Damage to the Reichstag building following the Battle of Berlin.
“Captured German tanks southwest of Stalingrad, shown on April 14, 1943.”
“British Royal Marines Commandos, put ashore by a U.S. naval vessel deep in the heart of North Korea, plant demolition charges along an enemy rail track on April 13, 1951 near Songjin, South Korea during a daring daylight raid. About 100 yards of the vital Chinese Communist rail line were destroyed within a few miles of two enemy divisions.”
Ed Sullivan interviewed Fidel Castro in Cuba a little over a week after the triumph of the Revolution in January 1959.
American soldiers searching a destroyed Dutch school for German snipers during Operation Market Garden.
The Netherlands - September, 1944.
A mounted German scouting party photographed giving the password to a hidden sentry scout along the Eastern Front in Hungary, sometime in 1944.
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Prison S21. A school converted to buildings of horror and torture by the Khmer Rouge during their time in power in Cambodia
It’s now Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, very eerie.
CBS World News Today:
Covering the latest developments around the world concerning WWII, the last broadcast of 1944.
Originally broadcast: December 31, 1944 - 67 years ago today
“Following an aerial attack on Madrid from 16 rebel planes from Tetuan, Spanish Morocco, relatives of those trapped in ruined houses appeal for news of their loved ones, Jan. 8, 1937.” (AP Photo)
Londoners help a man injured by the fall of a V-1 bomb during a German air raid, 1940.
