Category:US National Archives Second World War Collection

Media in category "US National Archives Second World War Collection"

The following 75 files are in this category, out of 75 total.

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  165th Infantry assault wave attacking Butaritari, Yellow Beach Two, find it slow going in the coral bottom waters. Japanese machine gun fire from the right flank makes it more difficult for them. Makin Atoll, Gilbe(...) - NARA - 531172.gif 600 × 475; 73 KB
  
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  A bugler blows taps at the close of Memorial Day service at Margraten Cemetery, Holland, where lie thousands of American heroes of World War II. - NARA - 531299.gif 600 × 494; 99 KB
  
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  A fleet of Allied aircraft flies overhead as paratroopers of the Allied Airborne Command float groundward in the invasion of the Netherlands, still another step towards the liberation of Europe." - NARA - 531308.gif 600 × 501; 68 KB
  
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  A German girl is overcome as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by SS guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders. - NARA - 531343.gif 600 × 467; 130 KB
  
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  A grief stricken American infantryman whose buddy has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier. In the background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea. - NARA - 531370.gif 600 × 478; 102 KB
  
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  A lanky GI, with hands clasped behind his head, leads a file of American prisoners marching along a road somewhere on the western front. Germans captured these American soldiers during the surprise enemy drive into(...) - NARA - 531236.gif 491 × 600; 88 KB
  
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  A Nazi soldier, heavily armed, carries ammunition boxes forward with companion in territory taken by their counter-offensive in this scene from captured German film. Belgium. - NARA - 531230.gif 479 × 600; 85 KB
  
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  A panoramic view of the city of Nijmegen, Holland, and the Nijmegen Bridge over the Waal (Rhine) River in the background. The city was hit by German and Allied bombardment and shelling. - NARA - 531218.gif 600 × 501; 121 KB
  
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  A Platoon of Negro Troops Surrounds a Farm House in a Town in France, as They Prepare to Eliminate a German Sniper Holding up an Advance, Omaha Beachhead, near Vierville-sur-Mer, France - NARA - 531188.jpg 3,191 × 2,499; 3.62 MB
  
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  A portion of the 10,000 GI's who were on hand to witness the showing of the Copacabana All Girl Review, listen attentively while the girls' trio sing from the stage of the Glenn Miller Theater, near Marseilles, France. - NARA - 531313.gif 464 × 600; 108 KB
  
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  A truck load of bodies of prisoners of the Nazis, in the Buchenwald concentration camp at Weimar, Germany. The bodies were about to be disposed of by burning when the camp was captured by troops of the 3rd U.S. Army. - NARA - 531261.gif 600 × 463; 81 KB
  
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  After holding a woodland position all night near Wiltz, Luxembourg, against German counter attack, three men of B Company, 101st Engineers, emerge for a rest. - NARA - 531349.gif 3,000 × 2,394; 4.4 MB
  
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  Alert for enemy movement, Private First Class Armand Rindone, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, crouches with a carbine at the railroad station in the newly captured town of Hamm, Germany. - NARA - 531269.gif 600 × 486; 86 KB
  
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  Alerted GIs of M-51 Anti-aircraft Battery are silhouetted against German sky streaked with vapor trails from allied and enemy planes engaged in Christmas Day dog-fight. Near Puffendorf, Germany. - NARA - 531232.gif 600 × 480; 68 KB
  
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  American and Filipino Prisoners, Captured at Corregidor - NARA - 6200939.jpg 3,150 × 2,129; 776 KB
  
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  American Assault Troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment, Injured While Storming Omaha Beach, Wait by the Chalk Cliffs for Evacuation to a Field Hospital for Further Medical Treatment, Collville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France - NARA - 531187.jpg 3,638 × 2,846; 5.01 MB
  
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  American prisoners of war celebrate the 4th of July in the Japanese prison camp of Casisange in Malaybalay, on Mindanao, Philippine Islands. It was against Japanese regulations and discovery would have meant death,(...) - NARA - 531352.gif 600 × 416; 85 KB
  
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  American soldiers of the 289th Infantry Regiment march along the snow-covered road on their way to cut off the Saint Vith-Houffalize road in Belgium. - NARA - 531244.gif 600 × 525; 117 KB
  
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  American Troops of Merrill's Marauders and the Chinese March Side by Side Down the Ledo Road - NARA - 6003981.jpg 6,117 × 5,032; 2.36 MB
  
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  American troops of the 160th Infantry Regiment rush ashore from a landing boat during amphibious training here. Guadalcanal. - NARA - 531205.gif 600 × 490; 105 KB
  
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  American troops of the 163rd Infantry Regiment, hit the beach from Higgins boats during the invasion of Wadke Island, Dutch New Guinea. - NARA - 531192.gif 600 × 489; 79 KB
  
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  Americans of Japanese descent, Infantrymen of the 442nd Regiment, run for cover as a German artillery shell is about to land outside the building. Italy. - NARA - 531356.gif 600 × 491; 90 KB
  
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  An Air Transport Command plane flies over the pyramids in Egypt. Loaded with urgent war supplies and materials, this plane is one of a fleet flying shipments from the U.S. across the Atlantic and the continent of A(...) - NARA - 531163.gif 600 × 484; 113 KB
  
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  Army Ordnance men await the "go" signal for cross channel trip to France. British civilians serve hot coffee as the men await the word to move out in an English town. - NARA - 531195.gif 600 × 468; 103 KB
  
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  Army reinforcements disembarking from LST's form a graceful curve as they proceed across coral reef toward the beach. Saipan. - NARA - 531194.gif 600 × 468; 97 KB
  
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  Art Treasures Returned - NARA - 5757190.jpg 3,015 × 2,400; 918 KB
  
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  At the doorway of this railroad car may be seen the bodies of 3 political prisoners, shot as they tried to flee massacre at Seeshaupt. All prisoners on train were killed by machine guns at the hands of SS troops. Germany - NARA - 531281.gif 600 × 486; 82 KB
  
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  Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe, artillery commander of the 101st Airborne Division, gives his various glider pilots last minute instructions before the take-off on D plus 1. England. - NARA - 531246.gif 600 × 457; 99 KB
  
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  Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis watches a Signal Corps crew erecting poles, somewhere in France. - NARA - 531202.gif 442 × 600; 68 KB
  
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  Capture of Germany's Gold - NARA - 5757188.jpg 3,009 × 2,400; 1.03 MB
  
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  Captured Japanese photograph. U.S. soldiers and sailors surrendering to Japanese forces at Corregidor, Philippine Islands - NARA - 531354.gif 600 × 437; 107 KB
  
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  Chaplains of the U.S. Third Army conduct burial services for the 120 Russian and Polish Jews, victims of SS troopers' killing in a wood near Neunburg, Germany. - NARA - 531347.gif 600 × 489; 121 KB
  
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  Chinese Mortar Regiment Going Through Entrance to Ramgarh Training Center - NARA - 5957433.jpg 2,800 × 2,330; 1.74 MB
  
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  Citizens of Ludwigslust, Germany, inspect a nearby concentration camp under orders of the 82nd Airborne Division. Bodies of victims of Nazi torture were found dumped in pits in yard, one pit containing 300 bodies. - NARA - 531297.gif 600 × 451; 78 KB
  
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  Civilians of Namering, Germany give burial to 800 victims of an SS killing three weeks ago. The bodies had lain in the open for five days. Burial was ordered by the military government. - NARA - 531279.gif 465 × 600; 102 KB
  
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  Civilians of Neunburg bear victims of SS killings to burial ground, after bodies were exhumed from mass grave where their murderers had dumped them. Chaplains of U.S. Third Army will conduct burial services. - NARA - 531346.gif 600 × 480; 112 KB
  
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  Cologne Cathedral stands undamaged while entire area surrounding it is completely devastated. Railroad station and Hohenzollern Bridge lie damaged to the north and east of the cathedral. Germany, April 24, 1945. - NARA - 531287.gif 600 × 489; 113 KB
  
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  Conference of the Big Three at Yalta makes final plans for the defeat of Germany. Here the "Big Three" sit on the patio together, Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Jo(...) - NARA - 531340.gif 600 × 497; 98 KB
  
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  Corporal Charles H. Johnson of the 783rd Military Police Battalion, waves on a "Red Ball Express" motor convoy rushing priority materiel to the forward areas, near Alenon, France. - NARA - 531220.gif 502 × 600; 105 KB
  
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  Corporal. Bernard Butnik, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Sergeant. Richard Goodbar, Russellville, Arkansas, offer "Agnes" their snow woman, cigarettes and a "coke." European theater, January 14, 1945. - NARA - 531240.gif 600 × 487; 111 KB
  
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  During the invasion of Sicily, an American cargo ship is hit by a bomb from a German plane and its cargo of munitions explodes, off Gela, Sicily. - NARA - 531165.gif 600 × 403; 80 KB
  
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  During the siege of Corregidor, Phillipine Islands, the Finance Office, U.S. Army, Manila, shared lateral Nunmber 12 of Melinta Tunnel with the Signal Corps. Members of the Finance Office staff appear in the foregr(...) - NARA - 531336.gif 600 × 447; 84 KB
  
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  Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Omar N. Bradley Tour German Salt Mines in Which Stolen Treasure was Hidden - NARA - 5757186.jpg 3,013 × 2,400; 670 KB
  
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  Father (Major) Edward J. Waters, Catholic Chaplain from Oswego, New York, conducts Divine Services on a pier for members of the first assault troops thrown against Hitler's forces on the continent. Weymouth, England. - NARA - 531190.gif 600 × 457; 108 KB
  
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  Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, signing the ratified surrender terms for the German Army at Russian Headquarters in Berlin. Germany, May 7, 1945. - NARA - 531290.gif 600 × 464; 85 KB
  
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  First U.S. Army men and equipment pour across the Remagen Bridge; two knocked out jeeps in foreground. Germany. - NARA - 531252.gif 600 × 475; 77 KB
  
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  Florentine Art Treasures Returned - NARA - 5757189.jpg 2,918 × 2,400; 1.05 MB
  
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  French civilians erected this silent tribute to an American solider who has fallen in the crusade to liberate France from Nazi domination. Carentan, France. - NARA - 531191.gif 600 × 472; 73 KB
  
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  Front view of 240mm howitzer of Battery. "B", 697th Field Artillery Battalion., just before firing into German held territory. Mignano area, Italy. - NARA - 531176.gif 600 × 481; 109 KB
  
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  General Dwight D. Eisenhower watches grimly while occupants of a German concentration camp at Gotha demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazi sadists operating the camp. Generals Bradley and Patton are at his (...) - NARA - 531263.gif 600 × 495; 92 KB
  
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  Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar N. Bradley - NARA - 5757185.jpg 2,933 × 2,400; 899 KB
  
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  High ranking German officers seized by Free French troops which liberated their country's capital are lodged in the hotel Majestic, headquarters for the Wehrmacht in the days of the Nazi occupation. Paris, France. - NARA - 531207.gif 600 × 478; 87 KB
  
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  In an underground surgery room, behind the front lines on Bougainville, an American Army doctor operates on a U.S. soldier wounded by a Japanese sniper. - NARA - 531177.gif 600 × 493; 79 KB
  
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  In the cellar of the Race Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, Chaplain Samuel Blinder examines one of hundreds of "Saphor Torahs" (Sacred Scrolls), among the books stolen from every occupied country in Europe. - NARA - 531306.gif 600 × 483; 89 KB
  
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  Infantrymen take a short rest before pushing on, in a deserted house in the French town of Tessy sur Vire. "Our `foxhole' for the night was a beer cellar. There were beaucoup kegs down there but they were empty. Bo(...) - NARA - 531200.gif 600 × 470; 104 KB
  
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  Infantrymen, attached to the 4th Armored Division, fire at German troops, in the American advance to relieve the pressure on surrounded airborne troops in Bastogne, Belgium. - NARA - 531242.gif 600 × 484; 83 KB
  
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  Infra red view of wrecked Japanese plane near Angeles, Pampanga, on Luzon, Philippine Islands In the background is Mount Arayat, some 10 to 15 miles away. - NARA - 531307.gif 600 × 486; 80 KB
  
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  Jubilant American soldier hugs motherly English woman and victory smiles light the faces of happy service men and civilians at Piccadilly Circus, London, celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender. England, May (...) - NARA - 531280.gif 563 × 600; 100 KB
  
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  Lad with mother pushing from behind rolls cartload of possessions out of Uerdingen, Germany, moved out by allied military government seeking to prevent loss of life from shelling by Germans on other side of Rhine. - NARA - 531255.gif 600 × 505; 99 KB
  
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  Lieutenant Colonel Lyle Bernard, Colorado, 30th Infantry Regiment., a prominent figure in the second daring amphibious landing behind enemy lines on Sicily's north coast, discusses military strategy with Lieutenant(...) - NARA - 531335.gif 575 × 600; 103 KB
  
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  Lieutenant Colonel Woran, Chaplain of the 10th Mountain Division, leads a group of men in prayer at Torboli the day following the unconditional surrender of all German troops in Italy. - NARA - 531282.gif 600 × 500; 136 KB
  
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  Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway; Major General Doyle Hickey; and General Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief of United Nations Forces in Korea, in a jeep at a command post, Yang Yang, Korea, approximately 15 m(...) - NARA - 531405.gif 600 × 466; 87 KB
  
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  Luxembourg girls greeting American Army of Occupation. - NARA - 530788.gif 600 × 429; 106 KB
  
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  Major General Charles A. Willoughby and Members the Japanese Surrender Arrangement Delegation in Manila - NARA - 6200932.jpg 3,150 × 2,516; 761 KB
  
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  Major General Charles H. Corlett, Right, Awards Major Roy L. Atteberry the Silver Star at Boynton Manor Wilts, England - NARA - 6003980.jpg 5,116 × 6,084; 1.68 MB
  
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  Marlene Dietrich, motion picture actress, autographs the cast on the leg of Tec 4 Earl E. McFarland of Cavider, Texas, at a United States hospital in Belgium, where she has been entertaining the GIs. - NARA - 531330.gif 600 × 504; 82 KB
  
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  Members of an American landing party lend helping hands to others whose landing craft was sunk by enemy action off the coast of France. These survivors reached Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, by using a life raft. - NARA - 531189.gif 600 × 488; 89 KB
  
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  Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers to smoke out Japanese from a block house on Kwajalein Island, while others wait with rifles ready in case other Japanese come out. - NARA - 531319.gif 600 × 469; 124 KB
  
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  Men of the 8th Infantry Regiment attempt to move forward and are pinned down by German small arms from within the Belgian town of Libin. Men seek cover behind hedges and signs to return the fire. - NARA - 531212.gif 600 × 476; 116 KB
  
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  On the porch of an emergency hospital these released American prisoners of war, liberated by U.S. Rangers from Cabanatuan prison camp on Luzon, Philippine Islands, wait for transfer to a base hospital. - NARA - 531251.gif 600 × 440; 77 KB
  
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  One of four Americans of the 21st Infantry Regiment found between the forward observation post and the front line. The men were probably captured the night of July 9th, and shot thru the head with their hands tied (...) - NARA - 531361.gif 600 × 483; 133 KB
  
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  PFC Ines Kirkman of Des Moines, Iowa, Cpl. Glena Cooper of Beaver Dan, Kentucky, PFC Billy Vinyard of Yerba Buena, California Wring Out Their Clothes after Their Tent Collapsed in a Rainstorm at the Advance WAC De(...) - NARA - 7452285.jpg 6,696 × 6,971; 11.28 MB
  
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  Photograph of a BAR Gunner Entering a Building Suspected of Housing Snipers in Percy, France - NARA - 6928095.jpg 4,000 × 3,075; 1.45 MB
  
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  Photograph of a Desk Used by President Harry S. Truman at the Potsdam Conference - NARA - 849142.gif 600 × 472; 88 KB
  
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  Photograph of a Durer Engraving - NARA - 5757194.jpg 2,953 × 2,400; 1.01 MB