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Leaders of Allied Expeditionary Force confer in England. High Allied ground, air and naval officers, leaders of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Great Britain, confer at their headquarters in England. Left to right are: Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, senior commander of U.S. Army ground forces with the AEF; British Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsay, Commander in Chief of the AEF's naval forces; British ...

The Yanks in the ETO. This is how it looked on paper back at the heavy bomber bases in England. Our files had Hitler's war plants all plotted for strikes. They were delivered on time.

U.S. Marine officers check progress of American troops on Saipan. Two American Marine Corps officers, whose leadership helped wrest control of strategic Saipan Island from the Japanese, check over battle data during the fierce fighting for the Marianas island of the Central Pacific. Lieutenant Colonel William K. Jones (left) and Major James A. Donovan, Jr., were with the U.S. troops who overran the ...

Behind the scenes at third U.S. army field headquaters. This teletype room in a trailertruck at Third U.S. Army field headquaters held six machines through which cryptic code messages could be transmitted to any part of the world. The teletypes were used only when the written word was necessary. The machine operations were arranged so that the wires could not be tapped without detection, all messages ...

Maastricht, 7 december 1944. Terwijl het zuiden van Nederland bevrijd is, worden er plannen gemaakt voor het vervolg van de geallieerde bevrijdingsoperatie in Europa. Deze foto getuigt van een bijzondere geallieerde topconferentie op Nederlands grondgebied tijdens de oorlog, die plaatsvond in Headquarter Oklahoma, het gebouw van het voormalige Veldeke College aan de Aylvalaan in Maastricht. Van links ...

Former SHAEFF war room turned over to French. Major General Royal B. Lord (center left), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Assembly Area Command, presents the keys to the former war room of Advance Headquarters of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expditionary Force, to the Mayor of Reims (center right), M. Michel Sicre. Terms for the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies were signed in this ...

Major General Lindsay McDonald Silvester (left), CG, 7th Armored Division, outlines the tatical situation north of Overloon, Holland, to British officers preparing to take over that sector with their armored units. L.S. Betreft foto 74217 2e van links met voet op de stoel is General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor KT, GCB, GBE, DSO & Bar, MC. Deze man was ten tijde van de Slag om Overloon commandant van ...

Behind the scenes at Third U.S. Army field headquaters. This is the interior of a liaison tent at Third U.S. Army field headquaters. A Liberator bomber pilot (in civilian cothes in the center back, sitting at the table) is giving a report on what he observed after he was shot down behind German lines and returned to his own territory by the French underground. Officers of various corps of the Third ...

Mit Sepp Dietrich an der normannischen Front. Wer dem SS-Obergruppenführer und Panzergeneral der Waffen-SS Sepp Dietrich, Träger des Eichenlaubes mit Schwertern zum Ritterkreuz, gegenübertritt, wird auch ohne das Wissen darum, dass es sich um einen der ältesten und treuesten Gefolgsleute das Führers handelt, den Eindruck einer starken,streng soldatischen Persönlichkeit empfangen. Die kräftigen, breite ...

Battle of Britain chief goes back to the 'holes'. A room that played a decisive part in history was honoured Tuesday. It is know as the 'Hole'. It was the operations room of No. 11 Fighter Group at Uxbridge, England, from where the Battle of Britain was controlled. Tuesday the man who directed that Battle as Chief of Fighter Command, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, went down the 80 steps to the Hole ...