German Air Force (Luftwaffe) member in uniform during World War II (presumably a prisoner of war on British soil). Aviator's patch on his left breast pocket includes eagle and swastika. Separately, British ground crew ready an RAF (Royal Air Force) Hawker Hurricane for take off during Battle of Britain. Pilot in the cockpit as they work on the plane
Axis troops during World War II. Italian aviators look at a map and receive pre flight instructions. A soldier carries a cat in his pocket. Soldiers dig a plane out of snow. Ice on propellers of the aircraft. Italian pilots leave read room. German soldiers advance along ice covered area. German Volkswagen and tanks advance. German soldiers push a truck. German soldier receives instructions from an officer. A building burns. German soldiers wearing thermal gear advance on the Russian front. German Stukas in flight over the target area. Germans fire machine guns from tanks. German soldiers capture Soviet prisoners of war. German soldiers walk among wreckage of Soviet tanks and equipment after a battle.
End of World War II in Europe. German prisoners of war are held under guard at the base of the Trinity Column in the Town Square of Linz, Austria. American M4 Sherman tanks loaded with U.S. Army soldiers cross the "Niebelungen" Bridge as they enter the town.
Allied invasion of Normandy France, during World War 2. About 15 German prisoners with hands on their heads, are lined up under guard on a sandy beach area, behind barbed wire, where they are being searched, one-by-one, by an American military policeman. Suddenly, they drop to the ground, as a low flying airplane passes overhead (unseen). They get back on their feet again. Next, a burning army truck is seen with a dead soldier lying nearby. (He wears an armband and is likely a medic.) American soldiers wade ashore from a landing craft tank (LCT) through surf, at what appears to be low tide. Another LCT (#587) is beached nearby. Larger landing ships are seen further offshore.
Allied troops during the invasion of Southern France during World War II. Allied troops walk along the beach. Men dig foxhole with helmet while others use a shovel. Soldiers carry wounded men on litters towards a landing craft. German prisoners rounded up on the beach. Wounded American soldiers placed in a landing craft.
German soldiers lounging on the deck of an ocean liner being used as a troop ship, bound for Tobruk, Libya, during World War II. Views of war materiel on board, including motor cycles. Aerial views of the Port at Tobruk, with troop and supply vessels moored. Italian troops disembarking from troop ship. Stacked arms and military gear of Italian and German troops. Truck convoys carrying troops,supplies and Italian tanks, on coastal road towards El Alamein, Egypt. Medium German Pz.IV tanks on that road. View from aircraft of the troops and supplies being moved. Aerial views of prepared defensive positions along the coastal corridor. British prisoners of war, behind barbed wire fence. Trucks and Italian light tanks of Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps moving on the road.
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