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This photo shows actress Marlene Dietrich passionately kissing an American soldier as he arrives home from WW2, July 20th, 1945. ____ The photo was first published in Life Magazine with the caption: “While soldiers hold her up by her famous legs, Marlene Dietrich is kissed by a home-coming GI”. The ship was the Monticello, a converted cruise liner. Her original name was SS Conte Grande and was built in 1927 in Trieste, Italy. ____ During WW2, she was acquired by the United States and was used as an American troopship, renamed USS Monticello (AP-61) in 1942. At the time the photo was taken it was transporting parts of the 2nd infantry division home. The 2nd division soldiers had entered the war in Normandy on D-Day. They fought across Europe into Czechoslovakia. ____ They arrived in New York on July 20th, 1945. The war was not over for them. They were on their way to Camp Swift in Texas for training. They were supposed to be a part of the invasion of Japan. Marlene Dietrich has a curiou...

Richard Jarczyk, a German spy, saying his last words before execution. April 23, 1945 In March 1945 he ended up in the Rhineland region, occupied by American Forces, and began to work in the newly created administration. His frequent departures aroused suspicion. As it turned out, he was collecting information about the activity of the American Army, in order to pass it on to one of the Werewolf groups.  - WWII in color My goodness what kind of a deadender do you have to be in March 1945 to be working hand in glove with the Nazi's to screw the Americans/French/British? That is some insane level commitment. “Richard Jarczyk, Nazi soldier, who became a spy in civilian clothes, was executed April 23, 1945, after court trial by a military commission of the Seventh U.S. Army. After he had discarded his uniform, Jarczyk, former member of the Volks Grenadier Division, approached U.S. Army officials and offered his services in establishing a civilian government in an occupied area of the R...

A Papuan soldier holds the severly damaged decapitated head of a Japanese soldier, Papua New Guinea, 1945 Bernard Harry Gilbert (serial # 39202990) was born in 1923 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in March 1943 at the age of 18, attending training at San Luis, Obispo, California. He served with the 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division. During his service he was wounded at New Guinea in June 1944. He reached the rank of Tech 2. Bernard had two older brothers, born in Tacoma, Washington, that served in the Canadian Army during WWII. His brothers were James Cameron Gilbert, who was wounded while serving with the Canadian Infantry, and Charles Frederick Gilbert, who served in the Canadian Armored Service Corps. The collection and information was provided by Robert J. Gilbert, Bernard's nephew. Robert also served in the Royal Canadian Engineers as a Sergeant Major. Collection includes one bound album with 150 photos, and an additional ...

Two American freedmen sit outside of a Japanese concentration camp after its liberation, 1945  Lee Rogers and John Todd are sitting outside a liberated concentration camp in the Philippines.  Despite the post-war stereotypes, the Japanese killed millions of people; the number is estimated at 3-10 million. Many of these people died in the Japanese concentration camps throughout the Pacific areas, which were just as horrific as the ones in central Europe.  Photographer: Carl Mydans  Source: CPI EUROPE Post suggests American WW2 prisoners were British soldiers 6 APRIL 2021 WHAT WAS CLAIMED A photo of two emaciated men strongly implies they were British soldiers. OUR VERDICT This is a famous photograph of two American civilians after the liberation of a Japanese POW camp in 1945. A black and white photo of two emaciated men has been circulating in a post on Facebook that has been shared 22,000 times. The post strongly implies they were British soldiers. This is not true....

US troops encounter a German soldier hanged by his comrades, 1945 Throughout the last days of the Third Reich, it ruthlessly forced its desperate conscripts by threat of summary execution into service to slow the overwhelming Soviet army. Borrowing a page from Gen. Ferdinand Schoerner's no-mercy demonstrative hangings of any "straggler" found behind front lines without orders, Goebbels issued a radio proclamation to the trapped troops lof Berlin]: Any man found that not doing his duty will be hanged from a lamp post after a summary judgment. Moreover, placards will be attached to the corpses stating: I have been hanged here because I am too cOwardly to defend the capital of the Reich. I have been hanged because I did not believe in the Fuhrer. I am a deserter, and for this reason, I shall not see this turning pont in history." SS members are aware that they would be in for the worst of it after the war (and that their mandatory blood-type tattoos would make them easy...

Battle Of Ramree Island: February 19, 1945, during a fierce battle on the island Ramram (Burma), English marines lured the Japanese army in the mangrove swamps, which lived thousands of saltwater crocodiles. It is estimated the Saltwater Crocodiles devoured over 500 Japanese soldiers. Over 500 Japanese escaped, and historians have dismissed the claims that hundreds of Japanese were killed by the crocodiles. Instead the majority of the deaths are attributed to Wounds and thirst. Homunculus_316 The British did not spend a single bullet or shel. The report of the Japanese army colonel Yasu Yunuko declassified last year, testifies:  "Ramram of mangrove swamps from the detachment returned alive only 22 soldiers and 3 officers." Check the special commission of the military court, which conducted an investigation 2 months later, showed that the water the area of wetlands, an area of 3 square kilometers, 24% is from human blood. l'd say it's just a mistranslation, since the c...

Nazi General Anton Dostler Before His Execution, 1945 He ordered and oversaw the unlawful execution of fifteen captured U.S. soldiers. The soldiers were sent behind the German lines with orders to demolish a tunnel that was being used by the German army as a supply route to the front lines. They were captured and upon learning of their mission, Dostler ordered their execution without trial As well German officers at the 135th Fortress Brigade contacted Dostler in an attempt to achieve a delay of their execution. Dostler sent another telegram ordering Almers to carry out the execution. Two last attempts were made by the officers at the 135th to stop the execution, including some by telephone, because they knew that executing uniformed prisoners of war was a direct violation of the 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War. These efforts were unsuccessful and the 15 Americans were executed on the morning of March 26, 1944, at Punta Bianca south of La Spezia, in the municipality of Amegl...

American soldier killed by German snipers in Leipzig, 1945 War photographer Robert Capa took this iconic photo of an American soldier shot and killed by a German sniper in the battle for Leipzig on 18 April 1945. The soldier became known as the ‘last man to die’ in WWII after the image appeared in Life magazine’s Victory issue....  During the final days of the war, a platoon of machine gunners entered a Leipzig building looking for positions to set up covering fire points that would protect foot soldiers of the 2nd U.S. Infantry advancing across the bridge. Two members of the platoon found an open balcony that commanded on an unobstructed view of the bridge, set up their gun. For a while, one soldier fired the gun while the other fed it. Then one soldier went inside and the other manned the smoking gun alone. While absorbed in reloading it, a German sniper’s bullet from the street pierced his forehead. He crumpled to the floor, dead. War photographer Robert Capa climbed through a b...