This day in history, September 1st, marks many events. The start of World War II was one of the most defining of the 20th century and although coloured photography was almost unheard of at the time, a small series were captured between 1939 and 1945 which offered an alternatively amazing perspective of the conflict such as the first image below of the first United States infantryment approaching Omaha Beach in France, as part of the D-Day landings.
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| Normandy, France, June 6, 1944 Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images |
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| China, March 1940 Members of the Chinese Army. Carl Mydans/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images |
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| Britain, circa 1940 British infantrymen in training. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images |
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| Kunto, Poland, circa 1940 Displaced Jews stand outside a car that’s been converted into a shelter in the Kunto Ghetto. Hugo Jaeger/Timepix/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
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| Unknown location, circa 1940 British Royal Air Force members in training. Fox Photos/Getty Images |
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| Canada, circa 1940 Royal Canadian Air Force crew in training. Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images |
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| Unknown location, circa 1940 British Royal Navy sailors prepare to launch torpedoes. Fox Photos/Getty Images |
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| England, circa 1940 American pilot Lieutenant Vernon L. Richards flies over Britain. PhotoQuest/Getty Images |
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| France, circa 1940 A soldier guards a huge piece of German coastal artillery on the Atlantic Wall (colourized photo). Hermann Harz/PhotoQuest/Getty Images |
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| North Atlantic Ocean, circa 1941 A German submarine emerges from the sea. Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images |
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| London, England, October 15, 1940 A bus lies in a large crater in the road in the London neighbourhood of Balham after a German air raid during the Battle of Britain. William Vandivert/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
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| Unknown location, circa 1941 A German tank on the Eastern Front. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images |
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| Soviet Union, circa 1941 German soldiers attack a Russian bunker on the Eastern Front. Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images |
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| Soviet Union, circa 1941 German troops take a cigarette break on the Eastern Front. Bauer/PhotoQuest/Getty Images |
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| Aleutian Islands, United States, circa 1941 An American plane in action. PhotoQuest/Getty Images |
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| Soviet Union, circa 1941 A German solider aims a flamethrower across a field of tall grass. R. Grimm/PhotoQuest/Getty Images |
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| Kentucky, United States, circa 1942 A tank driver in training at Fort Knox. Alfred T. Palmer/Buyenlarge/Getty Images |
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| Hawaii, United States, February, 1942 American sailors in Hawaii commemorate the victims of the Pearl Harbor attacks. PhotoQuest/Getty Images |
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| North Africa, circa 1942 United States servicemen buy dates from a market in an unspecified town. Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
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| California, United States, circa 1942 An American woman working on an airplane motor at a plant in California. Alfred T. Palmer/Buyenlarge/Getty Images |
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| Britain, circa 1943 British munitions workers learn to fire a mortar under army supervision. Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images |
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| El Guettar Valley, Tunisia, 1943 German POWs receive water in an Allied-controlled prison camp. Eliot Elisofon/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
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| Cassino, Italy, May 1, 1943. British and South African soldiers hold up a Nazi flag as a trophy. Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
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| California, United States, circa 1943 United States soldiers undergo chemical weapons training. Errigo Archive/Getty Images |
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| Gosport, England, June 1944 German POWs arrive in England. Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images |
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