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Memorial service over spot where thetis lies. A general view of the craft taking part in the service over the spot where the thetis lies today. Note the wreck .. in the centre, tragic sign of the silent that is lying 132 feet below.

Protecting Allied landings in Italy. As landing forces were establishing beachheads at Nettunok Italy, January 22, 1944, B-26 Marauder medium bombers of the 12th U.S. Air Force give support to the operations just 30 miles below Rome by bombing vital communications targets immediately to the rear of the Fifth Army front. Here the planes are bombing the highway bridge at Caprano, Italy. The black puffs ...

Britse soldaat met Bren machinegeweer op zolder van huis in Gennep. Foto gemerkt B 14627. Tekst achterop: "THE TAKING OF GENNEP. Bren gunner in action from the window of a house where they were observing and giving covering fire for their comrades advance below. "C" Coy. 5th Black Watch, 153 bde. 51 HD.. taken by Sgt. Silverside. 14.2.45. "Operation Veritable"

Mayor of Rome addresses populage. Prince Filippo Andres Pamphili (Prince Doria) addresses the crowds in the square below from the balcony of the Campololi Building after being sworn in as Mayor Governor of the city. Following the speech to the enthusiastic gathering, the military band played the National Anthem of Italy, France, Britain and the United States. Princes Doria, always hostile to Fascism, ...

Liberators of Europe embark. A U.S. Navy officer gives American troops in the crowded landing craft below instructions before they begin to climb to the larger boat which took them to their invastion rendezvous. Under command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Allied naval forces, supported by strong air armadas, began landing Allied troops ...

'Canadian Army Overseas Photo Holland. Surgery below ground: undergoing skilled surgical treatment by Canadian Army doctors is a two-year old boy suffering from severe shrapnel wounds in his hip. The boy is one of countless patients who have found sanctuary from war in a civilian underground hospital specially built for the purpose. Originally a shelter for German SS troops, the hospital handles 70 ...

First American Red Cross club opens in France. Two American Red Cross workers unfold the Stars and Stripes over the Victoire Club in Cherbourg while below, in the street, U.S. soldiers gather around the doorway. The club, formerly a German officers'club, was opened at a brief ceremony during which Paul Renault, Mayor of Cherbourg, presented it with a Tricolor. It is the first American Red Cross club ...

Germans take possession of Memel. Hitler pays triumphal visit. German warplanes flying in formation over Memel as, in the street below, Nazi formations and civilians pack the pavements. A German military car is seen passing with an officer standing to acknowledge the cheers.

' Crash in Mid-Air, Solomon Islands. Just moments after two US Navy fighter planes crashed in mid-air over Vella La Vella airstrip in the Solomons, a parachute billows from the craft in center, its pilot dangling safely below. The blazing plane at left, its tail engulfed in flame, heads toward the ground. The splash in water at right was made by the plummeting engine of center plane, while the same ...

Cargo-ship (C-3 type). The Amerikan cargo ship of the new C-3 type, like the President Jackson, has greater speed than the older C-2 type. It has a raked stem and cruiser stern, a shelter deck and two steel decks extending from stem to stern below it. There are accomodations for 12 passengers, 47 officers and crew members. Diesel-propelled C-3 ships are 7,886 gross tons, with cargo capacityof 10.026 ...