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214 items

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Prisoners on the death march from Dachau concentration camp (ddr-densho-22-117)
Photograph secretly taken by town inhabitants.

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442nd snowed in (ddr-densho-22-45)
Caption in album: "Snow is inocent [sic] and has beauty but it acts also as a blanket or carpet. A carpet covers many things. Such as mines and obstacles. It also made roads impossible as roads on mountain sides have snow drifts, slides and snow blockades. We had to make detours. As snow melts there is …

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442nd soldiers cleaning up after a meal (ddr-densho-22-33)
Caption in album: "After the chow we wash our own meal cans. Our mess gear is made up of canteen cup, meal can, knife, fork and spoon. The heated water heated by kerosene burners set up by the mess crew. Each Battery has a mess crew each feeding about 1[?]5 men."

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552nd Field Artillery Battalion Charlie Btry sign (ddr-densho-22-76)
Caption in album: "Yes as we were here in Donauworth patrolling and cleaning up we were cleaning up what war had made. Not too unexpected had come the news that V-J Victory-Japan had come shortly after the hard fought V-E Victory-Europe day had come. We felt an excitement quite unexplainable but we worked as usuable [sic] …


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American Red Cross worker (ddr-densho-22-54)
Caption in album: "American Red Cross Clubmobile girl."

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Soldiers on guard post (ddr-densho-22-70)
Caption in album: "During the war we were on outpost guard here with T/4 Yukio Ogawa."

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Volunteers for the Military Intelligence Service (ddr-densho-22-79)
Caption in album: "Volunteers please / Just prior to V-J day came a survey of Volunteers was made for the Camp Savage (later Fort Snelling) language school for men to ship to go to school and on to Japan to fight. Here the two above photos show as the volunteers were made ready to leave for …


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442nd snowed in (ddr-densho-22-44)
Caption in album: "Snow is inocent [sic] and has beauty but it acts also as a blanket or carpet. A carpet covers many things. Such as mines and obstacles. It also made roads impossible as roads on mountain sides have snow drifts, slides and snow blockades. We had to make detours. As snow melts there is …

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Prisoners on the death march from Dachau concentration camp (ddr-densho-22-116)
Photograph secretly taken by town inhabitants.


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Yosuke Matsuoka shaking hands with a German woman (ddr-njpa-4-892)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Foreign Minister Matsuoka arrived in Berlin with enthusiastic welcome. (Berlin). 1, At a train station at the German border, Foreign Minister Matsuoka shook hands with a welcoming girl."