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U.S. planes batter Nazi ball bearing works. A reconnaissance photo taken after bomb smoke lifted over the three ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt shows damage inficted by the Eighth U.S. Air Force during a concentrated attack July 21, 1944. At the Kugelfischer works, three machine shops, a power plant and office building were partially destroyed; at the Fichtel and Sachs plants, a machine shop, boiler ...

Nazi slogan in Bitburg. This Nazi slogan - Hitler Brings Bread, Stalin Brings Death - was found by Third U.S. Army men in Bitburg, Germany. Lieutenant General George S. Patton's forces took the industrial town February 27, 1945.

Holland's No. 1 Nazi stands trial. Anton Mussert, Holland's no. 1 Nazi, (centre) is seen during the first session of his trial being held at The Hague. Two guards are seen on either side of the prisoner. On the extreme right of the picture in the second row is J.H. Carp, editor of an pro-nazi weekly paper who is also a prisoner and who assisted Mussert to prepare his defence.

Overgave, aftocht, internering Duitsers. U.S. troops guard Nazi prisoners. U.S. infantrymen guard Nazi prisoners after their removal to a rear area following capture by a Ninth U.S. Army unit advancing between Linne and Roermond on the Roer River in Holland. Ninth U.S. Army troops drove over the Roer February 23, 1945, in a new push toward the Rhine and by February 26 had taken more than 6,000 pri ...

U.S. planes splatter Nazi installations near Munich. Formations of smoke puffs hover over the Messerschmitt component plant and adjacent rail marshalling yards near Munich during an attack by the Eighth U.S. Air Force, July 21, 1944. Explosives were directed toward machine and work shops in the aircraft works and rolling stock in the rail yard. Ranging over Germany from the Baltic to the Alps, 12,000 ...

Jeep ambulance for U.S. and Nazi wounded. A wounded Seventh U.S. Army soldier (right) and an injured Nazi prisoner are sped to a hospital on stretchers secured to a jeep in the Schweinheim area of the Reich. A sharp enemy counter-attack to retake Schweinheim was repulsed by troops of the 75th Division, Ninth U.S. Army, who fought their way north to Aschaffenburg and then spearheaded to a point 45 miles ...

Bomb-blasted Nazi oil plant. A U.S. soldier examines the tangle of bomb-blasted pipe lines at the devastated Brabag synthetic oil plant at Zeitz, Germany, captured by troops of the First U.S. Army April 13, 1945. The Zeitz plant normally produced 20 to 25 tons of oil products monthly, its chief outputs being paraffin, benzine, diesel and lubricating oils. Following the commencement of the combined ...

Nazi formations parade in Danzig to commemorate regiment's foundation. Nazi spade detachements marching through Danzig in the parade.

Von Ribbentrop's Nazi salute. Hitler's envoy arrives by air to attend league council meeting. Herr von Ribbentrop exchanging the Nazi salute with Herr von Hoesch, German Ambassador in London, as he left the plane at Croydon.

U.S. bombers touch off Nazi ammunition dump in Italy. An immense tree of smoke sprouts from a Nazi ammunition dump in Italy after a formation of B-26 Marauder bombers of the 12th U.S. Air Force attacked the explosive stores at La Spezia, 40 miles southeast of Genoa. The stores were hidden in strongly constructed buildings revetted with dirt. At least five of the buildings were demolished in the at ...

Nazi war criminals executed by U.S. Army. Guarded by military policemen of the 15th U.S Army, Matthias Gierens, German war criminal convicted of the murder of an inidentified U.S. airman, stands on the gallows at the military prison at Rheinbach, near Cologne, Germant, just before being executed on the morning of June 29, 1945. Gierens, a former railroad worker, was one of the three German civilians ...

U.S. combat team searches Belgian woods for Nazi paratroopers. American combat troops search thick woods in Belgium for Nazi paratroopers dropped behind First U.S. Army positions as the major enemy counter-thrust against the Americans began December 16, 1944. Meeting the German assault U.S. Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges men took, 2,200 prisoners in one day.