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U.S. Officer surveys final stage of battle for Cherbourg An American major, standing in one of the concrete pillboxes seized from the Germans, looks at the smoke over Cherbourg in the final stage of the battle for the French port. After fierce fighting, the Nazis surrendered the city to American forces June 27, 1944.

Franco sweeps on. Nationalist officers on the mountain side on the Aragon Front looking down into the valley where Franco's Forces are fighting forward against the government opposition.

Amsterdam dry dock. Some new ships are being built in these years while others, damaged in Allied service, are being repaired. It is interesting to see how ships arrive here looking like wrecks, many partly submerged, and after some weeks leave the docks gleaming with paint and looking for alle the world like brand new ships, ready to transport valuable cargoes all over the world. 1914 - 2011. Na verschillende ...

Former German defenses. An American military policeman looks over a concrete fort and gun emplacement somewhere in Normandy which formed part of the German defenses on the French coast. Note the Clear of Booby Traps sign, erected after American troops had made a careful search.

Putting the lid on him: Two sailors have to fix the helmet on the diver who, with arms crossed, patiently waits for his uniform to get complete. Look at his heavy, clumsy looking boots!

Jahore Bahru, Singapore, Malay States. A picture of Jahore Bharu taken from the causeway looking across the Strait of Jahore. NI 5944

Nazi supply cart blasted. Two American soldiers look over the remmants of a Nazi cart blasted in the Aerial bombardment of German positions west of St. Lo by 3,000 Allied planes preceding the opening of the new U.S. offensive July 25, 1944. The dead German driver lies across the harness of the second dead horse.

Inundaties Wieringermeer. The people in the region south of the Hague look with horror at the prospect of seeing the sea invading their country. The dunes are moving, the sand is blown away owing to the stupid treatment of the Germans. A unit of German war-prisoners ordered to clear away the mines they laid themselves, blew up some of them and made an enormous hole in the backdike.

Watches young Britain march to war. A French peasant with his two horses looks on as British troops go marching past somewhere in France.

French activities on the western front. When this strange-looking French gun barks a message, it must be uncomfortable for the recepients - the Germans.

Prins Bernhard, op voordracht van de koningin door generaal Eisenhower benoemd tot opperbevelhebber van de Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (BS), vertrok in september 1944 direct naar België om van daaruit het Nederlandse verzet te bundelen. Onvermoeibaar reisde hij de pas bevrijde steden en dorpen af. Pas op 2 augustus 45 arriveerden de drie prinsesjes in Nederland. Zij waren in Londen opgehaald door de ...

Boms flower. Smashed by a direct hitm during the fighting for Canisy, the shredded coils of a French locomotive, used by the Nazis to haul supplies resemble a huge flower. American soldiers look over the curious effect after driving the Nazis from the area in the gigantic Allied offensive launched July 25, 1944. During the first 10 days of the push, U.S. forces advanced 97 miles.