Militaire Luchtvaart Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger (ML-KNIL) > Materieel > Instructies afkomstig van de commandant van het 19de Squadron, luitenant-kolonel W.C.J. Versteegh, betreffende het overnemen en opvoeren van vijftien C-47 Dakota's van de United States Army Air Force (USAAF) te Manilla, [november 1945]

Militaire Luchtvaart Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger (ML-KNIL) > Nederlands-Indië contra Japan > Capitulatie Nederlands-Indië > Correspondentie tussen generaal G.C. Marshall en luitenant-generaal G.H. Brett betreffende het terugtrekken van de United States Army Air Force (USAAF) uit Nederlands-Indië naar Australië, 2 - 7 maart 1942

Title: "Nazi Concentration Camps" Foreword: "This is an official document made by U.S. military photographers as they advanced into Germany," etc. Two exhibited affidavits attesting to the authenticity of scenes in the film are shown, one signed by Lt Col George E. Stevens and the other by Capt John Ford. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and Europe. "Leipzig Concentration ...

Luchtoorlog 1940-1945 > Overzichten en lijsten van de Army Air Force (AAF) > Naval Aviation Confidential Bulletin , nr. 5-45, uitgegeven door the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and Bureau of Aeronautics, 1945

Consists of a copy of a letter written by Louis Eiseman to his younger sister in May 1945, relating Eiseman's general impressions of the sub-human conditions in the Nazi camps near the end of World War II. The letter describes children in the camps; starvation of prisoners; gassing and cremation of camp prisoners; the liquidation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia; and the torture and killing of American troops ...

Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

Wolf Vova Werba (later Zeev Raveh) was born on May 23, 1923, in Maniewicze, Poland (Prilesnoye, Ukraine) to Shlomo, born in 1893, and Miriam Mancia Cyrulnik, born in 1896. Shlomo had three brothers: Hershel Zvi and Schmuel Baruch, who immigrated to Argentina and Israel, and one sister, Zitka, married to Arie Farbman. Miriam had four siblings: Menachem Mendel, Shikl, Lejbl, and Cipora. Shlomo and Miriam ...

Militaire Luchtvaart Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger (ML-KNIL) > Instructies en handleidingen > Handleiding getiteld 'Pilot training manual for the Mustang P-51, AAF Manual 51-127-5', afkomstig van de United States Army Air Force (USAAF), 1945

Izac Holcman was born in Warsaw, Poland on February 15, 1902 to Izrael and Lea Holcman (née Grynsztejn). He was the youngest of two boys, with an older brother named David (1898-). Izac graduated from a secondary school in Warsaw in 1917 and went on to take a course in bookkeeping - a profession he retained for much of his life. At the age of 20, Izac joined the Polish Armed Forces as a member of the ...

Militaire Luchtvaart Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger (ML-KNIL) > Nederlands-Indië contra Japan > Geallieerde organisatie en operaties > Stukken betreffende het 21ste en 22ste Transport Carrier Squadron en de 374ste Transport Carrier Group van de United States Army Air Force (USAAF), 1942 - 1945

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Militaire Luchtvaart Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger (ML-KNIL) > Materieel > Stukken betreffende de overdracht van ML-KNIL en Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KNILM)-vliegtuigen aan de United States Army Air Force (USAAF), en over het afleveren van B-25 Mitchell bommenwepers, [1942-1945]

"Terror Flyers examines the "lynch justice" (Lynchjustiz) committed against American airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Using engaging first-person accounts of downed pilots, as well as previously unused primary sources, Terror Flyers challenges the notion that such lynchings were exclusively the domain of Nazi party officials and soldiers. New evidence reveals ordinary German people executed ...

This study describes not only what happened from the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the surrender of Germany eleven months later, but why it happened. While an enormous amount has been written about this campaign, most of it focuses on a single army or an individual battle. Levine stresses a truly integrated approach that combines both strategy and tactics and covers the land, sea, and air efforts ...

Reel 14: (1945) Concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany; Ike, Frankfurt; Air trip to England; Cambridge American soldiers board military planes in a field. Sign, "Leave Flight Officers." Ansco (film) logo. At Nordhausen concentration camp, soldiers inspect rocket debris. [Fedeli reports visiting the contentration camp at 'Buchenwald' near Weimar, Germany in late April 1945.] Brief LS of camp buildings ...

Arthur L. Zegart (1917-1989) was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. During World War II, he was part of a U.S. Army Air Force combat photography unit. He covered postwar relief and refugee efforts by UNRRA and the JDC in Czechoslovakia and Austria. He became chief of the United Nations film division in the late 1940s. Later, Zegart was involved in the production of 125 documentaries, ...

No. 634. Part 1, Italian Fascist symbols and flags as fascists celebrate Mussolini's 1922 march on Rome. Mussolini poses with Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, speaks from a balcony, and breaks ground for a new building. Scenes of highways, schools, Italians in Libya, and the Italian Army, Navy, and Air Force show Italy's progress under Mussolini. Gen. Badoglio poses. Part 2 maps the German front in ...

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

Map in back pocket. 40 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

(color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of Jesus. Town street scene, men walking, guest-house. CU, baby in carriage. Mountains. Good views of Ebensee concentration camp, electrified barbed wire fence, barracks. Men carry large pots of soup. Survivors walk past camera in striped uniforms, one is quite young. CUs, survivors, some with red triangles, eating. ...

As the official responsible for industrial mobilization and procurement for the army and the air force, Robert P. Patterson played a uniquely important role in mobilizing the Arsenal of Democracy. In this comprehensive study, Keith E. Eiler documents Judge Patterson's extraordinary and largely unrecognized contributions to the defense and war efforts. He also offers a provocative count of the manner ...

Allan Leon Dreyfuss (1919-2011) was born in Brookline, MA to Alice Schwab and Charles Dreyfuss. He attended Brookline High School and earned a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago. Allan enlisted in the Army Air Corps at the beginning of WWII and began a career in journalism as a reporter for Stars and Stripes, the armed forces newspaper. In 1945 he was assigned to cover the trials in Nuremberg, ...