German defensive operations on the channel invasion front during World War 2. A map of key cities and towns along the English Channel coast lines. German Marshal Erwin Rommel, in charge of German defenses is seen with his staff. German troops in the battlefields. Soldiers, at side of road, drink from backpack water container carried by a comrade. German infantry squad moves cautiously along edge of a country road. Germans string wire for communications and employ it to coordinate artillery fire. Views of German artillerymen loading and firing heavy guns. Several knocked out British Sherman tanks of the 11th Armored Division (Black Bull Division). Individual German soldiers digging foxholes.
German forces defending against the Allies, in Normandy, France, following the D-Day invasion. Knocked out American Sherman tank.German infantry and camouflaged armor being deployed. German troops in foxholes. German antiaircraft firing at formation of Allied aircraft overhead. Allied aircraft flying low over battlefield, dropping bombs. A British Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber flying low over German position. Sky filled with black smoke from Flak. An Allied aircraft is struck and falls in flames. German gunners run towards the crash site.German gun crew paints a 5th stripe on barrel of their antiaircraft gun (for 5th aircraft shot down).
German armored units engage invading Allied Forces in Normandy, France, during World War 2. A burning armored vehicle of the British 11th Armored Division (Black Bull Division).German tanks and machine gunner firing. Shells exploding in the field.German Nebelwerfer 41, six-barrel rocket launchers firing.German machine gunners firing tracer bullets at nightfall.Flames billowing up into the black night sky.
Victims of the Gestapo in Polygone, France. German prisoners dig up graves in Polygone, France to remove victims of Nazis from their graves. A dead body removed and placed on a stretcher. A dead man's shoes removed and placed in a box held by a red cross worker. Notes are made during the process. Prisoners continue to dig the graves. A cross on a grave in the foreground. (World War II period).
Victims of Gestapo in Grenoble, France. Rows of coffins of the victims of Gestapo placed as relatives place flowers on them. Men continue to dig graves. Guards at the graveyard.
Damaged harbor in Toulon, France. Wrecked buildings with an artillery in the foreground at the harbor. Men walk about the harbor with rubble on the ground. Damaged ships in the harbor. Naval artillery aboard a ship. French battleship Dunkerque severely damaged. Other damaged ships and crafts in the harbor.
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