Gallery for North West European Campaign, Second World War

Galleries - Advance to Seine - The 'Great Swan' - Clearing France - Operation Dragoon - Siegfried Line - Rhine Crossing - Invasion of Germany

Galleries

Overlord and D-Day
(32 pictures and 12 maps)

Market Garden, 17-27 September 1944 - Picture and Map Gallery
(12 pictures and 7 maps)

Advance to Seine & Liberation of Paris

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  Mopping up in Lisieux, August 1944
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  Covering the Seine Crossing at Vernon, 25 August 1944
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  Carrying Assault Boat to Vernon on the Seine
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  British Sherman in Gace, August 1944
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  British airborne troops in Pont l'Eveque
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  Pontoon Ferry across the Seine, 1944
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  US Army Red Cross Nurses, La Loupe, 1944
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  British Troops being welcomed in Paris
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  Charles de Gaulle marching through Arc de Triomphe
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  British Soldiers salute Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Paris
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  Negotiating surrender at Chamber of Deputies, Paris
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  Snipers firing on crowds in Place de la Concorde, 1944
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  Damaged bridge at Vernon
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  6-pdr anti-tank gun and Universal Carriers across the Seine
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  Pontoon ferry at Vernon
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  Ruins of Pont L'Eveque
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  Liberation of Elbeuf
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  Bombed out station at Arras, 1944
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  British Shermons in Villers Bretoneux
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  Canadian troops in Dieppe, 1944
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  British Wounded at Pont L'Eveque
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  Burnt out German Transport at Rouen, 1944
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  General Leclerc in Rambouillet
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  French collaborators in Paris
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  Allied Commanders under the Arc de Triomphe, 1944
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  German fuel dump near the Seine
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  German POWs being marched through Paris

The Great Swan (Seine to Low Countries)

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  Canadian troops being welcomed at Bruges
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  Guards armoured Division in Douai, 1944
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  Canadians parading through Dieppe, 1944
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  Palais de Justice at Brussels on Fire, 1944
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  Fortifications of Dieppe, 1944
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  Resistance Parade in Rheims
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  Staghound Armoured Cars in Brussels, 1944
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  Youngest POW at Antwerp, 1944
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  Montgomery talking to Maquis Guard
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  Ferrying Jeeps across the Oise
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  British troops crossing bridge at Antwerp
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  Humber Mk IV Armoured Cars near Lille, 1944
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  Belgian Interior Forces clearing docks at Ostend
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  Bridge over the Albert Canal at Beringen, 1944
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  Sherman crossing Albert Canal
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  Sherman passes 88mm Flak 18 or Flak 36
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  Mlle. Moreau nursing British wounded, Antwerp
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  M10 Tank Destroyer in Liege, 1944

Clearing France

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  French attack Royan on Gironde, 1945
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  Destroyed Bridge on the Loire, 1944
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  Wrecked 15cm railway gun at Montreuil
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  Bombed Gun Positions, Le Havre
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  Churchill Crocodile in action at Le Havre
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  French Collaborators captured at Le Havre
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  German POWs from Boulogne
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  Allied soldier measures 380mm gun at Todt Battery

Operation Dragoon

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  Invasion Fleet for Operation Dragoon at Naples
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  Parachute drop during Operation Dragoon
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  American Gliders in fields, South of France
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  Paratroops Inside C-47 before Operation Dragoon
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  Glider Obstacles in the South of France, 1944
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  French Partisans during Operation Dragoon
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  Canadian LCM (1) bringing supplies to Ile du Levant
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  German POWs on Dragoon landing beach
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  Churchill watching Operation Dragoon
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  RAF Ground Crew on ferry before Dragoon
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  45th Infantry Division landing at St Maxime, Operation Dragoon
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  US troops enter Grenoble, 22 August 1944
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  French Collaborators at Marseilles
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  Damaged Dunquerque at Toulon, 1944
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  US troops wading river near Nancy
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  Wreckage of German Convoy in Saone Valley
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  US Jeeps fording the Moselle
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  Lt Sam Magill
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  General Elster's staff discuss surrender terms
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  General Elster's force marches to surrender

Siegfried Line

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  American Infantry approaching Aachen
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  Blown Bridge on Lille to Aachen Road
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  M4 Sherman passing gap in Dragon's Tooth obstacle
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  Jeep crossing Tank Trap, Siegfield Line

Crossing of the Rhine

• Gliders land east of the Rhine, March 1945
• British Gliders crossing the Rhine, March 1945
• German POWs west of the Rhine, 1945
• First Bailey Bridge over the Rhine, 1945
• Pontoon Bridge over the Rhine, 1945
• British Commandos at Wesel, March 1945
• Ludendorff Bridge, 1945
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  6-Pounder being loaded onto Horsa Glider
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  Montgomery, Eisenhower and Bradley after the crossing of the Rhine
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  Preparing to bridge the Rhine
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  Western end of Ludendorff Bridge
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  Churchill crosses the Rhine
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  Churchill meets the 79th Armoured Division
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  M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage watching the Rhine
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  LVT-4 Buffalo carrying Jeep Ambulances towards the Rhine
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  Supply Drop to 1st Airborne Army across the Rhine
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  Rees seen across the Rhine
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  British troops in Rees on the Rhine
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  Amphibious Tank crosses Rhine at Wesel
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  1st Commando Brigade near Wesel, 1945
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  King's Own Scottish Borderers across the Rhine, 1945
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  Wesel Railway Yard, 1945
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  Homberg and Duisburg in 1945
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  US 3rd Army across the Rhine
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  German POWs crossing the Rhine
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  Halifax tows Horsa across the Rhine, Operation Varsity, 1945
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  Glider Tug pilots taking emergency rations before Operation Varsity
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  Paratroopers boarding transports before Operation Varsity
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  Aircraft Gunner on watch, Operation Varsity

Invasion of Germany

• Alpen, Overturned German Gun at Alpen
• US Troops fighting in Andernach, March 1945
• Wounded US Soldier at Andernach, March 1945
• Bypass over railway at Arsbeck, 1945
• Klever Gate at Xanten, 1945
• Allied troops at Xanten, 8 March 1945
• Sherman Tank at Xanten
• Churchill in Daimler Armoured Car, Xanten, 1945
• Churchill at Wesel, 1945
• General Edwin Graf von Rothkirch und Trach
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  US Jeeps pass through Meckenheim, 1945
• US Troops search civilians at Krefeld, 1945
• German POWs at Hamminkeln
• US 4th Armored Division approaches Coblenz, 1945
• German Medics surrender at Coblenz
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  US Infantry and Tanks fighting at Andernach, 1945
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  US Troops advance through Wittlich, 1945
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  US Troops on main street of Gudingen, 1945
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  US Troops approach ruins, Gudingen, 1945
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  German POWs at Kaiserlautern
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  US Troops at Zweibrucken
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  Clearing bomb damage at Bruhl
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  Bombing the Zweiz synthetic oil plant
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  Bombed Krupp Works, Essen
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  Bomb Damage at Dulmen, 1945
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  Lancaster Raid on German Railways, 1945
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  7th Armoured Division in Stadtlohn, 1945
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  French-Canadian troops in Emmerich, 1945
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  US Airborne troops in Appelhusen, 1945
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  M4A3(76) Sherman in Frankfurt-on-Main
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  US airborne troops advance east of Rhine on Churchill Tank
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  US 8in Gun in Aschaffenburg, Bavarian
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  US 7th Army in Mannheim
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  M3 half-track in ruined German town
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  German POWs marching through Limburg
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  POWs from the Volkssturm
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  Polish, Russian, French and Dutch refugees in the Rhineland
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  Pontoon Bridge across the Necker near Heidelberg
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  German snipers captured at Heidelberg
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  Camouflaged lake at Hanover
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  Bomb damage at Hanover
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  Universal Carrier in Holland, 1945
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  Allied patrol in Munster
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  Montgomery visits troops in Coesfeld
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  British infantry in Lingen
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  Marine Commandos at Osnabruck Station
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  Liberated French POWs at Brelingen
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  British vehicles at Furstenau, Holland
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  German POWs in military academy
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  Incomplete Siege Gun at Krupps Works
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  Soviet POWs liberated from the Eselheide POW camp
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  US Troops crossing the Weser
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  Allied railway bridge over the Rhine at Wesel
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  M8 75mm HMC from the 6th Armoured Division
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  Canadians crossing the Ijssel near Deventer
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  6th Airborne advance from Neustadt to Bissendorf
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  Jeep carried under Handley Page Halifax
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  Dakotas of RAF Transport Command in Belgium
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  Gordon Highlanders crossing a improvised bridge near Celle
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  Ruins of Arnhem, 1945
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  Fighting in Arnhem, 1945
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  Sherman tanks from the Coldstream Guards advance on Bremen
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  Canadian troops attack Oranje Canal, 1945
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  M5A1 Stuart light tanks of the 15th Scottish Division
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  15th Scottish Division during advance to Elbe
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  Trains captured near Bremen, 1945
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  M4A3(76) at Kronach, 1945
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  M20 Armoured Utility Car close to Elbe
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  German Gas Bombs found at Lossa
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  Tiger-Morser with shell
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  M4A3(76)W of US 9th Army at Brunswick
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  US Troops at Schweinfurt
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  Infantry from 11th Armoured Division on road to Elbe
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  Sherman Firefly of the 49th Division at Ede
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  Rocket Armed Sherman of Coldsteam Guards
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  British 2nd Army at Zeven nr Bremen
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  Cromwell tank at Hollenstadt
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  Universal Carrier at Zeven
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  52nd Lowland Division at Bremen
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  British fighting at Bremen, 1945
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  Sherman Tank at Nuremberg
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  Germans surrender to M3 Half Track
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  US 3rd Army advancing through Asch
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  Burgomaster of Niederlepte trying to negotiate surrender of Zerbst
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  German weapons and Nazi flags being surrendered at Uslar
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  US Soldier on Zeppelinfeld, Nuremburg
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  IG Farben Rubber Plant at Leuna
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  RAF raid on Berchtesgaden, 25 April 1945
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  Mustang Pilots from Berchtesgaden Raid
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  Pre-fabricated U-boat segments at Bremen
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  Unfinished U-boats at Bremen, 1945
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  Seaforth Highlanders at Bremervorde
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  British Infantry about to cross the Elbe
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  Montgomery East of the Elbe
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  Wiltshires advance towards Lubeck
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  Envoy from Field Marshal Busch
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  Surrender of Hamburg
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  General Admiral von Friedeburg signs surrender document at Luneburg
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  General Kienzel signs the surrender document at Luneburg
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  Field Marshal Montgomery reads the surrender document at Luneburg
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  3.7in anti-aircraft guns firing victory salute
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  The German surrender party at Luneburg Heath
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  21st Army Group troops listen to news of surrender
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  General John Leonard announcing the official end of the war in Europe
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  Shermans crossing the Channel, 1944-45
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  German surrender at Rheims, 7 May 1944
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  General Jodl signs the surrender at Rheims
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  Marshal Keitel signs surrender at Berlin
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  General Stumpff signs surrender at Berlin
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  Site of German Surrender, Berlin
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  Air Marshal Tedder signs German surrender, Berlin
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  Marshal Zhukov signs German surrender, Berlin
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  German POWs at Lubeck
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  German Rifles at Tangermunde
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  King's Proclamation being read on Guernsey, 1945
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  Montgomery visits Copenhagen, 1945
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  Ruins of the Berghof
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  German POWs clearing the streets of Berchtesgaden
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  Massive German POW cage
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  Guard's Armoured Division's final parade
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  US 4th Armoured Division at Landshut
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  German picture from Kommerscheidt
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  Otter Light Reconnaissance Cars in Vienna
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  British Troops in Vienna
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  Boat clearing the Hindenburg Bridge, Rudesheim
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  Crane clearing the Hindenburg Bridge, Rudesheim
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  London Irish Rifles in Austria Countryside
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  London Irish Rifles in Ebene Reichenau
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  Fortified Seafront at Scheveningen
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  German defences at Scheveningen
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  RAF Dakotas in Prague, 1945
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  RAF Regiment being briefed, Austria, 1945

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