Prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Ettersberg and Weimar Germany, a few days after its liberation by American forces in World War 2. Prisoner shows emaciation. Man with crutches in the background. Other prisoners show deformation from malnutrition, atrocities, and abuse suffered in the camp. A prisoner suffering from emaciation is held up by another man. A four year old boy prisoner. The child wears a cap and a coat with a 'P' sign on it, and has been given a U.S. Army Infantry crossed rifles pin which he wears on his right lapel. Close up of the boy prisoner's face as he smiles. A group of boy children prisoners who were imprisoned for a year and a half stand together in a group. They are singing.
The prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Ettersberg and Weimar Germany several days after its liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Group of prisoners around fire cook and eat food. Prisoners cook food in a kettle. They sit in a group around fire. The elderly prisoners seated. An eldery Polish prisoner cries and prays. A barbed wire fence enclosed around the prison camp. The prisoners stand inside the fence.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany. Footage from 5 days after the camp's liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Elevated view of crowd around a band playing in the prison courtyard. A captive German SS (Schutzstaffel) soldier with a battered face. Another German Nazi SS soldier prisoner held by the Allies. Mrs Walter Warnstedt, wife of the camp hangman. A Ukrainian SS man.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, near Weimar, five days after its liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War II. Lines of dead bodies of atrocity victims and other parts of human bodies of victims at the camp. German civilians walk around seeing the camp and evidence of Nazi brutality. Huge crowd gathers at the camp. Reactions on the faces of civilians seeing evidence of abuse and horros. Civilians crying and consoling other civilians.
Visitors board and crowd the deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in June, 1945, near the end of world War II. The Wasp is about to depart again, for the Western Pacific, following repairs at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Two U.S. marines are escorting two women, and showing them an F4U Corsair airplane on the deck. Some of the visitors look up toward the camera. The aircraft on deck have been arranged for this static display. visitors are seen departing across a gangplank. Views from deck of the Wasp, of Navy personnel on the pier, below. Camera pans across the pier where spectators still stand. A few people stand on the water side of a building. A large group of visitors coming up from the hangar deck. Civilians and sailors wave at the camera. Visitors leaving the carrier on the gangplank.
Mass funeral aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific Ocean. Bodies committed to ocean in Mass Funeral Ceremony. Multiple crews of six men each carry dead sailors, wrap each in the U.S. flag, place them on a board and tip them into the ocean. Marines fire rifle salute. View of sheet covered bodies on lower deck awaiting burial at sea. The 50 men were killed in a January 21, 1945 accident when a TBF Avenger returned from a sortie in the area of Formosa (Taiwan). It landed on the deck and taxied near the island, and then exploded killing 50 men and injuring 75. (World War II period).
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