The Dnipro River in Smolensk, Soviet Union during World War II. Several buildings and facilities seen from the Dnipro River. A secluded Soviet government facility near a forest trail leading to Katyn Forest. Nazi German officials in Katyn Forest after the discovery of the Katyn massacre mass grave. Men exhume thousands of corpses in Katyn Forest near Smolensk. Corpses of Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war in mass grave. Partially exhumed corpses are seen stacked on top of each other.
Man holds the hand of a body exhumed in Katyn Forest during World War II. Bishop Gregory, an Eastern Orthodox Christian bishop, performs the last rites for the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre. Relatives of the Polish Katyn massacre victims crying during the ceremony. The Eastern Orthodox bishop and mass attendees perform the sign of the cross. Eastern Orthodox bishop bless the mass grave as relatives watch. Christian bishops and priests of various denominations are also present at the ceremony. Priests and families of victims praying during the last rites ceremony. A bereaved woman sobbing. A Nazi German official lays a wreath in front of the mass grave. Crosses at Katyn Forest. Two women weeping for the Katyn massacre victims.
United States 3rd Army Division soldiers patrol through Bocklemünd on the north-western outskirts of Cologne, Germany in World War II. U.S. Army soldiers enter houses in the city and walk on the streets. Some soldiers run as they cross a street to evade snipers. Some infantry soldiers fire at German snipers. Soldiers forcefully break house doors open. Soldiers leaving house after search. Tanks moving on the street. Infantry soldiers search a village for snipers. Road sign showing the distance to Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Wuppertal, Aachen, Koblenz, and Bonn. A soldier walks past a “Stadtmitte” sign directing to Cologne city center.
United States 3rd Army Division M4 Sherman tanks and M26 Pershing tanks move forward through streetcar roadblock in Cologne, Germany during World War II. The tanks carefully cross under a bridge. An “Achtung” (“Danger” in German) sign hangs above the road. An armored M4 tank bulldozer tows a destroyed Line 3 Cologne Stadtbahn tram streetcar. U.S. Army soldiers carry a steel beam to clear road. A tank can move forward. More tanks emerge from heavy smoke and road after the road is cleared of destroyed streetcars.
A motorcade for United States President John F. Kennedy passes crowded Hainerberg Circle in Wiesbaden, Germany. Photographers take photos of President Kennedy and his aides. President Kennedy shakes hands with United States Air Force officers and crew during his visit. President Kennedy speaks with Commander of United States Air Forces in Europe, General Truman H. Landon. President Kennedy greets and shakes hands with crowd of German civilians from behind fence. Honor guards salute the president and General Landon. President Kennedy and General Landon board Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000).
British and Australian prisoners of war line up on both the sides of a road to welcome a senior officer at a Japanese prison camp in World War II. Prisoners stand at attention as the motorcade passes through. The motorcade reaches a prison compound where a Japanese prison officer receives and greets the inspecting officer. Prisoners lined up outside the building. A photographer clicks pictures of the event.
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