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U.S. tanks andvance through french forest. M-4 American tanks follow a path torn through a forest in France by proceding armor. Two U.S. Armies have carried their offensive directly from Alsace into the Reich. The Seventh U.S. Army crossed the Alsation border December 15, 1944, near Wissembourg, France, after contacting forces of the Third U.S. Army which had previously driven into the Reich in an ...

Soviet sappers build log bridge for Baltic advance. Sappers of General Andrei Yeremenko's Second Baltic Army throw a log bridge across a river during the Soviet offensive against the Germans on the northeastern front. A Russian tank is fording the shallow stream, and more tanks and troops on the back are ready to follow. Six weeks after the start on June 23, 1944 of their great Summer offensive, Soviet ...

U.S. Forces cross Roer River in new drive. Infantrymen of the Ninth U.S. Army, concealed from enemy oservation by chemical fog, cross the Roer River in Germany at the start of the large scale offensive launched February 24, 1945. In the first 24 hours of the new American offensive toward the Rhine, 15 villages were stormed and 1,400 prisoners taken.

U.S. Forces cross Roer River in new drive. Infantrymen of the Ninth U.S. Army cross an assault bridge spanning the Roer River in Germamny at the start of the large-scale offensive launched February 23, 1945. In the first 24 hours of the new American offensive on the Western Front, 15 villages were stormed and 1,400 prisoners taken.

Bréteuil. Motorisierte Truppen, Panzerwagen und Krad-Schützen in dem durch den Kampf schwer mitgenommenen französischen Ort Bréteuil, über den unsere neue Offensive hinwegbrauste.

U.S. war vehicles move against Germans in Anzio area. U.S. tanks and a troop-filled truck move forward frontline positions in the Anzio beachhead area, south of Rome, on the west coast of Italy, where Allied Fifth Army forces launched a new offensive against the Germans on May 23, 1944. The beachhead drive against the enemy was opened on the 13th day of the powerful Allied offensive in Central Italy ...

U.S. Marines defeat Japanese on South Pacific Tarawa Island. U.S. marines, crouched behind sandbags and amid the devastation and smoke of battle, prepare to advance in the offensive that captured the strategic Japanese air base on Tarawa and the adjoining South Pacific Gilbert Islands of Makin and Abemama. The Gilbert Islands offensive, in which 5.700 Japanese were killed or captured, was an important ...

The Remagen Bridge. The Remagen Bridge under heavy enemy fire as men and materials were poured across during the Rhine offensive.

American troops and armor surge to Belgian battle sector. U.S. Troops and armored vehicles fill a street on the outskirts of Malmedy, as American reinforcements surge to the front to halt the Nazi offensive begung December 16, 1944. Dispatches from Supreme Headquarters covering activities up to December 26 reported U.S. troops had retaken the towns of Cincy and Celles, the extreme western points of ...

German generals reach Moscow as prisoners of war. German generals, captured in the Russian's great Summer offensive wait under guard on a Moscow square to lead a march of 57,000 German prisoners through the Sovjet capital, on July 17, 1944. Other remnants of defeated German armies were trying to escape from the White Russian front, where they had been trapped by swiftly advancing Soviet forces. During ...

The Yanks in the ETO. We opened the offensive across the Roer River early the morning of February 23 with a terrific artillery barrage.