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Joyous Filipinos mingle with Americans on Leyte Beach. Threngs of Philippine civilians, half-starved, war-weary but joyous at being liberated from the Japanese, swarm from cellars and hills to welcome American and Filipine forces as they land on a beach near a bombtorn town. At the right is a Filipino outrigger canoe, left stranded by the receding tide and seeming strangely out of place among the mechanized ...

Kampong Makassar, Batavia, Java, Netherlands Indies. A nurse measuring medicine in the dispensary at the hospital situated in the former internment camp, Kampong Makassar, for the relief of sick internees. Conditions in this camp a short while ago were indescribable, but since Allied authorities have taken over and many improvements have been made and medical supplies are more plentiful. NI 6103

Gekostumeerde mannen op een podium met reclameborden met de tekst "make dancing - your hobby - but do it - in style".

Walcheren epic, November, 1944. Wounded men seing transferred from a landing craft to another acting as a hospital ship. The Royal Marines landing at Westkapelle. Our close support bombadment craft, manned by the Royal Navy, ran the gauntlet of the shore batteries and drew the enemy's fir while the assault went through. Losses were severe - at the rate of 4 out of 5 - but the Navy's job was done.

Koningin Wilhelmina brengt een bezoek aan Arnhem. Hier wordt ze ontvangen door de militaire commissaris van Gelderland, kolonel Blaauw, bij Sacre Coeur, dat tijdelijk was ingericht als stadhuis. 'H.M. QUEEN WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS VISITS ARNHEM. For the first time after Arnhem has been liberated by the Allied Armies, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands visits the heavily damaged town. During ...

Hitler and Mussolini view. Bommed out conference room. Hitler and Mussolini survey the wrecked conference room at the Fuehrer's headquarters after an assassination bomb interrupted a meeting of Nazi leaders July 20, 1944. Hitler received slight burns and concussion but no serious injury, according to an official Nazi statement issued in Stockholm. Thirteen of his personal staff were injured. Less than ...

Holland says it with flowers. Here only the initiated pass, and he who pays! You must be a member of the Exchange or pay an entrance-fee. But behind this counter you find a world of new colour schemes. The people who come here will take care that the new world will be a bright world with many flowers. They produced the new kinds of tulips which will adorn in a few years' time the streets of Moscow, ...