Bicycle mounted Waffen-SS soldiers ride towards Arnhem, September 1944.
   During the Battle of Arnhem the Germans moved hundreds of troops up by bicycles to reinforce the area. This was done quickly and within hours and totally independent of the need to use motorised or train transportation.


Bicycle mounted soldiers

German tank crosses the Aisne River in France, on June 21, 1940, one day before the surrender of France.


The Fall of France

German soldiers smoke captured American cigarettes in front of a U.S. Army armored car on December 17, 1944; during the Battle of Bulge.