ETE4892344: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Dornbach (Germany) 27 March 1945: An old policeman acts as a public crier to announce the new rules of the Allied military authorities of the 1st US Armee / Bridgeman Images

ETE4892450: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Bottrop (Germany) April 30, 1945: Part of the Luftwaffe petrol complex destroyed by the bombing of the 8th USAF and RAF. Photograph taken during the capture of the city by the 79th DI of the 9th US Armee. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4893158: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Region of Cassino (Italy) January 1944: Three Moroccan Tirailleurs of the French Expeditionary Force (C.E.F) of General June at the back of the front / Bridgeman Images

ETE4893655: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): The Hague of the Well (Channel) France March 10, 1945: At the 164th General Hospital of the US Army, a sub-lieutenant of the US Army Nurses Corps plays with a little boy injured by a German mine / Bridgeman Images

ETE4893808: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Paris (France) April 20, 1945: An American infantryman who had been wounded in his hand during the capture of the Remagen Bridge leaves the 40th General Hospital of the US Army after being treated. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4893889: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Near Paris (France) July 31, 1945: At the Central Post Office of the US Army for the Theatre of Operation in Europe, a corporal WAC assigned to sorting: / Bridgeman Images

ETE4894281: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Italy around August 16, 1944: Arrival on an airfield of the 15th USAF, Allied soldiers wounded during the debarkage in Provence. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4894326: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Toulon (Var) France 27 August 1944: American soldiers of the 7th US Army gather German prisoners on the Docks of the Arsenal. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4894453: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Naples (Italy) October 1944: A local employee examines the cartons of shoes sent from the United States for the necessary Italians. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4894676: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Near Oberhofen (Alsace) February 9, 1945 - A soldier of the 79th D.I of the 7th US Army verifies if a German bazooka is not trapped. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4895791: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Great Britain November 1944: On a base of the 9th USAF in England, an American soldier recorded the wake of a German flying bomb V1. Each point corresponds to a push of the engine. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4895824: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Base of the 9th USAF France January 1945: A pilot lieutenant shows the mechanism of a Luger gun seized on a German officer. On the wall, the equipment of the soldiers: automatic M1 rifles, bowls etc... / Bridgeman Images

ETE4896013: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Tunisia May 1943: General Artillery Fritz Krause of Afrika Korps after his capture by the 2nd US Army Corps. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4896133: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Fortress of Julich (Germany) March 2, 1945: During his tour of inspection of the 9th US Army formations, General Dwight Eisenhower (Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe) in the centre with General William H. Simpson (CG of the 9th US Army, right, and the General R.E Mc Lain (CG of the 19th US Army Corps). / Bridgeman Images

ETE4896199: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Reims (Marne) August 10, 1945: At the Club du Chateau, American soldiers awaiting redeployment announce the unconditional surrender of Japan. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4896518: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): St Vith (Belgium) 23 January 1945: Soldiers of the 7th US DB degrade German officers taken prisoner. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4896605: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Brest (Finistere) France at the end of September 1944: Place Anatole France, General Troy Middleton (CG of the 8th Corps of the US Army) returns the city to Mayor Jules Lullien in the same place where the city went to German troops in 1940. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4856944: Second World War (1939-1945): Region of Concarneau (Morbihan) France August 1944 - A group of the 4th US DB “Breakthrough”” headed to the Breton city / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857006: Second World War (1939-1945): Sourdeval (Manche) France August 1944 - Air attack on German defenses carried out by fighter bombers P 47 Republic Thunderbold of the 9th USAF - Image taken of a P47 pilot by Lt Colonel D.T. Houck / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857200: Second World War (1939-1945): Saint Lo (Saint Lo) (Channel) France around July 18, 1944 - A German soldier wounds (certainly from the 352nd D.I) grimace with pain after being captured by elements of the 20th Armee Corps of the 1st U.S. Armee / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857285: Second World War (1939-1945): After the liberation of the city, an Osgood crane of the American army works in the middle of a street completely flooded by the rupture of water pipes and crowded with ruins in Valognes (Manche, France). Photography at the end of June 1944 / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857310: Second World War (1939-1945): Valognes (Manche, France) after June 21, 1944 - Aspect of the city abandoned by German troops / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857333: Second World War (1939-1945): Reims (Marne) France September 1945 - At Camp Atlanta, veterans of the 2nd US DB “Hell on Wheels” prepare to return to the United States and watch on a map the periple of their division / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857372: Second World War (1939-1945): Paris (France) August 10, 1945 - French newspapers announce that Japan has accepted its surrender under the terms of the Potsdam Conference - Allied soldiers (American sailors and British soldiers) walk in front of the Rainbow Corner building of the American Red Cross near Opera Square / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857584: Second World War (1939-1945): Frankfurt (Germany) June 10, 1945 - At the dinner in his honour, Marechal Georgui Zhukov (1896-1974) talks with American General Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) through the interpreter Lieutenant Colonel Panuhoff / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857627: Second World War (1939-1945): Frankfurt (Germany) June 10, 1945 - Arrival of Marechal Georgui Zhukov (1896-1974) / Bridgeman Images

ETE4857801: Second World War (1939-1945): Paris (France) May 23, 1945 - Two brothers, both sergeant in the US Army, take advantage of their permission to climb to the top floor of the Eiffel Tower / Bridgeman Images

ETE4858634: Second World War (1939-1945): Mulhouse (Alsace) France 23 November 1944 - An infantryman wounds from the 6th Regiment of Moroccan Tirailleurs of the 1st Armee Francaise is evacuated to a rescue post by one of his comrades / Bridgeman Images

ETE4859379: Second World War (1939-1945): Near Würzburg (Germany) around 2 April 1945. An ambulance, loaded with wounds and German prisoners captured by the 42nd D.I of the 7th US Army during the capture of the city, crosses the Main on a ferry. Photography / Bridgeman Images

ETE4859503: Second World War (1939-1945): Right Bank of the Rhine, Germany, 24 March 1945. Soldiers of the 76th D.I of the Third US Army fire mortar rounds to counter German resistance points. Photography / Bridgeman Images

ETE4859598: Second World War (1939-1945): Near Castel (Germany) March 1945. A corporal from the 26th D.I of the Third US Army looks at the Saarland River. Photography / Bridgeman Images

ETE4859907: Second World War (1939-1945): Battle of the Ardennes. Hedomont (Belgium) January 1945. Soldiers of a battalion of the genius of the 1st US Army return to their camp after detecting mines and explosive traps left by German troops in the snow. Photography / Bridgeman Images

ETE4860043: Second World War (1939-1945): Battle of the Bulge. Soy, Belgium, 26 December 1944. Elements of Lieutenant Colonel Hogan's Task Force of 3rd US DB. It was surrounded on 22 December 1944 in Marcouray and then was able to exfiltrate German lines on the night of 25 to 26 December by abandoning all their heavy equipment and joining the Allied lines. Photography / Bridgeman Images

ETE4860149: Second World War (1939-1945): Sarreguemines (France) around 11 December 1944. The debris of the railway bridge has four tracks that spans the Saarland Canal destroyed by retreating German troops. Photography / Bridgeman Images

ETE4860238: Second World War (1939-1945): liberation of Saint Die (Saint-Die) (Vosges) France 22 November 1944. Sappers from a combat detachment from the 18th Genie Reg of the 7th US Army patrol a street in search of snipers. Photography / Bridgeman Images

ETE4860331: Second World War (1939-1945): liberation of Metz (Moselle) France 20 November 1944. Infantrymen from the 95th D.I US are progressing in search of snipers. Photography / Bridgeman Images