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U.S. war scene at a Mediterranean port. Protective barrage balloons hover overhead as a group of LST (landing ship-tank), their bow doors open, await a U.S. Army infantry division bound for an amphibious landing. Tanks, trucks and reconnaissance cars as well as men are easily loaded and unloaded through the large bow doors of the landing craft. This photograph was taken at a Sicilian port.

American hero decorated. Staff Sergeant Walter D. Ehlers of Manhattan, Kansas, has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration in the U.S. Army, as well as the Purple Heart with two clusters. Sergeant Ehlres, a member of the First Infantry Division of the First U.S. Army, was honored for extreme bravery during the landings in Normandy.

Allied medical aid for Greek children. Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert S. Osincui, of Orlando, Florida, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration medical officer for Greece, examines children's eyes in Kalarodi, Greece. While Greek children appear in good health, during the German occupation they lived mostly on starchy foods, which left them looking well-nourished but lacking in important ...

AD B 37 Voedselvoorziening/voedseldroppings Uninterruptedly food is arriving now. A weekly supply of 4 million kg packed in cases, tins and sacks, conveyed with trucks and barges, is stored in the big store houses on the Handelskade te Amsterdam. Awaiting her turn; seated on the pavement, this housewife given a thankfull look into her ration-box, it never was so well filled.

Fighting post in the forefield of the West Wall. Notwithstanding the stove-pipe and the wireless mast, no flyer of the enemy will find out easily this well camouflaged fighting post.

Everywhere the same joy when the troops march in. Troops are welcomed in the Polish districts of Czechoslovakia by the same joyous manner as in Sudetenland population here as well brethes freely again. The Polish General Bortnowski Commander of the Polish troops embraces an old woman who wanted to squeeze his hands being so happy for the liberation.

U.S. war scene at a Mediterranean port. Protective barrage ballons hover overhead as a group of LST (landing ship-tank), their division bow doors open, await a U.S. Army infantry division bound for an amphibious landing. Tanks, trucks and reconnaissance cars as well as men are casily loades and onloaded through the large bow doors of the landing craft. This pfotograph was taken at a Sicilian port. ...