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Wounded American soldiers ferried from France. American soldiers, wounded in the Battle of Normandy, lie on the deck of a U.S. landing craft anchored off the French coast. The craft will carry them across the Channel to England for hospitalization. During the liberation of the Cherbourg Peninsula, the Americans suffered more than 25,000 casualties, but captured 42,500 in knocking out the equivalent ...

Essential German workers moved to Saar. With their personal belongings loaded on farm verhicycles, German civilians crowd the railroad yards area of Bamberg July 13, 1945, to await transportation to their homes in the Saar region of Germany. The U.S. Army granted transportation to 3,000 civilians miners, farmers and other essential workers but many others have gathered at the station, hoping to be ...

A Sovietic assasins captured in a cornfield. As soon as the positions of the Soviets are stormed and rendered inoffensive by the German troops, the sovietic assasins don't only fly, but try to hide up in the housees, woods and even the corn fields in order to fire from behind upon German soldiers. Infantry who has combed thonoughly a cornfield has captured two of these assesins, who now have to advance ...

Meidagen 1940. Oorlog te land. Caught in their own trap! The Dutch had built this tank trap to hinder the German advance, but it was actually a French caterpillar-car that fell into it!

Foto van parachutist met SCR-536 handy talkie bij liggende parachute. Tekst: 'Rather nice to carry your own radio around, but not in combat conditions'.

Kampong Makassar, Batavia, Java, Netherlands Indies. European women and children washing themselves in the so-called bathroom at the civilian internment camp, Kampong Makassar. But since this photograph was taken Allied authorities have taken over and many improvements have been made and medical supplies are more plentiful. Primitieve wasruimte in Kampong Makassar. NI 6101

Nederlandse soldaten in training. Prinses Irene Brigade. Bijschrift "We don't know what the joke is all about, but this Wren with a Dutch soldier seems to think it pretty good"

Pamoesian oilfields, Tarakan Island, resume production. Destruction on Pamoesian oilfields caused by Japanese demolition and the Allied bombardment which preceded the recapture of the area by Allied forces in May, 1945. In the forground can be seen several measuring tanks which were damaged by fire but not destroyed. NI 7269