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U.S. WAC visits grandparents in liberated Schoondijke, Holland. Schoondijke lies battered and in ruins. The home in which Private Zonnevylle was born is leveled by the bombs and artillery fire poured into the town during the ousting of the Nazis.

Cacket of honor in St. Lo. Atop the rubbled ruins of St. Crois Church in St. Lo, the body of an American major lies draped with the Stars and Stripes while in the foreground his men continue to battle in a crater turned into a machine gun post. The major was killed leading his battalion into the hingo city of the Nazi defense line in Western Normandy which fell to American forces July 18, 1944.

How Berlin looked to British troops on july 3/4. More Berlin ruins near Unter Den Linden. This Hotel Kaiserhof is completely gutted.

The ruined church at Meyenne. An American soldier examines the blasted ruins of the church at Meyenne, France, ....... was damaged during the bitter fighting which proceded the fall of the town to U.S. troops August 6, 1944.

Horrors of War. Ruins of a German Porder Village which was systematically destroyed by retiring French troops. Not even the snow could cover the tracks of destruction.

British patrol enters ruins of chateau de Geijsteren. The recee patrol carrying the assault craft. Een bezoeker van de Beeldbank schrijft: ''Kasteel Geijsteren werd in de nacht van 30 november op 1 december veroverd door de Suffolks. Er waren boten nodig omdat het kasteel, aan de Maas gelegen, geheel omringd was door hoog water. Het kasteel werd bezet door Fallschirmjäger, die op 30 november op het ...