Defeated and Paraded: German POWs Marched Through Moscow After Bagration
June 17, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
German prisoners of war, captured during Operation Bagration, march through central Moscow in one of the largest public displays of enemy defeat in WWII. Read more
Thunder of the D-1: Soviet 152mm Howitzers Strike German Lines in Belarus, 1944
June 17, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
Soviet 152-mm D-1 howitzers of the 110th Howitzer Regiment shell German positions during Operation Bagration. In the foreground: Lt. Vyacheslav S. Tsarapkin, commander of a firing platoon. Read more
Fallen Brother on Omaha Beach – A Solemn Moment of D-Day, 1944
June 9, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
A fallen American soldier is honored by his comrades with crossed rifles after the D-Day landing. Read more
Into the Jaws of Death: American Troops Land at Omaha Beach, D-Day 1944
June 9, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
E Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st U.S. Infantry Division disembarks from an LCVP landing craft from USS Samuel Chase under heavy fire. Read more
The Night Before D-Day: Eisenhower Talks to the Screaming Eagles (1944)
June 9, 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with paratroopers of the 502nd PIR, 101st Airborne Division, on the eve of D-Day.
Into the Fire: American Troops Storm Omaha Beach on D-Day (1944)
June 9, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment approach the Normandy coast aboard an LCVP during the D-Day landings. Read more
Paratrooper’s Advance: US Soldier Passes Wrecked French Tankette in Normandy
June 8, 2025 Reading time: 5 minutes
American paratrooper near a destroyed French tankette and crashed Waco CG-4 glider, Normandy, August 1944. Read more
