World War II is the largest and most severe war in human history so far. This world-wide war has been involved in more than 60 countries and regions. The warring sides mobilized 110 million troops, affecting more than 2 billion people, about 70 million people died and 130 million injured.
Let us relive that war-torn era through a set of World War II real photos that were colored later.
On December 21, 1944, soldiers of the 413th Infantry Regiment of the 104th Infantry Division of the US Army lie on the railroad tracks to rest after the battle.
In December 1944, near Grand Menier, Belgium, two American soldiers hid in bunkers and opened fire on the opposite German positions.
On December 7, 1941, after the US Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese army, a fire extinguishing boat was extinguishing the fire on the West Virginia , which was hit by a bomb.
Five months after the Pearl Harbor incident, maintenance personnel found the bodies of 70 sailors in the watertight cabin of the West Virginia. According to the marks left by the sailors on the walls inside the watertight cabin, they persisted for a full 16 days, but in the end they did not persist until they were successfully rescued.
World War II Pacific Battle, an injured U.S. military Marine soldier lay in a bunker, and his beloved dog was silently accompanied by him waiting for medical soldiers to be treated.
In the summer of 1941 World War II Soviet battlefield , three soldiers in camouflage uniforms of the Totemkov Division of the Third SS of Nazi Germany opened fire at the burning village in the distance with MG34 machine guns.
World War II Normandy Battle, after landing on the beach, US soldiers set up radios in the trenches, one of the soldiers was using the hand-crank generator to generate electricity to the radio.
US soldiers held a puppy with a German helmet, and the owner of the puppy had died in the war.
In the winter of 1941, in the Battle of Moscow on the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II, after a fierce battle, a team of surviving German soldiers were exhausted and repaired in the snow.
In the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II in 1943, several German soldiers were repairing an anchored tiger tank in the Battle of Kursk. The Battle of Kursk was one of the biggest battles in World War II.
In the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II in 1943, two female Soviet snipers were sniping the enemy in the trenches. The female soldier in the distance was using a Soviet helmet as bait to determine the position of the enemy soldiers.
On July 21, 1944, after the US military rushes to land on Guam , two American soldiers put an American flag on the beach.
Guam is located at the southernmost tip of the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific. It was the seat of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Command in the early days of World War II. It was occupied by the Japanese army in December 1941. On July 21, 1944, the U.S. military recaptured Guam after fierce battle.
In 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa, a friend of a US soldier was killed in the battle. After hearing the news, he was heartbroken and his comrades next to him kept comforting him. .
Okinawa Battle was a battle between the United States and Japan in Okinawa in Ryukyu Islands during World War II. It was the largest amphibious landing operation in World War II Pacific battlefield and the bloodiest battle in Pacific battlefield .
In 1945, in Belgium Hufalitz, the US military built a temporary bridge on a river to facilitate the passage of mobile troops.
On New Year's Eve in 1944, three American soldiers were showing the words they wrote on a shell "Dedicated to Adolf , Unhappy New Year".
April 5, 1945, the Pacific battlefield of World War II, Battle of Iwo Jima . The Japanese army, who were hungry and cold, had ammunition and food exhausted, emerged from the hidden cave and surrendered to the US army.
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan, in order to make Japan surrender unconditionally, the United States threw the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima . The picture shows the mushroom cloud rising after the atomic bomb explodes.
On May 2, 1945, under the command of Marshal Zhukov , the Soviet army finally completely occupied Berlin after fierce battle. Soviet soldiers climbed to the top of a building, waved red flags, and fired guns to celebrate victory.
Later in World War II, the British Seventh Armored Division passed through a small town near the Rhine in Germany, which is only 161 kilometers away from Berlin, the capital of Germany.
In the late World War II, after Belgium was liberated by the Allied forces, a Belgian girl holding the British flag stood on a British tank surrounded by British soldiers.
During the Battle of Normandy, Allied soldiers escorted a team of surrendered German soldiers on foot to the prisoner-of-war camp. A jeep happened to pass by them. Sitting on the jeep was General Montgomery , a famous British general in World War II.
The 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army passed through the streets destroyed by the war.
