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CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-2-1-50 · File · 3/10/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

Mounted on a tiger tank chassis is this formidable 15-inch howitzer. Huge gun-tank combination is the first Allied forces have captured. The tank rests on the side of a war-blasted building somewhere on the German front.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-2-1-3 · File · Janurary-March 1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

Shells from the 3rd U.S. Army artillery land on German emplacements and snipers in houses on the bank of the Nahe River in the town of Bingen, Germany.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-8-12-2-36 · File · 7/20/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

Troops of the 44th Infantry Division crowd decks, portholes and the lifeboats as the Queen Elizabeth berths in New York July 20 after carrying 14,567 home from European battlefronts.

7th Division in Okinawa
CA ON00411 MG-0020-6-10-2-7 · File · 1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

General Joseph Stillwell and Major General Arch V. Arnold, Commanding General of the 7th Division during Stillwell's visit, June 4th. He braved mud and rain to see the outfit he once commanded when it was stationed at Fort Ord, California.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-3-1-10 · File · 5/8/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

Here is the scene of the War Room of General Dwight Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Forces in a schoolhouse in Rheims, France. Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl, new Chief of Staff of the German army under the Doenitz Regime, (with back to camera, center,) signs the document under which all remaining forces of the German army are bound to lay down their arms in unconditional surrender. On Gen. Jodl's left is Gen. Admiral von Friedeburg, of the German navy, and on his right is Maj. Wilhelm Oxinius, of the German General Staff. Allied officers across the table are, left to right: Lt. Gen. Sir F.E. Morgan; Gen. Francois Sevez; Admiral H.M. Burroughs; Lt. Gen. W.S. Smith; Maj. Gen. Ivan Susloparoff; Gen. C.A. Spaatz; Air Marshall J.M. Robb; Maj. Gen. H.R. Bull; Lt. Col. Ivan Zenkovitch.

A Nazi at Bay
CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-1-1-23 · File · 11/24/1944
Part of Schafer Fonds

A French infantryman with rifle holds a wounded Nazi officer at Bay in a ditch on the outskirts of Belfort, France. The ditched Nazi car which was riddled by French machine gun fire contained three dead Germans.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-8-12-2-68 · File · 8/18/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

Twisted and charred steel litter the decks of the USS Aaron Ward as she lies at anchor soon after engagement with 10 Jap Kamikazes.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-1-1-29 · File · 11/7/1944
Part of Schafer Fonds

British Commandos enjoy steaming cups of hot tea to fortify themselves for the job to come, as they prepare to embark at Breskens Harbor for Walcheren Island, to wipe out Nazi resistance, and clear the Allied supply route to liberated Antwerp.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-4-1-19 · File · 4/12/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

S/Sgt. Steven P. Soupus (right) examines the sores on the feet of two slave laborers from Salonika, Greece, a father and his 16-year-old son, who were liberated by the advancing Ninth Army in Germany.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-1-1-12 · File · 3/4/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

In the Rhine River are idle German barges. On the far shore is a large Dusseldorf manufacturing plant which is probably under fire now from advance Ninth Army units.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-2-1-37 · File · circa Fall 1944
Part of Schafer Fonds

Tracers from a Bren gun streak the foreground while haystacks set alight by artillery fire burn in the background during the British assault across the Wessem Canal in the Netherlands.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-1-4-1-29 · File · 1944/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

U.S. Ninth Army mortars are busy firing at German tanks here, in the streets of Hoven, during a German counter-attack on the Yanks.

CA ON00411 MG-0020-8-12-2-12 · File · 2/19/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr (left), talks to the capital press corps at Navy Headquarters in Washington, Feb. 19. The U.S. Third Fleet commander discussed Pacific war process.

Adolf Greets a Quisling
CA ON00411 MG-0020-8-12-2-1 · File · 1/31/1945
Part of Schafer Fonds

Adolf Hitler shakes the hand of Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian traitor who added a new word to anti-fascist vocabularies.