Photos Taken in France | World War II Database

521 items in this album on 27 pages.


Canadian Chevrolet CMP Field Artillery Tractor pulling a QF 25-pounder howitzer with limber after landing in the South of France, Sep-Oct 1944. Note LST-551 among other LSTs.	Émile Bertin at Toulon, France, Oct 1944

Late 1944 photograph of the wreckage left from the scuttling of the French fleet on 27 Nov 1942, Toulon Naval Dockyard, France. Wrecks of the Tartu, Cassard, L’Indomptable, Vautour, and Aigle can be seen.	North American P-51C Mustang converted to an F-6C photo reconnaissance plane with the 10th Photo Recon Group and assigned to Captain John H. Hoefker, St. Dizler Airfield, France, Autumn 1944.

Aerial view of 'Mulberry B', off Normandy, France, 27 Oct 1944	Aerial view of 'Mulberry B', off Normandy, France, Fall 1944. Photo 2 of 2.

German soldier with Panzerschreck weapon, near Metz, France, 27 Oct 1944	German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 after belly-landing at the American Orconte Airfield in France, Nov 1944. This plane was flown by USAAF Lt Bruce Carr who made his escape by stealing it from a German airfield in Czechoslovakia.

German paratroopers with Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, and MP 40 submachine guns, Bretagne, France, Nov 1944; note destroyed US Sherman M4A3 tank	American troops surrounded by German troops receiving D-ration chocolate bars and halazone water-purification tablets inside 105mm shells fired from howitzers, Belmont sector, France, 5 Nov 1944

Japanese-American troops of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team at Armistice Day service, Fays, France, 11 Nov 1944	Captured German military policemen and Gestapo personnel being marched to a prisoners of war camp, Strasbourg, France, 29 Nov 1944

P-38J Lightning ‘Moonlight Cock-Tail!’ of the 392nd Fighter Squadron at Juvincourt Airfield, Aisne, France, Dec 1944. Note ‘Carol’ painted on the engine cowl. This was the plane of Lt Clark R ‘Doc’ Livingston.	Remains of German soldiers, France, circa late 1944

Remains of two fallen German soldiers, France, 2 Dec 1944	Destroyed German defensive position, France, 8 Dec 1944

Machine gun post manned by men of 1st Battalion, 157th Regiment, US 45th Division, Niederbronn-les-Bains, France, 10 Dec 1944; note M1919 Browning machine gun	P-38J Lightning ‘Moonlight Cock-Tail!’ and pilot Lt Clark R ‘Doc’ Livingston of the 392nd Fighter Squadron at Juvincourt Airfield, Aisne, France, Dec 1944.

2 1/2-ton truck on fire, France, 1944-1945; the truck had been carrying an estimated 800 gallons of fuel	Aircraft wreckage, France, 1945