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Sven Hedin talking in favor of the German Red Cross. In the great concert hall of the Berlin Philharmony, which was crowded, the famous Swedish explorer and geograph Sven Hedin hold a lecture about his home country on Sunday Dec. 1st, 1940. The receipts went to the German Red Cross. Sven Hedin is talking.

First American Red Cross club in France opens in Cherbourg. Harvey D. Gibson, American Red Cross Commissioner in Great Briatin and Western Europe, welcomes Allied soldiers at the opening of the first American Red Cross club in France at Cherbourg July 20, 1944.

Red Cross worker aids wounded German in strees of Paris. A Red Cross worker bends over a wounded German officer who was injured during the bitter fighting which preceded the liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944, while other Nazis are rounded up by French policement and members of the French Forces of the Interior.

Bloemen bij het Cross of Sacrifice van een begraafplaats van het Gemenebest

First American Red Cross club in France opens in Cherbourg. Harvey D. Gibson, American Red Cross Commissioner in Great Britain and Western Europe, welcome Allied soldiers to the first American Red Cross club for onlisted men in France at its opening in Cherbourg July 20, 1944.

A barbed wire fence to keep the Germans from crossing the frontier. At the customs house near Königshütte our reporter saw this barbed wire fence along the Polish-German frontier which was to keep the German refugees from crossing over into German territory.

U.S. TRANSPORT PLANE SETS NEW RECORD FOR CROSS-CONTINENT FLIGHT. The Constellation, a large American transport plane, cuts through the skies on its way from California, a U.S. Pacific Coast state, to an airport in Washington, the U.S. capital, establishing a new record of six hours and 58 minutes for the cross-continent, non-stop flight. Carrying 17 persons, the tripe-ruddered ship flew at an average ...

The hungry are fed. American Red Cross girls and U.S. soldiers distribute Crations to a line of hungry customers on a ship bound for France.

The Yanks in the ETO. But crossing the Seine was no pushover. We had to get our truck across on a little old ferry and the krauts zinged at us every foot of the way with machine gun fire. Engineers are unspected to do the impossible. We did it.