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Schwarc, Laszlo "Leslie Schwartz" Wounded on the Threshold of Liberation
On 25 April 1945, Laszlo Schwarc was among 3,600 prisoners put on 80 cattle cars from the Muhldorf concentration camp...
Johnson, Malcolm Wounded on Wake Island
Malcolm Johnson was a civilian contractor working on the airfield at Wake Island when the Japanese tried to land troops...
Anschau, Martin Wounded, Recovery then War’s End
Martin J. Anschau and his outfit crossed an open field [Annotator’s Note: in Belgium with the 290th Infantry Regiment,...
Rolfson, Jack Wrap Up of Rolfson's Service
Jack Rolfson does not recall having any burial services for fallen men in his squadron [Annotator's Note: 427th...
Goodrich, James Wrapping up Guadalcanal and the Cost of Taking Tarawa
James Goodrich and his buddy dug a foxhole. His buddy put a big branch across the top of the hole. Later that night...
Davis, Jack Wrapping up the War
Jack Davis and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division]...
Roy, William Yorktown Photographer enters the War
William Roy had served in Battleship Division 5 in the Atlantic on the battleship Arkansas [Annotator's Note: USS...
Roy, William Yorktown Photographs from the Battle of Midway
[Annotator's Note: William Roy reviews a series of photographs he captured during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. He...
Roy, William Yorktown's Damage from Coral Sea
[Annotator's Note: William Roy was aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and worked as the ship's photographer as she returned...
10th Mountain Division walking past a dead German soldier, Italy
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division walking past a dead German soldier on the side...
1st Cavalry Division soldiers walking past a dead Japanese soldier, Manila
Photograph. 1st Cavalry Division soldiers walking past a dead Japanese soldier lying between tracks; war-damaged...
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers arrange flowers over the grave of a friend at the newly built Little Falls Cemetery at Attu, Aleutian Islands in June 1943
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers arrange flowers over the grave of a friend in a newly built cemetery, 'Little Falls...
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers huddled around specific grave marker at Little Falls Cemetery at Attu in the Aleutian Islands in June 1943
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers huddled around specific grave marker, also with a propeller buried in the ground,...
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers looking at grave markers in the Little Falls Cemetery at Attu, Aleutian Islands in June 1943
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers looking at grave markers at Little Falls Cemetery. The cemetery was created for those...
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers march past the newly built Little Falls Cemetery at Attu, Aleutian Islands in June 1943
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers, probably the Color Guard, march past newly built cemetery, 'Little Falls Cemetery,'...
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers view wreath in the newly built Little Falls Cemetery at Attu, Aleutian Islands in June 1943
32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers view wreath in newly built cemetery, 'Little Falls Cemetery,' for those killed in...
44th Infantry Division advancing through a forest, France, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 44th Infantry Division advancing past a dead German soldier in a...
4th Marine Division Cemetery, Saipan, 1946
Slide. Entrance to the 4th Marine Division Cemetery. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1946
5th Army walking past dead German soldiers lying in a street, Verona, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 5th Army walking past dead German soldiers lying in a street. Official...
7th Infantry Division soldier looking at the remains of dismembered Japanese corpse on Enubuj Island, Kwajalein Atoll in February 1944
7th Infantry Division soldier looking at remains of dismember Japanese corpse. 'W-CPA-44-106-S. 2/1. Ellner. Body of...
7th Infantry Division soldiers look at corpse of a dead Japanese soldier near a large bomb crater on the beach on Kwajalein in January 1944
7th Infantry Division soldiers look at corpse of dead Japanese soldier near large bomb crater in beach. 'W-CPA-44-106-...
7th Infantry Division soldiers moving a dead Japanese soldier for burial on Kwajalein Island in February 1944
7th Infantry Division soldiers moving Japanese corpse for burial. 'W-CPA-44-107-BJ. 2/3. Weaver. Dead Jap soldier put...
7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past Japanese corpses near their abandoned cannon
7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past Japanese corpses near their abandoned cannon. 'W-CPA-44-106-CO. 2/4. Ellner. A...
7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past the dead body of fellow American soldier as they head into combat at Kwajalein on January 1944
7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past dead body of fellow American soldier along road headed into combat. 'W-CPA-44-...
88th Infantry Division advancing through Cornuda, Italy, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers and tanks from the 88th Infantry Division advancing down a city street past the...
A 32nd Infantry Regiment soldier arranges flowers to form a "32"'on a wreath in Little Falls Cemetery at Attu in the Aleutian Islands in June 1943
A 32nd Infantry Regiment soldier arranges flowers to form a "32"'on a wreath in Little Falls Cemetery,'created for...
A booby-trapped German body in Jungersdorf, Germany photographed on 12 December 1944
A booby trapped German body. Note that the unit has been stricken in the caption. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 29325 12...
A dead American soldier in a ditch among destroyed vegetation at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands in January 1944
Dead American soldier in ditch, among destroyed vegetation. 'W-CPA-44-112-Bn. 1/31. Young. Same dead American soldier,...
A dead German soldier in Cherbourg, France on 27 June 1944
A dead German soldier. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 5984 Weintraub--5. 27 June. A French civilian points out to Pvt....
A dead Japanese soldier prior to burial on Kwajalein Island in February 1944
Japanese corpse in sand. 'W-CPA-44-107-BL. 2/3. Weaver. Dead Jap, half covered with dirt, before being removed for...
A dead Japanese soldier, Philippines, 1945
Photograph. A dead Japanese soldier emerging from a foxhole. Philippines. 1945
A dead Japanese soldier, Philippines, 1945
Photograph. Body of a dead Japanese soldier. Philippines. 1945

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