The rise of a German flying boat, BV.222 "Viking" from the surface of the Elbe, during tests.

July,1942. "Training high school boys to identify planes. There's no question about these young people's ability to recognize airplanes by their silhouettes. They're learning this and other essential facts of aviation at Weequahic High School, Newark, New Jersey, in a course designed to teach students the fundamentals of flying." Office of War Information photo.

Discharged Japanese soldiers crowd around trains at Hiroshima Railroad Station as they take advantage of free transportation to their homes after the end of the war. 8th of September, 1945. After Japan's capitulation, more than 5,400,000 Japanese soldiers and 1,800,000 Japanese sailors were taken prisoner by the Allies.The damage done to Japan's infrastructure, combined with a severe famine in 1946.