WWII Pictures

This day in 1942, German forces invaded Tunisia in response to the Allied invasion of French North Africa. An airlift began that carried over 15,000 men, and ships brought 176 tanks, 131 artillery pieces, and 1,152 vehicles. #WW2pic.twitter.com/ztB0c1KQY5

This day in 1938, German diplomat Ernst vom Rath died in Paris, fatally wounded by Polish Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan. The Nazis used his assassination as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht. It is generally assumed that Grynszpan did not survive World War II. #WW2pic.twitter.com/YXYla6aRLi

This night in 1938, "Kristallnacht", a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany, carried out by Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces and German civilians. Over 90 Jews were murdered, 30,000 arrested, 7,000 Jewish businesses were either destroyed or damaged. #WW2pic.twitter.com/0tH7KrV0A8

This day in 1958, men from the British Petroleum discovered the wreck of US bomber B-24 "Lady Be Good", which disappeared without a trace in the Libyan desert on April 4, 1943. The survivors died in the desert trying to walk to safety. #WW2pic.twitter.com/Z1OG8URkwn

This day in 1939, an assassination attempt on Hitler by Georg Elser failed at the annual commemoration of the Beer Hall Putsch, München. Hitler escaped death because he had ended his speech early and left the building 8 minutes before the explosion. #WW2pic.twitter.com/NZawupKgE5

This day in 1942, Allied troops launched Operation Torch, invasion of French North Africa, and the first mass involvement of US troops in the European–North African Theatre. #WW2pic.twitter.com/IuCP6lJCSj

This day in 1942, after three months of slow advance, the Germans reached the Volga river, capturing 90% of Stalingrad. Hitler claimed that the city was almost entirely in German hands with "only a few small pockets left." #WW2pic.twitter.com/BR8np6LpTW

This day in 1941, Stalin ordered the traditional October Revolution Parade while Axis forces are near Moscow. Stalin delivered a speech to the soldiers on the parade on Red Square who would go to battle immediately after the parade. #WW2pic.twitter.com/JM1jkN710u

Churchill tanks of the Soviet 49th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment during the liberation of Leningrad, January 1944. #WW2pic.twitter.com/6TiOVEZpJz

This day in 1943, Red Army forces captured the city of Kiev. Although the Soviets had failed to break the rail link with Army Group Center or envelop Army Group South, they had broken the Dnieper line, and inflicted significant casualties on the 4th Panzer Army. #WW2pic.twitter.com/8Ot5tq5wBG

This day in 1944, the German garrison at Middelburg, the Netherlands, surrendered to Canadian and British forces, marking the end of the Battle of the Scheldt. At the end of the five-week offensive, the Canadian First Army had taken over 40,000 German prisoners. #WW2pic.twitter.com/2VdlM0oKqH

This day in 1944, German Wehrmacht forces pushed the Soviets back out of East Prussia at Goldap. The 2 to 3 week battle cost the Red Army nearly 80,000 casualties, including 16,800 dead. The Soviet onslaught in East Prussia was inevitable in January 1945. #WW2pic.twitter.com/wucq64rmNy

This day in 1942, the German advance in the Caucasus is halted by Soviet forces at Gizel, near Western Asia. German forces were compelled to withdraw from the area that winter, 1943, as Operation Little Saturn threatened to cut them off. #WW2pic.twitter.com/iA0iblonLy

This day in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican businessman Wendell Willkie to be reelected for an unprecedented third term in office. Roosevelt promised there would be no involvement in foreign wars if he were re-elected, until December 1941. #WW2pic.twitter.com/KH9CnjLlAO

A Soviet ISU-122 self-propelled gun guards German prisoners of war after the battle of Berlin, May 1945. #WW2pic.twitter.com/e1M6MzPXlK

A British marine crew mans the four barrelled two pounder Mark VIII 'pom-pom' gun of a battleship while on active service afloat in Scapa Flow. #WW2pic.twitter.com/UCSnBXtH03

This day in 1944, Allied forces cleared the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands of German forces. Major cities such as Breda and Tilburg were liberated. Large parts of the country had to wait until April and May 1945. #WW2pic.twitter.com/HxjVMHSXh8

The wreckage of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter on transport past the Palace of Westminster in London, UK, 1940. #WW2pic.twitter.com/54UyYoMI2v

US Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers lined-up on the airfield of Iwo Jima, April 1945. #WW2pic.twitter.com/5Onrpc3p8y

Two US soldiers armed with an M1917 Browning machine gun and M3 Grease Gun in Normandy, summer 1944. #WW2pic.twitter.com/znvEF9dHWD