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Burial at sea. Merchant seamen and Marinee commit the body of an Allied Marine to the waves of the English Channel after Navy Chaplain G. Short read the burial service. The traditional salute of three volleys was fired by Marines and, in absence of blank fire, the LCI moved the side of the convoy to use live ammunition. The Marine was beachhead casualty in the Allied landing in France who died un transit ...

' Flossenburg Concentration Camp. A French guide shows a 97th Division officer the crematory where the bodies of victims who died at Flossenburg were burned for disposal. The camp was liberated by Third U.S. Army Troops after the fall of Weiden, near the Czechoslovakian border, April 24, 1945. '

The Windsors at Verdun. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in the famous ossuary of Douaumont, where are entombed thousands of soldiers who died in the terrible fighting. With them are left M. Jean Giraud, Assistant Prefect of the Meuse Department and right Commandant de Romemont, a member of the Verdun General Staff.

The Cassino War Memorial. The War Memorial in the Cassino war cemetery, Cassino, Italy, Sept. 25, showing the famed Benedictine Monastery on Mount Cassino in background. This memorial commemorates 4,628 officers and men of the British commonwealth who died in the World War Cassino battle, and 4,608 others who died in the Italian campaign but have no known graves. It will be inaugurated by Field Marshal ...

Dutch people buried at Laanhof, Batavia. Graves of Dutch people who died during the Japanese occupation, in Laanhof Cemetery, Batavia. NI 668

Death of a German soldier. This German soldier died as he tried to get out of his wrecked tank during the battle of Tunisia (1943). The hole left by an anti-tank shell can be seen just below his head.

Een deportatietrein die op en neer ging naar de vernietigingskampen. In deze trein liggen lijken in de wagons. View of the Dachau death train in the newly liberated concentration camp. The orignal caption reads Horrors worse than those found in the German concentration camps of Buchenwald and Belsen were discovered in the stinking hell-hole of Dachau, captured by the troops of the 42nd and 45th Infantry ...

Ambon, Moluccas, Netherlands Indies. Evidence of Japanese brutality is shown in the remains of this former victim which was exhumed by Japanese soldiers, whilst Allied officials stood by to investigate any detail of clothing, personal belongings or equipment which was unearthed in an effort to identify the body. Note the cleft akull testifying the statment that many died not whith the first blow but ...