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Bomb damage, Vire, France. July 1944

The pass-through of the Buchenwald Concentration camp was a horrible and hurried one for our unit as we were on our way to Pilzen, Czechoslovakia as our ultimate destination. Those surviving souls that were streaming from the confines of the…

Our living quarters for the first few days of the invasion: a bombed-out German bunker off the shores of Omaha Beach.

Chas Gahres [PA] Inside the ring of death, at Falaise.

Chas Townsend [NJ] enjoying lunch in a bombed out German concrete bunker in Cerisy Forest, Normandy

Collaborators and sympathizers of the Nazi Occupation, forced to repair Allied bomb damage to street of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, a few days after the liberation of the City on May 9, 1945

Crozier[DE]-Mongell[NY]-Leddy[NY] Eupen, Belgium

Allied Bomb Damage at the Skoda Armaments Factory, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1945. The Skoda factory was one of the prize German captures during the war, ultimately producing 1/3 of all their armaments.

Damaged Street Car, Mainz Germany

The Main Street!!!! The damage to this city was almost complete at the time this photo was taken. rubble and stone reduced to almost a powder. It must have been a horrible experience for the citizens of this city to endure such complete destruction.…