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Typical Chinese welcome for first convoy in three years. All along the Stilwell Road through China, the truck caravan was greeted by whole towns and villages which had hastily erected arches in honor of the first convoy. The 113-vehicle convoy reached Kunming on February 4, 1945, ending the land blockade of China. NI 9228

Nieuws van de onvoorwaardelijke overgave van de Duitse legers zorgt voor grote vreugde voor de miljoenen mensen in de geallieerde landen. In New York viert een grote mensenmassa het eind van de vijandelijkheden in Europa op 8 mei 1945. ' With the end of World War II in the spring of 1945, the world was bright with the promise of victory and of freedom. `The hope of all just men in that moment, too, ...

China truck convoy starts out over Stilwell Road. Trucks of the first China convoy in almost three years pass the ruins, of the Myitkyina railroad station, once the scene of long bitter fighting. The convoy reached Wanting, China, January 28, 1945, marking the end of the land blockade of China. The new route, however, will not solve China's supply problem although it will add to the increasing quantities ...

U.S. warship blasts Japanese shore targets on Saipan. Fourteen-inch guns of an American warship belch smoke and flame as they hurl shells on Japanese shore installations on Saipan Island, paving the way for landings of U.S. troops. American Marines who stormed ashore on the Marianas base in the Central Pacific on June 14, 1944, were protected by a heavy naval and air bombardment similar to the Allied ...

Path cleared through blasted Garapan for U.S. advance. An American bulldozer clears a path through a debris choked street of Garapan, capital of Saipan Island, so that U.S. armored units may advance in pursuit of the Japanese. Garapan, administrative center of the Marianas Island, was razed by American land, sea and air bombardment prior to its capture on July 4, 1944, four days before U.S. troops ...

The French railroads run again. At the heels of the Allied armies which drove the German invaders from France, an army of 15,000 U.S. Transport Corps soldiers under Brigadier General C.L. Burpee rebuilt within five months from D-Day (June 6, 1944) 2,400 kilometers of double and single track railways which had been hammered in turn by the British Royal Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces and the German ...

Bomb craters on Nazi airdrome. Bombs dropped by planes of the Eighth U.S. Air Force did this damage to the German airdrome, west of Munich, destroying a large repair hangar and inflicting heavy damage on the barracks area and landing facilities, in an attack July 19, 1944. Ranging over Germany from the Baltic to the Alps, 12,000 planes of the 8th and 15th U.S. Air Forces smashed more than 100 targets ...

U.S. Marine reports on fighting in Saipan capital. An American Marine keeps his gun ready as he uses a portable two-way radio to report to his headquarters on the progress of U.S. troops in battered Garapan, capital of Saipan Island. Garapan, administrative center for the Marianas Islands of the Central Pacific, was leveled by U.S. air, land and sea bombardment prior to its capture by American troops ...

Mogelijk zijn onderstaande beschrijvingen passend bij de foto. Foto links boven: De Boeing YC-14 is een twinjet tactisch militair transportvliegtuig met korte start en landing (STOL). Het was de deelnemer van Boeing aan de Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) -wedstrijd van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, die tot doel had de Lockheed C-130 Hercules te vervangen als het standaard STOL-tactische transport ...

Japanese seaplane destroyed by U.S. forces at Saipan. U.S. soldiers look at the wreckage of a four-engined Japanese seaplane caught at Tanapag harbor on Saipan Island, by the bombardment of Allied warships and planes during the landings of U.S. forces on June 14, 1944. U.S. troops routed the Japanese from carefully fortified positions, driving the enemy into a trap on the northern end of the island ...