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• UNITED STATES WOMENS ARMY CORPS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  US Women's Army Corps (WAC) drivers and couriers Private Theresa Smith and Corporal Fay Zimmerman consult a map whilst on duty at an Eighth Air Force base in Britain.

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  Crossing the Rhine 24 -31 March 1945: Troops of the US 7th Army board assault craft on the western bank of the Rhine under constant enemy artillery fire, and protected by a heavy smoke screen they forged the river to the north of Mannheim early on 26...

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  Crossing the Rhine 24 -31 March 1945: C-47 transport planes release hundreds of paratroops and their supplies over the Rees-Wesel area to the east of the Rhine. This was the greatest airborne operation of the war. Some 40,000 paratroops were dropped by 1...

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  The Battle of the Bulge 16 December 1944 - 28 January 1945: A shattered German tank, its turret torn off by anti-tank fire, symbolising the ferocity of the American defence of their positions at Bastogne, the key town in the Ardennes. The Germans issued...

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  The Battle of the Bulge: Men from 1 SS Panzer Division in a Schwimwagen during the German counter offensive.

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Victory in the West April - May 1945: Russian and American soldiers rest on the banks of the River Elbe, following the link-up between the US 1st Army and the Russian 1st Ukrainian Army at Torgau sixty miles south of Berlin.

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  Personalities: Lieutenant General Alexander McCarrell Patch, commander of the 7th US Army which landed in Toulon on 15 August and after advancing up the Rhone Valley, captured Alsace and the Saar during the winter of 1944 - 1945. Photographed here being...

• JAPANESE AIR ATTACKS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Japanese pilot prepares for a sortie, by fastening the Japanese Rising Sun emblem around his forehead, before donning helmet and goggles.

• NAZI PERSECUTION

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  German civilians filing past the bodies of victims killed at the village of Namering by SS guards during a forced march from the Buchenwald and Flossenburg concentration camps.

• GERMAN ATROCITIES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  American prisoners shot by German soldiers after they had surrendered, near Hoscheiderickt, Luxembourg.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia: Mountbatten conferrring with Lieutenant General J W Stilwell Commander-in-Chief US Forces in China, Burma and India.

• THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: US Signal Corps photographer

  Wilhelm Frick,once Minister of the Interior, shown in his cell at Nuremberg.

• THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN ITALY, JUNE 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A tank and troops of the Allied 5th Army pass cheering civilians by the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, in June 1944.

• GERMANY IN THE 1930s

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Berlin synagogue lies in ruins following the Nazi-instigated Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria, which occured on night of 9 - 10 November 1938.

• KAMIKAZE

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Air Launched Weapons: A Yokosuka MXY7 Mark 11 K-1 OHKA 'Baka' piloted suicide weapon. This rocket powered flying bomb was slung underneath a bomber and released over the target. The pilot of the 'Baka' then guided the machine to destruction.

• KAMIKAZE

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Attacks on Shipping: A Japanese suicide bomber diving towards an American (US) Navy Carrier during the Philippines campaign in January 1945. A few seconds later the ship's anti-aircraft guns found their target and the Japanese plane was brought down.

• KAMIKAZE

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Attacks on Shipping: A Japanese Mitsubishi Zero fighter plane attempting to crash into the deck of the American battleship USS MISSOURI off Okinawa in April 1945. The pilot was unsuccessful hitting only the battleship's hull.

• KAMIKAZE

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Attacks on Shipping: Seamen fight a fire on the flight deck of the USS SARATOGA caused by one of seven strikes by suicide planes on 13 July 1945 off Iwo Jima.

• OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Lt General F E Morgan, Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (COSSAC), holding a press conference at headquarters.

• RUSSIAN FORCES IN BERLIN, 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Feodora Bondenko, a 22 year old Russian girl, on traffic duty at the Brandenberg gate in Berlin on 5 July 1945.