Photos Taken in France | World War II Database

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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	Chinese General Sun Li-jen observing US 13th Airborne Division soldier operating a M18 recoilless gun, France, 1945

Drancy Concentration Camp, Paris, France, 1940s	Fallen infantryman, France, 1944-1945

US Army troops in a captured Kübelwagen in France, 1945. Note that the censors have removed the front bumper markings.	Destroyed Jagdtiger tank destroyer, near Rimling in eastern France, Jan 1945

P-38J Lighting “Val” of the 393rd Fighter Squadron sits on the snow covered Saint-Dizier Airfield in France while pilots are delivered to their planes in an unusual manner, Jan 1945	P-47D Thunderbolt of the 353rd Fighter Squadron flown by Maj Glenn T Eagleston, Squadron Commanding Officer and top ace of 9th Air Force with 18.5 kills, Rosieres en Haye Airbase, France, Feb 1945.