U.S. National Archives photos from the 1940s

Haile Selassie on USS Quincy, 1945

Aerial view of Trier-Quint, Germany, on 25 January 1945

This Marine, member of the "Fighting Fourth Marine Division," threatens the enemy even in death. His bayonet fixed at the Charge, he was killed by intense Japanese sniper fire as he advanced.

Wounded once, this German would not quit and was grenaded to death. Germany, ca. April 1945.

Photograph of the Duke of Windsor and an unidentified man (possibly M. J. Balfour), outside the White House on the date of the announcement of the Japanese surrender ending World War II.

Japanese War Crimes Trials. Manila

May 1945 - This Modernistic Looking Dwelling Area Served As Billets For German Soliders Outside Of Leipzig, Germany. Note Bomb Craters And Artillery Shell Holes From American Guns And Planes. Picture Made From A 9Th Af Plane

Photograph of Newly Arrived WAC Officers

Iceberg crosses path of U. S. Antarctic Expedition. The USS Yancy (left center) and the USS Merrick (right center) follow the US Coast Guard icebreaker Northwind through icefloes and past huge tabular icebergs in an Antarcticsea.

State Summary of War Casualties from World War II for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel from Tennessee

Home and family of Monzel Cox in company housing project. In foreground of picture is caked mud left by flood of around June 1, 1946, which forced family to move their furniture and household goods to second floor. Pursglove Coal Mining Company, Pursglove #2 Mine, Pursglove, Monongalia County, West

Wash water supply for mine. Picture shows water flowing into reservoir, pump house and water storage house. (Upper right) Pyramid Coal Company, Victory Mine, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.

Home of Manuel Alcala, miner, living in company housing project. At left center of picture Mr. Alcala is seen excavating for cesspool which he will install himself. National Fuel Company, Monarch Mine, Broomfield, Boulder County, Colorado.

Mrs. Leanore Miller, widow of a miner, with a picture of her husband. She said, "there's more widows and orphens in this holler than men at work". Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company, Belva Mine, abandoned after explosion in Dec. 1945, Four Mile, Bell County, Kentucky.

Exterior of home of miner, interior is shown in photograph NWDNS-245- MS-535L. Hi Heat Coal Company, Rains #2 Mine, Rains, Carbon County, Utah.

R.N., Hazel Jamison, adjusts the X-Ray machine in company dispensary for X-Ray photograph of patient's arm. Koppers Coal Company, Kopperston Mines, Kopperston, Wyoming County, West Virginia.

Bedroom in home of Murray Price, miner, six people sleep in these two beds. One larger boy is missing in picture. He sleeps in a bed on right. Black Mountain Corporation, 30-31 Mines, Kenvir, Harlan County, Kentucky.

Handling serpents at the Pentecostal Church of God. Company funds have not been used in this church and it is not on company property. Most of the members are coal miners and their families. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky.

Row of houses in company housing project. This area was flooded about June 1, 1946, when storm sewer (left center in picture) broke. Several families were forced to move belongings to second floors of houses. Pursglove Coal Mining Company, Pursglove #2 Mine, Pursglove, Monongalia County, West Virgin

Conveyor for coal from shuttle car dump to tipple (not pictured but to right). Keener Mining Company, Keener #3 Mine, Bokoshe, Le Flore County, Oklahoma.

Credit department of the company. Miners are pictured drawing money in advance of payday. Inland Steel Company, Wheelwright #1 & 2 Mines, Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky.

Photograph of Field Marshal Harold Alexander laying a wreath at a Canadian monument to World War I veterans in Arlington National Cemetery.

Photograph of a group of unidentified dignitaries with a wreath in front of the statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial.

Jacob A. Malik, representative of the Soviet Union on the United Nations Security Council, raises his hand to cast the only dissenting vote for the resolution calling on the Chinese Communists to withdraw troops from Korea. Lake Success, New York, December 1950. International News Photos.