German armored units engage invading Allied Forces in Normandy, France, during World War 2. A burning armored vehicle of the British 11th Armored Division (Black Bull Division).German tanks and machine gunner firing. Shells exploding in the field.German Nebelwerfer 41, six-barrel rocket launchers firing.German machine gunners firing tracer bullets at nightfall.Flames billowing up into the black night sky.
German attack on Russia during World War 2. German He-111 bombers in flight over Gomel, Russia. Pilot in the cockpit of an plane. Bombs dropped. Soviets fire antiaircraft guns and FLAK smoke is seen. Bombers in flight and again drop bombs. On the ground, Soviets set off smoke screens in attempt to obscure targets.
German prisoners of war in Loriol, France under American guard. Two French female collaborators in a United States military jeep lead the procession of German prisoners in Loriol, France in World War 2. U.S. Military police herd the POW group along a small mountain road.
Wrecked German equipment in Loriol, France during World War 2. Wrecked equipment along the road due to Allied artillery and aerial strafing. Piles of wrecked equipment and rubble along road sides. A man pushes a cart loaded with boxes. Wrecked personnel carriers, tanks and other German equipment.
Displaced civilians and prisoners of war in Germany near end of World War 2. Displaced persons get off the trucks at a German non-com school in Bergzabern, Germany where they will be housed. People stand in a line. Refugees prepare their meal over an open stove. Displaced persons receive food at Red Cross portable kitchen. 2200 American prisoners of war after being liberated from stalag 9-B in Breslau, Germany. Prisoners being addressed by an American officer at the camp area. A soldier with a tin stands in a line. A soldier with a chunk of bread. Released prisoners receive coffee in mugs and they drink it. Medics carry a man on a litter out of a building. Soldiers receive cigarettes and rations.
Visitors to an outdoor display, to look at a crashed German Me 109 fighter plane, during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. The plane is under a camouflage net canopy. A sign in front of the plane reads 'made in Germany and finished in England'. Royal Air Force Sergeants and civilians look at it. Sergeants turn the propeller blades, which are severely bent, and point at bullet holes in the aircraft. A sign on the fence surrounding the display reads: "In Aid of the local Spitfire Fund." An RAF pilot climbs into the cockpit of the Me 109, as another helps close its canopy. Later, the RAF pilots examine the plane's wing flaps and an open wing hatch.
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