Wartime Repatriation and Interaction

Images depict various soldiers, including USAF airmen and Marines, interacting and discussing wartime experiences, set in black and white tones reflecting the era.

1944 - Repatriated USAF airmen freed in Operation Reunion are transported by army trucks and given food.

Transatlantic Superforts Tough Down -- Welcome to Britain fro Superfortress pilot Lt. Col. K. Steele and Col. J. Henry (U.S.A. A.F. Group Commander) from Air Vice-Marshal G. E.N. Guest. The 60 American Superfortress bombers have arrived in Britain after their 5000 mile flight - they are improved versions of the giant planes which dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki three years ago. July 17, 1948.

Group of Construction Workers engaged in Building Liberty Ship Frederick Douglass, Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Roger Smith, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

Liquidation of German Fascist troops encircled in the area of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky. Colonel-General Rotmistrov (right) and Lieutenant-General Kurkin of the tank forces watching Soviet tanks on the March in the area of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky where ten German divisions and one brigade were trapped. May 1, 1944. (Photo by O. Knorring, SIB Photo Service).

Haggard after bitter fighting, Australians are evacuated from Crete. October 15, 1941.

A soldier disassembles a door of a DKW Munga, prior to the departure to the French army camp La Courtine for the annual exercises there.

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