army troops examine a one-man submarine that washed up on the Anzio beachhead in Italy. According to The National World War II Museum, the submarine was converted from a torpedo, with the warhead chamber replaced with a cockpit. US troops captured the 17-year-old Nazi pilot when the beached unterseeboot, or U-boat, was found in April 1944.
In this iconic photo, Captain Thomas Garahan of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 398th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division raises an American flag that was secretly made by a local French girl from a store in Bitche, France. The infantry division was later referred to as the "Sons of Bitche," after liberating the region in March 1945.
Two soldiers from C Company, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, smoke cigarettes while looking out at the war-torn city of Geich, Germany.
US Medics help wounded soldiers on Omaha beach in this photo taken on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Crew members stand next to a B-26 Marauder, a twin-engined medium bomber used in Western Europe during World War 2.
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