Overseeing enemy prisoners of war

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Sharp, Horace War's End
Horace Sharp and his squad [Annotator's Note: 1st Squad, 1st Platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment...
White, James War's End
James White was a 60mm mortar man, but artillery fire took out two machine gunners. White became a machine gunner as a...
Simpson, Joseph War's End
Joseph Simpson witnessed little resistance after his unit crossed the Rhine River. There were hardly any battles. The...
Tweed, Earl War's End
Earl Tweed was the longest active of three company commander for his company since he was in action from 16 June to 17...
Feldman, Henry War's End
Henry Feldman had no problems with his feet during the cold and harsh winter [Annotator's Note: winter of 1944 to 1945...
Collie, C. War's End
C. Charles Collie heard on 6 August [Annotator's Note: 1945] that the atomic bomb had been used on Hiroshima. He knew...
Malec, Henry War's End, an Emergency and a German General
Henry Malec was atop a hill when the war ended. He was with several other men and Lieutenant Lewis [Annotator's Note:...
2nd Infantry Division guarding German POWs, Schöneseiffen
Photograph. United States Army soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division guarding German prisoners of war outside a war-...
A blindfolded Japanese prisoner is surrounded by Australian soldiers during World War II, probably in New Guinea
A blindfolded Japanese prisoner is surrounded by Australian soldiers during World War II, probably in New Guinea.
A German and American military officer speak to one another after the German officer's surrender in Všeruby, Czech Republic on 4 May 1945
A German and American military officer speak to one another after the German officer's surrender. Official caption: "...
A German general wears an expression of resignation after his capture by American forces in France on 20 August 1944
913.Photograph. '7/MM-44-25007'; Signal Corps radio telephoto from Italy# France. 'German general surrenders. Cigarette...
A German Naval and a German Army officer in the custody of American officers in Cherbourg, France on 26 June 1944
A German Naval and a German Army officer in the custody of American officers. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 5963 Petrony...
A German-speaking American soldier interrogates a German prisoner in Mutzig, France on 5 December 1944
A German-speaking American soldier interrogates a German prisoner. Official caption: "6AG 7A-27515/ ETO HQ 44 28506 5...
A Japanese prisoner of war digs a foxhole on Tarawa, 1943-1944
Japanese prisoners of war; one is digging a foxhole. "Jap prisoners dig fox holes on Tarawa." Tarawa, Gilbert Islands....
Allied troops escort a large group of German prisoners up a dusty mountain road in Italy, circa 1944-45
85.Photograph. Allied [probably Brazilian] troops escorting a large group of German prisoners up dusty mountain road....
American military policeman oversees German prisoners in Italy on 10 November 1943
231.Photograph. 'MM-5-150286'; 'Italy! M.P. Pvt. Lyle Lane of Chatfield, Minn., [Minnesota] guarding German prisoners,...
American servicemen and Marshallese attending a funeral, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Photograph. American servicemen and Marshallese standing at the edge of a mass grave; a Chaplin reads from a Bible over...
American servicemen and Marshallese attending a funeral, Marshall Islands
Photograph. American servicemen and Marshallese attending a funeral in a cemetery. Caption on reverse: "3315. From:...
American servicemen exiting a landing craft, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Photograph. American servicemen preparing to exit a pontoon boat. Caption on reverse: "3280. From: Public Relations...
American soldier standing on a dock with his supplies in the South Pacific
Photograph. A smiling soldier standing on a dock with his sea bag and a guitar. Caption on reverse: "3146. From: Public...
American soldiers guard a group of German soldiers in France in 1944
American soldiers guard a group of German soldiers at a bridge. A soldier with an American Flag armband rests his foot...
An Allied soldier examines POW tags on two young German soldiers in Italy on 24 October 1944
347.Photograph. An Allied soldier examines POW [prisoner of war] tags on two young German soldiers. '24 Oct. 1944. 5/MM...
An American military police officer holds captive two Nazi pilots in Eschweiler, Germany on 3 December 1944
An American military police officer holds captive two Nazi pilots. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 28174 3 Dec. Credit---...
An American soldier keeps watch over a German prisoner of war in Fauvillers, Belgium, 1945
An American soldier keeps watch over a German prisoner of war. Official caption: "ETO HQ 45 6359 5 Jan. Credit...U.S....
Australian Military Police watching over wounded Japanese soldiers, Labuan Island, June 1945
Photograph. Member of Australian Military Police, known as the Australian Army Provost Corps during the war, watching...
Blindfolded Japanese prisoner being helped to the deck of a submarine, PTO, 1945
Photograph. A blindfolded Japanese prisoner being helped by U.S. Marines to the deck of a submarine. Official Caption...
British soldiers overseeing German prisoners of war in Mount Camino, Italy on 8 December 1943
444.Photograph. 'Signal Corps Photo-12-8-43-Italy. German Prisoners taken on Mt. [Mount] Camino by the British wait...
Captured German Army nurses in Cherbourg, France on 2 July 1944
Captured German Army nurses. Note that some identifying names, units, and locations have been stricken in the caption....
Captured Japanese soldier surrounded by Marines, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Photograph. Naked Japanese soldier sitting on the ground while United States Marines stand behind him with rifles at...
Captured Japanese soldiers emerging from a foxhole, Laiana, 1943
Photograph. Armed United States Army soldiers surrounding two emaciated Japanese soldiers emerging from a foxhole in a...
Captured Japanese soldiers in a landing craft, Kwajalein Atoll. 1944
Photograph. Captured Japanese soldiers in a landing craft surrounded by Coast Guardsmen. Caption on reverse: "3287....
Captured Nazi soldiers debarking an LCVP along the Rhine, Germany, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers observing captured Nazi soldiers debark from a LCVP [Landing Craft, Vehicle,...
Coast Guardsman holding a Marshallese baby, Marshall Islands
Photograph. Coast Guardsman holding a Marshallese baby on the porch of a hut; other Marshallese children pose next to...
Coast Guardsman talking to wounded German prisoners, 1943
Photograph. Coast Guardsman talking to two wounded German prisoners aboard a ship. Caption on reverse: "2046. From:...
Corralled German prisoners of war in Europe in November 1944
German prisoners of war. "ETO-HQ-44-27380. Meade. 27 Nov. Signal corps photo. German prisoners of war are segregated...
Deutsches Afrikakorps POWs, Sicily, 1943
Photograph. United States servicemen guarding Deutsches Afrikakorps [German Africa Corps] prisoners of war lined up...

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