Frozen battle field scene as Russian forces advance through bombed out German positions in the Battle of the Cherkassy pocket of the Ukraine region. Destroyed German tanks, artillery equipment, and German horses and dead soldiers lie on the frozen battlefield following battle. A captured German soldier is huddled on a cart. Piles of abandoned and wrecked German equipment. Soviet forces approach and identify the body of dead German Commander, General Wilhelm Stemmermann, who died with many of his forces after being encircled by the Russians. A long line of German prisoners, four deep, moving over snow under Russian guard in snowy and windy conditions. The Russian soldiers escort the prisoners. The prisoners cross a bridge. View of a snowy field covered with frozen bodies of dead German soldiers, some still holding rifles. A Russian officer addresses troops near Potchemky. The dead Germans are strewed over the snow. Various views of the wrecked German equipment and dead bodies of the soldiers frozen on the snowy battlefield. Low aerial view of the destroyed German front as seen from a Russian aircraft. Long line of destroyed German vehicles and dead Wehrmacht soldiers defeated in Battle of the Korsun - Cherkassy Pocket.
Russian troops celebrate their victory against Germany in the Eastern Front Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket during World War 2. Russian T-34 tanks and Infantry enter a village in the Ukraine. The Russian troops roll into town. Russian Military Commander Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin stands in front of a jeep. Russian Military Commander Ivan Konev and Commander Vatutin stand together. The troops on armor and tanks advancing. The Russian troops fire artillery guns at night in synchronized patterns to celebrate the victory. People watch the guns being fired filling the air with flares and fireworks over a town. Soviet citizens look on and smile.
U.S. Army 5th Engineering Battalion soldiers on D-Day rescued from a wrecked landing craft during World War II Invasion of France (landings in Normandy France). A wrecked landing craft in heavy surf off Omaha Beach. The U.S. soldiers rescued from water after wreckage of the landing craft. The soldiers are aided to shore by rope line. A rescued soldier being helped by other soldiers. Another group of soldiers aids a rubber raft to shore. The rescued soldiers on the raft. The rescued soldiers carried by other soldiers onto shore. A soldier talks to one of the rescued as the victim lays on the beach trying to recover.
U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore from D-Day landing crafts during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. View of some 5th Engineering Battalion soldiers rescued from a wrecked landing craft during the invasion. View of a wrecked landing craft. A landing craft on the shore. U.S. army medics treat the rescued soldiers. Landing craft of LST-51 reaches shore and U.S. soldiers come ashore from the landing craft. A view of the troops on Omaha beach strewn with gear. Some injured soldiers with wound dressings grab inflatables and board the landing craft at shore. Landing Craft Tank 29 (LCT-29) seen at shore. Heavy wind and surf pins a landing craft at shore as it works to free itself and return to ship.
German soldiers surrender in France during World War II around the time of the D-Day Normandy invasion. The equipment of soldiers in the foreground. The U.S. Armysoldiers on tanks move in the background. The soldiers seated and a few of them stand on a beach. U.S. soldiers and medics question wounded German prisoners. A landing craft underway. German soldiers surrender. One soldier comes out of a dugout. The prisoners are searched by American forces.
Explosions in a French village in Isigny, France during World War II, three days after the D-Day invasion of France. Smoke rises due to explosion. The civilians pick up their personal gear. Damage and burning ruins in the village. Three U.S. soldiers look at the burning building. A U.S. Army signalman speaks on a telephone. A soldier stands beside him holding a gun.
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