Newly captured German POWs on a Normandy field; August, 1944.


German POWs

One rifleman reloads, and another fires in the 96th Infantry Division's advance to capture Big Apple Hill, a scene of intense fighting on Okinawa; 9 June 1945.

Riflemen in action

An American soldier receives a kiss from a Belgian woman shortly after U.S. troops enter - and liberate - Liege, Belgium; Sept. 17, 1944

One lucky guy

U.S. soldiers fire mortar shells over a ridge onto a Japanese position in Attu, Aleutian Islands, Alaska on 4 June 1943.

Mortar crew bombarding the enemy 

An American GI rescues an injured Filipino girl In February 1945. The Japanese forces in Manila defied their orders from General Yamashita to withdraw and in all just a little over 10,000 Japanese Marines and Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) stragglers remained in the city. These soldiers then went on a killing spree that spared no one and became known as the Manila Massacre.

An American GI rescues a girl

An American Army medic bandages the wound of a captured German SS soldier; 1944.

First aid to a wounded foe

Gun crew of an M15 half-track from the 834th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion of the US Army, protecting the Yomitan airfield in Okinawa. The M15 is based on the M3 armored personnel carrier armed with two Browning M2 heavy machine guns and a 37-mm M1 automatic cannon; June 7, 1945.

Protecting the airfield

American soldiers make their way through the barbed wire in Normandy, France. The soldier in the foreground on the right is armed with an M1A1 flamethrower; June-July 1944.

Through the barbed wire

Last picture of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt in his jeep the "Rough Rider".
Assistant Commander of the US 4th Infantry Division and oldest soldier to land on D-Day, Normandy, France. He died on 12 July, 1944 of a heart attack at age 56, and was awarded the Medal Of Honor for organizing his men and moving inland, as shifting tides caused the 4th Infantry Division to land on the wrong beach.

The Rough Rider General

Mortarmen from the 86th Battalion, 78th US Infantry Division fire an M2 4.2 inch (107mm) mortar at targets in the German village of Paustenbach, 15 kms south-east of Aachen; December 13, 1944.

Mortar activity

James Jones wrote the seminal war novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. Imbuing his novels in the grand literary tradition of American Romanticism, Jones touches on both the well tread themes of the terror and beauty of nature amidst the death and carnage in war and the corruption of the human spirit amid the forces of power and industrialization. His novels were well received as Jones fictionalized his pre-war experiences with the 25th ID based in Hawaii as a prism on the human condition. From Here to Eternity was turned into a classic Hollywood love story and The Thin Red Line was transformed into a gritty statement on the human condition in 1998; with many believing it surpassed the better known Saving Private Ryan as a war film.

CPL James Jones

Meeting on the Elbe river; Handshakes with the Soviet soldiers from the 58th Guards Rifle Division and the American soldiers of the 273rd Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry Division ("Fighting 69th") of the VII Corps of the US 1st Army. 
From left to right: Private 1st Class John A. Mitzer, Private 1st Class Dilbert E. Philpott, and Private Thomas B. Summers; near the town of Torgau, Germany April 25, 1945.

American GIs and Russian soldiers greet each other

A link-up of American soldiers from the US 82nd Airborne Division and the Soviet servicemen from the 8th Guards Mechanized Corps of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the 1st Belorussian Front near the German town of Grabow, close to the Elbe river; May 3, 1945.

Making contact with the Russians

The commander of the US 1st Army, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) and accompanying officers ride in the amphibious GMC DUKW-353 ("named" Tugboat - Annie) after the Allied Landings in Normandy, France; June 1944.


Taking a ride in a DUKW

An American amphibian GMC DUKW-353 is being unloaded from the landing craft LST-543 at the floating pier in Mulberry Harbor.  Mulberry Harbor is a British system of coastal structures, which were temporary seaports, used on the undevelopped coast of Normandy, France to offload military equipment, personnel and supplies during Operation Overlord; June 1944.

Unloading a DUKW at Mulberry Harbor

Young German prisoners of war captured by the Allies on the coast of Normandy, France; June 13, 1944.
   On the right, with a vertical white bar on the back of his helmet, is a US Army officer.

Alive and the war is over for them

Young German soldiers of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) captured by soldiers of the US 7th Army in Schillersdorf, (Alsace), north-eastern France; 1945.

Young POWs; war is over 

Machine-gun crews of the 358th Regiment of the US 90th Infantry Division pause on the street of a small town in their advancement; November 17, 1944.

Wait for the rest of the group

The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, US General Dwight Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US Lieutenant General Omar Bradley (Commander of the US 1st Army during the landing in Normandy) fire from M1 carbines.
  The photo was taken during the preparation for the landing of the allied forces in Normandy; 1944.

Test-firing the carbine

Soldiers of the 41st Infantry Regiment of the US 2nd Armored Division are resting on a country road by a destroyed column of the SS Panzer-Division "Das Reich". 
  In the frame, (front left) is the communication vehicle Sd.Kfz. 251/3 (mittlerer Funkpanzerwagen); France, July 31, 1944.

Resting on a country road

An expanded photo of a one already posted...
A group of captured Wehrmacht soldiers awaiting evacuation and transportation for internment. An American LST (Landing Ship Tank) is standing by behind them on the French coast. The group includes ethnic Austrians, Poles, Czechs who fought on the side of Germany.  They were were calm about being in captivity, but were disappointed to learn that instead of the United States they would be sent to England; August 1944.

A group of German POWs waiting to move on

American soldiers search German Wehrmacht POWs at the exit from Fort West (Ouest) in Cherbourg, north-western France; June 29-30, 1944.

Check and sort German POWs

American soldiers search German Wehrmacht prisoners of war at the exit from Fort West (Ouest) in Cherbourg, north-western France; June 29-30, 1944.

Searching surrendering POWs

Final farewell to the heroic defenders of Midway (Atoll) Island: North Pacific Ocean; June 1942.

Burial ceremony

Captured German soldiers carry a wounded comrade under US Army escort, on a street in the city of Koblenz, at the confluence of the Rhine and Mosel rivers; March 19, 1945.

US Army

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