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Williams served in the Marines and  was awarded the Medal of Honor for his "actions above and beyond the call of duty" in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

1. Corporal Hershel W. (Woody) Williams from Fairmont, W. Va.

'Woody' Williams served in the Marines and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor and actions above the call of duty in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

2. C. E. Smith with Corporal Hershel W. Williams from Fairmont, W. Va.

Cecil Teets' outfit, U. S. Army Air Force. Men in the photograph are not identified.

3. 443rd Fighter Squadron in Pacific Theater During World War II

A-26 Invader Attack Bombers flying in a tight formation somewhere in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

4. Douglas A-26 Invader Attack Bombers in Flight During World War II

A rambild-verlag (stereocard) of a historic Augsburg building gutted by the Allied bombing during World War II.

5. House of Weavers Burned Out, Augsburg, Germany

A raumbild-verlag (stereocard) of a historic Munich building after Germany was bombed during World War II.

6. Throne-Hall in Kings Residence After Bombing; Munich, Germany

A raumbild-verlag (stereocard) of what was left of the ancient quarter and entrance to Saalgasse after Germany was bombed during World War II.

7. Saalgasse In Ruins, Frankfort on Main, Germany

A raumbild-verlag (stereocard) of a historic Munich building after Germany was bombed in World War II.

8. Remnants of Kings Residence Antiquarium; Munich, Germany

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.

9. General Eisenhower and Allied Officer Shaking Hands

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."

10. German Rail Center Blasted By Allied Air Attacks, Heilbronh, Germany

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."

11. Rubble Filled Street, Mainz, Germany

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.

12. Armed U.S. Soldiers Move Up Hill in Combat Area