WWII photographers played a key role in shaping our understanding of the most devastating conflict in human history, capturing its triumphs, crushing losses, and unimaginable atrocities. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's photographic work won a Pulitzer Prize and became synonymous with America's victory. It depicted:

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur wading ashore to the Philippines island of Leyte two hours after U$.$S$.$ troops took the beaches in the Battle of Leyte, fulfilling his $1942$ promise to American and Filipino personnel left behind he would return.

The $3$d Battalion, $16$th Infantry Regiment, $1$st U$.$S$.$ Infantry storming Omaha Beach on D$-$Day in one of the first waves of the Allied invasion of Normandy, opening the way for Allied forces to gain a foothold in Nazi$-$controlled Western Europe.

General Yoshijiro, aboard the U$.$S$.$S$.$ Missouri, signing the official instrument of Surrender before General Douglas MacArthur and other representatives of the Allied nations, officially ending WWII, an unprecedented destructive global conflict that lasted six years.

Six U$.$S$.$ Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, a ferocious and deadly battle against tenacious Japanese defenders determined to fight to the death.