China-Burma-India Theater during the World War II. B-29 bombers of the 7th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Force land one after the other at their base airfield in India. Landing after completing their mission of bombardment at the railroads in Burma. Taxi jeeps and people near the runway are visible. Puff of dust emerges as a B-29 lands on the runway.
Allied soldiers visit a Nazi concentration camp in Belgium during World War II. The cement walls of a chamber have many handprints dug into the wall by victims of the Nazi German SS officers. The soldiers of the Allied army inspect the handprints.
Naked dead bodies of victims at the liberated Ebensee concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria during World War II. Dead body placed at entry opening of crematory furnace. Inmates carrying dead bodies of victims into crematory. Dead atrocity victims on stretchers and carts. A young man or teenage boy, emaciated survivor of the concentration camp with a starved body, standing and watching after the surrender of Nazi SS German guards and liberation of the camp.
Two liberated prisoners nap in a truck outside a prisoner barracks while others supplies into the Ebensee concentration camp after German surrender. Armed guards keep a vigil. Priest at the barracks. View from mountainside down into valley at the entire concentration camp. (World War II period).
Prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria released after liberation of the camp at end of World War II. Starved, naked and extremely weak prisoners walk out of German prison barracks. These victims of Nazi atrocities, many too weak to walk, are carried by other inmates and aid workers. View of camp barracks with mountains in background.
Generals of the Allied forces attend a Commanders victory celebration meeting at the 12th Army Group Headquarters, Bad Windungen in Germany, three days after the World War II in Europe. American officers of the Allied army step out of the headquarter building and settle for a group photograph. Front row: Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson — Ninth U.S. Army; Gen. George S. Patton Jr. — Third U.S. Army; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz — U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Supreme Allied Commander; Gen. Omar N. Bradley — 12th Army Group; Gen. Courtney H. Hodges — First U.S. Army; Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow — Fifteenth U.S. Army. Rear row: Brig. Gen. Ralph F. Stearley — IX Tactical Air Command; Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg — Ninth Air Force; Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell “Beetle” Smith — SHAEF Chief of Staff; Maj. Gen. Otto P. Weyland — XIX Tactical Air Command; Brig. Gen. Richard E. Nugent — XXIX Tactical Air Command. A smaller version of the group is seen afterward, representing the 12th Army Group's field-army and tactical-air leadership: Seated: Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson — commanding general, U.S. Ninth Army; Gen. George S. Patton Jr. — commanding general, U.S. Third Army; Gen. Omar N. Bradley — commanding general, 12th Army Group; Gen. Courtney H. Hodges — commanding general, U.S. First Army; Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow — commanding general, U.S. Fifteenth Army. Standing: Brig. Gen. Ralph F. Stearley — IX Tactical Air Command; Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg — Ninth Air Force; Maj. Gen. Otto P. Weyland — XIX Tactical Air Command; Brig. Gen. Richard E. Nugent — XXIX Tactical Air Command. Generals inspect a horse gifted to General Omar Bradley by Russian Marshal Konev.
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