Photographs from the Unknown

00910460_011 Consolidated B-24 aircraft in flight.

00910460_017 Republic P-47 aircraft.

00910460_057 Two Boeing B-29s in flight over Laredo AAF, Laredo, Texas on Army Air Forces Day, 1 August 1945.

00910460_116 Douglas A-26B airplane (3/4 front view).

00910460_120 Northrop A-17.

111-SC-198409 En route to front lines, beyond Malmedy, Belgium, American Infantrymen pause to rest. Left to right, Sergeant Lyle Greene, Rochester, Minnesota, Staff Sergeant Joseph DeMott, Greenwood, Indiana, and Private First Class Fred Mozzoni, Chicago, Illinois.

111-SC-198550 Infantrymen move along a road through Beffe, Belgium, which was hit by Nazi mortars. The jeep at right was hit by shell. 290th Regiment, 75th Division.

111-SC-198719 A patrol, growing when Lieutenant Thomas of a Cavalry reconnaissance squadron started across the snow with rifle grenades, attacks German snipers discovered on the outskirts of the newly captured town of Beffe, Belgium. Lieutenant Thomas was followed by volunteers consisting of members of his squadron, an infantry headquarters company and an infantry company. The attack was launched with rifle fire, fragmentation rifle grenades, hand grenades, rifles, BARs, and bazooka company armed with machine guns and light mortars. Twelve Nazis were killed in the engagement. Here, can be seen part of the patrol advancing cautiously through the snow. (A Company, 1st Battalion, 290th Infantry, 75th Division, B Troop.) 7th Corps, 4 Cavelry Reconnaisence Squadron.

111-SC-199149 This burning home near Lomre, Belgium, drew a heavy barrage of enemy shellfire which wounded a Signal Corps photographer.

111-SC-199265 A view of the damage done in Houffalize, Belgium, by shelling. The town was retaken ffrom the Germans by the 2nd Armored Division.