france front

On the vanguard of the allied advance, elements  the 79th Infantry Division reached the river Seine near Mantes on the 19th August 1944, there a patrol killed this german soldier who they surprised as he was trying to escape across the river in a small boat, along with his BMW R4 motorcycle.

Unlucky German soldier

A U.S. army soldier with a sub-machine gun and another in a jeep guard the looming S. S. Partos which was damaged and had capsized against the dock when the Allies landed at the North African port, in 1942. 