Tag: french

Yak-3 number 24 fighter aircraft of Junior Lieutenant Jacques Andre of the “Normandie-Neman” regiment in flight. These amateur photos were taken by a friend of Jacques Andre, the junior lieutenant…

The German truck Krupp LD 3.5 M 222 passes near the French heavy tank Char B1-bis No. 209 Senegal, which was destroyed on May 19, 1940 by German anti-tank artillery…

An elderly woman walks past the ruined church and German Marder III SPG in the city of Ronse (Renaix). At the foot of the church destroyed the convoy of German…

Captured by the French the Somua S35 medium tank from the 204th Panzer Regiment (Pz.Rgt.204) of the Nazi Wehrmacht in the Battle of the Crimea. Location: Crimea, RussiaDate: 1942

Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan. French statesman and military leader, an ardent supporter of the Vichy government.During the landing of Anglo-American troops in North Africa, Jean Darlan was with the…

Yugoslav tank of the French production Renault R35 on the street in Belgrade city.The inscription on the Renault R35 tank: “For the king and fatherland.”The picture was taken on the…

American General Dwight Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley talk with a member of the French Resistance. Source: ww2db.com. Location: Normandy, FranceDate: June-August 1944

German officers of the Nazi Wehrmacht in a cafe on the street of Paris, occupied by Hitler, and Parisians.Passing by the German soldiers welcomed the Wehrmacht officers sitting in the…

Group of the Soviet prisoners of war of the Red Army (Russian PoWs) liberated by the American army from a Nazi concentration camp near the French-German border in the French…

Fighters of the French Resistance guard German military train, broken and captured by US troops.On railway platforms, German heavy tanks PzKpfw VI “Tiger” Ausf. H1 (E). The steam locomotive has…