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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces in the European Theater during World War II, is greeted by an unidentified officer. Eisenhower toured several Nazi Concentration Camps immediately after they were liberated in order to personally testify to the heinous Nazi war crimes.

121. General Eisenhower and Allied Officer Shaking Hands

IDNO:
041143
Title:
General Eisenhower and Allied Officer Shaking Hands
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces in the European Theater during World War II, is greeted by an unidentified officer. Eisenhower toured several Nazi Concentration Camps immediately after they were liberated in order to personally testify to the heinous Nazi war crimes.
Information with the photograph, "A lone soldier of the 100th Infantry Division, Seventh U.S. Army, walks through the ruins of Heilbronn, Germany, cleared of the enemy April 12, 1945. Forty miles southeast of Mannheim and the Rhino, Heilbronn, an important road and rail center was blasted by Allied Planes. U.S. Signal Corps Photo."

122. German Rail Center Blasted By Allied Air Attacks, Heilbronh, Germany

IDNO:
041144
Title:
German Rail Center Blasted By Allied Air Attacks, Heilbronh, Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Information with the photograph, "A lone soldier of the 100th Infantry Division, Seventh U.S. Army, walks through the ruins of Heilbronn, Germany, cleared of the enemy April 12, 1945. Forty miles southeast of Mannheim and the Rhino, Heilbronn, an important road and rail center was blasted by Allied Planes. U.S. Signal Corps Photo."
Information included with the photograph,"Debris spilled from bombed buildings of Mainz fills a street of the ancient Rhine River city captured by troops of the 80th Division, Third u.S. Army, March 23, 1945. Mainz, birthplace of Johannes Gutemberg, credited with the development of printing in the 15th Century, was a strategic Nazi manufacturing center of machinery and chemicals."

123. Rubble Filled Street, Mainz, Germany

IDNO:
041149
Title:
Rubble Filled Street, Mainz, Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Information included with the photograph,"Debris spilled from bombed buildings of Mainz fills a street of the ancient Rhine River city captured by troops of the 80th Division, Third u.S. Army, March 23, 1945. Mainz, birthplace of Johannes Gutemberg, credited with the development of printing in the 15th Century, was a strategic Nazi manufacturing center of machinery and chemicals."
U.S. soldiers move on from a destroyed transport vehicle on the road as one G.I. mans a mounted machine gun in the jeep.

124. Armed U.S. Soldiers Move Up Hill in Combat Area

IDNO:
041150
Title:
Armed U.S. Soldiers Move Up Hill in Combat Area
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
U.S. soldiers move on from a destroyed transport vehicle on the road as one G.I. mans a mounted machine gun in the jeep.
U.S. Army troops pushed through German resistance in the Spring of 1945. Many towns such as this were bombed from the air and assualted by ground forces.

125. Cross Inside of Destroyed Building in Germany

IDNO:
041151
Title:
Cross Inside of Destroyed Building in Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
U.S. Army troops pushed through German resistance in the Spring of 1945. Many towns such as this were bombed from the air and assualted by ground forces.
Tanks and soldiers traveled past destroyed buildings as they push through Germany in the spring of 1945.

126. U.S. Tanks and Soldiers Push Through Germany

IDNO:
041152
Title:
U.S. Tanks and Soldiers Push Through Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Tanks and soldiers traveled past destroyed buildings as they push through Germany in the spring of 1945.
American GIs make their way through the rubble of what is left of a German town.

127. U.S. Soldiers Walking Through Destroyed City, Germany

IDNO:
041153
Title:
U.S. Soldiers Walking Through Destroyed City, Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
American GIs make their way through the rubble of what is left of a German town.
Buildings in a German City bombed by the U.S. and RAF Forces, lay in ruins towards the end of the World War II.

128. Bombed Buildings in Germany

IDNO:
041154
Title:
Bombed Buildings in Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Buildings in a German City bombed by the U.S. and RAF Forces, lay in ruins towards the end of the World War II.
A lone soldier walks around the destroyed buildings in a German town towards the end of the war.

129. Lone Soldier Walks Through Destruction in Germany

IDNO:
041155
Title:
Lone Soldier Walks Through Destruction in Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
A lone soldier walks around the destroyed buildings in a German town towards the end of the war.
Information included on back: "Dead horses and wrecked vehicles of German convoy are strewn along road in vicinity of Lus, Germany. Following attack on convoy by American Dive Bombers. Germans were trying to escape from encirclement by troops of the 3rd and 7th U.S. Armies." (U.S. Signal Corps).

130. Dead Horses and Wrecked Vehicles of German Convoy, Lus, Germany

IDNO:
041156
Title:
Dead Horses and Wrecked Vehicles of German Convoy, Lus, Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Information included on back: "Dead horses and wrecked vehicles of German convoy are strewn along road in vicinity of Lus, Germany. Following attack on convoy by American Dive Bombers. Germans were trying to escape from encirclement by troops of the 3rd and 7th U.S. Armies." (U.S. Signal Corps).
Part of the information included on back: "German town near Duren on the Roer River, important junction point of the road leading to Cologne and the Rhine lies shell-wrecked and bombed to ruins February 21, 1945 as U.S. troops advanced deeper into Germany."(U.S. Signal Corps).

131. U.S. Bombs and Shells Leave German Town in Ruins, Duren, Germany

IDNO:
041158
Title:
U.S. Bombs and Shells Leave German Town in Ruins, Duren, Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Part of the information included on back: "German town near Duren on the Roer River, important junction point of the road leading to Cologne and the Rhine lies shell-wrecked and bombed to ruins February 21, 1945 as U.S. troops advanced deeper into Germany."(U.S. Signal Corps).
Part of information included on back: "A knocked-out American tank stands behind a small, leveled building in captured Heilbronn. German industrial city which was virtually demolished prior to its occupation . . ." (U.S. Signal Corps).

132. Blasted German City, Heilbronn, Germany

IDNO:
041159
Title:
Blasted German City, Heilbronn, Germany
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Part of information included on back: "A knocked-out American tank stands behind a small, leveled building in captured Heilbronn. German industrial city which was virtually demolished prior to its occupation . . ." (U.S. Signal Corps).