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German artillery captures by American drive on Cherbourg. This enemy heavy artillery in an Allied collection depot in France was taken when the Germans were forced to surrender under the superior pressure of the American drive on the deep-water port of Cherbourg. A camouflaged heavy gun is in the foreground and behind it is one which was pierced by U.S. shell fire. As Allied aircraft continue to batter ...

American bombers fire German aircraft engine works. Dense clouds of smoke billow skyward as a compact cluster of bombs strikes the Henschel aircraft engine works at Kassel in Western Germany during a recent raid by Flying Fortresses of the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force. General Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces, reported on May 9, 1944, that American airmen had flown 66,000 ...

19th German Army surrender at Innsbruck. Civilians line the streets to greet the Americans moving into Innscbruck after the German garrison surrendered. At the right are Austrian resistance men armed. with rifles. They operated in a manner similar to the French Forces of the Interior in France.

Captured German soldiers pass Cherbourg city hall. German soldiers, captured by Allied troops during the Battle of Normandy, march past the city hall of the French port of Cherbourg on their way to a prisoner-of-war- camp. One wounded prisoner gets a ride in a small bicycle trailer, pulled by a comrade. Beneath the U.S. British and French flags, French inhabitants watch the departure of the Germans ...

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN PORT. Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the Eight U.S. Air Force trail streams of vapor in their wake high over the European Continent on their way to attack U-boat yards, docks and factories at the German port of Bremen November 25, 1943. The heavy bombers, among the largest force over sent out by the Eight Air Force, and their escorts of U.S. Thunderbolts and Lightnings ...

Captured German Generals lead march of prisoners through Moscow. German generals captured by the Russian armies lead a march of 57,000 German prisoners through the Soviet capital of Moscow on July 17, 1944. Flanked by mounted Russian guards, the group of generals passed by the Belorussian station, while crowds look on. The German prisoners were trapped on the White Russian front by swiftly advancing ...

Three German soldiers rest after capture. Three German soldiers captured near Huseheid, east of the Rhine and one-half mile west of the great Cologne-Frankfurt autobahn, rest as they wait in a First U.S. Army prisoner-of-war enclosure for shipment to the rea. Left to right: A soldier of 41 years, one of 16 and another of 46. Since the start of the large-scale Allied offensive February 8, 1945, into ...

Nazi prisoners in Normandy. German prisoners captured by U.S. forces in Western Normandy sprawl on the ground behind the lines. Plunging against German lines, U.S. forces opened a new offensive July 25, 1944, following a terrific aerial bombardment; swept into Periers and Lessa and by July 27 had expanded the depth of the front 12 miles at one point south of the St. Lo-Periers road.

German generals reach Moscow as prisoners of war. German generals, captured in the Russian's great Summer offensive wait under guard on a Moscow square to lead a march of 57,000 German prisoners through the Sovjet capital, on July 17, 1944. Other remnants of defeated German armies were trying to escape from the White Russian front, where they had been trapped by swiftly advancing Soviet forces. During ...

Overgave, aftocht, internering Duitsers. Defeated Germans leave Holland for demobilisation. The demobilisation of the defeated German armed forces is now in full swing. Throughout Eupope columns of troops and convoys made up of all types of vehicles are being sent back to Germany. Priority classes for return to civilian life hav been ordered for men who were miners or farmers and these are being put ...

German prisoners sing on way to U.S. internment camp. German soldiers, captured during the Battle of Normandy, sing tot the tune of their comrad'es guitar on the deck of an American transport carrying them to the United States for internment in a prisoner- of warcamp. Less than six weeks after the start, on June 6, 1944, of the new offensive in France, more than 60.000 Germans had been taken prisoner ...