Posts tagged: 1945
German POWs working on the American Cemetery in Normandy, where are buried the soldiers killed during the Normandy landings, which began June 6, 1944.
American generals: seated left to right - William Simpson, George S. Patton Jr., Carl Spaatz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney H. Hodges, Leonard T. Gerow; stand - Ralph F. Sterley, Hoyt S. Vandenberg Walter Bedell Smith, Otto P. Weyland, Richard E. Nyugent.
The population of the Chinese city of Dalian meets Soviet tankers 7 th Mechanized Corps of the 6 th Guards Tank Army.
The Soviet soldier is considering faustpatrones on the trailer near the Reich Chancellery in the last days of fighting in Berlin. Reich Chancellery building was taken by storm May 2, 1945.
Cpl. Bernard Butnik (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) and Sgt. Richard Goodbar (Russellville, Ark.) are flirting with a girl made of snow, offering her a cigarette and a Coke.