The Battle of Balikpapan in Netherlands East Indies during World War II. U.S. underwater demolition teams on a U.S. navy patrol boat prepare explosive charges for an attack on the underwater defenses of Balikpapan. Men spill out of their larger craft into a rubber boat alongside and then into the sea. The explosive packs are thrown overboard, timed with each man's take off. Many kinds of equipment, mine detonators, measuring lines and firearms are used for the mission. Men place explosives on shore defenses. Men are picked up after the job is done.
Natzweiler-Struthof (or Natwiller-Struthof), a German concentration camp and extermination camp, in France used by the Nazis for political prisoners from Belgium and France during World War II. A U.S. soldier examines urns used for ashes of victims. A crematorium, blood stained coffins and a gas chamber at the camp. An examination or experiment procedure table with indented fluid drains, that drains into a sink below.
Arnstadt Concentration Camp in Germany captured by American forces in April, 1945 near the end of World War II. Prisoners were mainly Poles and Russians. View from the camp gate to tents which were used to house prisoners. Dogs were used to guard the prisoners. Shown is A dog kennel for a watch dog. Local German citizens had exhumed he bodies of concentration camp victims from their original mass grave, and reburied them in a trench further away from the town because of the stench. Now they were disinterring them again under supervision of United States Army soldiers. A corpse with crushed head. Corpses lying outside the graves from which they have just been exhumed. Bodies laid out on the ground are viewed by several U.S. soldiers
A Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany 10 days before the end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. soldiers at the camp. Emaciated corpses of camp victims lying on the ground. Barbed wire fences and prison barracks at the camp. A U.S. soldier talks with liberated prisoners. (Note: A surviving prisoner of this camp, who was liberated at this time, adds that the front gate was on fire early in the morning as the U.S. Army entered the camp site.)
The Langenstein Concentration Camp for political prisoners in Germany towards the end of World War II. Sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and are placed in a U.S. 10th Field Hospital ambulance. Smoke rises from explosions on a hillside. Sick prisoners are placed in ambulances. U.S. soldiers stand around. Unburied dead bodies lying in an open pit. Several thin, starved-looking prisoners talk to a U.S. officer and a doctor.
High ranking U.S. officials in Moosburg, Germany during World War 2. Major General James A Van Fleet of III Corps, Third U.S. Army, and Major General A. C. Smith of the 14th Armored Division of VI Corps, Seventh U.S. Army, meet at the banks of the Isar River and examine a damaged bridge.
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