--- title: World War II After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell description: Photos from Saipan, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Berlin, Nagasaki -- places where World War II did not stop when Operation Overlord ended. canonical: https://time.com/3879946/the-war-after-d-day-deeper-into-hell-2/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-23T05:00:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:42:59.845Z og:title: World War II After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell og:description: Photos from Saipan, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Berlin, Nagasaki -- places where World War II did not stop when Operation Overlord ended. og:url: https://time.com/3879946/the-war-after-d-day-deeper-into-hell-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8349ab268621fac9/69884bcd428a9e4681cccd45/140513-wwii-in-pictures-191.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: IWO JIMA FLAG RAISING og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: World War II After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell twitter:description: Photos from Saipan, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Berlin, Nagasaki -- places where World War II did not stop when Operation Overlord ended. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8349ab268621fac9/69884bcd428a9e4681cccd45/140513-wwii-in-pictures-191.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The War After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell (23 May 2014) > Sponsored content. 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Joe Rosenthal—AP Photo by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove May 23, 2014 5:00 AM UTC The Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, was so vast in scope — and so punishingly effective in establishing an Allied beachhead on European soil — that people sometimes forget just how long the war lasted, and how brutal it remained, in both Europe and the Pacific _after_ [D-Day](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/). The successes at Omaha, Utah, Juno, Gold and Sword beaches remain, rightly, among the most celebrated military operations in history — but for more than a year following those landings, the fighting went on, and on, and on in some of the war’s most appalling battles and campaigns. Hundreds of thousands of Allied and Axis troops and untold thousands more civilian men, women and children died before Japan surrendered in September 1945, finally ending the war that for six years had reshaped the globe. This gallery features photographs — some of them iconic, many of them little-known — from Saipan, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Berlin, Nagasaki: places where the war did not stop when [Operation Overlord](http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch%5Fani%5Foverlord%5Fcampaign.shtml) ended. **\[Buy the LIFE book,** [**_D-Day: Remembering the Battle that Won the War — 70 Years Later_**](http://www.amazon.com/LIFE-D-Day-Remembering-Battle-Years/dp/1618931024/)**\]** [\[MORE: “V-J Day, 1945: A Nation Lets Loose”\]](http://life.time.com/history/v-j-day-kiss-in-times-square-and-other-celebrations-august-14-1945/#1) [\[MORE: “After the Fall: Hitler’s Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin”\]](http://life.time.com/history/adolf-hitler-bunker-and-the-ruins-of-berlin-1945/#1) [\[MORE: “The Photo That Won World War II: ‘Dead Americans at Buna Beach,’ 1943”\]](http://life.time.com/history/wwii-buna-beach-iconic-photo-of-three-dead-americans/#1) **\[WATCH: ‘Behind the Picture: Robert Capa’s D-Day’\]** [_Ben Cosgrove_](http://life.time.com/tag/ben-cosgrove/) _is the Editor of LIFE.com_  Rescue workers help pull victims from ruins of a building hit by a German V-1 "flying bomb," July 1944. Mansell—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A grizzled, battle-weary Marine peers over his shoulder during the final days of fighting on Saipan, July 1944. W. Eugene Smith—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  American Marines in action during the fight for control of Saipan, summer 1944. W. Eugene Smith—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Marines tend to wounded comrades while the fighting rages on during the battle to take Saipan from the Japanese, 1944. W. Eugene Smith—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  St. Lo, France, summer 1944. Joe Scherschel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  St. Lo, France, summer 1944. Joe Scherschel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A Free French soldier dashes to aid a French resistance fighter taking aim at a German sniper attacking a crowd during a tour by Gen. Charles DeGaulle following the liberation of Paris, August 1944. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Sniper attack, Paris, August 1944. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A crowd of jubilant French civilians and Allied troops celebrate the end of the war in Europe, Paris, May 8, 1945. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Grim-faced American soldiers fighting on Okinawa listen to a radio broadcast of the surrender of Germany and the end of WWII in Europe, May 1945. US Army  Cathedral turned into a makeshift hospital during the Allied campaign to retake the Philippines, Dec. 1944. W. Eugene Smith—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A nurse tends to wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital located in a cathedral during the campaign to retake the Philippines, Dec. 1944. W. Eugene Smith—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A tired American soldier just back from the front lines near the town of Murrigen during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. George Silk—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  American General Anthony McAuliffe, commander of the 101st Airborne during the Battle of the Bulge. When the Germans demanded the surrender of American troops who were outnumbered and surrounded in the town of Bastogne, McAuliffe replied to the ultimatum with a now-legendary one-word response: "Nuts!” -- which a milder way of saying "F— you." His men withstood several German attacks until they could be relieved by the 4th Armored Division. US Army  German POWs carry the body of an American soldier killed in the Battle of Bulge, January 1945. George Silk—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Lace curtain shrouds body of an American soldier awaiting burial in Bastogne cemetery, January 1945. Russ Engel—US Army  United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima, March 1945. W. Eugene Smith—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  U. S. Coast Guardsmen assist a wounded Marine returning from the fight on Iwo Jima, 1945. US Coast Guard  Crewmen fight fires on the deck of the USS Saratoga, which was badly damaged and set ablaze after being hit several times by Japanese bomber planes and kamikaze attacks off of Iwo Jima, 1945. US Navy  U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal—AP Photo  Oberwallstrasse, in central Berlin, saw some of the most vicious fighting between German and Soviet troops in the spring of 1945. William Vandivert—The LIFE Picture Collecton/Getty Images  Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945. William Vandivert—The LIFE Picture Collecton/Getty Images  American infantryman Terry Moore takes cover as incoming Japanese artillery fire explodes nearby during the fight to take Okinawa, May 1945. W. Eugene Smith—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  U.S. Marines wait to pick off enemies who flee cave after it was attacked with an explosive charge during the vicious fight for control of Okinawa, 1945. US Marine Corps  A gutted trolley car amid Hiroshima ruins, months after America's August 1945 atomic bomb attack on the city. Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Nagasaki, September, 1945. Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Mother and child in Hiroshima, Japan, December 1945. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A photo album, pieces of pottery, a pair of scissors — shards of life strewn on the ground in Nagasaki, 1945. Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  American officers (including neck-craning skeptic William "Bull" Halsey, third fr. left) line deck of battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) while Japanese delegation signs official surrender document, Sept. 2, 1945. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  V-J Day, Aug. 14, 1945\. Caption from the Aug. 27, 1945, issue of LIFE: "In the middle of New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers." Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] I'm John Morris. I happen to be Robert Capa's editor. On D- Day, I was then the photo editor of Life in London. Capa was a contract photographer for Life. He had covered several wars before he was assigned to cover the, the big one, which was D- Day. D- Day was Tuesday morning, June 6th, 1944. BBC came on with a bulletin saying that Allied Forces had landed somewhere in France. Just simply getting the film back was a major undertaking. It was long before the days of instant transmission, and so it meant get, physically getting, undeveloped films back across the channel to London where the, everything had to be processed, and then censored. I had been waiting all day Tuesday, and virtually all of Wednesday, for the film to come back from Normandy. It was, the tension was terrible. Finally about 6 o'clock, a messenger came to the office on Dean Street, with a packet from Capa, and in it was a note saying, John the f, the action is all in the rolls, the four rolls of 35 mm. I ordered the darkroom to, to give me contact prints as fast as possible, cuz we were under terrible deadline pressure. A few minutes later, a darkroom lad came running in to my office saying, John, the films are ruined. You were in such a hurry that I put them in the drying cabinet and, and closed the doors, and the emulsion ran. I couldn't believe it, but I ran back to the dark room with him, held up the rolls one at a time, and there was nothing on the first three rolls, but on the fourth roll, there were 11 frames that had images, and I ordered them all to be printed. It's interesting, and I didn't think of it at the time, but there's one picture that stands out, and that's the picture that shows clearly the head of an American soldier as he approaches the shore. It never occurred to me until later that in order to take that picture, Capa had to get ahead of that soldier and turn his back on the action, which is, is quite remarkable, and also is an indication of Capa's courage. I think that photo stands out because it humanizes the invasion. There's a single man walking ashore. My deadline for life was 9 o'clock Thursday morning, when a courier would leave Grosvenor Square with film bound for Prestwick and Scotland, and from Prestwick to Newfoundland, and from Newfoundland to Washington, and from Washington to New York. That was the circuit that, that I had to cope with. We just sent the film. We didn't have to tell them that we had lost most of it. [ LAUGH ] I just take the rap for having been in charge of that film losing operation. Now I simply take credit for saving the pictures that survived. But we were so relieved when, late Saturday night or Sunday morning, we got a cable from Dan Longwell, the managing editor of LIFE, saying, congratulations, you did a great job, and so on. It was a great relief to know that. LIFE was the only eyewitness that really was respected because there was no television. It was life that, that gave people the sense of how things really looked. The Omaha Beach story as a whole was perhaps the most memorable in my entire lifetime, and I've been privileged to work through many important stories of the 20th century. 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