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American Infrantryman move ahead in single fire through the town of Bischweiler, Alsace, which, at the moment, was under heavy enemy fire. An American soldier lies dead in right foreground.

German prisoners are lined up against a shelled building after their surrender in the German town of Beggendorf.

Some of the Germans captured in Metz area are being brought into the town now in American hands.

First Army Medics evacuate the wounded GI's by jeep from the front lines along muddy roads and in dense woods during out advance into Germany.

Here a tank is seen being hit by a shell. A man is blown out of the top: it's a miraculous escape. He is the only man to get out alive. He is seen falling on to the back of the tank. True, he has one of his legs blown off.

Mounted on a tiger tank chassis is this formidable 15-inch howitzer. Huge gun-tank combination is the first Allied forces have captured. The tank rests on the side of a war-blasted building somewhere on the German front.

Captured in American uniforms, three German spies face execution by a firing squad after they were court martialed. Here, the spies have been tied to stakes in one of the prison compounds and blindfolded. An American MP places white markers on their chests. The Prisoners were: Cpl. Wilhelm Schmidt, 24; O/C Gunter Dilling, 21, and Sgt. Manfred Pernass, 23.

A German civilian rides the hood of a jeep as his wife sits in the rear after being taken into custody by Yanks. A Polish slave laborer reported to the Yanks that the couple beat an Allied pilot who landed out near their farm, near Borken, on the road to Fritzlar, Germany, in the Ninth Army Sector, on March 31.

Gerhardt Herrgeselle (right) and Heinz Bucholtz (right), two of Hitler's stenographers shown after their capture by U.S. 7th Army forces.

The German garrison at Amsterdam lays down its arms as the 1st Canadian Army takes over. Photo shows German troops about to hand over their rifles. At right, two Canadian soldiers watch them.

Howard Cowan (left) and Pfc. Pete Cogan, find the bath tub in Hermann Goering's bomb shattered summer home at Berchtesgaden, Germany, big enough for two men.

With the renewal of the Allies' offensive on the Western front, Canadian soldiers are moving into action with vengeance. Here is a line of machine gun riflemen opening fire on the enemy from the protection of a narrow trench.

Ducking low as enemy artillery shells whistle overhead, members of a patrol from the 8th Division, ist Army, advance over wreckage and rubble in a street in Duren, Germany. Their objective is a building nearby sheltering Germany snipers.

German prisoners march to prisoner of war camp behind the fighting front as new Allied drives move across the Roer River. Photo shows Nazi prisoners march over a pontoon bridge over the Roer constructed by American engineers.

Here is the scene of the War Room of General Dwight Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Forces in a schoolhouse in Rheims, France. Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl, new Chief of Staff of the German army under the Doenitz Regime, (with back to camera, center,) signs the document under which all remaining forces of the German army are bound to lay down their arms in unconditional surrender. On Gen. Jodl's left is Gen. Admiral von Friedeburg, of the German navy, and on his right is Maj. Wilhelm Oxinius, of the German General Staff. Allied officers across the table are, left to right: Lt. Gen. Sir F.E. Morgan; Gen. Francois Sevez; Admiral H.M. Burroughs; Lt. Gen. W.S. Smith; Maj. Gen. Ivan Susloparoff; Gen. C.A. Spaatz; Air Marshall J.M. Robb; Maj. Gen. H.R. Bull; Lt. Col. Ivan Zenkovitch.

American soldiers, killed when the German counter-attack at Chaumont, Belgiu, (5 miles from Bastogne) lie dead in the snow where they fell.

American infantrymen move through Hurtgen, scene of bitter fighting on their way to the front line.

Troops of the 2nd British Army, are shown as they looked for snipers in streets of Blerick, a suburb of Venlo on the Maas.

Infantrymen of the First Army silently move through the snow covered Krinkelter Woods in Belgium on their way to make contact with the enemy.

R/Adm. Alan G. Kirk (left), Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, and R/adm. John L. Hall, Jr. (right) meet on the Normandy beachhead and discuss the progress of the Allied invasion.