Motorcycle equipped elements of the Wehrmacht's 7th Panzer Division advance in the French countryside: 1940.

German Forces on the move

Commander of the Panzer Army Africa, Colonel-General Erwin Rommel and Italian Governor of Libya and commander of Italian Forces, General Ettore Bastico (on the right), stand in the company of other Italian officers next to a German 88 mm anti-aircraft gun Flak 18.

Axis commanders in Libya

The American war correspondent Ernie Pyle (1900-1945), second from right, with the crew of the plane, that is preparing for takeoff. 