Invasion of France and the Low Countries Photographs

127 items in this album on 7 pages.


AMR 35 light tanks, France, 1940; seen in US Army film Divide and Conquer/Why We Fight #3 of 1943	Abandoned H35 light tank on the side of a road, France, May 1940

British Cruiser Mk IV tank with turret facing the rear, France, late May 1940	Do 17Z bombers over the Low Countries, May 1940

Rouen in flames during the German invasion, France, May 1940	Scuttled French Char B1 heavy tank in Beaumont, Belgium, 16 May 1940, photo 1 of 2

Belgian King Leopold III and General Henri Denis reviewing a column of T-15 light tanks, Belgium, mid-May 1940	German troops with a camouflaged 3.7 cm PaK 36 anti-tank gun in Belgium, May 1940

German vehicles and troops in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 10 May 1940	British and French prisoners of war in Belgium, May 1940

German SdKfz. 10/4 half-track vehicles with 2-cm flak guns driving through the village of Gourgançon, Marne, France, May 1940	Refugees in Enghien, Belgium, May 1940

A Dutch woman welcoming German SS troops arriving in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 1940	German troops crossing the Meuse River in a rubber raft, near Aiglemont, France, 14 May 1940

A Flak 18 gun and its crew in Belgium, May 1940; note British Morris C8 tractor and German BMW R18 and DKW NZ350 motorcycles in foreground	A wounded man and a dead girl in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 1940

German General Heinz Guderian (in SdKfz. 251/3 halftrack vehicle) speaking with General Adolf Kuntzen of 8th Panzer Division, France, May 1940	German General Heinz Guderian and other officers in Bouillon, Belgium, May 1940

German General Heinz Guderian in a SdKfz. 251/3 halftrack vehicle, France, May 1940, photo 1 of 6; note early 3-rotor Enigma machine	German General Heinz Guderian in a SdKfz. 251/3 halftrack vehicle, France, May 1940, photo 2 of 6; note early 3-rotor Enigma machine