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• THE HOME GUARD IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Civilian Home Guard trainees learn to handle guns by drilling with broomsticks.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Parapacks containing food and ammunition being dropped to American forces in the vicinity of Bastogne, encircled by German troops.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The German Counter Offensive 16-22 December 1944: Stavelot church standing amid the ruins of the town which was briefly recaptured by the Germans on 19 December.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The bodies of civilians lie beside a hedgerow, the casualties of fighting around Stavelot which the Americans retook on 21 December.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  American troops from the besieged garrison at Bastogne, load onto a truck supplies and ammunition brought to them by gliders. The foxhole in the foreground is for an artillery unit protecting the town.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  American military policemen check the credentials of refugees who are fleeing from the German offensive near Bastogne.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  An artillery observation plane under camouflage netting in a snow-bound field near Erezee. The Germans relied on bad weather to keep the Allied air forces grounded and for a short while their hope was fulfilled.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Allied Counter Attack 25 December 1944 - 28 January 1945: Civilians of Wiltz in Luxembourg at the window of the hospital, watch as the Luxembourg flag flies again after the town's liberation by the 4th Armoured Division on 25 December as Patton's 3rd...

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Two men of the 82nd (US) Airborne Division bringing in a young German SS Trooper captured while on reconnaissance patrol outside Bra, between Malmedy and Marche on the northern flank of the salient.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Men of the 28th Division HQ Company prepare mines to check the advancing German Panzers.