african front

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, right, commander-in-chief in North Africa, jokes with four American soldiers during a recent inspection of the Tunisian battlefront, on March 18, 1943. 

At the Tunisian battlefront

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.