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The document is a collection of photographs from the 1940s depicting various scenes from World War 2. The photos show Hitler visiting Paris after it was captured, workers at a US airplane factory in 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, American pilots in China known as the Flying Tigers, the construction of B-24 bombers which over 18,000 were produced, WASPs who were female pilots in WWII, photos of cities and locations from across Europe and America during the war, Auschwitz, and celebrations in Times Square at the end of the war in 1945.
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