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U.S. soldier share rations with French child. An engineer of the 103rd Division, Seventh U.S. Army, sharess his C rations with an Alsatian child in Gundershoffen, France, where the engineers are repairing a bridge. Nine miles northwest of Haguenau, Gundershoffen was taken March 17, 1945, two days after the start of the new Seventh Army offensive in Northeastern Alsace.

A Dutch child for each knee. Private Murray T. Poznac of Newark, New Jersey, U.S. Signal Corps photographer with the First Allied Airborne Army in Holland, holds a little Dutch boy and a little Dutch girl on his knees after Allied forces liberated Nijmegen, Holland, September 20, 1944. American airborne troops and soldiers of the British Second Army joined forces in Nijmegen for the first linkup in ...

Dutch leave Kerkrade. An elderly cripple leaves the village of Kerkrade, Holland, in her wheelchair, a small child nestling in her lap. The Dutch were ordered from Kerkrade by the Germans during the bitter fighting which took place in this region as, inch by inch, the Allied armies forged closer to the German border. Later, German soldiers were found in civilan clothes among the evacuees by U.S. soldiers ...

Dutch civillians ordered from home town by Nazis. Two women and a child huddle together in a hay wagon among their possessions after being ordered to evacuate the Dutch town of Kerkrade by the Nazis. U.S. soldiers who aided the evacuees captured several German soldiers in civilian clothes among them.

Welcome in Normandy. French civilians, Tricolors held high, rush out to greet the first American soldiers to arrive in a French town in Normandy. Gifts of flowers and wine were offered and children were held up to greet the troops. One small child is nestling happily against the driver of this jeep.

French greet American troops. French civilians, carrying flags and flowers, rush out to greet the first American troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force to arrive in this Normandy town. The driver of the jeep holds a baby while he converses with its mother. Another soldier talks to a shy French child clutching a gift of roses.

10 000 nds escaped the Czech terrorism. The situation in Sudeten German districts is becoming more discordent every hour. The terrorism of red Czech soldiers reached an unbearable messure. More and more Sudeten Germans Flee into Germany and are brought to the refugee camps. One of the refugees who escaped near Johanngeorgenstadt into Germany where she collapsed. Brought to the hospital she was safely ...

Scenes from Bohemia and Moravia. Our soldiers did their best to help the poor inhabitants of all villages and small towns they passed through on their march across Bohemia and Moravia. They brought them food and helped them with their work, while the army-surgeons assisted and nursed all sick people who required their help. An army-surgeon assisting a sick child in Moravia.

Sniper fire halts Paris celebration. A Parisian mother (foreground) shields her child as the wine of Nazi bullets turns cheers into screams and soldiers and civilians crouch for protection during one of the Paris street battles that followed the liberation of the city augustus 25,1944. In isolated sections of the French capital, German snipers fired into gay crowds celebrating their freedom. Many women ...

Nazi officer murders three u.s. prisoners. Russian women and a child, liberated from slave labor in Germany by troops of the 13th armored division, are pictured april, 18, 1945 as they laid flowers at the feet of the four dead American soldiers, three of whom were murdered by a german officer near Hilden, Germany. A freed Russian slave worker was a eye witness to the crime. He reported that the men, ...

Grim reminder of German reprisals in Greece. The scar of a bullit that went through her shoulder mars the back of this Greek woman, who was nursing her nine-month old child when the Germans started their massacre of 1,000 persons in the Greek village of Distomo. The bullet crushed the infant's head before piercing the mother's shoulder. As revealed in a Greek report, the Germans started their bloody ...

Belgians follow snowy road to home. Belgian refugees use a wagon to transport themselves and their belongings back to their home near Lierneux after soldiers of the First U.S. Army routed the Nazis from the town on the northern flank of the enemy salient into Belgium. Shals and blankets are used to protect the woman and child from the bitter cold and snow which has blanketed battle areas on the Western ...