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After a heavy artillery barrage British troops made a night attack over the Maastricht Nord Canal, bridging it in several places to continue their adv...

Flag-draped bodies of five of a U.S. aircraft carrier's air group are buried at Sea on Nov. 13, 1944. They died in the Pacific Fleet's strike against...

Men of the Fleet Air Arm are preparing in their jungle surroundings for a decisive blow against the Japanese at a Royal Naval Air Station somewhere in...

A model of the prison used for crew briefing in France on Nov. 6, 1944. (AP Photo)

RAF blows a way of escape for French patriots. Smoke pouring from the damaged prison in Amiens, France on Nov. 6, 1944. (AP Photo)

One of the epic operation carried out by the R.A.F. during the war has now been released on February 19, 1944, a Mosquito wing of the RAF Second Tacti...

British troops, escorted by a flotilla of four British cruisers and destroyers, together with units of the Royal Hellenic Navy, landed at Piraeus, Gre...

British armour moving through Dongen during the advance on Oosterhout, North East of Breda, Netherlands, on Nov. 4, 1944. (AP Photo)

British infantrymen in their push towards the Maas advanced on Loon, a Dutch village, on the Tilburg-Sprang route. British infantry advancing on Loon...

A railway station in Cherbourg, France on Nov. 2, 1944, shows how it was blasted by aerial bombing and naval shelling in the allied rout of the Nazis....

A railway station in Cherbourg on Nov. 2, 1944 shows how it was blasted by aerial bombing and naval shelling in the allied route of the Nazis. (AP Pho...

Waterfront section of the French Port of Cherbourg lie beyond battered fortifications on hill overlooking city, manned by Germans trying to stem allie...

British Commando troops landed on the Island of Walcheren on November 1st and soon forged their way into the town of Flushing, the greater part of whi...

A British column moving across a Bailey bridge, somewhere in the Netherlands on Oct. 30, 1944. Tanks and carriers crossing the bridge while refugees t...

Having captured the Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, British troops forced a crossing over the canal on the western edge of the town. Enemy opposition was...

Having captured the Dutch Town of Hertogenbosch, British troops forced a crossing over the canal on the western edge of the town. Enemy opposition was...

R.A.F. blows a way of escape for French patriots in Amiens, France on Oct. 29, 1944. The escape breach can be seen on the right of the wall. (AP Photo...

The water cart belonging to the London Borough of Bermondsey is now doing a front line job in Normandy, keeping the dust down on the landing strips an...

Ground crew members play cards, listen to music, or just 'gab," as they relax in the Red Cross recreation room at a Dutch New Guinea air base on Oct....

Two prefabricated ports, each as big as Gibraltar were manufactured in Britain in sections, towed across the Channel, and set down off the coast of No...

Skeletons on harbor side buildings surround this dry dock in the inner harbor of Brest after capture of the French port city by allied forces on Oct....

To clear the last German resistance this side of the River Meuse, the British attacked Overloon. The attack was supported by heavy machine gun fire, a...

Britain's King George VI visited troops of the 2nd army in the Netherlands on October 12. During his tour, the King paid visits to advanced Headquarte...

In this photo provided by U.S. Army Air Forces, Japanese airplanes lie tumbled and shattered on a field at Wewak, Papua New Guinea on Oct. 11, 1944, a...

During the sixty-hour truce between the German defenders of Dunkerque, France, and the assaulting Allied forces, all civilians were evacuated from the...

In their headlong retreat the Germans have blown or damaged as many bridges as they could, but the Royal Engineers have performed marvelous feats in c...

First troops to hit Cape Sansapor spring into the surf from the mouth of a coast guard-manned LST on Oct. 6, 1944. Capture of the Japanese base on the...

A new British 7.2 howitzer is in action against the Germans at Routot, France on Oct. 4, 1944. The gun weighs ten tons, and fires a 200-pound shell up...

The new British 7.2 howitzer, weighing ten tons and firing a 200-pound shell up to 16,000 yards, recoils, in spite of hand set brakes, up specially pr...

The R.A.F. held a memorial service in the English Church at Ypres on October 1st to the memory of the fallen of the last war. The service was to have...

In their headlong retreat, the Germans have blown or damaged as many bridges as they could, but the Royal Engineers have performed marvelous feats in...

S/Sgt. Glemm Pringle, of Portland, Ore., gives a massage to Cpl. Cecil Smith, of Cleveland, Ohio, at the GI Turkish bath at Sarmi, Dutch New Guinea on...

For the third time in five days RAF bomber command attacked the German Garrison holding Calais. For nearly an hour a force of heavy bombers attacked e...

German prisoners who have been rounded up in the area around Nijmegen, Netherlands, on Sept. 24, 1944. They were mostly captured by parachutists and a...

When the British crossed the River Meuss into Holland, they were given a magnificent welcome by the people of the villages. A procession of young prie...

Children and older youths clean up rubbish in an open area of a Dutch New Guinea village on Sept. 22, 1944. Village is governed by the Netherlands Ind...

Bren Carriers of the British 49th division roll into Le Havre on Sept. 22, 1944 after the German garrison there surrendered on September 12. (AP Photo...

U.S. troops inspect a captured fortification in the Maginot line in the Lorraine sector in France on Sept. 21, 1944. Structure is pock-marked by shell...

British tank crews watch softening up aerial attack by the R.A.F. before launching their own final assault on the French port of Le Havre on Sept. 18,...

After 36 hours of furious assault, the German Garrison at Le Havre surrendered to the British 49th infantry Division at 11.30 a.m. on September 12. Br...

During the conference, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Clementine Churchill made a joint broadcast on the C.B.C. system, in which the latter said, "To...

It has been revealed that a new armoured car has been added to the allied armour in Italy and France. Staghound armoured cars, nearest the camera, and...

British Churchill flame-throwers moving up for the final storming of Brest on Sept. 13, 1944. (AP Photo)

After 36 hours of furious assault, the German Garrison at Le Havre surrendered to the British 49th Infantry Division at 11.30 a.m. on September 12. Br...

A British soldier walks in the streets of captured Argentan , in Normandy, France on Sept. 11, 1944, beside its cathedral. (AP Photo)

Falaise was finally cleared of the enemy on August 17, after stubborn resistance. During the great British and Canadian drive forward to close the esc...

Armored columns of the British Second Army in France, after a non-stop advance of 60 miles in 48 hours, entered the great industrial and railway cente...

Bailey and Pontoon bridges have now been built across the River Seine, and British troops and vehicles are now pouring across the bridges to attack th...

Bailey and pontoon bridges have now been built across the River Saiene, and British troops and vehicles are now pouring across the bridges to attack t...

Bailey and Pontoon bridges have now been built across the River Seine, and British troops and vehicles are now pouring across the bridges to attack th...