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Authors: Paul Kennedy
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The Casablanca Conference, January 1943 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Sinking British Merchant Ship (Getty Images)
Suda Bay (Imperial War Museum, London)
German Panzers in Ukraine, September 1941 (Ullstein Bild/The Granger Collection, New York)
Direct hit of B-17 over Germany (Jim Highland, 487th Bomb Group)
The Dieppe Raid, August 1942 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Tarawa, November 1943 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Battle of Midway, June 1942 (Getty Images)
Battle of El Alamein, September 1942 (Imperial War Museum, London)
SS
Ohio
arriving at Malta, August 1942 (Ian Marshall)
American soldiers landing in Casablanca, November 1942 (Getty Images)
The Cavity Magnetron (Imperial War Museum, London)
Vickers Wellington bomber (E G Bowen,
Radar Days
. Bristol Adam Hilger, 1987, p. 110)
HMS
Mermaid
(Private Collection)
The Hedgehog on the HMS
Westcott
(Imperial War Museum, London)
USS
Bogue
(United States National Archives)
Capt. F. J. Walker (Imperial War Museum, London)
The Leigh Light (Imperial War Museum, London)
PBY Catalina (Imperial War Museum, London)
USS
Wasp
loading Spitfires in the Clyde (Ian Marshall)
HMS
Victorious
joining USS
Saratoga
in Noumea Bay (Ian Marshall)
USS
Essex,
May 1943 (United States National Archives)
HMS
Anson,
Tyneside (Ian Marshall)
Rasputitsa in the Eastern Front (AKG-Images, London)
Battle of Kursk (AKG-Images, London)
Early T-34 tank (IB-Russian State Archives of Cine-Photo Documents)
Advanced T-34/85 tank (AKG-Images, London)
German Heinkel 111s (Imperial War Museum, London)
Japanese Mitsubishi G4M (Getty Images)
RAF Lancaster bomber (Getty Images)
Wreck of battleship
Tirpitz
(Getty Images)
B-17 with fighter cover (United States Air Force Archives)
B-29 Superfortress (National Museum of the US Air Force)
Ronnie Harker (Rolls-Royce plc Archives)
Captain Pete Ellis (United States Marine Corps Archives)
Guadalcanal, September 1942 (Getty Images)
Major General Sir Percy Hobart (Imperial War Museum, London)
Hobart’s Funnies (Imperial War Museum, London)
Admiral Ben Moreell (United States Naval Institute)
Mulberry harbor, Arromanches, June 1944 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Messerschmitt Me 262 (Getty Images)
Me 262 with bombs (Manfred Jurleit,
Strahljäger Me 262 im Einsatz.
Berlin Transpress, 1993, p. 90)
Montgomery and Zhukov in Berlin (Getty Images)
German prisoners of war marching (Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archives at Krasnogorsk)
The Rapid German Expansion in the East, July–December 1941 (Wikicommons)
British Landings in Madagascar, May 1942 (Sigrid von Wendel)
The Anglo-American Maritime Routes for Operation Torch, November 1942 (Sigrid von Wendel)
The D-Day Invasions, June 6, 1944 (Department of History, United States Military Academy)
The Four Options for Allied Counterattack Against Tokyo After 1942–1943 (Sigrid von Wendel)
The Geography of History: Allied Positional Assets in World War II (Sigrid von Wendel)