Insignia of the 80th Infantry Division. The nickname of the 80th Infantry Division, the "Blue Ridge" division, reflects the home states of the majority of soldiers who formed the division during World War I: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. The Blue Ridge Mountains run through these three states. Photograph »

Female survivors standing outside a barracks in the newly liberated Lenzing concentration camp. On May 5, 1945, troops of the 80th Infantry division, accompanied by photographers from Combat Unit 123, liberated the camp. Lenzing, Austria, May 5, 1945. Photograph »

Prisoners at the time of liberation of the Ebensee camp, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp. This photograph was taken by Signal Corps photographer Arnold E. Samuelson. Austria, May 7, 1945. Photograph »

Four emaciated survivors sit outside in the newly liberated Ebensee concentration camp. Photograph taken by Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945. Photograph »

Emaciated survivors in the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp suck on sugar cubes provided by American soldiers upon the liberation of the camp. Photograph taken by Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945. Photograph »

Liberated prisoners at the Ebensee camp. Too weak to eat solid food, they drink a thin soup prepared for them by the US Army. Photograph taken by Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. Austria, May 8, 1945. Photograph »