Photos Photos of the US Army in the ETO

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Medical troops load a wounded solider into the rear of a light aircraft for evacuation. Note the use of the Stokes Litter (Item No. 9938500). The plane being used here appears to be a military version Piper J-3 (with the designation of L-4).

 

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Mid June 1944 in the vicinity of Omaha Beach . Casualties are being transferred from a WC-54 Ambulance (5th ESB medical unit) onto a C-47 plane for evacuation to England.

 

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Wounded US Army paratrooper is helped aboard an LCVP by a group of Hospital Corpsmen. The LCVP will take him to a hospital ship bound for England, 11-06-1944

 

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Normandy summer of 1944; a Litter-patient is being carefully evacuated across difficult terrain. Note the enormous variety of Geneva Convention helmet markings.

 

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Wounded infantrymen are being evacuated to the rear. The picture was taken on July 13, 1944, in the area of La Haye-du-Puits.

 

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The evacuation of the wounded from the monastery Moraca, Montenegro, 1944

 

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Wounded American soldiers are attended to by medics on a coast guard landing barge alongside an assault transport's sick bay in the English Channel on June 16, 1944.

 

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Wounded crew members of a B-24 Liberator bomber are being evacuated from the aircraft. They will be taken to a Base Hospital by one of the available Ambulances (WC-54 3-4-Ton Vehicle).

 

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US wounded are being evacuated by a modified Jeep with stretcher racks.

 

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Commander of the Allied Armies in Italy, General the Hon Sir Harold Alexander, leaving Corps HQ at Anzio, 1944.

 

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German Prisoners in the Cherbourg France Area - June/July 1944
German forces in Cherbourg surrendered on June 29, 1944, but some isolated units held out until July 1st
LIFE Magazine Archives - Bob Landry Photographer

 

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Fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator “Little Warrior” with the 861st Bomb Squadron explode over Fallersleben, Germany after anti-aircraft hit, Jun 29 1944. Photo taken by Clifford A Stocking, waist gunner on “Green Hornet.”

 

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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers of the Eighth Air Force's 390th Bombardment Group

 

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US Personnel from the 88th Infantry Division eat their rations in Italy - June 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer

 

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