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Captured German photos of Hamburg air raids. Explosions of the burning gas tanks of the Rhenania-Ossag refinery dot the water with debris as bombers hit the plant and nearby Hamburg. This is a captured German photograph showing the results of an attack by the Eighth Air Force August 6, 1944, one of seven blastings.

German prisoners eat heartily aboard U.S. transport. A German soldier peers over his comrade's shoulder, amazed at the quantity and quality of the food given them by U.S. Army kitschen helpers aboard an American transport. Captured during the battle of Normandy, the Germans are being shipped to the United States for internment in a prisoner- of warcamp. More than 60.000 Germans had surrendered to British ...

Italian troops march to front to battle Germans in Italy. Italian soldiers in single file march through a town in Southern Italy on their way to the front to fight side by side with American and British soldiers against the Germans. The Italian scored their first victory against the Germans in a joint attack with American forces on Dec. 16, 1943, on a mountain south of Cassino.

British War Chief passes closed German Embassy. General Sir Edmund Ironside, Inspector-General of the Overseas Forces (right), passing the closed German Embassy in Carlton House Terrace, London, after the declaration of war. Sir Edmund carries his steel helmet and gas mask.

German civilians exhume murdered Russian workers. The bodies of Russian slave laborers, murdered by Germans at Essen before the city was taken by U.S. forces, are exhumed for now and decent burial. German civilians were forced to dig the bodies out of the mass of mud that formed their common grave. Essen, known as the arsonal of Germany, fell April 10, 1945, to the 17th U.S. Airborne Division after ...

Americans revoke German death sentence on Austrian couple. Albert and Agnes Kaltenagger, citizens of Salzburg, Austria, stand before Major Robert M. Woodward (right), president of the board of officers reviewing the cases of civilians found in German prisons in the sector of Austria occupied by the Americans. A German court had convict them and sentenced them to death for the alleged theft of a small ...

U.S. AIRMEN DESCRIBE RAID ON GERMAN AIRCRAFT PLANT. American bomber crewmen of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, just returned from a large-scale bombing raid on a German aircraft factory in Austria, answer questions of their commanders about the results of their mission.

Combat between fighter planes. A 'Spitfire' is brought down in flames by a German 'Me 109'. Britse Supermarine Spitfire en Duitse AG Messerschmitt jachtvliegtuigen.

Not issued + Stockpile, rescued German submarine sailors. Survivers of a German submarine destroyed by airplanes of the British Coastal Command are lined up on the deck of a destroyer before being sent to prisoner of war camps ashore. The Germans are blindfolded so they cannot observe the destroyer's secret anti-submarine devices. During the six months ending Oct. 30, 1943, Allied forces sank 150 German ...

Russians capture German underground power station. A Soviet seoldier checks a dynamo in an underground power station taken by the Russians in their tremendous drive toward the heart of the Reich. This power station was used to turn the machinery of German permanent fortifications which were abandoned before the mighty Russian advance. The Russians, by March 7, 1945, had reached Cammin, the Baltic entrance ...

Italian officer talks with Germans he took prisoner on Island of Corfu. Major Luigi Ottino of the Italian Army (right) talks at Taranto, Italy with some of the 433 German soldiers taken prisoner by an Italian force which Major Ottino led in an attack against German occupation forces on the island of Corfu. Major Ottino's men brought the germans across the Adriatic to Raranto in finish boats. Corfu, ...

German artillery captures by American drive on Cherbourg. This enemy heavy artillery in an Allied collection depot in France was taken when the Germans were forced to surrender under the superior pressure of the American drive on the deep-water port of Cherbourg. A camouflaged heavy gun is in the foreground and behind it is one which was pierced by U.S. shell fire. As Allied aircraft continue to batter ...