Pictorial History of the Second World War: A Photographic Record of all Theaters of Action Chronologically Arranged, vol 4

520 Pages·1947·66.49 MB·English

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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
EDITION
PICTORIAL HISTORY
OF THE
SECOND WORLD WAR
A PHOTOGHArillC RECORD
OF ALL THEATERS OF ACTION
CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED
Vol. 4
This Edition Published Especially
is
FOR AND Sponsored by the
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
OF THE UNITED STATES
1947
Copyright 1946
Wm.H.Wise&Cc.Inc.
Printed in the United Stales of America
CONTENTS
THE SIXTH YEAR
PAGE
Story, September through February 1543
Picture History, September-February * 1545
. .
Story, March through August 1793
Picture History, March-August
1795
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Photographs in this publication were obtained from the following sources:
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British Information Service 1551, 1580, 1587, 1598, 1632, 1650, 1654, 1660, 1661, 1664, 1665,
1608, 1689, 1706, 1716, 1726, 1739, 1743—, 1930, 1933, 1939, 1941, 1956
French Press and Information—Service 1565, 1566, 1567, 1638, 1649, 1663, 1710, 1738
International News Photo 1550, 1553, 1593, 1602, 1603, 1604, 1628, 1629, 1639, 1645, 1652,
16:13, 1674, 1675, 1676, 1677, 1678, 1707, 1709, 1712, 1720, 1723, 1727, 1748, 1749, 1757, 1760,
17^2, 1796, 1800, 1801, 1812, 1840
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Netherlands Inform—ation Bureau 1631, 1632, 1925
New York News 1884
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Odhams Press 1568, 1577, 1589, 1594, 1595, 1596, 1597, 1600, 1605, 1607, 1612, 1613, 1620,
1622, 1623. 1625, 1626, 1627, 1633, 1634, 1667, 1681, 1900, 1901, 1915, 1952, 1980, 1991, 2811
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OfBcial Coast Guard Photo 1608, 1609, 1610, 1611, 1772, 1773, 1775
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Office of Inter-American Affairs — 1799
Official U. S. Marine Corps Photo 1576, 1578, 1658, 1769, 1771, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1789, 1858,
1859, 1860. 1871, 1881, 1894, 1896. 1966, 1969, 1975, 1977, 1986, 1990. 1993, 1995, 1999
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Official U. S. Navy Photo 1562. 1563, 1570, 1599, 1614, 1615, 1616. 1617. 1618. 1621, 1642,
1643. 1656. 1657, 1704, 1705, 1724. 1759, 1764. 1765, 1766, 1767, 1770, 1785, 1809, 1816. 1817.
1830, 1849, 1870, 1872, 1873. 1895, 1917, 1943, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1979, 1989, 1992,
1994, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2030, 2041
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Press Association 1545, 1547, 1548. 1549, 1552. 1554. 1555. 1558. 1560, 1569, 1582, 1583. 1584.
1585. 1586, 1602, 1607, 1624, 1637, 1639. 1648, 1651. 1653. 1655. 1666, 1670. 1679. 1682. 1683,
1685. 1686, 1687, 1688, 1690, 1691, 1692, 1693, 1694. 1695. 1696, 1698. 1699, 1701. 1702, 1703.
1706, 1708, 1731, 1739, 1741. 1745. 1753. 1761. 1778. 1781. 1784, 1798, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1807,
1820, 1821, 1826, 1827, 1829, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1843. 1844. 1845, 1847, 1850, 1853. 1856, 1861,
1865, 1867, 1868, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879. 1882. 1883. 1886, 1887. 1890. 1891, 1897. 1898. 1899,
1903, 1904, 1905, 1912, 1914, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928. 1929. 1932, 1937,
1944. 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1965, 1970. 1971. 1973, 1974,
1976r 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1996, 1997. 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005. 2006. 2008, 2009,
2010, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2031, 2032,
2033, 203—4, 2035, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045
Sovfoto 1571, 1588, 1591, 1601. 1640. 1669, 1672. 1673. 1697. 1715, 1717, 1718, 1719. 1721,
1722, 1725, 1729, 1730, 1734, 1737, 1740, 1742. 1744. 1751. 1781, 1783, 1808, 1818, 1824, 1851,
1854, 1855, 1875, 1902, 1907, 1913, 1916, 1918, 1934, 1935, 1936, 2024, 2036, 2037
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U. S. Army Air Forces 1561, 1572, 1573, 1635, 1641, 1736, 1746. 1750, 1763, 1787, 1788, 1814,
1832, 1833, 1848, 1909, 1931, 1953, 1967, 1968, 1978, 1991, 2011, 2015
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U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo 1546, 1556, 1557, 1559, 1564, 1590, 1592, 1606, 1630, 1644,
1645, 1646, 1647, 1659, 1662, 1680, 1701, 1711, 1713, 1728, 1731, 1732, 1733, 1735, 1754, 1755,
1756, 1758, 1762, 1779, 1780, 1786, 1790, 1791, 1797, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1810, 1811, 1813,
1815, 1825, 1831, 1834, 1841, 1842, 1846, 1852, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1866, 1869. 1878, 1880, 1888,
1889, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1915, 1926, 1938. 1940, 1942. 1944. 1945. 1946, 1953,
1962, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1977, 2001, 2008
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Yank, the Army Weekly 1700 and 1714 by Sgt. Richardson, 1752 by Sgt. Hanley, 1822 by Sgt.
Richardson, 1823 by Sgt. Peters, 1828 by Pfc. Coffey, 1839 by Sgt. Peters
FOREWORD
THIS fourth volume of the PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE
SECOND WORLD WAR
dramatically pictures the sensational
events leading to the complete defeat of Germany and Japan
and vividly portrays the memorable and history-making scenes
at the surrender ceremonies.
The battle for Germany is here completely documented by
photographs. The reader actually sees the spectacular crossing
of the Rhine and the break-up of the inner Reich as the Allies
overrun it. The great Russian offensive is shown in stirring pic-
tures from Warsaw to Berlin. The whole amazing story of horror
and loot uncovered in Germany is revealed in pictures that
cannot be refuted.
The final debacle in the Pacific is perhaps even more dra-
matic than the crushing of Nazi Germany. The awe-inspiring
advent of the atomic bomb brought an entirely new element
into the war. The actual bursts of the two bombs dropped on
Japan are pictured as well as the damage done. The beginning
of a new era is told in eloquent photographs.
Although the global war had reached vast proportions in
the sixth year, no important aspect of the war is omitted. Events
in the Pacific, Burma, China and Borneo, events in Italy and
Greece are all faithfully recorded as well as important political
happenings closely related to the war such as the death of
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the grisly end of Mussolini,
and the rise to power of Britain's Clement Attlee.
The main emphasis of the book, however, remains on the
actual battlefronts where scores of photographers gave their
lives to record the drama of life and death at close quarters with
the enemy. Official Army, Navy and Air Force photographers as
well as news cameramen have provided voluminous records
from which the reader is enabled to see what actually occurred
on the blood drenched battlefields, in the air, and at sea. The
reader is given a combat view of the War.
The distribution of space has been determined by the un-
equalled importance of events. After victory in Europe a rela-
tively small number of pictures tells the story in the Pacific until
the final rush of events when a larger number of pictures is
included to give the full story of final victory.
THE PUBLISHERS