Photos (07/11) Divers

BIPPA EA 48960. U.S. SOLDIERS INSPECT SURRENDERED NAZI TANK. U.S. soldiers inspect a Nazi Mark V-I Tiger-Royal tank, which ran out of gasoline on the Stavelot Road in Belgium and surrendered. It was found to be in almost perfect condition.


BIPPA. EA 49104 U.S. SOLDIERS EXAMINE SNOW-COVERED GERMAN TANK BLASTED IN BELGIUM. American infantrymen of the Third U.S. Armored Division climb on top of a snow-covered camouflaged German Mark V tank abandoned by the enemy when it was knocked out by Allied units which halted a German counter-attack launched into Belgium December 16, 1944


PL 42283 BATTERED AACHEN. This aerial photo shows the smashed buildings skirting the railway in Aachen, Germany, as a result of the attacks by American air and land forces before the Nazis formally surrendered the city October 21, 1944, after turning down the original surrender ultimatum delivered by the First U.S. Army October 21, 1944


PL 50675. WARSAW, LIBERATED CAPITAL OF POLAND, IS MASS OF RUINS. The ruins of Cracowka street in Warsaw, capital of Poland liberated by Soviet and Polish forces January 17, 1945, after almost five and a half years of enemy occupation. In the background is the History Museum, fired by the Germans as they fled the city.


PNA EA 44981 U.S. INFANTRYMEN PUSH THROUGH MUD IN GERMANY. U.S. Infantrymen of the Ninth U.S. Army wade through the heavy mud in Aldenhoven, Germany, on their way to the front.


AP NYP 57004. U.S. MARINES TAKE COVER ON IWO JIMA BEACH. U.S. Marines of the Fourth Division take cover in an abandoned Japanese trench and in craters made by the U.S.


U.S. FORCES CONTROL BASTOGNE. A U.S. patrol passes a row of wrecked houses in Bastogne, Belgium, where U.S. forces made a heroic nine-day stand against fierce German thrusts during the early days of the Nazi counter-attack launched December 16th, 1944.


PNA EA 50498 SOLDIERS OF TWO U.S. ARMIES JOIN AT HOUFFALIZE. A hearty handshake markes the link-up of the First and Third U.S. Armies near Houffalize, Belgium, January 16, 1945.


PL 52068 GENERAL DE TASSIGNY INSPECTS FRENCH TANKS IN COLMAR. General de Lattre de Tassigny (right), Commanding General of the First French Army, inspects a line of tanks of the Fifth French Armored Division in the public square of Colmar, third largest city in Alsace, during a victory parade celebrating its liberation by troops of the 28th U.S. Division and the Fifth French Armored Division. The two forces cleared the enemy from the city February 3, 1945, following a combined assault Colmar, 40 miles southwest of Strasbourg and about ten miles west of the Rhine, had been occupied by the Nazis since 1940.




A British Armoured Division operating near Pyingyaing between Kalew and Shwebo, assembled "armour in strength for the first time in the Burma campaign on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and pushed forward 30 miles in three days against determined Japanese resistance. They concluded their push with a successful attack on an enemy occupied village and finally linked up with other Allied forces. Picture shows: Sherman tanks and armoured vehicles wait at a rendevouz for the signal to go forward again. 27/1/45











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