U.S. Army Lt. Chester L. Slaughter inspects the captured German trenches. Nearby lies the body of a German soldier, who suffered a mortal head wound by the shrapnel of rifle grenades.

Captured enemy position

As Chief of Staff at the Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith (1895 - 1961) signed on behalf of the Supreme Commander the Instrument of Surrender the Armed Forces of Germany in Reims, France on May 7, 1945. On the left - Chief of Staff of the British Navy, Admiral Sir Harold Martin Burrough, (1889-1977), on the right - the chief Soviet military mission in France, Major General Ivan Susloparov (1897-1974).


Signing of Surrender

An American soldier stands next to a German 8cm FK 17/18 (t) field gun, nestled in the bunker, on Omaha Beach in Normandy.   
This gun was a captured Czechoslovak 76.5-mm field gun, model 1917/18 year and had a marking of 8 cm Feld Kanone vz.17 Škoda.