Australian soldiers from A Company, 2/11th Battalion resting on a riverbank before attacking Japanese positions near Matapau in New Guinea on January 2, 1945. #History #WWII

An Italian Bersaglieri (Marksman) on a motorcycle with a Breda 30 light machine gun during the Western Desert Campaign near Sidi Omar, #Libya, in November 1940. #History #WWII

A Polish resistance fighter armed with flamethrower, 1944. #History #WWII

Wing Commander J E ‘Johnnie’ Johnson, commanding No. 144 (Canadian) Wing, on the wing of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX with his Labrador retriever Sally at Bazenville Airfield, Normandy, on July 31, 1944. #History #WWII

#ThisDayInHistory: The Second World War begins as soldiers of the German Wehrmacht tear down a red and white barrier at the German-Polish border during the Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. #History #WWII

Portrait of American Sergeant John H. Parks of Mill Creek, Indiana, a tank commander of the 3rd Platoon, B Company, 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, during the Battle of the Bulge on December 10, 1944. Parks was KIA in Luxembourg just 13 days after this photo was

A Grumman F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter aircraft on the flight deck of USS Saratoga (CV-3) in November, 1943. #History #WWII

This Day: On September 2, 1945, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by representatives of the Empire of Japan and the major warring powers aboard Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, marking the end of hostilities in World War II. #History #WWII

Russian citizens thank Red Army soldiers after they lift the blockade and siege on Leningrad on January 27, 1944. #History #WWII

U.S. tanker SS Pennsylvania Sun burns after being torpedoed by German submarine U-571 in the Gulf of Mexico on July 15, 1942. #History #WWII

Aerial attack on German U-1229 in the North Atlantic by TBF Avengers and F4F Wildcats of Composite Squadron VC-42 flying from escort carrier USS Bogue on August 20, 1944. U-1229 was sunk with 18 killed and 41 rescued. #History #WWII

RAF pilot Francis Mellersh gets a haircut during a break between sweeps at Fairlop airfield in Essex with a Supermarine Spitfire is in the background in November, 1942. #History #WWII

A U.S. Marine tries to communicate with two Japanese child soldiers captured on Okinawa in June, 1945. #History #WWII

French Colonial troops man a machine gun post in a forward part of the line on February 16, 1942. #History #WWII

The U.S. Pacific fleet getting ready for battle during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944. #History #WWII

U.S. #Army Cpt. J. McMahon and an unidentified American soldier of the Ninth U.S. Army carry a small German girl across the destroyed bridge at Tangermünde over the River Elbe in May, 1945. #History #WWII

Soviet gunners of the 1st Belorussian Front prepare to fire a 152 mm howitzer-gun at the Polish city of Poznań in February, 1945. #History #WWII