British tanks with soldiers and foliage on top during the Battle of Dunkirk, World War II. A truck drives past French Army infantry soldiers. British troops examine a ship before boarding and smiling for the camera. British soldiers sitting and smoking cigarettes on deck during voyage. Thick smoke seen in distance as soldier stares out to sea while underway.
Captured Belgium troops crowd both sides of road as German convoy accepts their surrender early in World War II. Military officials talking in front of a building as part of surrender negotiations. German soldiers and civilians talking in Dunkirk. Belgium prisoners of war cheerfully smile and wave as they leave. Animated map demonstrates how the German forces closed in on British and French forces at Dunkirk. British troops in front of a blockade. A British soldier sets off a bomb. Smoke rises from bomb explosion at Dunkirk.
Wrecked British ships in the English Channel after the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. Flag of Nazi Germany at Dunkirk Beach. Corpses in water as waves wash onto beach.
Wreckage of a Junkers engine factory near Strasbourg after Allied bombardment. United States military officers inspect the destroyed depot, formerly a Ford plant before World War II. A soldier opens a small door on a concrete guard post and inspects inside. A metal box labeled in German “JUNKERS FLUGZEUG-UND-MOTORENWERKE A.G. MOTORENBAU ZWEIGWERK- MAGDEBURG STATION MAGDEBURG NEUSTADT”. A soldier inspects German engines. Abandoned engine stands with mounted engine blocks and pile of engine manifolds at the Junkers factory. Debris cover the whole floor of destroyed factory. Crumbled steel structure of roof and walls are left.
United States artillery crew firing a M101 howitzer in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. More howitzers firing from camouflaged positions. An artillery crew firing from a camouflaged area. Soldiers read a road sign to Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Manche and Carentan. They speak to civilian women. A soldier gives out candies to smiling French children. A DUKW drives past the soldier and children. A 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 on the road.
United States 3rd battalion troops are forced into an embankment on Omaha Beach by Nazi German snipers and machine guns on D-Day in World War II. More United States Army soldiers land in Omaha Beach. A group of soldiers wearing life vests sit and rest on the beach. Some soldiers are digging trenches on the beachhead. Engineers prepare det cords and other equipment to clean up shore obstacles. Medics carry casualties in litters and treat injuries. A medic treats a wounded soldier’s back. Another medic holds an IV fluid as his colleague treats an unconscious soldier. A Landing Ship, Tank (LST) on the beachhead. A United States Army medic treats an injured German prisoner. Nazi German prisoners of war sit on the beach head after their capture. An unconscious German soldier. Two German prisoners of war, including a young German soldier and a middle-aged German soldier.
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