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Madrid's ruined University city: Clinic hospital as centre of desperate warfare. The skeleton of the clinical hospital at the Madrid University city as a shell explodes behind a small building in the middle foreground. These big blocks of buildings were only partially completed when the war broke out, and its ruined appearance is not entirely due to shell-fire. Now held by the rebels, the government ...

American gun on Anzio beachhead. Under a camouflage netting, a Long Tom, a 155-mm. gun operated by U.S. soldiers of the Allied Fifth Army, opens up against German forces in the Anzio area, below Rome, where Allied forces established a beachhead after launching an amphibious assault on the western coast of Italy on Jan. 22, 1944.

German submarine captured by U.S. Navy ships off West Africa. The U.S.S. Guadalcanal, escort carrier of the small task group that located the U-505, approaches the captured German submarine. U.S. sailors and their officers are readying a towline for the long trip to Bermuda. Other members of the boarding party have gone below in the undersea craft to close the scuttling hatches and to connect the electric ...

Allied Fifth Army forces join near Anzio, Italy. British and U.S. soldiers happily greet each other as the main Allied Fifth Army joined the Anzio beachhead forces on May 25, 1944, in the Pontine Marshes, near the west coast of central Italy. After the juncture, the Fifth Army swept on to liberate Rome, the Italian capital, on June 4, 1944, climaxing a 24-day offensive which smashed through the German ...

Afloat - to find character. Every morning and evening the boys attend the ceremony of raising or lowering the colours. The pennant of the best watch of the previous day is flown below and behind the Red Ensign. A prayer is read by the executive officer of the padre, followed by barometer and thermometer readings and a general weather forecast, and then duties of the day are read out.

U.S. NAVY BLIMP REHEARSES RESQUE AT SEA. A general view of the rescue at sea by the U.S. Blimp J-4. A seaman was raised to the blimp from one of the craft below in a special stretcher.

General Clark en route to Anzio-Nettuno beachhead. Lieutenant General Mark M.W. Clark, commanding general U.S. Fifth Army, peers eagerly ahead from the PT boat which carried him to the invasion beachhead, near Anzio, Italy, 30 miles south of Rome. The time is the morning of January 22, 1944, when American and Britisch Army forces landed near Anzio and Nettuno in Western Italy at points varying from ...

U.S. President Truman confers nation's highest award on 28 Army men. U.S. President Harry S. Truman bestows the Congressional Medal of Honor on Sergeant Ralph G. Neppel, 21, former farm worker from the midwestern state of Iowa, whose legs were severed below the knee during action in Germany in December 1944. The ceremony, in which 27 other Army men, many of whom were badly wounded, also received the ...

Item is a letter. Item was typewritten on a typewriter in black ink on off-white paper. Below the middle, horizontal fold is a Dutch word stamped in purple ink. On the recto’s lower, left quadrants is Den Heer I Stein hand signed in black ink.

In Belgrade appeared on the 16.4.1941 at Colonel General Weichs the Chief Quarter Master the Servian Army who asked in the name of his government to negociate. The consignment of the man claims was made by means of Colonel General Weichs in presence of the Italian and the Hungar Military Attaché. Colonel General Weichs (below the picture of the Führer) is leading the negociations. The Serbia in front ...

Arrival of Dutch refugee children. The 500 children who have com to this country from Holland have, for a long time, been living under constant strain. Their nutritional standard is far below the safety line. Many have lived in the actual battle area. Some have lost their parents and alle their pocessions. Their chief need is to be built up again in body and mind, to be given a sense of security and ...