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Foto van Britse soldaat met Bren gun in loopgraaf bij geinundeerd gebied. Foto gemerkt B 14433. Tekst achterop: "BRITISH ADVANCE INTO GERMANY. For story see B. 14432. Bren gunner in one of the trenches which formed the Siegfried Line looks out over the flooded countryside. 30 Corps. 15 S. Div. 2nd Gordons. Taken by Sgt. Hewitt 10.2.45". "Operation Veritable"

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 ...

With the British troops in France: carrying on, whatever the weather. The British soldier carries on, whatever the weather, and here, in pouring rain, are seen Tommies at work with a bren gun in one of the trenches near the British front.

U.S. troops push to German border. First U.S. Army soldiers, advancing under fire, push their way over a hill in Holland close to the German border. Heavy underbrush covers the hill, which the American troops took after liberating a Dutch village near Heerlen. Strong enemy counter-attacks were weakened by Allied bombers and U.S. tanks paving the way for the infantrymen, who overran a web of Nazi trenches ...

U.S. troops push to German border. First U.S. Army soldiers, advancing under fire, push their way over a hill in Holland close to the German border. Heavy underbrush covers the hill, which the American troops took after liberating a Dutch village near Heerlen. Strong enemy counter-attacks were weakened by Allied bombers and U.S. tanks paving the way for the infantrymen, who overran a web of Nazi trenches ...

Het originele bijschrift luidt: 'Camp Pratchai, Siam (Thailand). About 90 miles from Bangkok, it houses 850 Dutch ex-prisoners of War, all eager to return. They are doing light duties with a bit of military training, before they are transferred to the bigger camps. Also housed in the camp are about 500 Japanese, doing fatigue and clean-up duties, digging irrigation trenches, under the eyes of their ...