After crossing the Danube River, a task force of the US Seventh Army encountered resistance from a group of German OCS students dug into positions on the slopes of the Alps, Austria, 1 May 1945. The Germans surrendered to the Americans, with raised hands.
Members of the 101st Airborne Div. Next to an 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 guard one of the outposts of Bastogne where their division was besieged for ten days. 26 December 1944.
Battle of Iwo Jima. 19 February 1945. US Marines in a Coast Guard-manned landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP), on the way in on the first wave to hit the beach.
M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage, also known as the M16 half-track, was a US self-propelled anti-aircraft and infantry support weapon. It was equipped with four .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns on an M45 Quadmount. 2700 were produced by White Motor Company. Normandy, June 9, 1944.
B-24H Liberator “Scrappy” with the 725th Bomb Squadron trails smoke and is losing altitude east of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 22 August 1944
It seems most of the crew bailed out and was captured. The pilot, co-pilot, and left waist gunner were not captured and made it back to base. The last question on the third page (part of a questionnaire filled out by returning crewmen after the war) I uploaded provides these details from another crew member:
Pilot and copilot made it back to the base and completed their missions. Left waist gunner also made it back but was killed later in a crack-up on take off. Written to me by my nose gunner who contacted folks when he reached the states
This is again shown on the list of crew on the fourth page where the pilot, co-pilot and Cpl Cross (the tail gunner) are listed as "fugitive, has been returned"
I believe the left-waist gunner was Clinton E Cross who was killed a few months later in November of 1944.
Men of the 7th Infantry Division, US Army move a 37 mm gun up to the front line during the Battle of Kwajalein which was fought in the Marshall Islands from January 31 - February 3, 1944.
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