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Nazi tank carries French dinner set. American soldiers look at a French dinnerset found intact inside a Nazi Mark VI tank knocked out of battle by a direct hit in the American offensive west of St. Lo. The tank was buried in its own crater but the loot was found unimpaired.

Young Nazi prisoner. Out of uniform in a striped shirt, this young Nazi soldier was captured in the Lessay sector in Western Normandy, where the American forces launched a new offensive against the Germans July 25, 1944.

Allies clear wrecked German equipment from Roncey. American soldiers operate a bulldozer to clear wrecked Nazi equipment from the streets of Roncey after U.S. forces drove the Germans from the area in the first week of the new offensive launched west of St. Lo July 25, 1944.

Vormarsch in der Wüste Nordafrikas. Die englischen Truppen hatten bei Beginn der grossen Offensive in Nordafrika geglaubt, dass sie durch ihre grossangelegten Minienfelder vor den deutschen und italienischen Truppen genügend geschütz seien. Deutsche Pioniere haben jedoch eine Anzahl Breschen geschlagen, die zum Durchbruch durch die wichtigsten feindlichen Stellungen gen:ugten. Hier gehen Infanteristen ...

German spies shot in Belgium. A U.S. military policeman prepares Corporal Wilhelm Schmidt, 24, for the firing squad. With two other German soies, Officer-Cadet Guenther Billing, 21, and Sergeant Manfred Pernass, 23, Schmidt was shot after a court-martial by American authorities in Belgium during the Ardennes offensives.The three Germans were captured wearing American uniforms, armed with American weapons ...

French family returns to Marigny. Their child and personal goods bundled on bicycles, a French family returns to Marigny after American forces drove the Germans from the area July 26, 1944, the day after the mounting of the new American offensive west of St. Lo. Cutting across the German defenses, U.S. troops advanced across western Normandy into Brittany.

U.S. planes get Victory in Normandy. A water can on her shoulder, an aged French woman stops to wave a victory salute in Isigny to U.S. planes winging overhead on their way to bomb Nazi targets in Normandy. Opening the new American offensive west of St. Lo July 25, 1944, 3,000 Allied planes bombarded German lines to pave the way for advancing ground forces.

French, American center in Canisy. Mayor Le Jeune and a French missionary priest, still wearing a helmet, discuss affairs of Canisy with two Allied Civil Affairs Division Officer, Lieutenant Colonel M.F.J. Brunow (left) and Major O.D. Culley, Jr., of the U.S. Army. Canisy was liberated by American forces in the opening days of the new American offensive launched west of St. Lo July 25, 1944.

U.S. Mobile units lined up at English base. American mobile equipment is lined up at a supply depot in England waiting to be ferried to the continent at the opening of the coming Allied offensive against the Germans in Western Europe.

German children watch U.S. troops advance. Hungrily munching boiled potatoes, two German children watch troops of the 36rg Division, Seventh U.S. Army, march through Ensheim, Germany. Five miles south of Saarbrucken and three miles north of the Alsace border, theGerman town was teken March 15, 1945. as the new Seventh Army offensive between Saarbruken and The Rhine was launcg\hed.

Nazi snipers use church as vantage point. The wrecked interior of a church in Marigny shows the intensity of the barrage on the Normandy town before the Germans were driven out in the opening of the American offensive west of St. Lo July 25, 1944. The church was used by Nazi snipers as a vantage point.

Foto van geallieerde voertuigen voor gebouwen met weilanden en molen. Tekst achterop: "Air Pictures of Montgomerys's new attack on west front. Low-level picture showing British and Canadian armour and support moving into battle south-east of Nijmegen - scene of Field Marshal Montgomery's new offensive. They were taken by an official R.A.F. photographer who flew over the forward area on February 9th, ...