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.
Personal Diary of Stuart Schafer of 52 Mansion St. Kitchener, Ont.
Personal Diary of Stuart Schafer of 52 Mansion St. Kitchener, Ont.
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.
LCVP carries first 3rd U.S. Army troops across Rhine River.
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.
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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.
An attack to wipe out a German salient on one sector of the 8th Army Front was made by Italian infantry supported by British Tanks.
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 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.
Twisted and charred steel litter the decks of the USS Aaron Ward as she lies at anchor soon after engagement with 10 Jap Kamikazes.
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.
Junior Commander Mary Churchill, daughter of the Prime Minister, sailed on January 25th as part of an H.A.A. Battery joining the British Forces in Belgium. There are 250 girls and 70 men in the battery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Hitler shakes the hand of Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian traitor who added a new word to anti-fascist vocabularies.