In the greatest operation of the Pacific War and the boldest American exploit of all time, Yanks of the newly-formed 10th Army go ashore on Okinawa.
When U.S. 7th Army Troops advancing into the heart of Germany captured the town of Kitzingen, they found over 300 French soldiers in a prison camp waiting for Yanks to arrive. When first troops entered town, they broke out (above) shouting and waving in their excitement at being released. Many of them had been prisoners for five years.
U.S. Infantrymen march along wet, muddy streets as they enter the outskirts of Metz, French citiy on the Western Front.
At Bremen, Germany, 304 men of the 29th Infantry Division march for the last time with their division prior to their return tot he United States and discharge under the army's point system.
Helene Chapelle (right), a French girl, reads at the grave of James Simonian, a New York State soldier who fell in the Normandy Beachhead fighting, a letter sent to her from the purpose by Simonian's mother, as her mother also kneels before the rows of white crosses at La Cambe Cemetery, near Omaha Beach, where invasion troops landed D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Troops of the American Fifth Army line the decks of this transport sitting at anchor in Manila Bay upon arrival after a 30-day day trip direct from Europe. There were 5000 men aboard the craft. Red Cross girls wave to GIs from passing small craft in foreground.
This is a close-up of the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, taken from a low-flying B-25 U.S. Bomber in the Tokyo raid on April 18, 1942.
Item is a copy of correspondence from a Canadian soldier eagerly asking for news from back home from his family.
A guide for occupants.
File consists of a memorandum to Hugh Halliday from John Chown.
Photographed at the moment of impact, this dramatic combat picture was made when a Japanese Zero crashed into a U.S. Army 13th Air Force Liberator over the Philippines, where the bombers had been intercepted enroute to a Negros Island airstrip. Both planes exploded and fell to the ground. Although the collision had the appearance of a "suicide" mission, some fliers in the formation had said that the Zero had attempted a tail attack on the bomber and possibly could not pull out in time to avoid crashing.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Jack Granatstein, David Zimmerman, Terry Copp, and Don Morecroft.
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