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Authors: Richard Holmes

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The USAAF's first raid into Germany was on the Focke-Wulf factory at Marienburg on 9 October 1943.

Interviewee, then Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris.

It wasn't only the SS – German Army massacre of Jews at Katowice, Poland, 8 September 1939.

Massacre of the Mizocz ghetto by an Einzatsgruppe, 14 October 1942. Interviewee Rivka Yoselevska survived an identical atrocity.

A forced show of unity between Generals Giraud and de Gaulle at the Casablanca Conference, January 1943.

Never forgiven: de Gaulle is not pleased as Paris cheers Churchill, November 1944.

Changing of the Guard: Attlee, Truman and Stalin at Potsdam, July 1945.

Carnage on the beach at Iwo Jima, 19 February 1944, with Mount Suribachi looming in the background. The raising of the flag on top of it four days later created one of the iconic photographs of the war.

Brigadier Orde Wingate
(centre),
interviewee Mike Calvert and others during the first Chindit expedition, Burma.

General Sir William Slim, 'Bill' Slim or 'Uncle Bill' to his many admirers.

End-game in Europe German soldier advances in the Battle of the Bulge.

Comradely reassurance, Juno Beach.

GI next to the death train that evacuated 3,000 prisoners, most of whom died, from Buchenwald to Dachau in April 1945.

Some of the SS guards shot out-of-hand by American troops who liberated Dachau on 29 April 1945. Others were beaten to death, with the participation of camp survivors.

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