Timeline

1. 1924.04.01. Defendants in the Beer Hall Putsch trial
2. 1924.12.20. Adolf Hitler on his Release from Landsberg Prison
3. 1928.10.11. Showa Emperor (Hirohito) at his coronation 1928
4. 1933.09.14. Hitler Tours Destruction of Oeschelbronn, Germany
5. 1934.00.00. Vickers Light Tank Mark III
6. 1934.04.01. Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf A (SdKfz 101)  
7. 1935.07.17-21. Adolf Hitler Laughing at a Vacation in Harz Mountains
8. 1936.01.01. Italian Troops March Past Mussolini Poster in Ethiopia
9. 1936.04.05. Hermann Göring and His Lion Cub 
10. 1936.05.30. Japanese Buddhist monks during gas mask drill
11. 1936.06.13. Picture of People Giving a Nazi Salute, with August Landmesser Refusing to do so
12. 1936.06.27. Chinese generals Chiang Kai-Shek and Long Yun
13. 1936.07.02. Heinrich Himmler and SS Generals in Quedlinburg 1936
14. 1937.08.13. Japanese troops passing the Chinese city of Peiping
15. 1937.10.22. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visited Adolf Hitler at the Berghof 
16. 1938.00.00 Junkers Ju 87 A of “Legion Condor”
17. 1938.09.30. German and Italian Officials at Münich Conference
18. 1938.09.30. Neville Chamberlain's 'Peace of Our Time'
19. 1938.10.12. Panzer-Regiment 11 Celebrates its First Birthday
20. 1939.02.24. Vought-Chance SB2U-2 Vindicator
21. 1939.05.31. Legion Condor Award Ceremony in Hamburg
22. 1939.08.25. U-25 a Few Days Before the Outbreak of the War
23. 1939.09.03. German panzers in Poland
    
24. 1939.09.18. A Destroyed Panzerkampfwagen 35(t) in Poland 
25. 1939.09.19. The Remain of Prinz von Ratibor's Panzer IV After the Battle
26. 1939.09.25. Hitler arrived at an airfield near Warsaw in Poland
    
27. 1939.09.29. British soldiers going to the front
28. 1939.12.18. British POW with Luftwaffe Soldiers
29. 1939.12.20. Press Conference after the Air Battle in Wilhelmshaven
30. 1940.01.01. Soviet BT-5 Tanks Knocked Out During the Winter War
31. 1940.03.10. Germany's Heroes Remembrance Day 1940
    
32. 1940.03.11. The Sinking of U-31 off Wilhelmshaven 
33. 1940.03.16. Luftwaffe Attack on Scapa Flow
    
34. 1940.04.00. Skoda 35 tank Kompanie wait in a wood for the opening of Blitzkrieg 
35. 1940.04.01. Crusader Mark I Cruiser Tanks  
36. 1940.04.13. Junkers Ju 52 After Landing on the Hartvigvann-Lake
37. 1940.04.30. Dutch Military Motorcyclists during Parade
    
38. 1940.05.00. Messerschmitt Bf 109 of LG 2 Belly Landed at Liege
39. 1940.05-06.00. 6. Panzer-Division Tanks in France 1940  
40. 1940.05.10. Dutch soldiers surrender at Lutterhoofdwijk
41. 1940.05.11. Bombing of Blauwburgwal Canal in Amsterdam
42. 1940.05.13. LSSAH Troops Crossing the River Meuse Near Mook 
43. 1940.05.13. Ritterkreuz Award Ceremony for Sturm-Abteilung "Koch"
44. 1940.05.14. Dutch Soldier negotiating the capitulation in 1940
45. 1940.05.15. Luftwaffe Kriegsberichter Recorded German Movement at Dinant 
46. 1940.05.16. German military convoy in Amsterdam
47. 1940.05.16. Motor units of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler at Amsterdam
48. 1940.05.26. Tanks of 6. Panzer Division Advance Toward Cassel 
49. 1940.06.01. Oberleutnant Karl Hanke in a Panzerkampfwagen IV  
50. 1940.06.01. Panzer 38(t) and Panzer II on the Move
51. 1940.06.03-06. Hitler With His Staff, June 1940
52. 1940.06.14. General Kurt von Briesen Reviewing His Troops in Paris Parade
53. 1940.06.18.Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Münich, June 1940 
54. 1940.06.26. Award Ceremony of Pionier-Bataillon 221
55. 1940.07.19. Newly Promoted Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
56. 1940.08.03. 554. Infanterie-Division at Donaueschingen
57. 1940.08.12. Bf 109s of JG 53 vs Hurricanes of No.145 Squadron
58. 1940.09.14. Luftwaffe Ace Hauptmann Rolf Pingel
59. 1940.10.01. German Armored Parade in Oslo
    
60. 1940.10.14. Bus Trapped in the Crater at Balham Station
61. 1940.11.00. U-34 Training Submarine
62. 1940.11.01. Panzerkampfwagen II ausf C on Manoeuvre
63. 1940.11.13. Reception for Soviet's Foreign Minister at Hotel Kaiserhof
    
64. 1940.11.18. Hermann Göring Visit "Der Sieg im Westen" Exhibition
65. 1940.12.00. Emblem of U-93
66. 1940.12.24. Adolf Galland Waiting for the Führer 
67. 1941.00.00. Member of 250. Infanterie-Division (División Azul)
68. 1941.01.00. Wilhelm Haehnelt as Generalleutnant in January 1941
69. 1941.01-08. SS Soldiers Playing with Squirrel
70. 1941.01.31. Frostbite Experiments of Unit 1855
71. 1941.03.01. Panzerkampfwagen III in Libya
72. 1941.03.13. Former German Heavyweight Boxer Max Schmeling as a Fallschirmjäger
73. 1941.03.15. Stern of Battleship Bismarck 
74. 1941.03.24. M13/40 Tanks of the VII Battaglione, Ariete Armored Division 
75. 1941.04-09.00. A column of German Wehrmacht paraded in Paris
76. 1941.04.05. Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf G and Ausf H in Bulgaria 
77. 1941.04.09. Panzerkampfwagen III Crews at Rest and Playing Cards  
78. 1941.04.09. Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf E of 13. Panzer-Division 
79. 1941.04.13 German victory parade in Belgrade
80. 1941.04.13. 11. Panzer-Division Rests During Yugoslavian Campaign 
81. 1941.04.17. First German POWs in North Africa
    
82. 1941.04.20. The capitulation of Greek forces to SS Leibstandarte
83. 1941.05.00. Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.D tanks of Panzer-Abteilung 65
84. 1941.05.01. Panzerkampfwagen IVs of the Afrika Korps
85. 1941.05.11. Dutch SS ceremony in Utrecht Netherlands
86. 1941.05.20. German Paratrooper during Operation Mercury
87. 1941.05.20. German Paratroopers rests at Crete
88. 1941.05.31. Fallschirmjäger Officers at Heraklion
    
89. 1941.06-12.00. Leutnant Helmut Ritgen Collecting his Lunch from Field Kitchen
90. 1941.06.00. Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf.J Medium Tank Negotiating a River Crossing
91. 1941.06.21. Erich Brandenberger and Erich von Manstein a Day Before Operation Barbarossa
92. 1941.06.21. German Tank Convoy Near the Soviet Border
93. 1941.06.23. Char B1 Flammenwerfer Before Operation Barbarossa
94. 1941.06.26. German Soldiers Move into Burning Russian Villages
95. 1941.06.30. Execution of Brave Russian Prisoners
96. 1941.07.00. Cheerful Divisional Personnel Pose with a Wrecked Soviet T-28B tank
97. 1941.07.00. Oberstleutnant Erich Freiherr von Seckendorff Observes The Battlefield
98. 1941.07.01. German Troops Prepare to Clear Houses
99. 1941.07.01. Panzerkampfwagen 35(t) of 6. Panzer-Division
100. 1941.07.01. Sturmgeschutz III ausf B (SdKfz 142) Fords a River
101. 1941.07.02. Erwin Rommel visiting Sollum Front
     
102. 1941.07.06. Tank-Infantry Cooperation with Panzer 35(t) at Pskov
103. 1941.07.18. German Troops Remove Communist Red Star
104. 1941.07.19. U-553 Returned From Successful Patrol
105. 1941.07.26. Damaged Aircraft of Feldwebel Heinrich Klöpper
106. 1941.08.00. Generaloberst Hoepner With Officers of 6. Panzer-Division in Leningrad
107. 1941.08.10. LSSAH NCO Helmut Burose Attack A Soviet Armoured Vehicle
108. 1941.08.12. RAF Blenheim After Bombing Goldenburg Power Station, Cologne
109. 1941.08.12. RAF Blenheims Attack Fortuna Power Station in Cologne
110. 1941.08.25. Ritterkreuz Award Ceremony for Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche
111. 1941.09-11. Front-Line Conference of Wolfram von Richthofen and Richard Koll
112. 1941.09.00. Red Army Soldiers Ride Panzer III  
113. 1941.09.01. Generale Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen and Otto von Knobelsdorff 
114. 1941.09.01. German Motorcycle Immobilized by Russian Mud
115. 1941.09-10. U-83 in the North Atlantic During its Second Patrol
116. 1941.10.00. 6. Panzer-Division Panzer Convoy
117. 1941.10.00. Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4 of Feldwebel Fritz Dinger
118. 1941.10.00. Oberst Richard Koll in his Panzerbefehlswagen III 'RO6'
119. 1941.10.00. Tanks of Panzer Brigade Koll
120. 1941.10.02. A Column of Armour from Panzer-Brigade "Koll" at Vyazma 
121. 1941.10.02. Panoramic View of the Battle of Vyazma
122. 1941.10.02. Panzerbefehlswagen III 'RO6' of Oberst Richard Koll in a Russian Village
123. 1941.10.02. PzBefw.III of Oberst Richard Koll at the Battle of Vyazma 
124. 1941.10.06. Luftwaffe POW officer with British Sergeant
     
125. 1941.10.07. Wounded SS With StuG and Destroyed T-34
126. 1941.10.09. Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster I Flying in the Sky 
127. 1941.10.16. German Troops Inspect Soviet Trenches Along the Volkhov River
128. 1941.10.20. Hans-Ulrich Rudel at the Honor Goblet Presentation
129. 1941.11.01-06. French soldiers of the Légion des Volontaires Français  
130. 1941.11.24. Rommel With 15. Panzer-Division Between Tobruk and Sidi Omar 
131. 1941.12.01-09. The Youngest Soldier of French Legion
132. 1941.12.03. German tank crew surrendered to New Zealand troops
133. 1941.12.07. Radiogram "Air Raid, Pearl Harbor, This Is Not Drill"
     
134. 1941.12.07. Nakajima B5N2 Type 97 Attack Bomber Shot Down at Hospital Point, Pearl Harbor
135. 1941.12.07. Small Boat Rescues Sailor from USS West Virginia (BB-48)  
136. 1941.12.07. USS Maryland (BB-46) and Capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37)  
137. 1941.12.07. USS Shaw (DD-373) Destroyed in Floating Drydock YFD-2
138. 1941.12.07. "Battleship Row" after Pearl Harbor Attack
     
139. 1941.12.07. Wrecked B-17C Flying Fortress at Hickam Field
140. 1941.12.08. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Signs the Declaration of War Against Japan 
141. 1941.12.20. Award ceremony of Romanian medal to Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
142. 1941.12.23. Panzer-Regiment 201 Receives its First German Tanks
143. 1941.12.25. Generalmajor Ramcke with His Family in the Christmas of 1941
144. 1942.01.00. Panzerkampfwagen III During the Soviet Winter 
145. 1942.01.01. 14th Engineers (Philippine Scouts) Wire Railroad Bridge For Demolition 
146. 1942.01.01. Crusader Tanks in North Africa  
147. 1942.01.01. Japanese Imperial Army During The Advance On Luzon
148. 1942.01.01. M13/40 of Italian XX Armored Corps in North Africa
149. 1942.01.01. RAF 15 Squadron Short Stirlings in Flight
150. 1942.01.12. Ritterkreuz Recipient Heinrich "Hein" Springer  
151. 1942.01.16. Indian Sailor Begs for Water After his Ship was Sunk
152. 1942.01-03. A Messerschmitt Me 210 from Ergänzungsstaffel Zerstörergeschwader 1 (ZG 1)
153. 1942.03.01. KNIL soldiers with captured Japanese flag
154. 1942.03.08. The surrender of the Dutch forces to the Japanese at Kalidjati
155. 1942.03.13. Japanese American Grocery Proclaims "I Am An American"
156. 1942.04.05. San Petro Internees Arrive at Santa Anita Assembly Center
157. 1942.04.06. Japanese Americans Queue for Transport to Santa Anita Assembly Center
158. 1942.04.09. Banzai Celebration of Japanese Forces at Bataan
159. 1942.04.10. Lieutenant Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare in His Cockpit
160. 1942.04.11. Allied Prisoners of War Sort Confiscated Equipment on Bataan
161. 1942.04.24. Japanese-Americans at Manzanar War Relocation Center
162. 1942.05.01. P-40E Warhawk of 11th Fighter Squadron
163. 1942.05.06. Japanese Tanks on Corregidor 
164. 1942.05.22. Four of the Best Pilots From Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51) "Mölders"
165. 1942.05.27. Doris Miller Receives the Navy Cross from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
166. 1942.05.31. American POWs Reenact Surrender of Corregidor to Imperial Japanese Army
167. 1942.06.01. M3 Medium Tanks at Fort Knox
168. 1942.06.03. Marines at General Quarters, Dutch Harbor, Alaska
169. 1942.06.04. Destroyers Stand By to Pick Up Survivors as USS Yorktown is Abandoned
170. 1942.06.04. USS Yorktown After Bomb Hits in the Battle of Midway
171. 1942.06.04. USS Yorktown (CV-5) Lists After Two Torpedoes
172. 1942.06.04. Flight Deck of USS Yorktown After Being Hit by the Japanese
     
173. 1942.06.05. Renzo Kita, Last Moment of Admiral Yamaguchi
174. 1942.06.16. U-455 Return From Her Patrol At St. Nazaire
175. 1942.06.18. German Pioneer Attempting to Demolish Turret No.2 of Fort Maxim Gorky
176. 1942.06.18. The Remains of Russian Tanks Collected by the Germans  
177. 1942.06.21. Small Briefing of German Officers Before Stalingrad
178. 1942.06.28. Portrait Photo of Hans-Joachim Marseille
179. 1942.07.01. Panzer IVs Pass Knocked Out Universal Carrier 
180. 1942.07.01. Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf.N During a Lull in Combat  
181. 1942.07.04. American Prisoners of War Celebrate the Fourth of July at Camp Casisang
182. 1942.07.12. Politruk Alexey Yeremenko Counterattacking Enemy Positions  
183. 1942.07.16. German Soldier Playing With a Cat
184. 1942.08.00. A column of German POWs on the Nevsky Prospekt in Leningrad
185. 1942.08.01. German Soldiers March To The Front In Fall Blau
186. 1942.08.09. 1. Panzer-Armee Advances on the Caucasus Mountains
187. 1942.08.10. German and Finnish Officers at a Ferry on Lake Ladoga
188. 1942.08.10. "Wake - Beach of Bayonets" Propaganda Poster 
189. 1942.08.24. Japanese Bomb Impacts USS Enterprise During Battle of the Eastern Solomons
190. 1942.08.25. U-218 in Kiel Harbor Leaving for Kristiansand
191. 1942.09.00. New Focke-Wulf Fw 190 For JG 51
192. 1942.09.03. Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp with his Fox Terrier dog 
193. 1942.09.15. Victory Marking of U-155
194. 1942.09.16. HZL Aircrew Celebrating the Unit's 1,000th Sortie Over the Eastern Front
195. 1942.09.19. Luftwaffe Troops at Stalingrad
196. 1942.09.21. German Soldier Rides a Camel on the Russian Front  
197. 1942.09.24. Award Ceremony of Croatian Volunteers in the Outskirts of Stalingrad
198. 1942.09.29 Maneuvers of British Armored Division
199. 1942.10.00. P-51 Mustang being prepared for test flight
200. 1942.10.01. B-17F Flying Fortress at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach Plant
201. 1942.10.01. Unteroffizier Gerhard Proske from Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54)
202. 1942.10.08. Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Alexander von Hartmann at Stalingrad
203. 1942.10.15. Ritterkreuz award ceremony of Wilhelm Knetsch at Stalingrad
204. 1942.10.16. German Pioneer Officer at the Ruins of Stalingrad
205. 1942.10.16. German troops push into Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad
206. 1942.10.26. Nakajima B5N2 Passes USS Northampton (CA-26)
207. 1942.11.01. Sergeant William Watts Manning B-24D Liberator Tunnel Machine Gun
208. 1942.11.01. Soldiers in Bunks on Army Transport S.S. Pennant
209. 1942.11.01. US Marine Mortar Squad on the Matanikau
210. 1942.11.04. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma Surrender to Bernard Montgomery 
211. 1942.11.06. U-125 Returning to Lorient
212. 1942.11.11. Oberleutnant Winkler Gives Order Near the Barrikady Factory Stalingrad
213. 1942.11.23. Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf N Unloaded in North Africa
214. 1942.11.27. German Armour Entering the French harbour of Toulon  
215. 1942.11.30. The grave of Oberleutnant Joachim Sonntag at Rzhev
216. 1942.12.01. "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" Watch American Wounded Rest
217. 1942.12.01. Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf G Abandoned by Their Crews 
218. 1942.12.01. USS Alabama (BB-60) Anchored at Lynn Haven
219. 1942.12.12-23. Panzergrenadiers with the Wrecked T-34 
220. 1942.12.25 The first Christmas of SS Division "Prinz Eugen"
221. 1943.01.00. Karl Dönitz Studying Maps at Kriegsmarine Headquarter
222. 1943.01.00. Messerschmitt Bf 109 of Feldwebel Hans Döbrich
223. 1943.01.00. Oberst Walther von Hünersdorff Discussing Strategy
224. 1943.01.01. M3 Stuart Light Tank in North Africa
225. 1943.01.01. Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf N of Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501
226. 1943.01.18. British SAS Just Back From a Three Month Patrol
227. 1943.01.20. Captain Robert L. Faurot, 39th Fighter Squadron, US Army Air Corps 
228. 1943.01.20. Men of SS Prinz Eugen Riding On a Hotchkiss H-39 During Operation Weiss
229. 1943.01.22. General Montgomery Planning the Final Assault on Tripoli
230. 1943.01.24. Giraud and de Gaulle Shaking Hands at Casablanca Conference
231. 1943.01.31. Generalleutnant Carl Rodenburg Photographed at Stalingrad
232. 1943.02.10. B-24D Liberator of 308th Bomb Group Passes P-40Ks of 23rd Fighter Group
233. 1943.02.14. Crew of C-47 "Early Delivery"
234. 1943.02.27. Captured Afrikakorps after the Battle of Sened Station
235. 1943.03.04. Messerschmitt Me 210 A-1 “2N+LT” Crash Landed at Gerbini
236. 1943.03.06. Extraordinary Tank Hunter Werner Wrangel
237. 1943.03.06. Günther Rall and His Men with Unit Mascot
238. 1943.03.17. B-17 Flying Fortress "Invasion 2nd" at Training Session
239. 1943.03.19. Adolf Hitler Inspecting Dora
240. 1943.03.21. Marder II "Kohlenklau" of Unteroffizier Helmut Kohlke
241. 1943.03.22. Artur Phleps and Kurt Waldheim at Yugoslavia
242. 1943.04.00. Oberstleutnant Karl-Gottfried Nordmann, Luftwaffe Ace  
243. 1943.04-05. Panther Ausf.D Medium Tanks on Rail Cars Waiting to be shipped to the Front 
244. 1943.04-10. Panzer Commanders of Das Reich and LSSAH
245. 1943.04.04. Adolf Hitler Inspecting Gustav
246. 1943.04.17. U-Boat Crew Yelled for Help after his Ship was Sunk
247. 1943.04.18. U-37 Returned to the Base at Wilhelmshaven 
248. 1943.04.20. Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Major Wilhelm Eggemann
     
249. 1943.04.21. Ritterkreuz Award Ceremony for Gefreiter Werner Rausch
250. 1943.04.27. Heinz Guderian Visiting Tiger Company of SS Leibstandarte
251. 1943.05.09. Launching of US Submarine USS Robalo (SS-273)  
252. 1943.05.12. German prisoners at Enfidaville Tunisia
253. 1943.05.13. German Generals Captured in Tunisia
254. 1943.05.17. Sir Arthur Harris Debriefing Guy Gibson's Crew After Dambusters Raid
255. 1943.06.01. Boeing XB-29 Superfortress in Flight
256. 1943.06.07. Visit of General Lüters to Prinz Eugen Division
257. 1943.06.14. KNIL marching in Australia
258. 1943.06.30. US Army 43rd Infantry Division, 172nd Regiment Lands on Rendova
259. 1943.07.01. Self-Propelled Howitzer "Hummel" at the Battle of Kursk
260. 1943.07.06. Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf G tanks on the Move 
261. 1943.07.09. B-25D Mitchell "Lady Jane" of 23rd Antisubmarine Squadron
262. 1943.07.11. Robert Rowan explodes off the coast of Gela Sicily
263. 1943.07.19. Benito Mussolini Speaks with Wilhelm Keitel at Feltre Airfield
264. 1943.07.22. Wing Commander Guy Gibson (Dambusters Raid) With His Crew
265. 1943.07.23. Australian soldiers at the Battle of Mount Tambu
266. 1943.07.30. Corporal Bull Allen carrying wounded soldier at Mount Tambu
267. 1943.08.13. Tiger Commander of sPz.Abt.503 Confers With "Totenkopf" Panzergrenadiers
268. 1943.09.00. Children Playing with Panzer Tiger in Italy
269. 1943.09.04. Canadian tanks landed at Reggio Calabria
270. 1943.09.07. VMF-214 "Black Sheep" at Espiritu Santo
271. 1943.09.10. Hans Lex Award Ceremony
272. 1943.09.27. Tank of SS Division Prinz Eugen in Split Croatia during Operation Axis
273. 1943.10.01. German Fallschirmjäger on the Italian Front 
274. 1943.10.04. Tiger #332 Stuck in the Mud (Recovery Training)
275. 1943.11.09. Muslim Members of Handschar Division at Prayer during their Training in Germany
276. 1943.11.12. RAF Supermarine Spitfire Vb at Kenley Airfield 
277. 1943.11.24. M3 Medium Tank Crew of 1st Armored Division Displays 75mm Ammunition
278. 1943.11.28. WASPs Receive Final Instructions Before Flying B-26 Marauder
279. 1943.12.31. B-17 Flying Fortresses Strike Bois-Colombes
280. 1943.12.24. Coast Guard LST Heads for Cape Gloucester with Elements of 1st Marine Division
281. 1944.00.00. A Rider Delivers Mail to Nashorn Crew
282. 1944.00.00. Crew of B-24J 44-40783 Photographed in Front of "Tough Titti"
283. 1944.01.01. Churchill AVRE with Small Box Girder Bridge and Churchill Crocodile  
284. 1944.01.01. Memorial Service in Prisoner of War Heito Camp #3, Formosa
285. 1944.01.01. NCR N-530 Bombe Enigma Decryption Machine
286. 1944.01.02. 44 Squadron Lancaster Warms Up  
287. 1944.01.10. 1st Marine War Dog Platoon and 2nd Marine Raider Regiment on Bougainville
288. 1944.01.14. Marine War Dog and Handler
289. 1944.01.14. Ritterkreuz award ceremony for panzer ace Michael Wittmann and Bobby Woll
290. 1944.01.28. Pilots of Tuskegee Airmen Discusses Air Action Over Anzio 
291. 1944.02.19. 22nd Marines Get Coffee Aboard USS Middleton
292. 1944.02.19. A Marine with Thousand Yard Stare
293. 1944.03.01. German self-propelled gun Sturmpanzer IV "Brummbär"
294. 1944.03.19. A-20G Havoc attacks Japanese Taiei Maru ship
     
295. 1944.03.31 Two US ground crew paint Easter message to the bomb
296. 1944.04.01. Prototype 37mm Flakpanzer IV "Möbelwagen"
297. 1944.04.05. New Zealand soldiers drinks tea in Cassino
298. 1944.04.11. Crew of B-17G "Flatbush Floogie" is Captured
299. 1944.04.20. Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring at the Demonstration of Hetzer
300. 1944.04.20. Crew of U-198 Before Her Second Patrol
301. 1944.05.00. Panther from Wiking Bogged Down in Thick Mud
302. 1944.05-06. Panthers of Wiking Division in Maciejewo 
303. 1944.05.12. US Marines Disembark from LVT-1 Amtrac at Guam Landing Training 
304. 1944.05.13. Practice jump before D-Day
305. 1944.05.14. French Troops During the Fighting of the Italian Campaigns
306. 1944.05.14. Panther of Wiking Division at SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager
307. 1944.05.15. Major Jimmy Stewart Receives Air Medal
308. 1944.05.18. British Commonwealth troops with captured Nazi flag at Monte Cassino
309. 1944.05.18. New Zealand tank crew at Cassino
310. 1944.05.19. B-17G Destroyed by Bomb Strike From Above
311. 1944.05.20. A change of command ceremony of SS Division Wiking
312. 1944.05.25. German Glider at Operation Rösselsprung
313. 1944.05.25. SS Paratroopers with captured British and US flags
314. 1944.05.27. Consolidated B-24D Liberator "First Sergeant"  
315. 1944.05.27. Officers of Hitlerjugend Division Posing Together at Fritz Witt's Birthday
316. 1944.06.03. Italian refugees with New Zealand soldier
317. 1944.06.03. US Rangers Aboard their Landing Craft Before Normandy Invasion
318. 1944.06.05. American paratrooper before D-Day
319. 1944.06.05. General Eisenhower chats with Paratroopers before D-Day
320. 1944.06.05. German Generals Ernst Philipp, Hans Schlemmer and Helmut Staedke
321. 1944.06.05. Soldiers of 502nd PIR donning the equipment before D-Day
322. 1944.06.06. U.S. assault team landing at Omaha Beach
323. 1944.06.06. Private Jim Flanagan with captured German flag on the morning of D-Day
324. 1944.06.06. Canadian AA Crew with Bofors Gun in Normandy on D-Day
325. 1944.06.06. Korean Yang Kyoungjong Captured in Wehrmacht Uniform
326. 1944.06.06. French Minister Henriot Speech in Berlin
327. 1944.06.07. Adolf Hitler Studying The Allied Landing at D-Day
328. 1944.06.07. Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf H of 12. SS-Panzer-Division 
329. 1944.06.08. 2nd New Zealand Division's personnel sorting out maps
330. 1944.06.09. Max Wünsche and 12th SS Soldiers at Rots Normandy
     
331. 1944.06.11. Marauder II Bombs Banja Luka Yugoslavia 
332. 1944.06.14. Tiger #222 Taking Tiger #231 in Tow After a Breakdown
333. 1944.06.15. Captured Foreign Volunteers in the German Army
334. 1944.06.17. V-1 Strikes Battersea, London
335. 1944.06.18. 1944 German Football Championship Final
336. 1944.06.20. 12. SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend" Panther Ausf G 
337. 1944.06.25. John Crocker and Rod Keller in Normandy
338. 1944.06.26. V-1 Over England
339. 1944.06.27. The "Last Stand" Defender of Cherbourg
340. 1944.06.30. V-1 Hits the Aldwych, London  
341. 1944.07.01. Flakpanzer IV (3.7cm FlaK) Ostwind
342. 1944.07.01. P-51s of 352nd Fighter Group Escort B-24Js of 458th Bomb Group
343. 1944.07.02. A Japanese Dive Bomber Shot Down Near Truk
344. 1944.07.05. Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Lawton Collins
345. 1944.07.07. Finnish Sturmgeschütz crew
346. 1944.07.08. Oberleutnant Franz Ludwig Discussing Strategy With His Men
347. 1944.07.11. German soldiers surrender at Vilnius Lithuania
348. 1944.07.16 Three German commanders in St.-Lô area
349. 1944.07.18. 26th QMC War Dog Platoon on Biak
350. 1944.07.22. SS NCO Ferdinand Breitfelder with Captured British Weapon
351. 1944.07.22. Wiking Officers Strolling at Nurzec rail station
     
352. 1944.07.25. Studio Portrait of Luftwaffe Ace Wilhelm Batz
353. 1944.07.28. British General John Crocker with visiting Soviet delegation
354. 1944.07.29. American Troops Stand Guard Behind German POW at Le Gast
355. 1944.07.29. Coast Guard LST Follows LCIs to Cape Sansapor
356. 1944.07.31. 3rd Marine Division Searches Agana for Japanese Survivors
357. 1944.07.31. King George VI during award ceremony for Canadian soldiers in Italy
358. 1944.08.00. Adolf Hitler and Wachtmeister Arthur Adam
359. 1944.08.00. Reichsbahn Personnel Wearing Camo
360. 1944.08.01. Adolf Hitler Second Visit to the Victims of the 20 July 1944 Plot
361. 1944.08.01. Adolf Hitler Visiting His Adjutant Heinrich Borgmann
362. 1944.08.01. Americans Approach Panther Ausf A in Periers, France 
363. 1944.08.01. Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf H in Poland
364. 1944.08.01. Portrait Photo of Karl Ullrich After Award Ceremony
365. 1944.08.01. Reception of Leading NS Officers by Adolf Hitler
366. 1944.08.01. Schwertern Award Ceremony For Rainer Stahel
367. 1944.08.02. Fieseler Fi-103 V-1 in Flight
368. 1944.08.02. Luftwaffe General Werner Kreipe and Eckhard Christian
369. 1944.08.02-03. German Soldiers Looking for Low-Flying Enemy Aircraft
     
370. 1944.08.03. 155mm "Long Tom" Fires at Japanese on Guam
371. 1944.08.03. Destroyed Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.J in Normandy  
372. 1944.08.04. Hitler Assembles The Reichsleiter and Gauleiter After July 1944 Attempt
373. 1944.08.05. Ion Antonescu and Adolf Hitler Met for the Last Time
374. 1944.08.09. A Young SS Hitlerjugend Soldier Captured by the Canadian at Normandy
375. 1944.08.09. Otter Scout Car of 4th Armored Division, II Canadian Corps 
376. 1944.08.10. M-2 Wildcats and F4U Corsairs at Daugherty Field, Long Beach, California
377. 1944.08.10. RAF 5 Group Lancaster Attacks Bordeaux Refinery
378. 1944.08.10. Sepp Dietrich Before Brillanten Award Ceremony
379. 1944.08.10. Sepp Dietrich After Brillanten Award Ceremony
380. 1944.08.10. Sepp Dietrich Received by Hitler
381. 1944.08.10. Sepp Dietrich Receiving Brillanten from Hitler
382. 1943.08.10. Tiger of Großdeutschland with Two Soldiers and Captured Soviet Anti-Tank Guns
383. 1944.08.11. Jedburgh Special Forces Board B-24D Liberator
384. 1944.08.15. Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf H (SdKfz 161) of 3.SS Panzer-Division "Totenkopf"
385. 1944.08.17. General Philippe Leclerc and French Tank Crew
386. 1944.08.20. Captured of General der Infanterie Ferdinand Neuling
     
387. 1944.08.20. Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer" of Heeresgruppe Sudukraine
388. 1944.08.21. American Soldier Inspects Panther Ausf A
389. 1944.08.26. Captured German Kübelwagen in the liberation of Paris
390. 1944.08.28. Heer officer served in Luftwaffe Field Division
391. 1944.08.29. General Alfred Gutknecht captured by the US
392. 1944.08.30. Abandoned "Porscheturm" Königstiger of s.Pz.Abt.503 in Normandy
     
393. 1944.09-10. A Heinkel He 111 Rolling Towards its Heavily Guarded Revetment
394. 1944.09-10. A V-1 With Very Unusual Camouflage Pattern
395. 1944.09-11. SS Anti-Tank in Action at Transylvania
396. 1944.09.00. PK Cameraman Made a Footage of Fw 190
397. 1944.09.01. Abandoned Königstiger of schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101
     
398. 1944.09.01. Briefing African-American Pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group  
399. 1944.09.01. Captain Andrew D. Turner, 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group 
400. 1944.09.01. Ground Crew Affix Fuel Tank to P-51C Mustang 
401. 1944.09.01. PFC John T. Fields Checks Ammunition on P-51B Mustang
402. 1944.09.03. Charles Foulkes and Harry Crerar in Dieppe France
403. 1944.09.08. General Oliver Leese speaking with Canadian NCO in Italy
404. 1944.09.15. Jagdpanther of schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 559 
405. 1944.09.17. Two of Eighteen Allied POWs Rescued by USS Queenfish (SS-393)
406. 1944.09.18. British Paratroopers with German Prisoner at Arnhem
407. 1944.09.18. German SS Prisoners at Arnhem
408. 1944.09.19. General Hermann Plocher Arrived at Milsbeek 
409. 1944.09.28. Nijmegen, Netherlands After Operation Market-Garden
410. 1944.10.--. Karl Nicolussi-Leck on the Cupola of his Panther #801 
411. 1944.10.01. British Churchill Mark VIII Tank
412. 1944.10.14. Panther Ausf A Destroyed by XIX Tactical Air Command 
413. 1944.10.15. Königstiger Occupying a Street Intersection in Budapest
414. 1944.10.15. SS Soldiers With Captured Hungarian War Machines in Buda Castle
415. 1944.10.17. Royal Hamilton Light Infantry During the Battle of the Scheldt
416. 1944.10.20. Destroyed Catholic Church at Dulag, Leyte
417. 1944.10.20. Wounded 7th Cavalry Tankers Receive First Aid
418. 1944.10.21. US Army General Douglas MacArthur's Second Landing on Leyte 
419. 1944.10.29. British war correspondent in the Netherlands
420. 1944.11.--. SS-Sturmbannführer Luis Thaler with Waffen-Obersturmbannführer Armando Giorleo
421. 1944.11.24. The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 "Waddy's Wagon"
422. 1944.12.11. M4 Sherman Mine Exploder T1E3 Clears A Road in Beggendorf
423. 1944.12.16. Wounded SS soldier during the Battle of the Bulge
424. 1944.12.18. American Soldiers of the 99th Infantry Division March Into Captivity
425. 1944.12.18. Gloster Meteor F.3 of Royal Air Force 616 Squadron in Flight 
426. 1944.12.21. PT Boat Crewman Lathers Up with Soap Prior to Salt Water Bath 
427. 1944.12.22. Luftwaffe Ace Gerhard Tyben Receiving The Knight's Cross
428. 1944.12.25. Coldstream Guards' Sherman Firefly IC Guards Bridge at Namur
429. 1944.12.27. Messerschmitt Bf 109 is “Blaue 15” of Leutnant Lehmann
430. 1944.12.27. Panther Ausf G Abandoned in the Ardennes
431. 1944.12.29. Destroyed American War Machines Near Bastogne
432. 1945.01.01. American Armada at Ulithi Atoll
433. 1945.01.02. Eichenlaub award ceremony for Panzer Ace Otto Carius
434. 1945.01.06. USS Columbia (CL-56) Hit by Kamikaze Attack
435. 1945.01.07-12. Fritz Vogt and Fritz Darges in Front of Hegykastely Castle
436. 1945.01.14. 44th Evacuation Hospital Orderlies Carry Malmedy Victim on Stretcher
437. 1945.01.18. Abandoned Königstiger of schwere Panzer-Abteilung 506
438. 1945.01.19. German prisoners trudge past a British Sherman tank at Höngen
439. 1945.01.24. Sherman Tanks of 7th Armored in St. Vith
440. 1945.01.26. U.S. M8 Greyhound Near the German Border
441. 1945.02.01. Reactor B at the Hanford Engineer Works
442. 1945.02.03. M24 Chaffee of 18th Cavalry Squadron
443. 1945.02.05. First Ledo Road Convoy to Reach Kunming, China
444. 1945.02.09. Douglas MacArthur Inspects Damage to Stotsenburg Station Hospital 
445. 1945.03.16. Coning Tower Test Using U-2330
446. 1945.02.18. Platoon of 4th Marine Division Briefed on Iwo Jima on Attack Transport 
447. 1945.02.20. A Marine Artillery Observer on Iwo Jima
448. 1945.02.20. Marine Naps While War Dog Stands Guard 
449. 1945.02.20. Wounded Marines Are Helped to an Aid Station by Navy Corpsmen
450. 1945.02.23. First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima
451. 1945.02.23. Raising the American Flag on Iwo Jima
452. 1945.03.20. Adolf Hitler Congratulating Hitlerjugend Boys 
453. 1945.03.20. M-12 Tank was Called Upon to Blast Enemy Defenses at Siegfried Line 
454. 1945.03.23. Jagdtiger Abandoned in Neustadt
455. 1945.03.24. German Town Destroyed During Operation Varsity  
456. 1945.03.25. B-17G Flying Fortress "Big Yank"
457. 1945.03.27. USS West Virginia (BB-48) Shoots Down a Japanese Kamikaze Plane
458. 1945.04.01. A Knocked-Out Jagdpanther Being Examined by an American Soldier
459. 1945.04.01. 2nd Mixed Brigade Field Hospital Surrenders on Iwo Jima
460. 1945.04.01. German town Wesel after the bombing
461. 1945.04.03. 15 Year Old German Soldier Cries After Being Captured

French Minister Henriot Speech in Berlin

Video size: 720p (1280 x 720 pixels) - 74 MB
Date: Tuesday, 6 June 1944
Place: Berlin, Germany
Cameraman: unknown

Philippe Henriot addresses French workers in Berlin. French Minister of Information enters hall and delivers speech (live) to audience of thousands, which climaxes in call for collaboration between France and Germany: "you will understand as I do how moving, pathetic and improbable it is [pointing to tricolour and swastika linked on backdrop]. In 1940 would you have thought this possible?" Henriot reportedly told French prisoners that they would have been home long ago had the treacherous generals kept their word. He thanks (live) "the head of the German nation, Adolf Hitler, who heads the European crusade against Bolshevism"; some members of audience clap, others look impassive.

Nowhere has propaganda played a more powerful role than in the theatre of war of 1939-1945, when a sustained propaganda war was fought between the Allies on the one hand, and Vichy and Berlin on the other, with radio as its principal weapon. On that stage, the most notorious and skilful French voice in the war of words belonged to Philippe Henriot, known as the 'French Goebbels'. Understanding the complexities, the methodology and the impact of Vichy's propaganda necessitates analysis and evaluation of the prominent part played by Henriot as the regime's official voice. A high-profile pro-collaboration propagandist from the early days of the Occupation, Henriot rose in January 1944 to become Minister for Information and Propaganda, just as Vichy entered its final and most disreputable stage. From then until his assassination by the Resistance on 28 June 1944, he delivered a relentless programme of 270 self-authored broadcasts on Radio Vichy, playing persistently on the fears and prejudices of a people suffering the pressures and anxieties inflicted by the events that were unfolding, and conversing in forthright terms with his broadcasting adversaries in London and Algiers. This is the role for which Henriot remains best known, on account of his mesmerising rhetoric and delivery. The broadcasts provide a valuable window on Vichy's endgame and an important insight into the themes and strategies of its propaganda. In 1944, Henriot's public presence was huge and he was a media star well before the modern concept had been developed. Whether they admired him or loathed him, the French, quite simply, could not escape him.


Source :
Die Deutsche Wochenschau No. 720 - 21 June 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-DzDJmt5F8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrwDehP8bzc
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH034072%2F1
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060004235

1944 German Football Championship Final

Video size: 720p (1280 x 720 pixels) - 39.3 MB
Date: Sunday, 18 June 1944
Place: Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany
Cameraman: unknown

The 1944 German football championship, the 37th edition of the competition, was won by Dresdner SC, the club defending its 1943 title by defeating Luftwaffe team LSV Hamburg in the final, which were held on 18 June 1944.

The final years of the German Championship during the war saw many military teams compete in the championship, Luftwaffe teams, Luftwaffensportvereine, short LSV, and, Wehrmacht teams, Wehrmachtssportvereine, short WSV, became very competitive.

Dresden's Helmut Schön, who would later coach Germany to the 1974 FIFA World Cup, became the top scorer of the 1944 championship with 14 goals, the second-highest individual amount of any player in the history of the competition from 1903 to 1963.

It was the last edition of the tournament during the Second World War, with the competition not being held again until 1948. The thirty-one 1943–44 Gauliga champions, two more than in the previous season, competed in a single-leg knock out competition to determine the national champion.

Dresdner SC became the last club to be awarded the Viktoria, the annual trophy for the German champions from 1903 to 1944. The trophy disappeared during the final stages of the war, did not resurface until after the German reunification and was put on display at the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt until 2015, when it was moved to the new Deutsches Fußballmuseum in Dortmund.


Source :
Die Deutsche Wochenschau No. 720 - 21 June 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-DzDJmt5F8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_German_football_championship

Abandoned Königstiger of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101

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Date: Friday, 1 September 1944
Place: Beauvais, Oise, France
Photographer: Unknown

Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf B Tiger II Fahrgestellnummer (Hull Number) 280093, turmnummer (turret number) 104, of Schwere SS Panzer Abteilung (Heavy SS Tank Battalion) 101, after the crew abandoned the vehicle. Note that the hull mounted MG34 machine gun has been removed. After the destruction of the German military units in the Falaise Pocket, the surviving soldiers and their vehicles and horses made a dash for the Seine River in late August 1944. Several bridges were intact after repeated bombings, and the Allied divisions were severely depleted after two months of combat operations and unable to bring sufficient forces to prevent their escape. SS Abteilung 101 received fourteen Tiger IIs in late July and early August. As the Germans retreated into Germany, they engaged Allied forces in a defensive role, in which they excelled. On August 23, SS Abteilung 101 supported the 18th Luftwaffe (Air Force) Field Division in an attack on Guitracourt. Tiger II 104's commander, SS-Oberscharfuhrer Sepp Franzl (Squad Leader, or Warrant Officer) was the 1.Kompanie Headquarters Squad Leader. On August 29, Franzl's tank was hit by shellfire in the suspension near Magny-en-Vexin. Unaware of the damage, the crew engaged a British anti-tank gun in a barn at Aux Marais. When the Tiger II sharply turned to move away, the suspension failed, immobilizing the tank. Franzl and his crew bailed out. French Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur (Forces of the Interior), irregular bands of resistance fighters, observed the crew and fired when they bailed out. Sources vary on whether two crewmen were killed or made it back to German lines. A Sherman tank commanded by a Sergeant Roberts of A Squadron, 23rd Hussars, 11th Armoured Division, came across the tank and fired on it. German tanks would sometimes "play dead" to ambush Allied armor, so any German tank was fired upon. Roberts reported the engagement and was given credit for the kill. The abandoned tank was left in the field until December 1944. Frozen in place, gasoline fires were required to move it. The damaged suspension also proved problematic for the recovery crew. The tank was taken to the Bovington Proving Grounds in January 1945. Until 2006 the tank was on private display at the Royal Defense Academy in Shrivingham, Oxfordshire. Then it was returned to the Bovington Tank Museum for renovation and possible return to running condition.

Source :
https://www.themodellingnews.com/2018/07/tmn-on-tour-bovington-tank-museum-tiger.html
https://worldwar2database.com/gallery/wwii0150

Abandoned Königstiger of schwere Panzer-Abteilung 506

Image size: 2126 x 1663 pixel. 1.2 MB
Date: Thursday, 18 January 1945
Place: Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, Luxembourg
Photographer: Unknown

An Abandoned Panzerkampfwagen VI ausf B (SdKfz 182) Tiger II or Königstiger (Bengal Tiger) of Schwere Panzer Abteilung (Heavy Tank Battalion) 506, Sixth Panzer Army, is inspected by American soldiers of the 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. Note the Tiger II's 88mm (3.46 inch) locked in the recoil position, destroyed by the retreating crew. The 35th Infantry Division was rushed into the area to stop the German offensive around December 20, 1944. On December 28, the Division had fought their way to Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, near Bastogne, attempting to relieve the 101st Airborne Division and elements of the 10th Armored Division. By December 31 the 137th Infantry had lost two companies captured by the 1st SS Panzer Division, attempting to retake the village after Bastogne's relief. The 137th had lost 200 men killed or captured. On January 10, the 137th retook Villers. The 506th was the only Heer (Regular Army) unit equipped with the Tiger II, as opposed to the Waffen SS Abteilungs in operation in Belgium. The unit had only operated Tiger tanks, and for the Ardennes Offensive, a fourth company, Schwere Panzer Abteilung Hummel, was attached operating Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf E Tiger Is. On January 17, 1944, as the Sixth Panzer Army retreated from American breakthroughs around Bastogne, the 506th was forced to abandon two Tiger IIs and one Tiger I. While individually superior to any Allied tank, the Tiger II consumed considerable resources and was yet another tank type that a strained German quartermaster corps had to supply with fuel, ammunition, and spare parts. The Tiger II had a range of only 90 miles (145 kilometers). In its rush to combat it suffered from mechanical reliability defects; most Americans saw abandoned, not destroyed, Tiger IIs. This was a blessing for the Americans, whose M4 Sherman medium tanks and M10 Wolverine tank destroyers, both armed with 3-inch guns, could not penetrate the 180mm (7 inch) thick frontal armor. Only the M36 Jackson, with a high velocity 90mm gun, could stop a Tiger II, and only at a range within that of the German tank. All of the American tanks and tank destroyers had armor that was easily defeated by the Tiger II's 88mm KwK 43 L/71 main gun. The Americans counted on their superiority in artillery and air power to destroy Tigers.


Source :
https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/tiger-ii-03-abteilung-506/
https://worldwar2database.com/gallery/wwii0149

Abandoned "Porscheturm" Königstiger of s.Pz.Abt.503 in Normandy

Image size: 1600 x 964 pixel. 462 KB
Date: Wednesday, 30 August 1944
Place: Amiens, Normandy, France
Photographer: unknown

Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf B (Sdkfz 182) with turret designed by Krupp for the Tiger II designed by Professor Doctor Ferdinand Porsche (September 3, 1875 – January 30, 1951). This Tiger II of Schwere Panzer Abteilung 503 was abandoned by Leutnant Rambow's crew during the Normandy Campaign. Rambow was leading two Tigers through Beauvais when one threw a track on the Rue Antoine Caron. The crew of the other Tiger started repairs when the British 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards of the 8th Armoured Brigade entered the town and fired on the disabled Tiger. The crew fled and made it back to German lines. Leutnant Rambow fought the British to Amiens, where he ran out of fuel and ammunition. His crew set fire to the vehicle, causing the suspension to settle. Note missing outer road wheels.

In 1941, Doctor Porsche was contracted, along with Henschel und Sohn, to design the Tiger II tank. Porsche's design used more copper wiring, which led to the adoption of the Henschel design as the production Tiger II on November 11, 1942. Porsche was so sure that his design would be accepted he had ordered Krupp to begin production of their turret for his design; fifty were completed when the contract was canceled. Henschel began designing the new Tiger II, but to move the project along, the Porsche turrets were fitted to the new Henschel design. These tanks were issued first to Schwere Panzer Abteilung 503. Twelve Porscheturm (Porsche Turret) Tiger IIs and two Henshelturm (Henschel Turret) Tiger IIs were issued between May 1944 and June 1944, when Panzer Abteilung 503 left for Normandy. The Porscheturm Tiger IIs had a stronger turret because of the curved surface deflecting anti-tank rounds, but a shot trap caused rounds that hit under the curved gun mantlet were deflected into the driver's compartment, killing the driver and the radio operator. However, most Tiger IIs were not lost to Allied tanks; artillery and fighter-bombers were the chief combat losses of Tiger IIs. More than that, the Tiger II suffered from poor road performance and its heavy weight caused French and Belgian bridges to collapse. More Tiger IIs were lost to mechanical breakdown than in combat. Of the twenty-six Tiger IIs Panzer Abteilung 503 was issued during the Normandy Campaign, only two survived.

Source :
https://maquettes-missiles.blogspot.com/2018/04/le-char-super-lourd-maus.html
https://www.modellismopiu.it/modules/newbb_plus/print.php?forum=8&topic_id=24606
https://worldwar2database.com/gallery/wwii0152