Photo of shattered German defenses on a Normandy beach shows the strength and intricacy of the fortifications that Allied assault troops faced
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Somewhere in Normandy, two tanks fire their bazookas at a German tank, with camera, recording the moment when the tank goes up in smoke and flame
Unknown Photographer
Wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Allied forces believe this huge, unfinished construction project was intended by the Germans to launch pilotless rocket planes. It was captured by Allies in Normandy.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
German medics discuss a wounded comrade at an American forward dressing station, and American medical men prepare to give a German prisoner plasma, St. Lo, France
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
This was the scene at Dunkirk after repeated German attacks during the evacuation of Allied forces
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
The beach at Dunkirk, France, near the end of the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the disastrous Flanders Pocket
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Troops waiting on shore to board rescue ships in Dunkirk, France
Unknown Photographer
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Thousands of British and French troops massed on the beach of Channel port in Dunkirk, France, awaiting ships to return them to England
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force wade through shallow water to a rescue vessel that will take them back to England from Nazi-occupied Dunkirk, France
Unknown Photographer
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Sudeten Germans and Czechs clashed today. An armored railroad train plays an important part in Czechoslovakia’s border defense.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Sudeten Germans and Czechs clashed today. Czech soldiers firing from cover during recent exercises, Czechoslovakia.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Child refugees from Sudetenland sitting in a barn near Labem Melnic, just within the new Czech frontier. They are awaiting transfer to the interior of Czechoslovakia.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Czech military planes in nappy formation, high above a city, Czechoslovakia
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Czech Army reservists are shown concealed in a stack of grain with their machine gun as they prepare for war
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
German prisoners, part of the thousands captured as the Russian Balkan drive engulfed Romania, stand with mess kits in hand waiting for chow, Romania
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
In Budapest, Hungary, Soviet troops attack a German defense position near a factory
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
This armed Serbian belongs to one of the toughest bands of guerilla fighters in the world—the death-defying Comitadji of Yugoslavia
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Yugoslav trap just an incident as German unit moves steadily ahead, somewhere in Serbia
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
20th c Photography
Brief spell of fighting ends for these Yugoslav mountain men. Soldiers lay down arms in surrender.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
20th c Photography
Majdanek: the people of Lublin mourn before a great pit filled with the bodies of relatives and friends, brutally murdered by the Germans
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Guerrillas of the Polish Home Army plan an expedition with their commander. Members of Poland’s Ninth Infantry Regiment, these partisans operate behind German lines, Poland.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
French gendarmes fall to the ground as American soldiers and French patriots try to dislodge German snipers who fired into crowd of Parisians
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
20th c Photography
Lt. General Omar Bradley, Commanding General of U.S. Twelvth Army Group, talks with Nazi prisoner during his tour of prisoner of war points in Northern France
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
20th c Photography
Sergeant Vernon Pickrell of Los Angeles takes a drink of recaptured cognac after clearing out a German gun emplacement at the Cherbourg Aerodrome
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
U.S. soldiers row themselves across the Mayenne River in France as they advance in pursuit of fleeing Germans in the drive toward Paris
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
American soldiers take time out to launder their clothes in the doorway of a captured Nazi pillbox at Cherbourg
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
A street in Compiegne, France, shelled by Germans in the advance on Paris, is cleared of wreckage
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
All that remains of St. Sauveur, France is a mass of rubble and fragments of buildings left standing after the Germans fled from the town
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Sheared off by a shell, the mammoth clock of the Cherbourg Railroad Station lies on a staircase, testimony to the force of the Allied bombardment
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
20th c Photography
Frenchmen gaze at a street full of blasted, smoking German vehicles put out of commission by American forces in Troyes, France
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
To prevent the Germans from possibly using the French fleet against England, the big guns of the British fleet were turned against the flower of the French Navy
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Reconnaissance picture of the Nazi airfield and aircraft works at Villacoublay, near Paris, just four hours after a raid by Flying Fortresses
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
The end of Belgium’s resistance: sleeping on their gun caissons, troops retreat toward the Channel, shortly before King Leopold surrendered to the Germans
Unknown Photographer
Vintage gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Wrecked vehicles and guns and the debris of smashed buildings in a street in Manhay, Belgium. Americans finally wrested the town from German control.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
For the second time in a quarter of a century, this Belgian patriot survived the rigors of occupation by German troops
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Russian Field Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov sign unconditional surrender terms imposed upon the Germans in Berlin
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Germans leave after signing their surrender in May 1945
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment and airbrushing on paper
20th c Photography
A crowd of German prisoners march to boats which carry them to England
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
The burning wreckage in foreground is a British bomber that was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire at Calais, France
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
17th Airborne Division, U.S. Ninth Army, supported by British Sixth Guards Armored Brigade tanks, have German prisoners with their hands in the air, Munster, Germany
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
With arms raised, German soldiers surrender to an American patrol in front of the famous cathedral in Cologne
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Soldiers clear away debris resulting from a British air raid on a town in Northern Germany
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Netherlands troops on guard at an anti-tank defense stretched across the road
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Members of the Holland Voluntary Air Defense in Amsterdam poke through ruins of bomb-wrecked buildings in search of bodies after a Nazi attack
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
German prisoners walk to a guard house near Zon. Pvt. Eric Holfnacker (left) of New York keeps the captives moving, Stad van de Zon, Netherlands.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Crowds holding copies of the Times Herald celebrate Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Repatriated American soldiers, former German prisoners, wave at the welcome sight of the New York City skyline when the M.S. Gripsholm docked at Jersey City
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
3,000 German prisoners of war who arrived in the U.S. today are waiting to be shipped to prison camps after being searched at the pier, New York
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
A New Zealand medical officer examines wounded German prisoners captured in the El Alamein area on the Egyptian battlefront
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Two German officials in civilian’s clothes get unconditional surrender offer from British Lt. General William D. Morgan at conference in Caserta, Italy
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
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