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Medical corpsmen dies in action. A member of the U.S. Army Medical Corps lies dead in a Normandy field where he was killed while attending the wounded before U.S. forces drove the Nazis from Sainteny.

Gripped U.S. Aircraft carrier completes saga of the sea. With gloved hands clasped in prayer Lieutenant Commander Joseph O'Callahan, U.S. Navy Chaplain, administers the last rites to a wounded crewman aboard the U.S.S. Franklin. In the background can be seen other crewmen fighting fires. NI 6559

U.S. troops return to America. American troops wave from a ship pulling out of Southampton as they leave England for their home country. The return of American troops from Europe to the United States has been speeded up to meet requirements of the war against Japan, although approximately half a million U.S. troops will be left in the European occupation force. Skilled technicians, special service ...

Germans kill Italian civilians in Rionero. Burial rites are held for 16 Italian citizens who were slain by the Germans in Rionero, Italy. Relatives kneel at the new grave of one of the victims. The sign nailed to the cross reads: To the martyrs of Nazi-Fascist ferocity. The man at the left nearest to het cross was among the intended victims of the Germans. He was wounded in the leg and left for one ...

Mater Dela Rosa Hospital, Batavia, Java, Netherlands Indies. Sick and wounded patients recuperating at the Mater Dela Rosa Hospital, Batavia, Java where 34 sisters and nurses cared for over 13,000 patients during the japanese occupation. The living conditions were indescribable, and the food, when attainnable was unfit for human consumption. NI 5775

American gives water to German prisoner. A U.S. Army medical officer gives a drink of warer to a wounded German prisoner who surrendered at Altavilla, southeast of Salerno, during the Allied advance up the Italian mainland toward Naples inSeptember, 1943.

Graves of greek victims line ighway. The graves of 49 Greeks, slain by the Germans for a reason still unrevealed, line the main highway leading north from the city of Levadeia in southern Greece. The grave in the foreground has been marked off by soorowing relatives who erected the white picket fence and placed a photograph of the victim on a stand. A German custom during their occupation of the nation ...

Germany's army flag waves over the former Polish amunition dump in Danzid. German soldiers, one of them wounded, after having hoisted the German army flag.

Captured German soldiers pass Cherbourg city hall. German soldiers, captured by Allied troops during the Battle of Normandy, march past the city hall of the French port of Cherbourg on their way to a prisoner-of-war- camp. One wounded prisoner gets a ride in a small bicycle trailer, pulled by a comrade. Beneath the U.S. British and French flags, French inhabitants watch the departure of the Germans ...

Allied Forces gain a hold on the Djebel Hill, the last natural barrier before Tripoli. A wounded member of a gun crew is taken care of while the 6 pounder goes in firing.

Askari stretcher-bearers. Askaris transporting an injured comrade to the field hospital in Adowa. Although the war has claimed many casualties, the numbers of dead and wounded have not been made known.

Pacific veterans reach U.S. on the day that marked the end of the war Wounded veterans of the Pacific war, wearing shoulder casts, express their joy aboard a U.S. Navy transport which docked in New York on August 14, 1945, the day that marked the end of the war. At 7:00 P.M. (eastern War Time) on August 14, U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced that the Japanese had accepted the Allies unconditional ...