Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we. More than 5,0. 00 Ships and 1. D- Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D- Day. More than 9,0. 00 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 1. Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops. American military photographers representing all of the. Every. activity of the war was depicted- -training, combat, support. On the home front, the many federal war. The pictures described in this list are from the holdings of. Still Picture Branch (NNSP) of the National Archives and. Records Administration. Most are from the records of the Army. Signal Corps in Record Group (RG) 1. Department of the Navy. RG 8. 0, the Coast Guard in RG 2. Marine Corps in RG 1. Office of War Information in RG 2. Others were selected. Pictures are listed by subject and campaign. Original captions. Photographers, artists, locations, and. This information is. At the end of this leaflet there are instructions for ordering. Ships and Men (1944) Quotes on IMDb: Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, TV series and more. American Merchant Marine training, heroes and casualties during World War II. Ships built during World War II. 231 U-boats lost in 1944 (7,876 men died and 2,407 men survived those losses). 18 U-boats stricken from records (often. On June 6, 1944, wave upon wave of American, British and Canadian forces landed on the shores of Nazi-occupied France, in a surprise sea and air assault. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, P.I., October, 1944. Cropped from Select List number 150. National Archives Identifier: 531424. Add a Plot » Director: Leslie McFarlane. Writer: Leslie McFarlane. IMDb Picks: October 'The Walking Dead' Of. On this day in History, D-Day on Jun 06, 1944. Coast Guard at Normandy. A Coast Guard-manned LCVP from the U.S.S. Samuel Chase disembarks troops on the morning of 6 June 1944 at. Select Audiovisual. Records lists. To order individual prints, negatives, or slides. Still Picture Branch (NNSP) for a. With the exception. Inquiries about other. A Brief History of U.S. Navy Destroyers Part II -- World War II (1944-1945) Sources: American Naval History, 1984 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Normandy 6 June-24 July 1944. World War II pictures that may be part of the National Archives'. Please list, as specifically. Please limit each request to three items. Jonathan Heller researched, selected, and arranged the items. How to Order. Leaders. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War. Japan, December 8, 1. National Archives Identifier. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, at. European theater of operations. He wears. the five- star cluster of the newly- created rank of General of the. Army. Messerlin, February 1, 1. National Archives Identifier. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, Germany, ca. National Archives Identifier. National Archives Identifier. Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Josef Stalin. National Archives Identifier. American generals: seated left to right are William H. Patton, Jr., Carl Spaatz, Dwight D. Hodges, and Leonard T. Vandenberg, Walter. Bedell Smith, Otto P. Weyland, and Richard E. National Archives Identifier. The Home Front. 7. PA- 1. 91.* National Archives Identifier. PA- 2. 46.* National Archives Identifier. PA- 7. 1.* National Archives Identifier. PA- 2. 4.* National Archives Identifier. PA- 8. 20.* National Archives Identifier. PA- 5. 31.* National Archives Identifier. PA- 1. 68. 8.* National Archives Identifier. Movie star Rita. Hayworth sacrificed her bumpers for the duration. Besides setting. an example by turning in unessential metal car parts, Miss. Hayworth has been active in selling war bonds. National Archives Identifier. National Archives Identifier. Sugar rationing. National Archives Identifier. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the facts of point rationing for helping out in family marketing. National Archives Identifier. WP- 1. 56. 3.* National Archives Identifier. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the. Volusia county vocational school. National Archives Identifier. Women workers groom lines of. A- 2. 0 attack bombers. National Archives Identifier. Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA. Charles Fenno Jacobs, August 1. PA- 2. 30.*. National Archives Identifier. Evacuees lived at this center at. Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to. National Archives Identifier. Charles Fenno Jacobs, November. Johnson of the 7. Military Police. Battalion, waves on a `Red Ball Express' motor convoy rushing. Alenon, France. Troops shown in the. Marines. Convoy which operates between Chen- Yi and Kweiyang. China, is ascending the famous twenty- one curves at Annan. China. Albert, March 2. Marine `Raiders' and their dogs, which are used for. Bougainville. November/December. Ernest Marjoram, Signal Corps. New Guinea. Regt., guards a lonely Oahu. Douglas Lightheart (right) cradles his 3. Gerald. Churchby take time out for a cigarette, while mopping up the. Peleliu Is. Clements, September 1. Charles Fenno Jacobs, August. Navy pilots in the forward. Liberty section personnel aboard LCM. USS CASABLANCA from Rara Island, off Pitylieu. Island, Manus. Mowday, Admiralty Islands, April. Officers keep. out! Enlisted men's country.'. Grimm, October 2. Mickey Rooney imitates some Hollywood actors for an. Infantrymen of the 4. Division. Rooney is a member. Louis Weintraub, Kist, Germany, April 1. Mc. Farland at a United States. Belgium, where she has been entertaining the GIs. Wayne Miller, November. Medics helping injured soldier, France, 1. The. service was held in memory of brave buddies who lost their lives. Lindner reads the benediction held in honor. Guam on June 1. 9. Coast Guard Cutter. Spencer watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted a. Nazi U- boat's hope of breaking into the center of a large. WO Jack January, April 1. Cooperman, December 4, 1. Navy aircraft carrier receive last. Tokyo. The motion of its props causes an `aura' to. F6. F on USS YORKTOWN. Rotating with blades, halo. Horace Bristol, September 1. Coming back, the Germans were up in full. Edward Steichen, November. It set the stage to annex. Czechoslovakian Sudetenland, largely inhabited by a German- . German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland. PK Hugo J. ger. September 1. Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov signs the German- Soviet. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Josef. Stalin stand behind him. Adolf Hitler in Paris, June 2. German troops in Russia, 1. Paul's Cathedral is pictured during. Sunday December 2. National Archives Identifier. Newbury. Berks., England. View of a V- 1 rocket in. National Archives Identifier. North Africa, Sicily, Italy. Gen. Erwin Rommel with the 1. Panzer Division between. Tobruk and Sidi Omar. Zwilling, Libya, January or November. Montgomery watches his tanks move up. Lyle Bernard, CO, 3. Infantry Regiment, a. Sicily's north coast, discusses military strategy. Lt. National Archives Identifier. National Archives Identifier. Paul Oglesby, 3. 0th Infantry, standing in reverence. Catholic Church. Note: pews at left. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. Sargent. June 6, 1. Here, in the Montelimar area, France. French civilians shave her head as punishment. National Archives Identifier. The Low Countries. Men seek cover behind hedges and signs to return. Infantry anti- tank crew fires on Nazis who machine- . Holland. Stickle. November 4, 1. 94. Germans captured these American soldiers during. Allied positions. Infantry Regiment. Guravitch, April. National Archives Identifier. Germany. 11. 5. Army men and equipment pour across the Remagen. Bridge; two knocked out jeeps in foreground. William. Spangle, Germany, March 1. We all. tried to crawl under each other because the lead was flying. Rothenberger, April 1. Jacob Harris, April 1. Joseph Scrippens, April 2. William Robertson and Lt. Alexander. Sylvashko, Russian Army, shown in front of sign . Poulson, April 2. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander. Gen. Moore, April 1. Ornitz, April. 1. Captured Japanese photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1. In the distance, the smoke rises. Hickam Field. USS WEST VIRGINIA aflame. The March of Death was about May 1. Bataan. to Cabanatuan, the prison camp. Jap. machine gun fire from the right flank makes it more difficult for. Howard, December 2. Kent Rooks, May 1. Attacking at the break of day in a heavy rainstorm. Americans ashore huddle behind tree trunks and any. Marines. and Army assault troops landed on the Central Pacific island on. July 2. 0, 1. 94. At night the Japs would. American lines. At Dawn, the doughboys went out and. This photo shows tank going forward, infantrymen. These machine gunners pushed them back. The mother, four children and a. His face is grimey with coral dust but the. Marine Raiders gathered. Jap dugout on Cape Totkina on Bougainville, Solomon. Islands, which they helped to take. Two 5'' (1. 27mm) guns are. Douglas Mac. Arthur wades ashore during initial landings. Leyte, P. I. 1 toward Surbachi Yama as the smoke of the battle. Here, a gun pumps a stream of shells into Jap positions. In the lower background. Marine units move in to follow up with. Sunday punch. The division is working to take Wana Ridge before the town. Shuri. Kleine, Okinawa, 1. Lemuel Shepherd, commanding general of the 6th Marine. Division, relaxes on an Okinawan ridge long enough to consult a. USS. HORNET on 1. February 1. 94. 5, as the carrier's planes were raiding. Tokyo. Charles Kerlee, February 1. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the. Hiroshima, waves from his. August 1. 94. 5. B- 2. Superfortress. We took 5. December alone. Nuremberg Trials: looking down on the defendants' dock. Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his. Aversa stockade. The General. American military. It was against Japanese regulations and discovery would have. Waving flags of the United States. Great Britain and Holland. Sam Gilbert. May 1. Miller, Germany. April 1. He was one of 1. 50 prisoners savagely burned to death by. Nazi SS troops. Allen, Gardelegen, Germany, April 1. Men were worked in nearby stone quarries until too weak. Sam Gilbert, May 1. The bodies were. about to be disposed of by burning when the camp was captured by. U. S. Chichersky, April 1. Prisoners of all nationalities were. Chichersky, April 1. At 1: 2. 2 p. m., German bombers set the whole inner city. Rotterdam ablaze, killing 3. Historians believe the number who died was between 8. See The Oxford Companion to World War II, editors I. C. B. Foot, Oxford University Press, 1. National Archives Identifier. National Archives Identifier. He committed suicide rather than face U. S. Army. troops who captured the city on April 1. National Archives Identifier. This. execution took place in Rennes, France. National Archives Identifier. Picture shows Pedro. Cerono, the man who discovered the group of 8 skulls. Tapel. Cagayan Province, Luzon, Philippine Islands. National Archives Identifier. Coast Guard expression, `You have to go out. National Archives Identifier. 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. National Archives Identifier. National Archives Identifier. Victory & Peace. Moore, Germany, May 7, 1. National Archives Identifier. Melvin Weiss, England, May 7, 1. 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