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Het Short Stirling monument in Enter is ter nagedachtenis aan de bemanning van de Short Stirling BK604 AA-S opgericht. Op de vooravond van 3 februari 1943 stegen vanaf diverse vliegvelden in Engeland 263 bommenwerpers op met als gezamenlijke missie om de stad Hamburg in Duitsland te bombarderen. Onder deze bommenwerpers bevond zich de Short Stirling BK604 AA-S die om 18.23 uur opsteeg vanaf vliegveld ...

First beachhead prisoners. Battle-weary German prisoners are sheltered in one of their own beach defense trenches while waiting to be marched to a prisoner-of-war camp on the beachhead in France. In the background DUKW and other equipment can be seen, while one of the Allied tanks, caught by German shell fire, burns fiercely. These prisoners were among the first to be captured by the Allied Expeditionnary ...

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.

War prisoners' lunch. Polish soldiers lunching at the entrance of the church of Lomsche, one of the few buildings which were not destroyed by retreating Poles. Some of the soldiers wear civil cloth which they exchanged for their uniforms in an effort to escape unrecognised.

German prisoners surrender. Carrying a white surrender flag, German soldiers walk unescorted along the Cologne-Frankfurt Autobahn to give themselves up to the rapidly advancing First U.S. Army. The 300,000th German prisoner taken by the First U.S. Army since D-Day (June 6, 1944) was captured March 26, 1945. By the end of March, Allied armies controlled practically the entire motor highway from Cologne ...

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.

German prisoners await transportation. German prisoners wait on the beaches in Normandy for transport across the English Channel to prisoner-of-war camps in Britain. Up to July 19, 1944, more than 60,000 prisoners had been captured by the advancing Allied troops in France.

German prisoner of war. This German prisoner, captured in the battle of the Normandy beaches when the Allied Expeditionary Force made the initial landings in France June 6, 1944, still wears his Afrika Korps arm band. He is soon here in a prisoner-of-war oncampment in England.

Nazi prisoners of beachhead assault. These German prisoners of war, the first to be taken during the Allied assault on Hitler's West Wall, file through the gate of a prisoner-of-war camp somewhere in England.