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WORLD WAR 2 (157)
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0,00 €F4U’s and F6F’s fly in formation during surrender ceremonies; Tokyo, Japan. USS MISSOURI [in] left foreground.
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0,00 €The famous British liner, QUEEN MARY, arrives in New York Harbor, June 20, 1945, with thousands of U.S. troops from European battles.
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0,00 €These Jewish children are on their way to Palestine after having been released from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The girl on the left is from Poland, the boy in the center from Latvia, and the girl on right from Hungary.
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0,00 €Happy veterans head for harbor of Le Havre, France, the first to be sent home and discharged under the Army’s new point system.
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0,00 €General Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. Behind General MacArthur are Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright and Lieutenant General A. E. Percival.
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0,00 €New York City celebrating the surrender of Japan. They threw anything and kissed anybody in Times Square.
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0,00 €GI’s at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris, France, whoop it up after buying the special edition of the Paris Post, which carried the banner headline, “JAPS QUIT.”
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0,00 €President Truman announces Japan’s surrender, at the White House, Washington, DC, August 14, 1945
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0,00 €Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, signing the ratified surrender terms for the German Army at Russian Headquarters in Berlin. Germany, May 7, 1945.
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0,00 €Standing in the grassy sod bordering row upon row of white crosses in an American cemetery, two dungaree-clad Coast Guardsmen pay silent homage to the memory of a fellow Coast Guardsman who lost his life in action in the Ryukyu…
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0,00 €Two enlisted men of the ill-fated U.S. Navy aircraft carrier LISCOME BAY, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Gilbert Islands, are buried at sea from the deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport.
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0,00 €A Coast Guard seaman died at his battle station aboard the USS MENGES, torpedoed by a nazi sub in the Mediterranean. He represents the old Coast Guard expression, “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back.”
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0,00 €Photo taken at the instant bullets from a French firing squad hit a Frenchman who collaborated with the Germans. This execution took place in Rennes, France.
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0,00 €With torn picture of his feuhrer beside his clenched fist, a dead general of the Volkssturm lies on the floor of city hall, Leipzig, Germany. He committed suicide rather than face U.S. Army troops who captured the city on April…
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0,00 €American soldiers, stripped of all equipment, lie dead, face down in the slush of a crossroads somewhere on the western front. Note the bare feet of the soldier in the foreground. Captured German photograph. Belgium, ca. December 1944.
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0,00 €Choked with debris, a bombed water intake of the Pegnitz River no longer supplies war factories in Nuremberg, vital Reich industrial city and festival center of the Nazi party, which was captured April 20, 1945, by troops of the U.S.…
