German SS Infantry climb from trenches in Lake Ilmen sector during World War 2. Pz.38t tank, German Sdkfz.222 and 232 armoured cars advance. German infantry soldiers wade through mud and briefly get stuck in mud, while artillery shells are exploding nearby. German forces enter a forest and capture a number of Russian troops. Captured Soviet prisoners (POW) seen huddled together, some injured.
Aircraft carriers and ships during battle of Saipan in the Pacific War (World War II). Animation of map of Saipan. Ships progressing in sea. Firing and bombardment at ships. Guns firing. Marines in landing barges. Bombs dropped on the ships. Marines advance on island. Bombing on the island. Tanks advancing. Scene of artillery fire. Wreckage of planes. A plane taxiing. Scene of U.S. flag. Soldiers taking a wounded soldier on stretcher. Medical men trying to save soldiers. women and children are removed to safety at prisoners of war depot. A soldier taking a child in lap.
U.S. 3rd Armored Division elements entering towns in France, during World War 2. Sign for town of "Pre En Pail". Group of captured German soldier prisoners of war sitting on side of road. Houses are decorated with French flags. Various vehicles pass along the street, including an M10 Tank destroyer. Tanks and vehicles entering town of Ciral. Sign reads "Ciral". Civilians wave to passing vehicles. American troops on a tank pose with a woman standing next to it. One U.S. Army soldier on the tank holds a little French girl. A French man stands near his daughter as the little French girl poses on a tank holding a homemade American flag.
German tank burning on the roadside in France. Sign reads "Carrouges". American 3rd Armored Division tanks and soldiers enter town of Carrouges. Spanish civilians lined up against a wall with hands on top of their heads. They were workers in German labor battalions. Lined up on another wall are captured prisoner German soldiers, including some young boy soldier POW. French medic treating captured, wounded German soldier. French 2nd Armored Division tanks entering the town of Sees, France. Cross of Loraine on tank.
General Eisenhower, Allied commander in Sicily and General Patton of U.S. 7th Army, talking in Sicily, Italy, during World War 2. British General Montgomery, steps down a plane. He shakes hand with U.S. Lieutenant General George S. Patton. Two hundred thousand Axis prisoners of war, mostly Italian, are assembled and board ships for POW camps in Africa, Britain, and the United States.
Smoke columns rise from an island during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. Planes in flight. Auxiliary ships in the transport area. LSD (Dock Landing Ship) stern view and broadside. Japanese prisoners. (World War II period).
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