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German oil plants explodes in Politz. Black smoke and flames blanket the sky over Politz, Germany, after B-24 Liberators of the Eighth U.S. Air Force unloosed their bombs on a German synthetic oil plant in an attack June 20, 1944.

Germans surrender in St. Nazaire. The leaders of the German garrison at St. Nazaire give the Nazi salute as they surrender 28,000 troops to the 66th U.S. Infantry Division May 8, 1945. The actual occupation took place early the following morning. Sining for the Allies was Colonel John W. Keating, 66 th Division Chief of Staff (right). Major Adalbert Engelken, chief of staff for Major General Werner ...

German troops march over destroyed bridges. A German infantery detachment passing a bridge which had been destroyed by the Polish forces.

U.S. Flying Fortresses blast German communications center. Bombs cascade from the bomb bays of Flying Fortresses of the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force during a heavy attack on Muenster, Germany, (1943) a key junction for German military railroad supply routes in Western Europe. During the attack, which seriously disrupted German communications facilities at Muenster, 18 German planes were shot down.

Wrecked German equipments piles up in Normandy. Wrecked German vehicles and guns lie in the wake of the Nazi retreat in Northern France as allied forces and material continue to pour into Normandy to push inland against the Germans.

German youths die for espionage. Josef Schoner, 17, of Euskirchen, Germany, slumps at the stake after his execution June 1, 1945, by a Ninth U.S. Army firing squad for espionage against the American forces. He and Heinz Petry, a 16-year-old German, were convicted and shot on the same day near Braunschweig, Germany.

German fortifications at Cherbourg. This is one of Hitler's fortifications in Cherbourg before Nazi forces surrendered June 27, 1944. A few minutes before this picture was teken, several hundred Germans marched out the surrender to U.S. forces. Vast stores of food, ammunition and cognac were found in the installation.

German youths die for espionage. Seventeen-year-old Josef Schoner of Euskirchen, Germany, convicted of espionage against the U.S. Army is placed in a coffin after his execution by a Ninth U.S. Army firing squad. He and another German youth were found spying on American forces and were executed June 1, 1945, near Braunschweig, Germany.

German youths die for espionage. Two German Red Cross aides place the lifeless body of 16-year-old Heinz Petry, of Alsdorf, Germany, into a coffin after his execution by a Ninth U.S. Army firing squad June 1, 1945, for espionage against American forces. He claimed he was offered the chance to spy on U.S. forces in order to clear his own record at a Hitler Youth detention camp where he had been held. ...

Germans flee advancing Russians. A caravan of vihicles carrying German civilians, caught between advancing Russian and U.S. forces, rosts along the roadside at Wurzen, Germany, after managing to make its way into the First U.S. Army sector. German civilians are reported to be jamming the roads in an attempt to get behind the American lines as they flee Russian units driving deeper into the heart of ...

Me 323 Wreckage of German power glider. The skeleton of a six-engined German power glider, set afire by Allied bombs before the Germans were driven drom Naples by the liberating British and American forces, rests where it burned at an airfield near Naples.