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German refugee column on Seventh U.S. Army front. German girls at the head of a column of civilian refugees wear white dresses as a surrender token in the Seventh U.S. Army sector inside the Reich. The refugees were taken unaware by the plunge of the American forces from Alsace into Germany March 19, 1945. A week later, the Seventh Army crossed the Rhine to establish another Allied bridgehead on the ...

U.S. Marauders leave german gun position smoking. Maurauder bombers of the Ninth U.S. Air Force circle out across the landing beaches in France after dropping their loads on a German gun position seen smoking below.

German prisoner enjoys U.S. Army rations. A German soldier, captured during Allied Fifth Army patrol action in the Anzio area of Western Italy, enjoys a can of U.S. Army field ratons while waiting to be transported to a prisoner-of-war depot on Southern Italy. From their beachhead position at Anzio, Fifth Army forces lashed out against the Germans twelve days after the start of the new Allied offensive ...

Elderly German woman walks through rubble. An elderly woman walks through the smoldering ruins of Crailsheim, Germany, bombed and shelled into submission after Nazi ofiicials refused to surrender the city. Initial forces of the Fourth Division of the Seventh U.S. Army were forced to withdraw from Crailsheim, April 12, 1945, while heavy artillery fire and Allied air assaults blasted the town.

French flyers again fight Germans from home bases. Private Roy Tiefeld of Chicago, Illinois, operates a copy camera in one of the recesses of a wine cellar in an old French chateau where a reconnaissance group of the French-American First Tactical Air Force set up its photo laboratory. Gebwebbed bettles and casks were removed from the dark wine collar and, after wiring was installed along the vaulted ...

French flyers again fight germans from home bases. Private Roy Tiefeld of Chicago, Illinois, operates a copy camera in one of the recesses of a wine cellar in an old French chateau where a recennaissance group of the French-American First Tactical Air Force set up its photo laboratory. Gebwebbed bottles and casks were removed from the dark wine collar and, after wiring was installed along the vaulted ...

Germans blasted from War. Wrecked town in Italy. Not a single building is left standing intact in a sector of Santa Maria infante, town in west central Italy, which was wrested from German defenders by American troops of the Allied Fifth Army on May 14, 1944. The gutted structures, resting amidst debris, testify to the power of the U.S. bombardment which forces the enemy to give up the strongpoint ...

U.S. soldiers examine captured German vehicle in Normandy. American soldiers inspect a tractor jeep which the Germans were forced to abandon under the pressure of superior U.S. forces on the Cotentin Peninsula of France. In spite of German attempts to hold their ground - even at the highest cost - Allied assault troops liberated the peninsula, the deep-water port of Cherbourg, the inland seaport of ...

Nazi prisoners Dodge Shells. German soldiers captured in St. Lo dive for shelter as shells land by them during the fighting on the outskirst of the hinge city of the Nazi defense line in Western Normandy. St. Lo was taken by American forces July 18, 1944.

U.S. engineers remove German-planted mines south of Rome. U.S. Army Engineers remove explosive charges hidden by the Germans in the sided of buildings before they were forced to retreat from the port of Anzio, Italy. The charges had been set to blast and block nearby docks in a vain attempt to delay Fifth Army Forces, which established beachheads in the Anzio area, behind the German lines, south of ...

German prisoner enjoys U.S. Army ration. A German soldier, captured during Allied Fifth Army patrol action in the Anzio area of Western Italy, enjoys a can of U.S. Army field rations while waiting to be transported to a prisoner-of-war depot in Southern Italy. From their beachhead position at Anzio, Fifth Army forces lashed out against the Germans twelve days after the start of the new Allied offensive ...