Two German soldiers examine a captured but damaged Soviet artillery piece, in the Volchov Pocket; Leningrad Front; USSR, 1942.


Damaged Soviet gun

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel awards Corporal Gunther Halm with the Knight's Cross.
   During the battle near El Alamein, Egypt, the artillery crew of Corporal Gunther Halm of the 104th Grenadier Regiment, have destroyed with shots from the PaK-36 anti-tank gun, nine Valentine tanks of the 23rd British Armored Brigade, within a few minutes; July 22, 1942.

Giving decoration

British paratroopers captured on and around the Arnhem bridge are guarded by German SS soldiers; Netherlands, September 1944.