World War II Photographs
Private First Class Elmer Sittion being kissed by overjoyed, aged Italian woman upon his arrival to the eternal city. Fifth Army, Rome area, Italy. 5 June 1944.
German prisoners on arrival in England for transfer to a prisoner of war camp, queue up for US Army rations. England. 11 June 1944.
Nazi 88mm guns pound Utah Beach as American troops push into Normandy, France. 11 June 1944.
The main street of Iaigny after American troops drove the Germans out. Note the French Miss (left) who came of the ruins when the bombardment ceased and the tanks moved in to clear the town of snipers and machine guns. France. 11 June 1944.
A German soldier digs his way out of sand which buried him up to his neck after a shell landed in his immediate vicinity. He fell an easy prisoner to Allied troops in the section. Quinville, France. 9 June 1944.
An American medic works on a wounded American soldier in the center of this Photo as flames raze a German pill box designed to halt the landings of Allied troops on the beaches of northern France. 9 June 1944.
A small group of Gi's watch the first P-38 to land on a newly made landing strip on a beach head in France. Omaha Beach head, near Vierville Surmer, France. 10 June 1944.
The American gun battery of an anti-aircraft unit goes into action on a beach head in France. The pile of empty shell cases is mute testimony to the amount of steel thrown out by this 80mm gun. Omaha Beach head, near Vierville Surmea, France.
A platoon of black troops surround a house as they prepare to eliminate a German sniper holding up an advance, on Omaha Beachhead, near Vierville Sur-Mer, France. 10 June 1944.
Military Police guard a long line of German prisoners of war captured on one of the beaches in France as they march down an English street towards the stockade in which they will be interned. Wevmoth, England. 10 June 1944.
Wrecked German tanks and trucks mark the road of American advancement outside a town in France. St. Mere Eglise, France. 10 June 1944.
Finding horses plentiful in a town in France that they cleared of German defenders, American paratroopers utilize them as transportation for patrolling the streets of the town. St. Mere Eglise, France. 10 June 1944.
Wearied by house to house fighting in a French coast town American troops take a break in an milk house, part of a farm that was cleared of German snipers, before moving on to the next objective. Les Dunes De Varredille, France. 10 June 1944.
In the yard of a farmhouse that they have just cleared of German snipers, American troops plan their attack of the next objective on the road to victory on a beach head of France. Les Dunes De Varredille, France. 10 June 1944.
Here is a small idea of the amount of explosives heaped on the Japanese, principally during March and April, 1944, when in repeated attacks, they charged U.S. Army positions. Thousands of Japs were killed, not only by rifles and machine guns in the hands of infantrymen, but by shell bursts. Corporal Bascom Andrews, Darlington, South Carolina, member of a Quartermaster depot, handles an empty clover-leaf container for a mortar shell, adding it to a pile. Bougainville. 15 May 1944.
Corporal Bascom Andrews, Darlington, South Carolina, handles the empty container of a 105mm howitzer shell, used with the thousands of others, during the March-April, 1944, battles. Thousands of Japs were killed not only by rifles and machines guns in the hands of Infantrymen, but by shell bursts. Bougainville. 15 May 1944.
Huge piles of empty artillery cases, result of the large amount of artillery shells that were used during the battle of Bougainville. 12 April 1944.
German prisoners (approximately 100) are marched single file by rifle squad of 387th Infantry Regiment to C.C.S.P.W. enclosure after being captured near Cisterna. Fifth Army, Cisterna area, Italy. 24 May 1944.
Batch of prisoners entering gates to prisoner of war collecting point operated by 1st Armored Division. Amongst the first to be captured in the new beachhead offensive. Fifth Army, Campo Morta area, Italy. 23 May 1944.
After being searched and questioned these prisoners taken in beachhead offensive are to be taken to rear areas. Fifth Army, Campo Morta area, Italy. 1st Armored Division, Prisoner of war collecting point. 23 May 1944.
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