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

American soldiers at a German seaside bunker (pillbox) “Le Ruquet” on D-Day’s Omaha Beach, Normandy, France; 1944.
This bunker is not far away from St-Laurent-sur-Mer, the first Headquarters of the Americans. Thousands of soldiers that landed at Omaha Beach would pass here...