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Lecture 9: D-Day

 

HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map : [Battle of the Bulge--France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany] / prepared by the Engineer Section 12th Army Group.

HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map: Battle of the Bulge - France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany. Prepared by the Engineer Section 12th Army Group, Allied Forces. Engineer Section. Created/published: [England?]: Twelfth Army Group, [1944-1945].

 

New York, New York. A crowd on D-day in Madison Square.

New York, New York. A crowd on D-day in Madison Square. Created/published: 1944 June 6. Photographed by Howard Hollem, Edward Meyer or MacLaugharie. Library of Congress control number: LC-USW3-054063-C DLC (b&w film nitrate neg.) Digital ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa 8d36278.

 

Pentagon, U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Pentagon, U.S. Army Signal Corps.

 

Buchenwald.

Buchenwald. "These are slaves laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena; many had died from malnutrition when US troops of the 80th Division enter the camp." Germany, April 16, 1945. Pvt. H. Miller. National Archives and Records Administration.

 

German concentration camp at Weimar.

German concentration camp at Weimar.Description: "Bones of anti-Nazi German women still are in the crematoriums in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany. Prisoners of all nationalities were tortured and killed.? April 14, 1945. Pfc. W. Chichersky.Credit: National Archives and Records Administration.