RARE WORLD WAR II PHOTOGRAPHS

RARE WORLD WAR II PHOTOGRAPHS.......

1

German Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before
his execution by a firing squad in a stockade in Aversa , Italy , on December
1, 1945. The General, Commander of the 75th Army Corps, was sentenced to death
by an United States Military Commission in Rome for having ordered the shooting
of 15 unarmed American prisoners of war, in La Spezia, Italy, on March 26,
1944. (AP Photo)

2

Soviet soldiers with lowered standards of the defeated Nazi forces
during the Victory Day parade in Moscow , on June 24, 1945. (Yevgeny Khaldei/Waralbum.ru)

3

Gaunt and emaciated, but happy at their release from Japanese
captivity, two Allied prisoners pack their meager belongings, after being freed
near Yokohama, Japan, on September 11, 1945, by men of an American mercy
squadron of the U.S. Navy. (AP Photo)

4

The return of victorious Soviet soldiers at a railway station in
Moscow in 1945. (Arkady Shaikhet/Waralbum.ru)

5

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb
blast shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin on July 20,
1946. The slow pace of rebuilding is attributed to a shortage of building
equipment and materials. (AP Photo/Charles P.

6

A Japanese man amid the scorched wreckage and rubble that was once
his home in Yokohama , Japan . ( NARA )

7

Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei
(center) in Berlin with Soviet forces, near the Brandenburg Gate in May of
1945. (Waralbum.ru)

8

A P-47 Thunderbolt of the U.S. Army
12th Air Force flies low over the crumbled ruins of what once was Hitler's
retreat at Berchtesgaden, Germany, on May 26, 1945. Small and large bomb
craters dot the grounds around the wreckage. (AP Photo)

9

Hermann Goering, once the leader of
the formidable Luftwaffe and second in command of the German Reich under
Hitler, appears in a mugshot on file with the Central Registry of War Criminals
and Security Suspects in Paris, France, on November 5, 1945. Goering
surrendered to U.S. soldiers in Bavaria , on May 9, 1945, and was eventually
taken to Nuremburg to face trial for War Crimes. (AP Photo)

10

The interior of the courtroom of the
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1946 during the Trial of the Major War
Criminals, prosecuting 24 government and civilian leaders of Nazi Germany.
Visible here is Hermann Goering, former leader of the Luftwaffe, seated in the
box at center right, wearing a gray jacket, headphones, and dark glasses. Next
to him sits Rudolf Hess, former Deputy Fuhrer of Germany, then Joachim von
Ribbentrop, former Nazi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilhelm Keitel, former
leader of Germany's Supreme Command (blurry face), and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the
highest ranking surviving SS-leader. Goering, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, and Kaltenbrunner
were sentenced to death by hanging along with 8 others -- Goering committed
suicide the night before the execution. Hess was sentenced to life
imprisonment, which he served at Spandau Prison, Berlin, where he died in 1987.
(AP Photo/STF)

11

Many of Germany 's captured new and
experimental aircraft were displayed in an exhibition as part of London 's
Thanksgiving week on September 14, 1945. Among the aircraft are a number of jet
and rocket propelled planes. Here, a side view of the Heinkel He-162
"Volksjaeger", propelled by a turbo-jet unit mounted above the
fuselage, in Hyde park, in London . (AP Photo)

12

One year after the D-Day landings in
Normandy , German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at
Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer , France , near " Omaha " Beach, on May 28,
1945. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)

13

Sudeten Germans make their way to
the railway station in Liberec, in former Czechoslovakia, to be transferred to
Germany in this July, 1946 photo. After the end of the war, millions of German
nationals and ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from both territory Germany
had annexed, and formerly German lands that were transferred to Poland and the
Soviet Union . The estimated numbers of Germans involved ranges from 12 to 14
million, with a further estimate of between 500,000 and 2 million dying during
the expulsion. (AP Photo/CTK)

14

A survivor of the first atomic bomb
ever used in warfare, Jinpe Teravama retains scars after the healing of burns
from the bomb explosion, in Hiroshima, in June of 1947. (AP Photo)

15

Disabled buses that have littered
the streets of Tokyo are used to help relieve the acute housing shortage in
the Japanese capital on October 2, 1946. Homeless Japanese who hauled the buses
into a vacant lot are converting them into homes for their families. (AP
Photo/Charles Gorry)

16

An American G.I. places his arm
around a Japanese girl as they view the surroundings of HibiyaPark,
near the Tokyo palace of the emperor, on January 21, 1946. (AP Photo/Charles
Gorry)

17

This is an aerial view of the city
of London
around St. Paul 's Cathedral showing bomb-damaged areas in April of 1945. (AP
Photo)

18

General Charles de Gaulle (center)
shaking hands with children, two months after the German capitulation inLorient,
France , in July of 1945. Lorient was the location of a German U-boat
(submarine) base during World War II. Between January 14 and February 17, 1943,
as many as 500 high-explosive aerial bombs and more than 60,000 incendiary
bombs were dropped on Lorient . The city was almost completely destroyed, with
nearly 90% of the city flattened. (AFP/Getty Images)

19

The super transport ship, General
W.P. Richardson, docked in New York, with veterans of the
European war cheering on June 7, 1945. Many soldiers were veterans of the
African campaign, Salerno , Anzio , Cassino and the winter warfare in Italy 's
mountains. (AP Photo/Tony Camerano)

20

This aerial file photo shows a
portion of Levittown, New York , in 1948 shortly after the
mass-produced suburb was completed on Long Island farmland in New York . This
prototypical suburban community was the first of many mass-produced housing
developments that went up for soldiers coming home from World War II. It also
became a symbol of postwar suburbia in the U.S. (AP Photo/Levittown Public
Library, File)

21

This television set, retailing for
$100, is reportedly the first moderately priced receiver manufactured in
quantity. Rose Clare Leonard watches the screen, which reproduces a 5x7 image,
as she tunes in at the first public post-war showing at a New York
department store, on August 24, 1945. Although television was invented prior to
World War II, the war prevented mass production. Soon after the war, sales and
production picked up, and by 1948, regular commercial network programming had
begun. (AP Photo/Ed Ford)

22

A U.S. soldier
examines a solid gold statue, part of Hermann Goering's private loot, found by
the 7th U.S. Army in a mountainside cave near Schonau am Konigssee, Germany, on
May 25, 1945. The secret cave, the second found to date, also contained stolen
priceless paintings from all over Europe . (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)

23

In Europe, some
churches have been completely ruined, but others still stand amid utter
devastation. Munchengladbach Cathedral stands here in the rubble, though still
in need of repairs, seen in Germany , on November 20, 1945. (AP Photo)

24

On May 21, Colonel Bird, Commandant
of Belsen Camp, gave the order for the last hut at Belsen Concentration Camp to
be burned. A rifle salute was fired in honor of the dead, the British flag was
run up at the same moment as a flame-thrower set fire to the last hut. A German
flag and portrait of Hitler went up in flames inside the hut in June of 1945.
(AP Photo/British Official Photo)

25

German mothers walk their children
to school through the streets of Aachen, Germany, on June 6, 1945,
for registration at the first public school to be opened by the U.S. military
government after the war. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)

26

A general view of the International
Military Tribunal for the Far East meeting in Tokyo in
April, 1947. On May 3, 1946, the Allies began the trial of 28 Japanese civilian
and military leaders for war crimes. Seven were hanged and others were
sentenced to prison terms. (AP Photo)

27

Soviet soldiers on the march in
northern Korea in October of 1945. Japan had ruled the Korean
peninsula for 35 years, until the end of World War II. At that time, Allied
leaders decided to temporarily occupy the country until elections could be held
and a government established. Soviet forces occupied the north, while U.S.
forces occupied the south. The planned elections did not take place, as the
Soviet Union established a communist state in North Korea , and the U.S. set up
a pro-western state in South Korea - each state claiming to be sovereign over
the entire peninsula. This standoff led to the Korean War in 1950, which ended
in 1953 with the signing of an armistice -- but, to this day, the two countries
are still technically at war with each other. (Waralbum.ru)

28

In this October 1945 photo from North
Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, communist leader Kim Il Sung chats
with a farmer from Qingshanli, KangsoCounty, South Pyongyang in North Korea .
(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Images)

29

Soldiers of the Chinese communist
Eighth Route Army on the drill field at Yanan, capital of a huge area in North China
which is governed by the Chinese Communist Party, seen on March 26, 1946. These
soldiers are members of the "Night Tiger" battalion. The Chinese
Communist Party (CPC) had waged war against the ruling Kuomintang (KMT or
Chinese Nationalist Party) since 1927, vying for control of China . Japanese
invasions during World War II forced the two sides to put most of their
struggles aside to fight a common foreign foe -- though they did still fight
each other from time to time. After World War II ended, and the Soviet Union
pulled out of Manchuria, full scale civil war erupted in China in June of 1946.
The KMT eventually was defeated, with millions retreating to Taiwan , as CPC
leader Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China in 1949. (AP
Photo)

30

This 1946 photograph shows ENIAC
(Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), the first general purpose
electronic computer - a 30-ton machine housed at the University
of Pennsylvania. Developed in secret starting in 1943, ENIAC was designed to
calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic
Research Laboratory. The completed machine was announced to the public on
February 14, 1946. The inventors of ENIAC promoted the spread of the new
technologies through a series of influential lectures on the construction of
electronic digital computers at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946, known
as the Moore School Lectures. (AP Photo)

31

A test nuclear explosion codenamed
"Baker", part of Operation Crossroads, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall
Islands, on July 25, 1946. The 40 kiloton atomic bomb was detonated by the U.S.
at a depth of 27 meters below the ocean surface, 3.5 miles from the atoll. The
purpose of the tests was to study the effects of nuclear explosions on ships.
73 ships were gathered to the spot -- both obsolete American and captured
ships, including the Japanese battleship "Nagato". ( NARA )

32

Northrop's Flying Wing Bomber known
as the XB-35 in flight in 1946. The XB-35 was an experimental heavy bomber
developed for the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. The project was terminated
shortly after the war, due to its technical difficulties. (AP Photo)

33

Japanese ammunition being dumped
into the sea on September 21, 1945. During the U.S. occupation,
almost all of the Japanese war industry and existing armament was dismantled. (
U.S. Army)

34

These unidentified German workers in
Decontamination clothing destroy toxic bombs on June 28, 1946, at the U.S. Army
Chemical Warfare Service Depot, at St. Georgen, Germany. The
destruction and disposal of 65,000 dead weight tons of German toxics, including
mustard gas, was accomplished in one of two ways: Burning or dumping the empty
shells and bombs into the North Sea . (AP Photo)

35

U.S. military authorities prepare to
hang Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg, Germany , on May
28, 1946. In a Dachau war crimes trial he was convicted of using 1,200
concentration camp prisoners for malaria experimentation. Thirty died directly
from the inoculations and 300 to 400 died later from complications of the disease.
His experiments, all with unwilling subjects, began in 1942. (AP Photo/Robert
Clover)