U.S. President Harry S. Truman decorates men in Washington DC, United States for heroism in World War II. U.S. Marine Corps flying ace Lieutenant Colonel Pappy Boyington with the Medal of Honor. President Truman decorates a group of 14 Marines and Navy men for heroism above and beyond the call of duty. President Truman decorates a group of men including Sergeant Harold Russell, sailor Mate Whalen and Private Lucas. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshal and U.S. Navy Chief of Staff Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King congratulate the men who received the honors.
Former French officials in Augsburg, Germany after their liberation towards the end of World War II. Exteriors of a building shows U.S. 7th Army Commander General Alexander Patch talking to French officials liberated by his unit. The group includes French Generals Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin, French politician Paul Reynaud, former French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and Madame Caillan who is the sister of French General Charles de Gaulle.
Jewish services at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany towards the end of World War II. U.S. Army Jewish chaplains conduct services in the concentration camp. Surviving prisoners at the camp. Various individuals attend the church services. Some individuals weep.
Church services at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany after liberation of its prisoners towards the end of World War II. A Catholic Mass for imprisoned priests. A chaplain holds services for camp inmates. Individuals at the services.
Removal of emaciated corpses from prison barracks after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany towards the end of World War II. Liberated inmates of the camp remove emaciated corpses from the prison barracks and place them on a street.
Jewish orphans leave Buchenwald, Germany in a train at end of World War II in Europe, and following liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Jewish boy and girl orphans look out from the windows of the train. A Jewish flag hanging from a train window. Jewish children posing. Smiling faces of displaced Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and French, Jewish orphans. Close up views of faces of some of the orphan children and groups of orphaned children, survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Signs on a side of the train such as, "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and "Orphaned youth of Buchenwald."
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