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Military truck in flames, Italy, 1944
Photograph. Dead German prisoners of war are in and near a burning military truck. Official caption on front: "MM-5-...
Military vehicles about to cross a bridge
Photograph. Military truck and jeep driving towards the entrance of a bridge; several groups of servicemen are...
Navy men wounded during the invasion of Iwo Jima while aboard the USS New York are buried on the island on 19 February 1945
553.Photograph 'File Number: 48599 Released: March 4, 1945 Taps for the Honored Dead Three Navy men who were wounded in...
One First Division Marine comforts another after he witnessed the death of his buddy on Shuri, east of Naha, capital of Okinawa in April 1945
602.Photograph 'CINCPAC 08106 Released: 16 May 1945 My Buddy One Marine comforts another when the latter broke down and...
Outdoor funeral service for deceased Marines, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Outdoor funeral service with Marines gathered around graves marked with small white sticks. "Heroes of the fight for...
Patrolling US soldiers find a deceased German soldier in Cisterna, Italy, 1944
Photograph. Salvaged US tanks are towed in a field. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-5750." Official caption on...
Personal effects of a dead American soldier lay in the grass at Talesea, New Britain in September 1944
Personal effects of a dead American soldier lay in the grass. "Remains of U.S. soldier killed by exploding mine at...
Pile of corpses at a concentration camp
Photograph. Naked, emaciated copses in stacked in a pile. Location unknown. 1945
Pile of corpses at Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Close up of the faces of several dead prisoners, their bodies have been placed in a pile; a pool of blood...
Pile of corpses at Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. A pile of corpses wrapped in black cloth sitting in the corner of a cement room; blood smears cover the...
Pile of corpses at Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. A pile of corpses wrapped in black cloth sitting in the corner of a cement room; blood smears cover the...
Pile of corpses at Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Close up of the faces of several dead prisoners, their bodies have been placed in a pile; a pool of blood...
Pile of corpses, Italy
Photograph. Pile of bodies near a building. Date unknown, Caption reads: " Dead Germans near Grasseto." Grosseto, Italy...
Pile of skeletal remains
Photograph. Several skeletal remains on a pile of rubble. Presumably Monte Cassino, Italy. 1944. [Presumably a close up...
Roadside military grave
Photograph. Grave in a field next to tire tracks; grave marker is a wooden cross with a helmet. Location unknown. No...
Room filled with civilians viewing flag-draped coffins, Italy, 1945
Photograph. Elevated view of room filled with flag-draped coffins with many civilians walking among the coffins reading...
Rotting corpses of two Japanese soldiers in ditch
Photograph. Rotting corpses of two Japanese soldiers in shallow, sandy ditch. PTO. [1945]
Row of dead US Marines, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Photograph. United States Marines gathered near a row of dead Marines on stretchers. Official caption on front: "...
Rows of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out in rows on the ground inside Buchenwald...
Rows of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Rows of corpses laid out on the ground inside Buchenwald concentration camp; war-damaged buildings visible...
Rows of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Blurry image of hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground inside...
Rows upon rows of crosses marking the graves of American soldiers who died in the Battle of Cape Gloucester on New Britain in September 1944
A view of rows upon rows of crosses marking the graves of American soldiers who died in the Battle of Cape Gloucester...
S/Sgt. Lisle Neher posing with a skull, Saipan, 1945
Slide. Staff Sergeant Lisle Neher leaning against a wall of sandbags with his arm around a human skull with a garrison...
Servicemen advancing through a village
Photograph. Two American servicemen hiding behind residential building while a third runs to other side of road; a tank...
Servicemen advancing through a village
Photograph. Two American servicemen hiding behind residential building while a third runs to other side of road; a tank...
Several dead Japanese soldiers on Guam in 1945
Several dead Japanese soldiers on Guam in 1945
Several dead Japanese soldiers on Guam in 1945
Several dead Japanese soldiers on Guam in 1945
Sign commemorating the location of the death of Ernie Pyle, Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Painted sign on signpost: On this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy, Ernie Pyle, 18 April 1945....
Skeletal remains, Saipan, 1945
Side. Small pile of skeletal remains next to a wood post that has Japanese characters written on it. Saipan. 1945
Smoking wreckage of a crashed bomber in Sfax, Tunisia, 1943
Grassy field with a plane, possibly a bomber, on the ground in the distance with a large plume of black smoke getting...
Soldiers look down at one of their fallen buddies and his dead mule near Esperia, Italy, 1944
Photograph. Advancing infantrymen of an Algerian division look at one of their fallen buddies and his mule pack killed...
Soldiers standing near bodies of dead concentration camp victims, Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Blurry image of hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground inside...
Soldiers wrapping body of soldier killed during the invasion of Normandy, English Channel, June 1944
On the deck of a PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat sailors of Motor Torpedo Squadron 35 watch as others wrap body of soldier...
The aftermath of a German rocket attack in Antwerp, Belgium on 5 January 1945
The aftermath of a German rocket attack. Official caption: "ETO HQ 45 302 5 Jan. Credit-U.S. Army Signal Corps. Photog-...
The bodies of dead Japanese soldiers lie on the ground next to marching American soldiers, Pacific Theater, 1943-45
The bodies of dead Japanese in the foreground with American soldiers in the background securing a position occupied by...

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