Brittany Campaign Photographs | World War II Database


Men of Cannon Company, 9th Infantry, US Army 2nd Infantry Division shelling Brest, France with their howitzer, 1944	German prisoners of war, Saint-Malo, France, late Aug 1944

The port of Brest, France after British aerial bombardment, circa late Aug 1944	HMS Mauritius firing on German targets in Audierne Bay, France, 23 Aug 1944

Concrete U-boat pens at Brest, France showing damage sustained after bombing attacks by the British Royal Air Force, Aug 1944	Two German prisoners being taken to the 6th Division Prisoner of War Encampment, Brest, France 28 Aug 1944

US Army medics removing a casualty from the battlefield to an aid station in an air shelter, near Brest, France, 28 Aug 1944	Men of Company I, 23rd Infantry Regiment, US Army 2nd Infantry Division advancing near Brest, France, 29 Aug 1944

An 8-inch US Army field gun in action during the bombardment of Brest, France, Aug-Sep 1944	German officer prisoners being led back after talk with Allied officers near Brest, France, Sep 1944

LST-1 (right) and LST-292 high and dry on the beach at Saint-Michel-en-Greves in the Brittany region of France, Sep 1944	US Army soldiers fighting in the streets of Brest, France during the mop up operations, Sep 1944

LST-72 and LST-325 unloading directly onto trucks after being left 'high and dry' by the tide at Morlaix, France, 5 Sep 1944	Men of US Army 2nd Infantry Division advancing into Brest, France under German machine gun fire, 9 Sep 1944

A forty-foot circle hole in the roof of a U-boat pen in Brest, France which had received a direct hit during the Allied bombardment, 18 Sep 1944	German paratroopers with Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, and MP 40 submachine guns, Bretagne, France, Nov 1944; note destroyed US Sherman M4A3 tank