When six U.S. Marines raised a flag over Iwo Jima in February 1945, they were laying claim to the slopes of a mountain, part of a strategically important chain of volcanic islands south of Tokyo. The Ogasawara Islands, also known as the Bonin Islands, were largely uninhabited. But during World War II, they offered a …
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Photo Red Army Berlin 1945
Red Army soldiers hoisting a hammer-and-sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945.