Execution squad of Maquis (French Resistance fighters) after firing on 6 members of the Nazi collaborationist Milice (Vichy police) tied to posts as they slump over dead in front of brick factory where 23 patriots were executed by the Germans in July.

Author Gertrude Stein meeting with company of African American soldiers in the US Army Air Corps during a tour of post war Germany.

Evacuation of the Louvre Art Treasury--The "Raft of the Medusa" of Gericault evacuated from the Louvre in a truck that usually carries stage scenery

A sailor suffering from burns received at sea is fed ice cream

A C-47 bringing food to the blockaded city lets down over Berliners watching from ruins at edge of Tempelhof Field. Overcast weather slowed deliveries and authorities warned that the great air lift cannot entirely aupply the capital

[Aerial of ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast]

Children of Italy: Little girl in picture has been sent to garbage dump to try and find food for the family. Her mother waits with cloth bag to receive the spoils

Maria Padiska still weeps, four months after the Germans killed her mother in massacre at the Greek town of Distomo