Double Victory: Minorities and Women During World War II
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Walter Dornberger



Walter Dornberger, German Army officer during World War I and World War II, in 1958. During the 1930s and 1940s, Dornberger directed Germany's rocket and missile programs, which produced the V-2 rocket, a ballistic missile used by Germany in World War II.

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Admiral Jean Darlan with Hermann Göring and Henri Philippe Pétain
Adolf Hitler at Nazi rally
African Americans in the Women's Army Corps
African-American female welder
African-American sailors handle munitions
African-American Seabees
Afrika Korps hanger bombed by U.S. forces
Aftermath of a desert battle
Air raid damage in London
Alexander, Harold, George S. Patton and Alan G. Kirk
Allied convoys in France
Amphibious warfare during invasion of Tinian
Andrews Sisters in Swingtime Johnny
Antiaircraft artillery
Antitank dragon's teeth along the Siegfried Line
Antonescu, Ion and Wilhelm Keitel
Anzio, Battle of
Armament production during World War II
Arnold, Henry Harley
Artillery gun on Okinawa
Atomic bomb blast
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Attlee, Clement
Australian soldier mans American tank
AVALANCHE, Operation, Salerno invasion
Axis POWs leave Tunis
Axis prisoners in Cairo, Egypt
B-17 Flying Fortress
B-29 raids against Japan
Barrage balloons during World War II
Bataan Death March
Bataan, fall of
Belgian refugees
Big Three at Tehran Conference
Blitzkrieg of Poland in 1939
Bradley, Omar Nelson
British officers interrogate comfort women
British prisoners at Dunkerque
British reconnaissance aircraft at Malta
Buchenwald concentration camp
Burma Campaign, Burma Road
Canadian army in Sicily
Canadian parachute battalion
Canadian soldiers in Sherman tank
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Canadian worker welds bomb
Carol II, king of Romania
Casablanca Conference
Censorship in United States in World War II
Chamberlain, Neville
Cherbourg, France bomb damage
Child soldier in China
Chinese army troops
Chinese soldiers in Burmese jungle
Christian X
Christmas in World War II
Churchill, Truman, and Stalin the Potsdam Conference, 1945
Churchill, Winston
Citizen casualties in Amsterdam
Clark, Mark
Cochran, Jacqueline
Coral Sea, Battle of the
Dachau concentration camp survivors
Danes cheer British soldiers
Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Jr.
Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr.
de Gaulle, Charles
Depth charges of U.S. Coast Guard, 1943
Destruction of Rotterdam
Dieppe Raid
Displaced persons in Berlin
Distinguished service medal
Dönitz, Karl with U-boat officers
Doolittle, Jimmy
Dornberger, Walter
Douglas MacArthur at Leyte
Dresden in 1945
Eichmann, Adolf being questioned
El Alamein, Battle of
Eleanor Roosevelt at Japanese internment center
Emperor Hirohito
Empress Augusta Bay, Battle of
English children in bomb dugout
Female defense workers
Female factory worker in Moscow
Fermi, Enrico with particle accelerator
Finnish soldiers on Pensamo front
Flag raising on Iwo Jima
Flying Tigers in China
Foreign Legion troops fight at Navalcarnero
Forrestal, James
Franco, Francisco
Franklin Roosevelt signs declaration of war
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French and U.S. soldiers after closing of Colmar Pocket
French Resistance fighter with American soldier
Frick, Wilhelm: arrives in motorcade
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General Eisenhower with paratroopers prior to invasion of Normandy
General Erwin Rommel with 15th Panzer Division
George VI
German hurls grenade in Russia
German POWs in the United States
German sea mine
German soldier at the Eastern Front
German soldiers rest during Poland Campaign
German V-1 rocket
Germany, surrender of
Gerow, Leonard Townsend
Goebbels, Joseph at a demonstration in 1934
Göring, Hermann and Prince Paul
Graziani, Rodolfo
Greek soldiers in Albania
Groves, Leslie
Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter plane
Guadalcanal casualties
Haakon VII
Halftrack armored cars
Hamburg, raids on
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Harris, Arthur
Hayworth, Rita
Heinrich Himmler inspects a prison camp
Hess, Rudolf
Hitler, Adolf and Henri Philippe Pétain
Hobby, Oveta Culp visits with captain
Horthy de Nagybána, Miklós with Hermann Göring
Hull, Cordell
Imphal, siege of
Italo-Ethiopian War
Japanese aircraft over Caroline Islands in World War II
Japanese American children at relocation center
Japanese American girl awaiting internment
Japanese American internment camp
Japanese American relocation
Japanese American soldiers ship out to Italy
Japanese American soldiers support infantry attack
Japanese American storefront in California
Japanese celebrate capture of Bataan, Philippines
Japanese destroyer seen through periscope
Japanese kamikaze attack
Japanese midget submarine
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) inspects officers
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler, and Hiroshi Oshima
Kasserine Pass, Battle of
Katyn Forest massacre, mass grave
Kaye, Danny entertains troops in Japan
Keitel, Wilhelm signs German surrender
Kenney, George C.
Kesselring, Albert
King, William Lyon Mackenzie with Franklin D. Roosevelt
Koki Hirota stands trial
Landing craft, mechanized (LCM)
Laval, Pierre
LeMay, Curtis
Lend-Lease Program
Leni Riefenstahl directs film
Leyte Gulf, battle of
Lidice Massacre ruins
Lindbergh, Charles
London Blitz
Love, Nancy Harkness
Luftwaffe FW-190 aircraft, World War II
Luxembourg ruins
MacArthur, Douglas
MacArthur, Douglas signs Japanese surrender
U.S. soldiers at the Maginot Line
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Mareth, Battle of
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Munitions plant worker in India
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Mussolini, Benito with Adolf Hitler in 1940
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Nimitz, Chester with officers
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Yalta Conference
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