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U.S. landing craft approach Japanese-held Saipan Island. The waters of Saipan Island are crewded with U.S. landing craft carrying American soldiers to the Japanese held base in the Marianas group of the Central Pacific on June 14, 1944. U.S. troops who pushed ashore on Saipan were supported by an air-sea bombardment similar to coordinated attacks which paved the way for Allied landings in France. Some ...

U.S. tanks plow ashore on Tinian. American tanks roll ashore from landing craft off Tinian in the Marianas and drive up a beach road gouged out by a bulldozer. Only two and one half miles (four kilometers) to the southwest of recently won Saipan, the Central Pacific gives the Allies two more airfields only 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the Japanese homeland. Eight days after the American landings ...

Voedsel uit de lucht. Voor het westen van het land ontstond in april 1945 een regelrechte noodsituatie. De hongerdood dreigde, omdat de voedseltransporten over het IJsselmeer stil waren komen te liggen. Om een oplossing te vinden voor deze noodsituatie vonden onderhandelingen plaats tussen de Duitse autoriteiten, vertegenwoordigers van het College van Vertrouwensmannen en de BS. Met toestemming van ...

Festung Norwegen abwehrbereit. Auch an der Eismeerküste, am nördlichsten Ende Europas, stehen Geschütze aller Kaliber bereit, sofort zuzuschlagen, wenn der Gegner versuchen sollte, hier zu landen.

Festung Norwegen abwehrbereit. Abwehrbereiten Eismeerküste. Auch an der Eismeerküste, am Ende Europas, stehen die Geschütze aller Kaliber, bereit, sofort zuzuschlagen, wenn der Gegner versuchen sollte, hier zu landen.

Head of America's vast shipbuilding projects. Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission, has supervised U.S. shipbuilding operations for the Allied war effort which resulted in more than five launchings of cargo vessels every day by the end of 1943, including more than 1700 Liberty ships, more of a single type of ship than ever before sailed the oceans.

U.S. Engineers improve China highways. Mountainous trails wind and twist across a valley east of Kunming, China, where the U.S. Army's famous Birma Road engineers are now improving highways for American supply ocnvoys to the China front. U.S. engineers, who built the Stilwell Road over the worst country in the world to end the land blockade of China, are now engaged with the assistance of Chinese highway ...

Stars and stripe over Cezembre. Two American soldiers raise the Stars and Stripes over the Nazi island fortress of Cezembre off St. Malo, Brittany, replacing the white flag of surrender while the defenders maised after a U.S. bombardment by land, sea and air. Ending one of the most bizarre sieges of the war, the garrison capitulated September 2, 1944. just as U.S. troops were embarking for an amphibious ...

Allied tanks keep rolling onto French beaches. An Allied armered vehicle named Berlin Bound rolls down the gangplank of a landing craft onto the French beaches. A never-ending flow of military equipment-tanks, guns, ammunition and supplies-is surging across the English Channel to add to the overwhelming strength of the Allied Expeditionary Force in France.