First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez (US Marine Corps) leads his platoon over the seawall during the Inchon Landings, September 1950. An iconic captured moment of the Korean War, Lopez would die in action just minutes later.

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The Original Anti Fascists - Normandy - 1944

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This week 80 years ago 100,000 Allied soldiers stormed Normandy to free Europe from Facist tyranny.

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Five years after the end of World War II, American soldiers were fighting again, the time in Korea. Here Marine Capt. Francis “Ike” Fenton pondered his fate and the fate of his men after being told that his company was nearly out of ammunition, 1950.

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World War II, 1940s: The Pictures They Don't Often Show...

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Marine approaches a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima, March 16, 1945. The soldier had been buried for 36 hours in a shell hole, pretending to be dead, with a live grenade just inches from his hand.

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The original anti-fascist movement prepares to disrupt a large Nazi gathering, 1944

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"Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death" — Photo taken by Robert F. Sargent, a chief photographer's mate, US Coast Guard during Operation Overlord at Normandy Beach, France — June 6, 1944 — Audio of First Eye Witness Account on D-Day from 4:15AM Below

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An overwhelmed US Marine is pictured while weeping among ruins during the Battle of Peleliu. September 26th, 1944.

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Dwight Eisenhower giving orders to D-Day troops: “Full victory— nothing else.” (June 6th, 1944)

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Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944

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"Stand to the End" by Emmanuil Noevich Evzerikhin (1944)

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D-Day "jaws of death" June 6 1944