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End of a Nazi soldier. A dead German soldier lies among the debris in front of his Mark V tank, one the many who died in vain as U.S. forces advanced on St. Pois during the all-out Allied offensive which opened in Normandy Juli 25, 1944.

U.S. soldiers ave ancient church. American soldiers pass the ancient church of St. Gilles, dating back to the 12th Century,. after driving the Nazis from the town July 26, 1944, the day following the launching of the big offensive west of St. Lo. The church was burning when U.S. forces entered St. Gilles. The American soldiers raced to the edifice and put out the fire by pulling aside burning timber. ...

French soldiers erect anti-tank barriers. French soldiers erecting anti-tank barriers in a village near the western front.

Soldiers see the Premier. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, and his wife passing a group of soldiers as they take their morning walk in a London park.

U.S. soldier searches Nazi prisoner for weapons. A soldier of the Seventh U.S. Army searches a Nazi prisoner for hidden weapons March 14, 1945, following his capture in the Ludweiler area, seven miles southwest of Saarbrucken, Germany. In a new attack in this sector, Seventh Army forces were reported March 16 to have taken 3,000 German prisoners.

Wholesale massacre of rebel soldiers. Still shouting defiance rebel soldiers are seen with arms raised being marched out of the Barracks under armed escort after surrendering.

U.S> soldiers capture Worms, Germany. Three soldiers of the Fourth Armored Division, Third U.S. Army, advance up a street in Worms, Germany, as the west bank Rhine River city, niine miles north of Ludwigshafen, falls to the Americans March 20, 1945.

Death of a German soldier. This German soldier died as he tried to get out of his wrecked tank during the battle of Tunisia (1943). The hole left by an anti-tank shell can be seen just below his head.

U.S. soldiers examine German church in Lucherberg. Soldiers of the First U.S. Army walk through the rubble of a building to examine a wrecked church in the German village of Lucherberg, captured December 11, 1944, after fierce artillery bombardments and infantry assaults to wrost a high observation point in the town from the Germans. Lucherberg, on the way to Pier, overlooks the motor highway from ...

U.S. soldier views German periodicals. A soldier of the 45th Division, Seventh U.S. Army, views Nazi periodicals on display in a bombed-out shop window in Homburg, Germany. At the bottom are two American Western magazines in German which by pictures of men dressed in characteristic cowboy clothes. The lower left copy bears the titel Der Hexenmeister von San Diego (The Wizard of San Diego) and the other ...

U.S. soldiers evacuate French civillians. American soldiers of an infantry division evacuate civilians from a small town in France to a safer locality because of Nazi shelling in the area. The soldiers are helping load household and personal belongings onto Army trucks.

U.S. soldiers capture Worms, Germany. Soldiers of the Fourth Armored Division, Third U.S. Army, advance through debris and rubble in battered Worms, Germany, as they take over the town March 20, 1945. U.S. planes heavily pounded the ancient citadel before its capture by the American ground forces. Worms is on the west bank of the Rhine River nine miles north of Ludwigshafen.