Plate 01. Police and SS Panzergrenadiers take up positions among trees against the airborne landings. Arnhem area, September 1944.
Plate 02. Grenadiers in camouflage work forward along a ditch. Near Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 03. A line of grenadiers with helmet covers moves along a field ditch. Near Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 04. A bicycle squadron on its way to the British landing zones. Near Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 05. German troops from different services march against the landed British, past lorries and an ambulance. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 06. Army, police, Fallschirmjäger and SS men in camouflage smocks, foliage on helmets and caps. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 07. British airborne prisoners with their hands on their heads. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 08. A Sturmhaubitze 42 assault howitzer in action in an Arnhem street, smoke and fire behind. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 09. A camouflaged assault gun at a street corner, a British supply parachute in the foreground. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 10. Wrecks of British gliders, two frames on one print. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 11. A British glider burning on a landing zone. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 12. A long column of British paratroopers marching into captivity. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 13. German soldiers cross a stream on a makeshift wooden footbridge. Arnhem–Oosterbeek, September 1944.
Plate 14. Three Fallschirmjäger in cover aiming a rifle and a captured machine gun. Arnhem–Oosterbeek, September 1944.
Plate 15. German soldiers marching along a village road. Arnhem–Oosterbeek, September 1944.
Plate 16. Soldiers in a half-track covered with branches. Arnhem–Oosterbeek, September 1944.
Plate 17. Soldiers running crouched between house fronts. Arnhem–Oosterbeek, September 1944.
Plate 18. Soldiers in a foxhole and trench, with an MG 42 on a post for anti-aircraft fire. Arnhem–Oosterbeek, September 1944.
Plate 19. Two Fallschirmjäger in a trench with an MG 42 on a post for anti-aircraft fire. Arnhem–Oosterbeek, September 1944.
Plate 20. British prisoners sitting and standing, some eating. Arnhem–Oosterbeek, September 1944.
Plate 21. A mortar in a firing position under trees. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 22. A captured American Jeep towing a German anti-tank gun. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 23. A soldier fires an MG 42 from an SdKfz 250/1 light half-track. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 24. An SdKfz 250 half-track in action on a woodland road. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 25. Two camouflaged Flakpanzer IV "Möbelwagen" on a narrow lane. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 26. German infantry under the cover of trees along a road. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 27. A Luftwaffe soldier with foliage on his helmet and a scarf. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 28. A 2 cm Flak crew in action in a park against the airborne drop. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 29. British supply containers on parachutes caught in tall pines behind German lines. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 30. Transport aircraft over the treetops, seen from German positions. Arnhem, September 1944.
Plate 31. A young soldier with a helmet cover in a foxhole with his rifle. Arnhem–Nijmegen area, 23 September 1944.
Plate 32. A group of Fallschirmjäger with open shirts, binoculars and stick grenades. Netherlands, 1944.
Plate 33. Four Fallschirmjäger in a village, damaged buildings behind. Netherlands, 1944.
Plate 34. View from a car carrying Fallschirmjäger onto a half-track driving through a town. Netherlands, 1944.
Plate 35. German soldiers taken prisoner walk along a road with their hands raised. Aalst, North Brabant, September 1944.
Nationaal Archief / Collectie Van de Poll, photo Willem van de Poll, Bestanddeelnr 255-9191 (CC0) ·
CC0 1.0Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 36. A destroyed German gun, probably an 8.8 cm Flak, in woodland. Aalst, North Brabant, 18 September 1944.
Nationaal Archief / Collectie Van de Poll, photo Willem van de Poll, Bestanddeelnr 255-9041 (CC0) ·
CC0 1.0Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 37. Close view of a destroyed 8.8 cm Flak, the letter "E" on its shield. Aalst, North Brabant, 18 September 1944.
Nationaal Archief / Collectie Van de Poll, photo Willem van de Poll, Bestanddeelnr 255-9044 (CC0) ·
CC0 1.0Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 38. Irish Guards tanks advance along the corridor road towards Arnhem. Aalst, North Brabant, 18 September 1944.
Nationaal Archief / Collectie Van de Poll, photo Willem van de Poll, Bestanddeelnr 255-9039 (CC0) ·
CC0 1.0Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 39. War-damaged Nijmegen, with the road bridge over the Waal behind. Nijmegen, 28 September 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-194568 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 40. Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division artillery headquarters look over a wrecked glider. Netherlands, September 1944.
U.S. Army Signal Corps photo (courtesy U.S. Army / army.mil), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for web
Plate 01. A heavy infantry gun (15 cm sIG 33) firing among the trees. Hürtgen Forest near Düren, 22 November 1944.
Plate 02. Grenadiers with rifles advance across a woodland clearing to clear an enemy penetration of the main line. Aachen sector; archive release date 12 December 1944.
Plate 03. Volkssturm men arrive at a camouflaged bunker they are to defend. Moselle region (“Moselland”), December 1944.
Plate 04. A Panther tank on its way to the front from its assembly area at Weissenburg/Bergzabern crosses a line of Westwall anti-tank obstacles. Pfalz, 6 January 1945 (Operation Nordwind sector).
Plate 05. Civilians and older men in uniform caps dig defensive positions. Dutch–German border; archive release date 28 October 1944.
Plate 06. An Obergefreiter with a Panzerschreck; according to the archive he wears the Iron Cross 1st Class, the Infantry Assault Badge and the Wound Badge for the defensive fighting in Lorraine. Maizières-lès-Metz (Machern), Moselle front, 27 October 1944.
Plate 07. A camouflaged Westwall blockhouse in the Bienwald, photographed in the 1939–40 construction period, years before the fighting of 1944–45. Near Schweighofen, Pfalz, 2 March 1940.
Plate 08. A camouflaged light field howitzer in a Westwall firing position, photographed in the 1939–40 construction period, years before the fighting of 1944–45. Barbelroth near Pirmasens, Pfalz, 25 September 1939.
Plate 09. A US bazooka man and two riflemen advance past road signs towards Siegfried Line positions. Belgian–German border area, 12 September 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-411766 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 10. A knocked-out German anti-tank gun camouflaged with fir branches, emplaced between two Siegfried Line pillboxes, is examined by a US soldier. Siegfried Line, 15 September 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-195706 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 11. A US soldier examines shell damage at the entrance to a Siegfried Line pillbox. Dutch–German border, 4 October 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-336769 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 12. Two US infantrymen with carbines ready enter an earth-covered, camouflaged pillbox near a factory. Aachen, 13 October 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-195648 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 13. Two US soldiers look down on a long row of dragon’s teeth anti-tank obstacles. Siegfried Line, 15 September 1944; place not recorded.
U.S. National Archives, ARC 292569 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 14. Infantrymen of the US 94th Division race for cover across the dragon’s teeth of the Siegfried Line. Near Tettingen (“Tittingen” in the archive caption), Saar–Moselle triangle, 19 January 1945.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-336775 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 15. An armoured car of the US 10th Armored Division drives through a gap blasted in the dragon’s teeth. Near Portz, on the drive to Saarburg, 21 February 1945.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-336780 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 16. A US soldier takes aim from behind a knocked-out, foliage-camouflaged German anti-tank gun, ruined buildings behind. Aachen, 19 October 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-195600 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 17. A long column of German prisoners marches through the ruined streets after the fall of Aachen. Aachen, October 1944.
U.S. National Archives, NAID 541597 (US Army), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 18. German prisoners are led along a street to confinement. Aachen, 24 October 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-195749 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 19. US M10 tank destroyers move up a forest track. Hürtgen Forest, 18 November 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-196618 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 20. US infantrymen move through the ruined village on their way to the front. Hürtgen, 6 December 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-197740 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 21. A large group of German prisoners in field caps and helmets, guarded by US troops, after the breakthrough of the Siegfried Line. North of Aachen, 3 October 1944; exact place not recorded.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-195746 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 22. A German soldier climbs out of a dugout towards waiting Ninth Army infantrymen; according to the archive he was one of a group of 20 who surrendered from it. Ninth Army front, 18 November 1944; place not recorded.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-196441-S (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 23. German prisoners of war pass a burning building as they are brought in for interrogation. Irsch near Saarburg, 27 February 1945.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-201551-S (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 24. A captured Tiger II, repaired by the US 129th Ordnance Battalion, on the move. Gereonsweiler, 15 December 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-197752 / NAID 148727184 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 25. A US M26 recovery tractor drags a trackless Panther, knocked out near Gereonsweiler, through the streets. Geilenkirchen, 4 December 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-197442 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 26. Five knocked-out Panthers and two US M4A3 Shermans on open ground. Lorraine front: near Guébling, Moselle, France, 25 November 1944.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-197160 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 27. A destroyed Jagdpanzer 38(t) “Hetzer”, heavy with branch camouflage, pushed off a road in an area attacked by US fighter-bombers. Near Hosingen, Luxembourg, close to the Siegfried Line, February 1945.
U.S. National Archives, 342-FH-3A19948-B56218AC / NAID 204900619 (US Army Air Forces), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 28. A US soldier examines a wrecked German 15 cm gun, abandoned in the retreat, a bicycle beside it. Near the Prüm River, Eifel, 25 February 1945.
U.S. National Archives, 111-SC-201379 (US Army Signal Corps), public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for web
Plate 01. A German motorised column drives through a Libyan town. Libya, spring 1941.
Plate 02. A Panzer III column passes an Italian road sign for "Tilimun" and "Soluch". Cyrenaica, near Soluch, spring 1941.
Plate 03. Panzer crewmen on a Panzer III watch a column of motorised troops pass. North Africa, spring 1941.
Plate 04. Three Afrikakorps soldiers on a vehicle, one with a megaphone. North Africa, spring 1941.
Plate 05. A Panzerjäger I tank destroyer in the desert. North Africa, spring 1941.
Plate 06. Luftwaffe despatch riders asleep on a BMW motorcycle combination. North Africa, spring 1941.
Plate 07. A Panzer II commander in the turret of tank "8", more vehicles behind. North Africa, April 1941.
Plate 08. A captured British Valentine infantry tank in German hands. North Africa, April 1941.
Plate 09. A Gefreiter carrying an anti-tank rifle across the desert. North Africa, April 1941.
Plate 10. An Afrikakorps infantryman with sand goggles and a dust scarf over his face. North Africa, April 1941.
Plate 11. Ground crew check the desert survival kit of a Ju 87 Stuka. North Africa, 16 September 1941.
Plate 12. A Panzer III crew in the turret, a burning Allied lorry behind. North Africa, early 1942.
Plate 13. A captured British AEC armoured command vehicle in German use, with its escort. North Africa, February 1942.
Plate 14. A captured British Matilda II tank in German service, flying a German flag. Tobruk area, summer 1942.
Plate 15. An SdKfz 251 half-track with radio antenna on the heights of Sidi Muftah after the battle. Southwest of Tobruk, 1 June 1942.
Plate 16. An 8.8 cm Flak 18 with its crew in a firing position. Before Bir Hacheim, Libya, 4 June 1942.
Plate 17. An 8.8 cm Flak firing at British armoured cars, a command half-track in the background. Near Bir Hacheim, Libya, June 1942.
Plate 18. A barrel change on an 8.8 cm Flak with a crane truck. Near Bir Hacheim, Libya, June 1942.
Plate 19. A battery of 10.5 cm leFH 18 light field howitzers in a firing position. North Africa, 1942.
Plate 20. Soldiers in a VW Kübelwagen in the desert, a smoke column on the horizon. North Africa, 1942.
Plate 21. Soldiers with a radio set and a machine gun in a position on an old ruin. North Africa, 1942.
Plate 22. Motorised German troops enter Tobruk: an SdKfz 251 half-track with a Panzer III alongside. Tobruk, c. June 1942.
Plate 23. An SdKfz 7 tractor towing an 8.8 cm Flak, its crew aboard. Near El Alamein, July 1942.
Plate 24. A damaged SdKfz 6/3 "Diana" self-propelled gun. Near El Alamein, Egypt, 1 August 1942.
Plate 25. A Panzer III Ausf. L knocked out by Australian anti-tank gunners. El Alamein, August 1942.
Plate 26. An SdKfz 250/3 light half-track radio vehicle on the move. North Africa, August 1942.
Plate 27. Motorised troops in front of a former British signals building marked "GAMBUT" and "No Parking within 500 yds". Gambut, Libya, August 1942.
Plate 28. A VW Kübelwagen beside a British road sign to Acroma, Gazala, Derna and Tobruk. Near Tobruk, August 1942.
Plate 29. Soldiers in a VW Kübelwagen by a "No entry" sign, black smoke over the harbour. Tobruk, August 1942.
Plate 30. Three soldiers with two dogs in front of an Italian Caproni Ca.309 aircraft. North Africa, August 1942.
Plate 31. Captured German SdKfz 135/1 15 cm self-propelled howitzers of 21st Panzer Division in a row. Near El Alamein, Egypt, c. October 1942.
Plate 32. Fallschirmjäger on motorcycle combinations pass a string of camels. Tunis, November 1942.
Plate 33. A 12-ton half-track and a Praga tractor towing a Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant transport aircraft. Tunisia, December 1942.
Plate 34. A Panzer crew resting on a Tiger I by cactus hedges, local people behind. Tunisia, January 1943.
Plate 35. A Tiger I with its crew and local civilians. Tunisia, 1943.
Plate 36. German soldiers with a 5 cm Pak 38 anti-tank gun in position. Tunisia, 1943.
Plate 37. German soldiers give themselves up to American infantry after hiding in a farmhouse. Tunisia, 3 March 1943.
Plate 38. A Panzer IV and a motorcycle driving through shallow water. Tunisia, Algerian border area, 1943.
Plate 39. Four German soldiers with rifles and a machine gun on a mountain road. Tunisia, Algerian border area, 1943.
Plate 40. A Fallschirmjäger with rifle, pistol, stick grenade and machine-gun ammunition belt. Tunisia, 1943.
Plate 41. A crew loading a 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42. West of Tunis, April 1943.
Plate 42. A knocked-out Tiger I, US troops passing in a half-track. Béja, Tunisia, 23 April 1943.
Plate 43. A column of Panzer III Ausf. L tanks on a desert track. Tunisia, 1942.
National Archives and Records Administration, 242-GAV-I-12 (NAID 352357711) · Copyright status undetermined
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Plate 01. A Tiger I tank camouflaged with branches while a soldier sweeps away its track marks. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 02. A Panzer crew with an NCO in front of a Tiger I hidden under foliage. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 03. Soldiers on and beside a Tiger I with turret number "323". Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 04. Crewmen on a Tiger I with turret number "123", one scanning with binoculars. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 05. Two soldiers examine a hit on the armour of a Tiger I. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 06. A Tiger I with turret number "114" towed by 18-ton SdKfz 9 half-tracks across the steppe. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 07. View along a tank gun barrel towards tanks advancing across the open steppe. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 08. Soldiers on a Panzer III with turret number "102", fitted with turret and hull skirts. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 09. A kneeling infantryman in a camouflage jacket and helmet. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 10. Infantry pass through a destroyed village. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 11. Flak soldiers camouflage a half-track with branches. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 12. A Marder III tank destroyer with its crew. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 13. A Nebelwerfer rocket launcher being moved into position. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 14. A despatch rider on a motorcycle beside a signpost to "Prochorowka" and "Pokrowka". Near Pokrovka, Belgorod–Oboyan road, July 1943.
Plate 15. A battery of Wespe self-propelled howitzers under foliage camouflage. Near Pokrovka, July 1943.
Plate 16. Infantry on the march beside a column of motorcycle combinations and cars. Near Pokrovka, July 1943.
Plate 17. Tired soldiers during a pause in the fighting, one holding a camera. Near Pokrovka, July 1943.
Plate 18. A soldier inspects a knocked-out Soviet T-34 tank, still smoking. Near Pokrovka, July 1943.
Plate 19. A Panzer III with turret number "121", side skirts and painted camouflage, crew in the turret. Central-southern sector of the Eastern Front, summer 1943.
Plate 20. A Hummel self-propelled howitzer carrying soldiers up a slope. Central-southern sector of the Eastern Front, summer 1943.
Plate 21. StuG, Panzer III and Panzer IV vehicles assemble on the steppe at the start of the offensive. Belgorod, early July 1943.
Plate 22. A Tiger I with Waffen-SS soldiers in camouflage smocks and helmet covers. Kursk, July 1943.
Plate 23. Soldiers of the "Das Reich" division in front of a Tiger I. Kursk, July 1943.
Plate 24. A "Das Reich" NCO in the turret hatch of a Tiger I, wearing headphones and a throat microphone. Kursk, July 1943.
Plate 25. A "Das Reich" Panzer III crew rest during a halt, smoke on the horizon. Belgorod–Orel area, July 1943.
Plate 26. Waffen-SS soldiers in camouflage smocks gather at a Tiger I during a counter-attack. Eastern Front, July 1943.
Plate 27. A Waffen-SS soldier in camouflage smock and helmet cover gives a hand signal. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 28. Waffen-SS soldiers with helmet covers in a gully position. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 29. Waffen-SS soldiers ride on armour beside a Tiger I on the open steppe. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 30. Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiers attack through smoke in an SdKfz 251 half-track. Kursk salient, July 1943.
Plate 31. A Waffen-SS Tiger crew take on 8.8 cm ammunition before a new action. Near Belgorod, late July 1943.
Plate 32. A Waffen-SS Panzer III with side skirts and its crew. Eastern Front, July 1943.
Plate 33. A "Großdeutschland" rifleman with a rifle grenade launcher, foliage on his helmet. Akhtyrka–Poltava area, June 1943.
Plate 34. A "Großdeutschland" MG 42 team with riflemen in cover, an observer using binoculars. Akhtyrka–Poltava area, June 1943.
Plate 35. "Großdeutschland" grenadiers ride on a StuG III assault gun covered with foliage. Kursk salient, early July 1943.
Plate 36. Tiger I tanks counter-attack past burning houses. South of Orel, mid-July 1943.
Plate 37. A Tiger I with foliage camouflage, local villagers on the tank with the crew. Near Bryansk, May 1943.
Plate 38. A StuG III with light-coloured side skirts and wooden beams on its roof. Central sector of the Eastern Front, August 1943.
Plate 39. A Panther tank with turret number "221" towed by two 18-ton SdKfz 9 half-tracks. Southern sector of the Eastern Front, August 1943.
Plate 40. A Tiger I climbing a hill, its commander in the cupola with headphones. Belgorod area, August 1943.
Plate 01. Panzerfüsiliere of the Division “Großdeutschland” move up for an attack, an SdKfz 251 half-track behind them. Memel bridgehead, October 1944.
Plate 02. A battalion commander of the Division “Großdeutschland” gives the order to fire from his armoured personnel carrier. Memel bridgehead, October 1944.
Plate 03. War volunteers of the Panzergrenadier Division “Großdeutschland” advance with Panzerfausts in a counter-attack on a village. Memel bridgehead; archive caption dated 30 October 1944.
Plate 04. A Soviet T-34/85 tank that fell from a demolished bridge over the Angerapp, German soldiers looking on. Near Nemmersdorf, East Prussia, October 1944.
Plate 05. A Russian-language slogan sign on a butcher’s shop after the town was retaken by German troops. Goldap, East Prussia, November 1944.
Plate 06. An Oberfeldwebel of the Division “Großdeutschland”, holder of the German Cross in Gold, trains Volkssturm men on the MG 42; according to the archive, the No. 1 gunner is a First World War veteran and the No. 2 a 16-year-old. East Prussia, c. November 1944.
Plate 07. East Prussian Volkssturm men in training with an instructor of the Division “Großdeutschland”, an MG 42 in the foreground. East Prussia, October 1944.
Plate 08. A 16-year-old member of the Hitler Youth in the East Prussian Volkssturm, with an MP 40 and a Volkssturm armband. East Prussia, October 1944.
Plate 09. German soldiers at an Advent table with candles in a log bunker. East of Goldap, East Prussia, 10 December 1944.
Plate 10. Volkssturm men with Panzerfausts and rifles in a snow-covered position. Outside Königsberg, East Prussia, 20 January 1945.
Plate 11. A sentry in a white snow suit on a bridge as refugees’ carts enter the city. Königsberg, East Prussia, 1 February 1945.
Plate 12. Kriegsmarine sailors on the bow of an ice-bound ship, refugees on the quay of the frozen harbour. Pillau, East Prussia, 26 January 1945.
Plate 13. Two older Volkssturm men with a machine gun in a snow-covered foxhole. Königsberg, East Prussia, 6 March 1945.
Plate 14. Captured officers of the Wehrmacht in a street of the city. Königsberg, East Prussia, 12 April 1945.
Plate 01. U-Boats moored side by side inside a U-Boat bunker on the Atlantic coast, back from patrol for repair and re-equipping. Port not named by the archive, 1942.
Plate 02. A U-Boat moored in a bunker pen beneath the concrete roof. France, 1942; port not named by the archive.
Plate 03. A completed U-Boat bunker seen across the harbour basin, its pen openings at water level. St-Nazaire (archive marks the place as uncertain), 1943.
Plate 04. U-Boat bunkers under construction, with cranes and scaffolding over the pens. Brest, September 1941.
Plate 05. A row of pen openings on the water at the U-Boat bunker under construction. St-Nazaire, April 1942.
Plate 06. Roof slab and pen walls of the U-Boat bunker under construction, with rails and small figures of workers on the roof. Lorient, April 1942.
Plate 07. Pen walls, scaffolding and reinforcing steel at the U-Boat bunker under construction. La Pallice (La Rochelle), October 1942.
Plate 08. Two American soldiers look into a shelter at the entrance to the U-Boat bunker after the capture of the port; a US jeep stands in front, and the German slogan “Durch Kampf zum Sieg” is painted on the wall. Brest, 27 September 1944.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-257470, National Archives / Naval History and Heritage Command (public domain)
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 09. An empty wet dock under the concrete roof of a U-Boat pen after the capture of the port. Brest, October 1944.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-257415, National Archives / Naval History and Heritage Command (public domain)
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 10. RAF reconnaissance photograph of Bordeaux-Bacalan, with the U-Boat pens in the centre and the SNCASO aircraft factory to the right. Bordeaux, 4 June 1944.
National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 291977255 (public domain)
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 11. Two U-Boats wrecked inside the U-Boat pens by an RAF bomb that went through the 12 ft (3.7 m) concrete roof. Hamburg, 1945; the archive does not name the bunker.
U.S. Air Force photo 58036AC, National Archives (342-FH-3A21483), public domain · cropped
Source: U.S. National Archives catalog · Cropped to the photograph: the typed album mount card around the print removed; otherwise unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 12. Aerial view of the Fink II U-Boat bunker after the attack of 9 April 1945 with “Grand Slam” and “Tallboy” bombs; large craters mark the near misses. Hamburg-Finkenwerder, April 1945.
U.S. Air Force photo 342-FH-3A21472-57623AC, National Archives (public domain)
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 13. A gantry crane lifts a steel roof arch into place on the U-Boat bunker “Valentin”. Bremen-Farge, 1944. Organisation Todt built Valentin with forced labour, including concentration-camp prisoners.
Plate 14. Tower cranes over the building site of the U-Boat bunker “Valentin”. Bremen-Farge, 1944. Organisation Todt built Valentin with forced labour, including concentration-camp prisoners.
Plate 15. Prisoners at work on the building site of the U-Boat bunker “Valentin” (Bundesarchiv title: “Häftlinge bei der Arbeit”, prisoners at work). Bremen-Farge, 1944. Organisation Todt built Valentin with forced labour, including concentration-camp prisoners from the Neuengamme camp system; many of them died.
Plate 16. Aerial view of the U-Boat bunkers Dora I and Dora II at Nyhavna in the first days after the liberation. Trondheim, May 1945.
Plate 17. Machinery and concrete works on the building site of the U-Boat bunker Dora at Nyhavna. Trondheim, 11 March 1942.
Plate 18. U-Boat bunker Dora 1 shortly before completion. Trondheim (Nyhavna), 25 June 1943.
Plate 01. U-96 comes into port with the crew lined up on deck in leather and foul-weather clothing. St-Nazaire, 23 March 1942.
Plate 02. A naval band plays on the quay to welcome U-751 and U-455 home. St-Nazaire, 16 June 1942.
Plate 03. Crew of U-455 welcomed on board as the boat comes in. St-Nazaire, 16 June 1942.
Plate 04. U-123 and U-201 leave port, their crews waving from the decks. Lorient, 8 June 1941.
Plate 05. U-37 in dock. Lorient, 1940.
Plate 06. U-37 comes into port, crew on the conning tower. Wilhelmshaven, 18 April 1940.
Plate 07. Bridge watch on U-373, a Type VIIC boat, in sou’westers and with binoculars. Bay of Biscay off La Pallice, April 1942.
Plate 08. Crew at the forward deck gun of U-123 at sea. Atlantic, January–February 1942.
Plate 09. Emblem painted on a U-Boat conning tower: a cartoon figure in a circle. 1940; boat and place not named by the archive.
Plate 10. Crew members of U-132 paint tonnage pennants, recording claimed sinkings, inside the boat. La Pallice, August 1942.
Plate 11. A radio operator of U-124 at an Enigma cipher machine; according to the archive it is still the three-rotor M3 (lower left). Lorient, 7–9 March 1941.
Plate 12. A crew member washes among the torpedo tubes in the bow room of U-103. Lorient, May 1942.
Plate 13. Type XXI U-Boat U-3008 after the surrender, with the Type IX boats U-806 and U-155 and the light cruiser Nürnberg in the background. Wilhelmshaven, June 1945.
U.S. Navy photo NH 96270, Naval History and Heritage Command (public domain)
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for web
Plate 01. Battleship Bismarck alongside the quay, seen from the bow. Kiel, autumn 1940.
Plate 02. Battleship Bismarck on the Elbe off Blankenese, with the tugs Seefalke and Seebär at her stern. Hamburg, 1940.
Plate 03. Battleship Bismarck firing during the engagement with HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales (Operation Rheinübung). Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941.
Plate 04. Battleship Tirpitz in Norwegian waters, two destroyers in the foreground. Ofotfjord, Norway, August 1942.
Plate 05. Battleship Tirpitz at anchor in Fættenfjorden. Åsen, Norway, 1942.
Plate 06. Battleship Scharnhorst at sea. 1939; place not recorded.
Plate 07. Battleship Gneisenau at sea. 1939; place not recorded.
Plate 08. Former German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, taken over by the US Navy as USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300), passes through the Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal after the war. Panama Canal, 15 March 1946.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-365075, National Archives (public domain)
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 09. An S-Boat (Schnellboot) at sea, a sailor on watch at the bow gun. 1942; place not recorded.
Plate 10. An S-Boat of the S 38 type takes on torpedoes. Date and place not recorded.
Plate 11. An S-Boat of the S-26/S-38 class, with the armoured “Kalotte” bridge, inside a concrete shelter. Second World War; date and place not recorded.
Naval History and Heritage Command, NH 92352 · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 12. Heavy gun of a coastal battery firing. Lapland, Norway, 1941.
Plate 13. A sailor of a patrol boat (Vorpostenboot) with a flare pistol. English Channel, 1940.
Plate 01. S-Boats at sea, one photographed from the bow of another. France, 1940.
Plate 02. An S-Boat iced up in Arctic waters, a crewman in heavy foul-weather clothing on the foredeck. Arctic Sea; archive release dated 16 March 1942.
Plate 03. An S-Boat at speed escorting a minelayer off the Norwegian coast. Norway, c. 1941.
U.S. Navy photo NH 71371, Naval History and Heritage Command · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 04. S-Boats leaving the harbour of Kirkenes on the Norwegian Arctic coast. Kirkenes, Norway, Second World War; exact date not recorded.
U.S. Navy photo NH 71373, Naval History and Heritage Command · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 05. S-Boats loaded with sea mines inside a bunker. 1942; place not recorded.
Plate 06. An S-Boat crowded with soldiers during the transport of the last troops out of Libau. Libau (Liepāja), Latvia, 8 May 1945.
Plate 07. An S-Boat flying a white flag at the Coastal Forces base HMS Beehive, Felixstowe. Two S-Boats, the first German surface craft to surrender, were escorted in by ten British motor torpedo boats; Konteradmiral Erich Breuning, who had been in charge of S-Boat operations and signed the instrument of surrender, was on board one of them. Felixstowe, 13 May 1945.
Imperial War Museum, A 28558, Crown copyright expired (public domain)
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 08. A surrendered S-Boat ties up alongside a jetty while another is about to moor next to her, German crews on deck, at HMS Hornet, the Coastal Forces base at Gosport, where they were to be taken over by the Royal Navy. Gosport, 22 June 1945.
Imperial War Museum, A 29322, Crown copyright expired (public domain)
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Plate 01. Captured German officers, three of them of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division in camouflage combat dress. Attributed by the Brest municipal archive to the surrender of Brest, September 1944; another archive copy is captioned “Normandy, summer 1944”.
U.S. Army photo (Archives municipales de Brest 2Fi05181 / U.S. National Archives) · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 02. A blindfolded German officer under a white flag is brought to the headquarters of the US 8th Infantry Division to negotiate surrender terms. Siege of Brest, 1944; exact date not recorded.
U.S. Army Signal Corps photo (Archives municipales de Brest 12Fi699) · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 03. Generalleutnant Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (right), commander of the fortress of Brest, at his surrender, with Maj. Gen. Troy H. Middleton (centre). Pointe des Espagnols, near Brest, 19 September 1944.
U.S. Army Signal Corps photo (Archives municipales de Brest 2Fi05191) · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 04. A wounded German prisoner in a hooded camouflage smock has his record filled in by a member of the US 4th Cavalry Group after treatment. Near Esch, Germany, 27 February 1945.
U.S. Army Signal Corps photo SC 201479 (U.S. National Archives) · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Cropped at the left edge to remove a white strip and scribbles (print damage); otherwise unaltered apart from resizingPlate 05. Abandoned German Tiger I tanks on railway flatcars. Reims, France, September 1944.
U.S. Army Air Forces photo 342-FH-3A19113-B53859AC (U.S. National Archives, NAID 204897450) · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 06. An abandoned German Panther tank at the edge of a snowy forest, an American soldier beside it. Germany, c. February 1945.
U.S. Army Air Forces photo 342-FH-3A19947-A56218AC (U.S. National Archives, NAID 204899609) · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 07. A knocked-out German Panzer IV in a village street; two US tank crewmen of the 2nd Armored Division point out where the shell hit. Saint-Denis-le-Gast, Normandy, 31 July 1944.
U.S. Army Signal Corps photo SC 192128 (U.S. National Archives) · Public domain
Source: Wikimedia Commons · Unmodified apart from resizing for webPlate 08. A Kübelwagen with German negotiators and a white flag, partly covered with camouflage netting and foliage, during the preparations for the capitulation talks. Wageningen, Netherlands, May 1945.
Nationaal Archief / Anefo, Sem Presser, 120-0931 (CC0) ·
CC0 1.0 · cropped
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