THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY. Operation Market Garden  Driving Toward Germany Red Ball ExpressPLUTO.

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THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY

Operation Market Garden  Driving Toward Germany Red Ball ExpressPLUTO

DRIVING TO GERMANY

RED BALL EXPRESS

Operation Market Garden  Driving Toward Germany  Montgomery’s Plan

Operation Market Garden

 Driving Toward Germany  Montgomery’s Plan  The Operation in Action, Sept

OPERATION MARKET GARDEN

ARNHEM BRIDGE

RED DEVILS IN ARNHEM

EINDHOVEN BRIDGE

Fall Offensives, 1944  Fighting the Siegfried Line Fort DriantSnake Aachen

DRAGON’S TEETH

GERMAN PILLBOX

FORT DRIANT

AACHEN

Fall Offensives, 1944  Fighting the Siegfried Line  Battle of the Hurtgen Forest

HURTGEN FOREST

BATTLE OF THE BULGE  Hitler’s Gamble

BATTLE OF THE BULGE  Hitler’s Gamble  Battle through the Ardennes, Dec Malmedy MassacreBastogne Peiperproximity fuse

BATTLE OF THE BULGE

US SOLDIERS IN THE ARDENNES

US POWS

DEAD US TROOPS

MALMEDY MASSACRE

JOACHIM PEIPER

AIRBORNE MOVE UP

BATTLE OF THE BULGE

AIR FORCE IN ACTION

AIR FORCE DESTRUCTION

GERMAN TANK

THE PLAN-THE REALITY

ERASING THE BULGE

From the Rhine to the Elbe  Soviet Offensive into Germany  The Allies Cross the Rhine Ludendorff Bridge

CROSSING THE RHINE

Germany’s Collapse

GERMAN POWs