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- Collection: World War II - Fall 2023
Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan
Howard Sarty's letter to his wife YvetteSarty discusses a movie he watched as well as his encounter with local German woman.
Aerial photograph, taken by a Japanese pilot, of the destruction of Pearl Harbor, Japanese bomber in lower right foregroundPhoto depicts a Japanese fighter plane descending upon Pearl Harbor amidst the surprise attack by the Japanese army upon Pearl Harbor during World War…
16 year old German soldier crying after being captured by the AlliesA sixteen-year-old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries being captured by the US 9th Army in Germany on April 3, 1945
Let There Be Light—known to the U.S. Army as PMF 5019—is a documentary film directed by American filmmaker John Huston (1906–1987). It was the last in…
What was life like for children in Nazi Germany?Germans change what children learn, they learn how to be pure and handle weapons, also that being a Nazi is the way.
ARRIVING IN SHANGHAIGerman Jewish refugees disembark in the port of Shanghai, one of the few places without visa requirements. Shanghai, China
Leon Frank Jenkins CollectionTalks about Jenkins's deployment during the summer of 1942