Marilyn Monroe, 1952
This photo of Marilyn Monroe was captured by silent film actor Harold Lloyd and was featured in Life Magazine. Lloyd’s daughter said of Monroe: “She was my age, or maybe a year or two younger, but we came from very different worlds. She sat down to put on her makeup, and we just started chatting about our lives. She insisted on seeing the baby and talked about how she dreamed of having a child of her own one day.”
Captured German Ally
This photo captures the raw emotion of a 16-year-old German soldier’s reaction to being captured by the US 9th Army on April 3rd, 1945. The boy lost his parents at 15 and decided to join the Luftwaffe to support his siblings. Here we see him completely distraught after being captured by American forces.