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Information on back of photo reads: "German civilians look over the ruins of their home which was shelled by American troops in the attack on Weifall, Germany."

145. German Citizens Walk Through Rubble, Weifall, Germany

Caption on back of photo reads: "American infantrymen of 36th Division run through rubble littered street of battle-scarred Rohrwiller, France. Town is under enemy attack."

146. American Infantrymen in Battle Scarred Rohrwiller, France

Information on back of photo reads: "Capt. Philip Staples; Ardmore, Pennsylvania enjoys a fresh made egg omelette that was presented to him by grateful French civilians who had just been liberated from German hands, near Champagne."

147. Captain Philip Staples Receives Egg Omelette From French Civilians

Information on the back of photo reads: "Infantrymen of the Fourth Armored Division, Third U.S. Army, advance through rubble in a battered street in Worms, Germany, as they clear out Nazi snipers in the captured city March 20, 1945. Worms is on the west bank of the Rhine River nine miles north of Ludwigshafen."

148. U.S. Soldiers Capture Worms, Germany

The soldier is most likely Raymond Young, infantry man and combat photographer, United States Third Army. Young is using his tent as a photo lab to develop film while on the front lines.

149. U.S. Soldier in Tent 'Dark Room' in European Theater of Operation

information on back of photo reads: "Smiling civilians of the Bavarian town of Weilheim, Germany, greet troops of the 12th Armored Division, Seventh U.S. Army, with American, British, and Bavarian flags April 28, 1945."

150. German Civilians Greet U.S. Troops With Flags, Weilheim, Germany

Young was also a combat photographer and attached tothe 361st Engineers Special unit  and at times attached to Third Army commanded by George Patton during the push into Germany. Note the friendly dog sitting next to Young is a German Shephard.

151. United States Army Infantryman Raymond M. Young of Oak Hill, W. Va.

Information on back of photo reads: "Debris litters the interior of a ruined church in Germany, one of the many buildings destroyed during the bitter fighting which marked the Allied thrust into the Reich."

152. Wrecked German Church

Young, from Oak Hill, W. Va. served with 361st Engineer Special as an infantryman and combat photographer.

153. Raymond M. Young on Communications, European Theater of Operations

The photograph was taken during the Allied advance against the Nazis in Europe.

154. Soldier Playing With Dog Wearing Official U.S. Army Photographer Jacket

The photograph was most likely taken in Holland, which had been under Nazi control for several years until portions of the country was liberated by the Allies in the Fall of 1944 during Operation Market Garden.

155. U.S. Soldiers Walking With Small Children

A large port and industrial center that includied u-boat pens and oil refineries was bombed throughout the war. An air attack in July 1942 created one of the largest firestorms of WW II, killing 42,600 civilians, wounding 37,000 and practically destroying the city.

156. Hamburg, Germany in Ruins

157. Civilian Medical Worker and Armed Soldier in Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "German civilians sit with their children outside of a house in a Reich town captured by troops of the Ninth U.S. Army advancing to the Rhine River. The civilians have been lined up for questioning by an American officer. Units of the Ninth Army reached the Rhine March 2, 1945, when they captured Neuss opposite the industrial center of Dusseldorf."

158. Civilians of Captured German Town, Neuss, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "Private Thomas H. Olsen of Chicago, Illinois, checks over the baggage brought by one of the German Army women to the prisoner-of-war enclosure of the 83rd Infantry Division, Ninth U.S. Army. The women surrendered after receiving leaflets. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force reported May 1, 1945, that nearly three million German prisoners had been taken by the Allies in the West since "D-Day" (June 6, 1945)."

159. German WAC Captured, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "Colonel H.A. Forlong (left) of Pontiac, Michigan, Surgeon of the 18th Corps, Ninth U.S. Army, sits beside a Russian Army officer at a stage show given in Lippstadt, Germany, May 20, 1945, by liberated Russian soldiers and former slave workers. Lippstadt is 70 miles northwest of the Rhine River city of Duisburg.

160. Allied Officers Attend Show Given By Freed Russians, Lippstadt, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "Liberated Russians cluster around a Ninth U.S. Army soldier, carried high on their shoulders, for cigarettes, which they had not seen in many months. When the American finally convinced the Russians that he had no more, they "chaired" him and carried him around the yard before their former prison, the Nazi Stalag 326, south of Bielefeld. The first U.S. troops reached Stalag 326 April 2, 1945. Nine thousand Russian prisoners of war were liberated but thousands were at the point of starvation. Tubercular patients numbered 1,350. in vast mounds all around the camp, 30,000 Russians, most of them starved to death, were buried in heaps of 500. Major Gregory Matviev, who was captured in Sebastopol in 1942, reported that hundreds died daily of starvation and "about 50 were shot every other day for no reason at all.""

161. Russian Prisoners of War Liberated By Advancing U.S. Troops

Information on back of photo reads: "Russians and Americans toasting each other after the link up at Torgau. Ann Stringer, U.P. Correspondent can be seen in the picture. Also man with beard on right, who is Correspondent Jack Thompson, of Chicago Tribune."

162. U.S. Troops Meet Russians in Torgau, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "Firm contact has been established between ground forces of the First American Army and those of the Russian Army. The historic meeting took place in the town of Torgau, on the Elbe River, 75 miles south of Berlin, when First Army troops met forward elements of the Russian Guards Division."

163. U.S. and Red Armies Link Up, Torgau, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "German civilians march through newly captured Zulpich, Germany, to receive instructions on their conduct from military government unit with 9th Infantry Division of 1st U.S. Army. Town was hard hit by U.S. bombers blasting path to Rhine."

164. German Civilians March Through Newly Captured Zulpich, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "German civilians are rounded up for evacuation from Schaffhausen, occupied by Seventh U.S. Army troops March 14, 1945. The German town, six miles north of the frontier of Alsace, is under constant enemy shellfire."

165. German Civilians Evacuated From Battle Area, Schaffhausen, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "German refugees with a cart move through the ruins of bombed Regensburg, captured by the 65th Division of the Third U.S. Army April 23, 1945. General George Patton's Third Army struck into the Southern German segment from the northwest to capture the Danube River town, which is about 70 miles from Munich."

166. German Refugees Move Through Ruins of Regensburg, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "Shame, guilt, and humiliation cloud the faces of these German women as they pass through the Canadian lines to an evacuation centre. They put guns before butter in the years between the wars; they lived on the loot of conquered Europe, and clothed themselves in furs from Russia and fine clothes from Paris. Now it is their turn to be homeless, and the watching troops, who saw grim evidence of German ruthlessness in the countries they liberated, show no sympathy."

167. Humiliated German Women Pass Through Canadian Lines to Evacuation Center

Information on back of the photo reads: "Puzzled but curious, a little Russian boy accepts a stick of chewing gum from his new friend, a U.S. Air Forces solider at the Russian terminus of Italy-Russia shuttle missions flown by heavy bombers of the U.S. Fifteenth Army Air Force. Since June, 1944, Allied bombers from England and Italy, escorted by fighters, have flown to bases in Russia, and return, attacking enemy targets in occupied Europe en route."

168. U.S. Soldier Introduced Russian Lad to Chewing Gum

Information on back of photo reads: "If German divisions no longer retreat according to plan, part of their difficulties can be traced to the destruction of Deutsche Dunlop A.G. tire and rubber factory at Hanau, Germany, east of Frankfurt - a priority - one target for R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth Air Force. When American Air Force observers surveyed the second most important rubber plant on the Continent, they found ruin and destruction widespread. Despite this the enemy's need for rubber products is so great, there was evidence of clearance and repair work to restore partial production, said surveyors. Elsewhere in Hanau the locomotive roundhouse had been destroyed by Allied air attacks. The town's gas works was a shambles. in the marshalling yard sidings and through lines were pocketed with bomb craters, some filled - in attempts to keep the rails open. In one typical Hanau attack last December, the Eighth sent 303 heavy bombers to drop in one-ton (U.S.) bombs, 1,112 one-thousand pounders, 176 five-hundreds, and 3,420 hundred-pound bombs."

169. Hanau Dunlop Rubber Plant Gutted, Hanau, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "3rd U.S. Army Troops go aboard LCVP prior to first crossing of the Rhine River by soldiers of the 3rd Army at Nierstein, Germany. Soldiers are members of the 5th Infantry Division."

170. Third U.S. Army Troops Go Aboard LCVP, Nierstein, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "If German divisions no longer retreat according to plan, part of their difficulties can be traced to the destruction of Deutsche Dunlop A.G. tire and rubber factory at Hanau, Germany, east of Frankfurt - a priority - one target for R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth Air Force. When American Air Force observers surveyed the second most important rubber plant on the Continent, they found ruin and destruction widespread. Despite this the enemy's need for rubber products is so great, there was evidence of clearance and repair work to restore partial production, said surveyors. Elsewhere in Hanau the locomotive roundhouse had been destroyed by Allied air attacks. The town's gas works was a shambles. in the marshalling yard sidings and through lines were pocketed with bomb craters, some filled - in attempts to keep the rails open. In one typical Hanau attack last December, the Eighth sent 303 heavy bombers to drop in one-ton (U.S.) bombs, 1,112 one-thousand pounders, 176 five-hundreds, and 3,420 hundred-pound bombs."

171. Hanau Dunlop Rubber Plant Gutted, Hanau, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "Tarnopal, bastion of Hitler's eastern front, turns a scarred face to the camera after its fall with its 12,000 man garrison to Soviet troops. Fighting in and around Tarnopol was prolonged and bitter, and German losses in men and material were heavy."

172. Bastion of Hitler's Eastern Front Falls, Ukraine

Information on back of photo reads: "Civilians who have returned to captured, war-torn Munchen-Gladbach fill carts with sticks for firewood outside a bomb-shattered broom factory. Munchen-Gladbach, first big industrial city in the Ruhr area to fall to advancing American forces, was taken March 1, 1945, by troops of the Ninth U.S. Army after heavy air and artillery bombardment. It is 10 miles from the Dutch border."

173. Civilians Gather Firewood in Munchen-Gladbach, Germany

Information on back of photo reads: "Parisians line the Champs Elysees to cheer the massed infantry units of the American Army as they march in review towards the Arc De Triomphe, celebrating the liberation of the capital of France from Nazi occupation."

174. Parisians Line Champs Elysees to Cheer American Army, Paris, France

See original for correspondence. Published by Dexter Press. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

175. Public School; Rainelle, W. Va.

See original for correspondence. Published by Silvercraft. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

176. Playground at Public School; East Rainelle, W. Va.

See original for correspondence. Published by Artvue Post Card Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

177. Charles Town High School; Charles Town, W. Va.

See original for correspondence. Published by Genuine Curteich. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

178. Main Street, Showing Movie Theatre; Cameron, W. Va.

Nature's air conditioned city. See original for correspondence. Published by Genuine Curteich. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

179. Intersection of Bland and Federal Streets; Bluefield, W. Va.

See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

180. Greenbrier River and A. and P. Highway; Below Alderson, W. Va.

See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

181. Turkish Bath House; Berkeley Springs, W. Va.

See original for correspondence. Published by Sigler's Pharmacy. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

182. Ritchie County Fair Grounds, Pennsboro, W. Va.

See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system.)

183. Tri-State View Showing W. Va., Ohio, and Kentucky, Wayne County, W. Va.

Copyrighted by Studio Swann. See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system--subject.)

184. Old Capitol at Charleston, W. Va.

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185. State Capitol Building After Fire, Charleston, W. Va.

See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system--subject.)

186. Federal Court and Post Office, Martinsburg, W. Va.

Trains occupy the tracks of the yard.

187. Chesapeake and Ohio West Yards, Hinton, W. Va.

Interior of the building.

188. YMCA, Hinton, W. Va.

Ailstock in uniform posing with an automobile.

189. Ivan 'Beaner' Ailstock Under the Overhead Bridge, Avis, W. Va.

Three hat-clad ladies balance on top of a fallen tree trunk. Subjects unidentified.

190. Women Pose on Fallen Tree in Bellepoint, W. Va.

Aerial view of the town near Hinton, W. Va. Silo pictured center right.

191. Bellepoint, W. Va.

Aerial view of the intersection of Greenbrier Drive and Maple Street near Hinton, W. Va.

192. Bellepoint, W. Va.