Field Marshal Montgomery with US Major General Simpson looking at the 'Dragon's Teeth' part of the Siegfried Line. 

West Wall and beyond

A badly battered German soldier of a gun nest on the beach of northern France staggers out of his bunker under the watchful eye of a burly U.S. Army M.P. on June 10, 1944.

Wounded and surrendered

American troops climb into assault landing craft from the liner REINA DEL PACIFICO during Operation ''Torch'', the Allied landings in North Africa, November 1942.
During the Second World War the liner was requisitioned for service as a troopship, and took part in the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy.