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Dawson, Zhanna Entertaining the Wehrmacht
Zhanna Dawson worked with a tuner to tune the orphanage piano [Annotator's Note: because of her playing talent, Dawson...
Knutson, Caroll Evacuation March Preparations
By the end of January 1945, Carroll Knutson could hear the artillery fire in the distance as the Soviets advanced into...
Dumas, Floyd Liberation
A week or so after they [Annotator's Note: Floyd Dumas and another escaped prisoner of war named Bill Robb] got there,...
Flynn, David Liberation
David Flynn lost almost half his weight while a prisoner, and was at about 80 pounds when he got out. Some of his...
Dawson, Zhanna Reaching America
Larry Dawson told Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson and her sister Frina that their transport to America could be arranged so...
Scott, Donald Returning Home
Donald Scott and his fellow prisoners of war were told by the liberating British soldiers to sit and wait for someone...
Dumas, Floyd Reuniting with Bill Robb After the War
After they got into Rome and were interrogated, Floyd Dumas and Bill Robb went their separate ways. They stayed in...
Meisel, Judith Seeking Sanctuary
Judith Meisel and her sister were treated nicely at the convent [Annotator's Note: they had just escaped a death march...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 10
The thing Steve Pisanos thinks about the most from the war was when he crash landed in France. When he arrived at the...
Zager, Raymond Segment 6
Raymond Zager drove into the compound [Annotator's Note: Gunskirchen Lager Concentration Camp in Austria]. There were...
Milosevich, Risto Segment 7
Milosevich did not know of the plan to pull back.The Germans flanked the position and captured hole after hole. They...
Building with anti-Hitler graffiti, ETO
Photograph. A building with "Hitler muss sterben damit Deutschland lebt [Hitler must die so Germany can live]" written...
Civilians and infantrymen destroying German weapons, Austria, 1945
Photograph. German civilians and infantrymen of the 3rd Infantry Division destroying Axis weapons in a street. Official...
Courtyard with servicemen, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Courtyard with trees surrounded by buildings, servicemen standing around in shadows in the foreground....
Facade of Gothic building, Munich, 1945
Photograph. Gothic building facade, the Military Government building from previous photographs in this series, and...
Infantrymen crossing a bridge, France, 1944
Photograph. Infantrymen of the 3rd Infantry Division sitting on a military jeep towing a trailer; the jeep is headed...
Infantrymen crossing into Avanne, France, 1944
Photograph. Infantrymen of the 7th Infantry Regiment sitting in military jeeps on a bridge over the Doubs River; the...
Infantrymen marching through Rupt-sur-Moselle, September 1944
Photograph. Infantrymen of the 7th Infantry Regiment marching down a paved road; there is no uniform formation....
Infantrymen pose with a Munich road sign, 1945
Photograph. A group of infantrymen from the 9th Tank Battalion posing with a road sign for Munich; the sign has a large...
Infantrymen walking into Munich, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Infantrymen of the 30th Infantry Regiment walking down and sidewalk and street towards the center of Munich...
Infantrymen walking through Montelimar, France, 1944
Photograph. French civilians and infantrymen of the 3rd Infantry Division walking down a main street; debris litters...