A crowded street with a pillar of smoke rising from afar after the Liberation of Paris in World War II. Men standing on top of vehicle on the foreground. French civilians running near the Arc de Triomphe. Angry French civilian men confront captured German prisoners of war. U.S. Army soldiers wearing M1 helmets (with anchor stenciled in front) blocking civilians from German prisoners. Several civilians crouching low on the ground and laying on the ground, and others crouching low while they wheel away their bicycles, possibly having heard an episode of gun fire. Civilians watch the columns of German prisoners marching through Avenue de Champs Elysees leading to the Arc de Triomphe.
British tanks with soldiers and foliage on top during the Battle of Dunkirk, World War II. A truck drives past French Army infantry soldiers. British troops examine a ship before boarding and smiling for the camera. British soldiers sitting and smoking cigarettes on deck during voyage. Thick smoke seen in distance as soldier stares out to sea while underway.
Captured Belgium troops crowd both sides of road as German convoy accepts their surrender early in World War II. Military officials talking in front of a building as part of surrender negotiations. German soldiers and civilians talking in Dunkirk. Belgium prisoners of war cheerfully smile and wave as they leave. Animated map demonstrates how the German forces closed in on British and French forces at Dunkirk. British troops in front of a blockade. A British soldier sets off a bomb. Smoke rises from bomb explosion at Dunkirk.
Wrecked British ships in the English Channel after the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. Flag of Nazi Germany at Dunkirk Beach. Corpses in water as waves wash onto beach.
Wreckage of a Junkers engine factory near Strasbourg after Allied bombardment. United States military officers inspect the destroyed depot, formerly a Ford plant before World War II. A soldier opens a small door on a concrete guard post and inspects inside. A metal box labeled in German “JUNKERS FLUGZEUG-UND-MOTORENWERKE A.G. MOTORENBAU ZWEIGWERK- MAGDEBURG STATION MAGDEBURG NEUSTADT”. A soldier inspects German engines. Abandoned engine stands with mounted engine blocks and pile of engine manifolds at the Junkers factory. Debris cover the whole floor of destroyed factory. Crumbled steel structure of roof and walls are left.
United States artillery crew firing a M101 howitzer in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. More howitzers firing from camouflaged positions. An artillery crew firing from a camouflaged area. Soldiers read a road sign to Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Manche and Carentan. They speak to civilian women. A soldier gives out candies to smiling French children. A DUKW drives past the soldier and children. A 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 on the road.
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