Official United States Army Signal Corps Photographs
World War II

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1.         First American flag to fly over Attu, Aleutians. Old Glory was erected on the deck of an abandoned Jap landing boat on the beach. 1943.

2.         Bomber destroyed at Hickam Field, just after arrival from West Coast. December 7, 1941.

3.         Axis attack on Bari. Burning ships in the harbor of Bari, Italy, following a German air raid on the night of December 2, 1943. It is estimated that 16 ships were destroyed. Two munition ships exploded causing some damage to the city.

4.         Mountain climbing U. S. medium tanks manned by Chinese and American crews, use the Burma Road for the first time after the combined Allied offensive had broken the two year Jap control of the only overland supply route to China. 1945.

5.         Almost like a drawing-but the real thing. Ack ack during an air raid on Algiers by the Nazis. North Africa, 1943.

6.         Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill at Russian Embassy, Teheran, Iran. November 28, 1943.

7.         One of our big guns hit by a Jap bomb, while the crew was manning it. Same ~un was hit once before earlier in the same day. Bougamville, November 20, 1943.

8.         An LST loaded and made ready for invasion of New Britain. December 25, 1943.

9.         An infantry assault force from the U. S. Army is shown encircling and destroying a Jap pillbox. Kwajalein Island, February, 1944.

10.       Cassino going up in smoke after one of the wars most concentrated bombardments. March 15, 1944.

11.       Invasion--American assault troops land on a beachhead on the northern coast of France. Smoke in the background is from Naval gunfire supporting the attack. June 7, 1944.

12.       Led by a British MP, these Prisoners of War, captured during the initial assault of Allied Troops on German held French Beaches, march under the wires. They were led by an officer (note epaulets) who laid claim to his arrogance by hanging his head. England, June 8, 1944.

13.       Nazi 88mm guns pound the beach as American troops push into Normandy. France, June 11, 1944.

14.       Hitler's secret weapon, the robot plane, dives on its deadly mission of a city in Southern England. June 22. 1944.

15.       American vehicles of the Fifth Army pass the ancient Coliseum as they begin the occupation of Rome. June 5. 1944.

16.       Crowds of Parisians celebrate the entry of Allied troops into Paris and scatter for cover as a sniper fires into them from a building on the Place De La Concord. August 26, 1944.

17.       ALLIES LAND IN FRANCE--Glider loaded with essential supplies land on a partially completed airfield somewhere in Northern France. Despite the steady stream of gliders bringing in men and equipment from England, the work on tile air field goes on uninterrupted. June 1.5.1.944.

18.      Wreakage and ruins--demolished Jap sugar refinery at Saipan. June 1.7, 1944.

19.       This section of the Burma Road, in China, taken by U. S. Army Signal Corps photographer in the China- Burma-India Theater, contains 24 switch-banks. June, 1944.

20.       German atrocities. Bodies of slave laborers of all nationalities, found by Third Armored Division who entered Lager Nordhausen, Concentration Camp, Germany.

21.       American tanks pass through the town of Coutances, France, in rapid pursuit of the retreating Germans. The rubble on the street was due to the Allied siege of the town. July 31, 1944:

22.       Smoke from blasted German armor fills sky as American troops move toward Paris. August 23, 1944.

23.       American troops march through the Arc de Triomphe in a parade to celebrate the liberating of Paris. France, August 29, 1944.

24.       A 155mm Long Tom mounted on a Sherman tank chassis sends a shell at German positions across the Moselle River, Belgium. September 8, 1944.

25.       Two American soldiers look down on a long row of "dragon's teeth" concrete devices to halt invading tanks at the Siegfried Line. American troops move through a break in the vaunted defense line and pass into Germany. September 15, 1944.

26.       Field Marshal Wilhehn Keitel signs the ratified surrender terms for the German Army at Russian headquarters in Berlin. May 7, 1941.

27.       Invasion. Troops of 41st Division 'hit the beach in invasion of Wake Island. Dutch New Guinea. May 18, 1944.

28.       Longest pontoon bridge of the war, across the Irrawaddy River, Burma. A vital link in the Ledo Road. Built in 14 hours and 45 minutes by U. S. Army Engineers.

29.       Members of an anti-aircraft unit somewhere in Germany turn their 40mm Bofore gun against enemy ground targets. Owing to the non-activity of the Luftwaffe, these guns have been released to do light artillery tasks in support of ground forces. November 5, 1944.

30.       Engineers of the 75th Division sweep a snow-covered road for enemy mines before tanks move up to attack. Commanster, Belgium. January 22, 1945.

31.       Crimean Conference.  Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Premier Joseph Stalin, in the patio at the palace in Yalta where the "Big Three" met. Rear are, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Admiral Ernest King, Air Marshal Portal, and Admiral William D. Leahy, with other high-ranking officer. February, 1945.

32.       One reason there was gas rationing in U. S.--These gas trucks are dispensing fuel into cans at a gas supply dump somewhere in France.

33.       Troops of 31st Division make their way ashore on D-Day from LCI on rough coral reef in water chest high to an island in the Mapia Group, Southwest Pacific. November 15, 1944.

34.       American paratroops land on Kamiri Airstrip, Noemfoor Island. July 3, 1944.

35.       View of part of the road through the Persian Corridor through which supplies were trucked into Russia by the Persian Gulf Command.

36.       American troops unload supplies from LSTs in Leyte Gulf, Leyte Island, P. I.

37.       Appearing as if out of "focus" this photo was made of one of the storm twisted Loebnitz piers, jutting out from "Omaha" Beach, 2,800 ft. from shore, damaged by storm, somewhere on coast of France. June 21, 1944.

38.       A massed line of American M-I0 tank destroyers fire at German positions flanking their Fifth Army positions on Highway 64, near Bologna, Italy. November 17, 1944.

39.       Laying smoke screen across bridge at Moselle River, France. November II, 1944.