18 A U.S. soldier killed by a German mortar shell on a pontoon bridge over Rur River near Julich, Germany. The soldier was just 34 feet away from the east bank.

19 RAF Spitfire pilots pose next to the wreckage of a Junkers Ju-87 Stuka. It was shot down by them as it was attacking a channel convoy during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

20 Local inhabitants of Przemyśl, a small town in Poland were publicly hanged by the Germans for covertly helping the Jews in September 1943.

21 A German soldier returning home at the end of World War II discovers that his family has been killed as his house was destroyed in the Allied aerial strikes.

22 An American Bomber aircraft on a carpet bombing mission somewhere in Germany, 1944.

23 The Battle of Bulge, fought in the forested region of Ardennes was the last major offensive launched by the Germans. Here,the German Wehrmacht troops move past a burning American tank in December 1944.

24 Bomb disposal unit find a hidden German mine in France,1944. The squad proceeds to uncover the mine cautiously.

25 HMS Barham, a British battleship was hit by 3 torpedoes fired from the German Submarine, U-331 causing her to capsize. A huge magazine explosion sunk her off the Egyptian coast in November 1941. 841 of 1184 crew were killed.

[source: 1,2,3]