One of the German paratroopers captured by US forces in the Normandy region, near the village of St. Georges D'Elle.

Paratrooper POW

General Dwight D. Eisenhower talks with paratroopers of Co. E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division before boarding the aircrafts at Greenham Commons Airfield, Berkshire, England, on the eve of the Airborne phase of the Normandy invasion, June 5th, 1944.

Farewell talk

Soldiers of the 9th US Army inspecting a German mounted 8.8cm rocket launcher (Raketenwerfer 43 "Püppchen"), captured in one of the fortifications in the town of Zweifall, Germany. September 22, 1944.