Sgt. Jimmy Mapham of No. 5 AFPU (Army Film & Photographic Unit) walks through the rubble of Caen, Normandy, France; August 1944.

City in ruins

AFPU (Army Film & Photographic Unit) cameraman Sergeant J. H. Goddard uses a turret-lensed Eyemo 35-mm movie camera to film a German military direction sign attached to the only part of the Hotel Moderne left standing amidst the ruins of Caen, Normandy, France; 10 July 1944. 

German language sign survived

Infantry of the British 3rd Infantry Division climbing into Kangaroo armored personnel carriers prior to the attack on Kervenheim, Germany, near the Dutch border; 2 March 1945. 