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- IDNO:
- 041143
- Title:
- General Eisenhower and Allied Officer Shaking Hands
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces in the European Theater during World War II, is greeted by an unidentified officer. Eisenhower toured several Nazi Concentration Camps immediately after they were liberated in order to personally testify to the heinous Nazi war crimes.
- IDNO:
- 041144
- Title:
- German Rail Center Blasted By Allied Air Attacks, Heilbronh, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Information with the photograph, "A lone soldier of the 100th Infantry Division, Seventh U.S. Army, walks through the ruins of Heilbronn, Germany, cleared of the enemy April 12, 1945. Forty miles southeast of Mannheim and the Rhino, Heilbronn, an important road and rail center was blasted by Allied Planes. U.S. Signal Corps Photo."
- IDNO:
- 041149
- Title:
- Rubble Filled Street, Mainz, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Information included with the photograph,"Debris spilled from bombed buildings of Mainz fills a street of the ancient Rhine River city captured by troops of the 80th Division, Third u.S. Army, March 23, 1945. Mainz, birthplace of Johannes Gutemberg, credited with the development of printing in the 15th Century, was a strategic Nazi manufacturing center of machinery and chemicals."
- IDNO:
- 041150
- Title:
- Armed U.S. Soldiers Move Up Hill in Combat Area
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- U.S. soldiers move on from a destroyed transport vehicle on the road as one G.I. mans a mounted machine gun in the jeep.
- IDNO:
- 041151
- Title:
- Cross Inside of Destroyed Building in Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- U.S. Army troops pushed through German resistance in the Spring of 1945. Many towns such as this were bombed from the air and assualted by ground forces.
- IDNO:
- 041152
- Title:
- U.S. Tanks and Soldiers Push Through Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Tanks and soldiers traveled past destroyed buildings as they push through Germany in the spring of 1945.
- IDNO:
- 041153
- Title:
- U.S. Soldiers Walking Through Destroyed City, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- American GIs make their way through the rubble of what is left of a German town.
- IDNO:
- 041154
- Title:
- Bombed Buildings in Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Buildings in a German City bombed by the U.S. and RAF Forces, lay in ruins towards the end of the World War II.
- IDNO:
- 041155
- Title:
- Lone Soldier Walks Through Destruction in Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- A lone soldier walks around the destroyed buildings in a German town towards the end of the war.
- IDNO:
- 041156
- Title:
- Dead Horses and Wrecked Vehicles of German Convoy, Lus, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Information included on back: "Dead horses and wrecked vehicles of German convoy are strewn along road in vicinity of Lus, Germany. Following attack on convoy by American Dive Bombers. Germans were trying to escape from encirclement by troops of the 3rd and 7th U.S. Armies." (U.S. Signal Corps).
- IDNO:
- 041158
- Title:
- U.S. Bombs and Shells Leave German Town in Ruins, Duren, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Part of the information included on back: "German town near Duren on the Roer River, important junction point of the road leading to Cologne and the Rhine lies shell-wrecked and bombed to ruins February 21, 1945 as U.S. troops advanced deeper into Germany."(U.S. Signal Corps).
- IDNO:
- 041159
- Title:
- Blasted German City, Heilbronn, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Part of information included on back: "A knocked-out American tank stands behind a small, leveled building in captured Heilbronn. German industrial city which was virtually demolished prior to its occupation . . ." (U.S. Signal Corps).
