British tank battles in France during World War 2. Tanks parked in a line near Caen. Camouflaged tanks. British soldiers being briefed. A soldier on a tank. British tanks advance. The tanks cross railroad tracks, pass through woods. Sherman crab flail tank from British C squadron, 22nd Dragoons. The tanks advance in the wooded region. A truck drives in the wooded region. Infantry follow tanks as they advance. A soldier digs in for the night. Soldiers seated in the dugout look into the plan. Two soldiers seated look into the plan and one of them smokes a cigarette.
German soldiers on the move near Caen after the Normandy invasion, France. They guard and march a group of U.S. Prisoners of War captured during and after Normandy invasion operations. German soldiers walk beside the U.S. forces. Prisoners of war sit. Trees in the background. Close views of some of the prisoner soldiers resting and marching. Some prisoners are held up by fellow soldiers helping them to walk.
Allied forces bomb French rail lines in Dreux, France during World War II. Animated map shows the location of Dreux, southwest of Paris. The 9th Airforce Marauders on Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers flying over the English Channel. Surface craft are ferrying men and material on the English Channel. Aerial view of the Normandy countryside with abandoned gliders. German aerodrome in Dreux. Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers dropping bombs over railroad tracks, highways, and communication lines in Dreux. Clouds of smoke form from aerial bombing of Dreux. 9th Airforce Marauders drop bombs over a highway junction southwest of Caen, Normandy. Clouds obscuring the target after bombs are dropped. Pillars of smoke rise from the target area.
Civilians evacuate Caen after Allied bombings in Normandy, France, in World War 2. Soldiers patrol the streets. German Pz.IV tanks of Pz.Lehr Division and infantry move through a wheat field past abandoned American tanks. SS commander in captured Bren carrier examine damaged and abandoned Sherman tanks. German Pz.IV tanks of 12SS and 21.Pz.Div advance. German infantry advances through a village firing machine guns and throwing hand grenades.
German Army fights the Allied infantry and tanks on the French border of the Western Front, during World War II. German soldiers take prisoner members of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and 8th Infantry Divisions, captured in Caen village in Normandy. Germans soldiers guard American prisoners (POW) walking in a village with their hands raised.
10 days after D-Day. Allied Forces progressing with invasion of Europe through Normandy during World War II. Infantry troops march and military vehicles move inwards to Carentan, about 3 miles in land from Normandy and Omaha Beach. A native woman talks to soldiers in the town of Carentan. A wounded soldier laying on a U.S. Army jeep in the town square in front of the Carentan Church. Soldiers use girders and continue construction of a bridge at Carentan. (Note: This appears to be "Tucker Bridge" at Carentan. The bridge was so-named after Major John Tucker, commanding the 300th Combat Engineers, was hit by enemy fire and killed during the initial construction of the bridge. The bridge provided important access to Cherbourg, St. Lo, and Caen. It was replaced in 1996 by a stone and concrete structure but it remains the Major John Tucker Bridge.) Two soldiers stand on the bridge and talk to each other.
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