A German battleship sinks a British steamer in the South Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. German battleship commander and sailors use binoculars to view ocean. Sailors pulling down flags. Ship commander on a boat being lowered to the ocean. Kriegsmarine battleship firing at the British steamer. Sailors pulling rope. German Kriegsmarine on a boat. British ship listing as it sinks. German navy men return to ship with booty. Sailors load cargo from the British ship. German battleship captain observes the sinking of British ship with binoculars. More sailors return with captured cargo. German battleship fires at British ship until it sinks. Prisoners-of-war captured from the British steamer, consisting of Australian, Asian and African sailors.
Captured Nazi German prisoners-of-war are being made to march with their hands raised on the streets of Halle, Germany by United States soldiers after the liberation of Halle, Germany during World War 2. German soldier, wearing round glasses, marches with his hands raised.
German women and a child wave white handkerchief during World War 2. Sign for Zscherben, a village near Halle, Germany. A Sherman tank with United States soldiers rolls past Zscherben signage. United States soldiers crouch near bricked wall in Halle, Germany. United States soldiers advance on the streets of Halle. United States soldiers crouching near white building. United States soldier crouches in front of Sherman tank. German prisoners-of-war line up facing fence with hands raised by United States soldiers. Bespectacled German woman, uncomfortably smiling, holds a plaid dishcloth, perhaps as sign of surrender.
Town sign of Messina during Allied Invasion of Sicily in World War 2. United States soldiers and jeeps pass through road in Messina. Soldiers walk through a street with houses and stone structures devastated by invasion. Four United States soldiers onboard a military jeep drive through rubble-strewn street in Messina. United States soldiers begin to clear rubble and wreckage from street using bulldozer. British soldiers pause briefly to share supplies from truck. Italian prisoners-of-war are made to march out of the city while holding white flags in surrender.
Russian woman soldier pushes wounded soldier and rifle into trench as comrade carries injured soldier away. Soviet soldier fires from trench. Russians civilian refugees with ox carts and horses evacuate from a village. A city is bombed in Soviet Union. Aerial view of a city with heavily damaged buildings left in ruins from fighting Nazi occupying forces during World War II. German prisoners of war march under Soviet guard. The hand of a dead Nazi soldier, with a swastika ring, inside a burning vehicle.
Allied forces attack the Hindenburg Line (also known as the "Siegfriedstellung", or "Siegfried Position") on the Western Front in World War 1. Men firing artillery. A tank reverses. British soldiers, holding bayonets, carefully move through barbed wire, following a tank (named "Mary"). Tank crosses a small wooden bridge, with British infantry following. British soldiers slide into a trench. German soldiers, taken as prisoners, are being led away by Allied troops.
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