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General Eisenhower welcomed in New York City. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in the European War Theater, waves greeting to throngs of cheering citizens lined along Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, as he drives by in an open automobile en route to a formal reception at the City Hall. Approximately four million of the city's inhabitants turned ...

New York Herald Tribune, late City edition.9 juni 1944.IInvaders Make Modest Advances; Repel All Nazi Counter-Attacks; Planes Hammer Foe's Airfields.Artikel in posterformaat.

A.J. Volmer (geboren 1923) monsterde als matrozenjongen aan op de VanRensselaer van de KNSM. Hij werd overgeplaatst op de Colombia en kwam in New York, waar hij op Times Square het nieuws zag dat Nederland door Duitsland was bezet. Hij maakte mee dat NSB-gezinde bemanningsleden bedreigd werden en van boord werden gehaald. In de zes jaren erna voer hij onder de Vaarplicht op verschillende schepen en ...

American Physicist who experimented in the release of atomic energy. Dr. John R. Dunning, associate professor of physica at Columbia University, is one of the American scientists who helped in the development of the new atomic bomb. In New York City in 1939, Dr. Dunning took part in a series of experiments on the release of atomic energy. That energy was harnessed for the first time in history in the ...

Mayor La Guardia of New York City. This picture of Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor of New York City, is serviced for possible use with news developments.

New York City honors fleet admiral Nimitz U.S. fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz, (in first car) rides atop the back seat of the automobile which carried the commander of the victorious Allied naval forces in the Pacific during the New York City parade honoring him and 13 Navy and Marine Corps Congressional Medal of Honor winners Oct. 9, 1945. An estimated four million persons greeted the Commander in ...

Het originele bijschrift luidt: Wounded U.S. soldier brought to New York City. U.S. Army Medical Corpsmen carry Private Francis Edwards, who was wounded while fighting the Germans in northern France, from the hospital ship Arcadia after the ship docked in New York City on July 26, 1945. The War Department annonced on July 21 that the U.S. Army's goal for bringing home from the European theater all ...

Wounded U.S. soldier greeted upon arrival in New York City from Europe. U.S. Private first class Lee Harper, who was wounded in the European theater of war, is greeted by his two-and-a-half-year-old sister, Janet, whom he had never seen before, on his arrival in New York City on Aug. 1, 1945. His mother, Mrs. Jessie Harper (right) and his wife, Elizabeth (rear) look on. Private Harper was the first ...