📽️ The 12th SS #Panzer Division in action against the Canadians 🇨🇦 near the villages of Buron and Authie at the outskirts of Caen in Normandy. June 7, 1944.
#German Kriegsmarine U-564 and its crew members on the conning tower. Commanded by Reinhard Suhren during its work-up period.
The U-564 carried out 9 war patrols, sinking 18 ships before sustaining heavy damage in the Bay of Biscay in 1943.
#Germany developed several surface-to-air missile projects during #WorldWarII
but none saw operational combat before the war ended. The most famous and technologically was the supersonic Wasserfall, alongside other notable projects like the Rheintochter and Schmetterling.
#American soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 119th Infantry Regiment being captured by #German in Belgium, on 19/12/1944. This incident occurred during the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge, which was the last major German offensive on the Western Front in #WorldWarII