U.S. Navy hospital ship USS Tranquility carries USS Indianapolis survivors at sea, following the Indianapolis' sinking by Japanese torpedo attack. The ship moored alongside dock. The ship enters Apra Harbor at Guam. Long line of ambulances waits on the dock. Fantail and midships of tranquility alongside dock. Ambulatory causalities from USS Indianapolis line rails. Ramp runs from gangway to platform on dock foe discharge of causalities from ship. Ambulatory causalities file down gangway ladder to ambulances on dock. Stern of the Tranquility with its name written on it. United States flag flying from staff. General activities on dock as men take the survivors on stretchers to ambulances. Gangway ladder as ambulatory causalities descend to dock.
Snow covered terrain in Belgium. Fire burns at the distant background. Smoke arises from the fire. United States Infantrymen of 315th Infantry regiment march along snow covered road in their advance. Tanks on the field. Trees in the field. Snow covered mountains. (World War II period).
The huge IG Farben plant is blown up in Ebenhausen, Germany, 7 months after the end of World War 2 in Europe. The German war production plant produced tons of nitrocellulose daily for the German war. United States Army soldiers seated in a group. The Commanding Officer, Lt. General Lucian Truscott, discusses with another U.S. Army officer. A sign board reads: 'Schwaben Control Office'. Lt General Truscott activates the handle to trigger the explosive charge, and the plant is blasted by 200 tons of TNT. Army personnel examine the rubble and wrecked parts of the plant and its machinery.
United States troops pass in a convoy of trucks, jeeps, trailers, and an M36B1 tank destroyer through the streets of Tambach in Germany. during World War 2. Townsmen gathered across the streets watch as the convoy passes. Officially named the M36B1 Gun Motor Carriage this tank destroyer is based on the M4A3 Sherman hull with a tank destroyer (TD) turret housing a 90mm gun. Only 187 were manufactured. Based on the registration number on the side of the hull (W40190915) this one is serial number 616 and was manufactured by Fisher Body Div. of the General Motors Corp. There are very few combat photos of this rare TD variant.
A United States M-5 Stuart light tank burns on the side of a road in Osterode, Germany. A hole in the armor of the wrecked tank. U.S. Army soldiers stand near the smoking tank. A German 88mm gun is pushed to side of the road. Refugees move back into the city with their belongings. (World War II period).
Soldiers filling fuel in United States Army Air Force planes in Philippines during World war II. A truck near the planes. A man unloads a drum from the truck. Soldiers help fill fuel in the planes. A mechanic works on a plane. Swastikas, Japanese flag and American flag painted on the fuselage of the plane.