Tonwoche №509 (1940)

Belgium.

Military operations in Belgium.

The advance of German troops on Tournai.

The German vanguard advances across the field, machine gunners set up a gun on the side of the road.

Soldiers cross a river on a pontoon bridge.

Troops in Tournai, fighting in the streets, carefully advancing along the streets, taking cover when in danger, firing from gateways and corners of buildings.

View of Tournai from above, the cathedral is visible.

View of the destruction in the city center.

Abandoned tanks, guns.

Capitulation of the Belgian army.

Representatives of King Leopold meet with representatives of the German army.

Negotiations with Belgian officers about capitulation at a table near the building.

A car with German envoys heads to the location of the Belgian troops with a proposal for disarmament, travel along the road.

Refugees and horse-drawn convoys of the Belgian troops are walking towards them on the side of the road.

German envoys at the headquarters of the Belgian army.

Disarmament of the Belgian army, rifles and helmets are thrown into a pile.

German troops are standing on the square in front of the town hall.

Unarmed Belgian soldiers.

War trophies: guns, tanks.

Wounded prisoners are given medical care.

Prisoners are eating.

A German soldier and a woman hand out chocolate to prisoners.

A column of prisoners on the road, in trucks.

The civilian population is returning to their native places.

View of the river, refugees are crossing a pontoon bridge, crossing in boats.

German soldiers are helping Belgian women and children cross the river, carrying a baby carriage, helping to pull a cart with things onto the shore.

Refugees are leading cattle, riding bicycles, carrying wheelbarrows with things.

On the streets of the city, German soldiers are helping refugees to carry carts with things.

A woman smiles at a soldier.

Distribution of food to refugees near a field kitchen.

The population is talking with German soldiers.

Belgium.

The advance of German troops towards the coast.

The crossing of German equipment and guns across the restored bridges.

A panorama of the destroyed city of Ostend.

Ruins of houses.

A view of the Gothic cathedral from the canal, a destroyed station, broken carriages, rails, and port facilities.

German artillerymen are installing a gun on the pier.

Fortified positions of German troops, the gun barrels facing the sea.

France.

The advance of German troops on Langemarck.

Horse artillery, infantry, and cyclists are marching along the city streets.

Troops are crossing canals across bridges.

Heavy artillery guns are being transported on inflatable boats.

A signpost to Ypres, a soldier is pointing at it.

An artillery battery near Ypres, aiming guns, firing.

A view of the destroyed city.

Soldiers on the streets of Ypres.

A view of a camouflaged Belgian bunker occupied by the Germans.

Convoys are driving through the mud.

Tanks in the main square of the city.

Tank turrets with inscriptions.

A half-ruined arch is a monument to the British who fought here in World War I. A German tank division leaves Ypres and moves towards Dunkirk.

A view of tanks moving over rough terrain.

Occupied Belgian trenches.

The Nazi flag flies.

Soldiers being awarded storm troop badges, faces of decorated soldiers.

A captured bunker, prisoners coming out of it.

There are shell marks on the walls of the bunker.

German troops marching along the road to Valenciennes, cavalry riding across the bridge.

A shield with French inscriptions.

Ruins of a city.

A captured aircraft factory.

An aircraft assembly shop.

Finished aircraft are standing there, having never made a single flight.

A view of a French airfield captured by German troops.

A drawing on an aircraft: a Gallic rooster.

A German aircraft preparing to take off.

France.

German planes take off to bomb the city of Cambrai.

Bombs are falling.

Explosions are visible below, bombed-out city blocks from a low point.

View of the Cambrai train station several hours later: destroyed platforms.

Troops are moving forward through the city.

Tanks, artillery, trucks with soldiers are driving.

A column is passing a windmill.

Cavalry and motorcyclists are on a village street.

A camouflaged tank unit is preparing to attack.

Tankers are listening to the Wehrmacht report at the radio station.

Soldiers are resting, they are eating, smoking, cleaning their weapons, sleeping.

A soldier is holding his feet in a basin, reading a newspaper.

A pig is wandering in a trench.

A soldier is washing himself in a vat, chickens are wandering around near him.

Lunch at a field kitchen.

A dog is standing on its hind legs, asking for food, they are pouring soup for it.

Convoys moving along the road, abandoned equipment on the side of the road.

The advance on Arras.

Infantry attack, artillery firing.

View of the remaining undamaged square in front of the town hall.

German troops on the streets of Arras.

A short respite before the advance on Bethune.

Movement of troops, trucks, cyclists along the road, broken enemy guns on the side of the road.

Combat operations by armed SS units.

Grenade launchers firing.

Street fighting in the city.

German soldiers advance in short dashes, pulling guns to new positions.

Broken remains of French barricades made of mangled equipment, barrels and debris on the streets.

Soldiers marching along the street.

Military equipment moving.

Traces of the retreat of British troops: blown up houses, abandoned equipment.

Actions of tank units supported by infantry near the city of Amiens.

Ruins of the city, a half-destroyed cathedral.

France.

Burning Amiens.

The offensive on Boulogne, which is taken immediately.

Burning ships on the canal.

Street fighting, German machine guns and cannons firing.

Port facilities are burning.

English vehicles are parked near the walls of the building.

English and French soldiers surrender, waving white rags, carrying the wounded.

German soldiers look at the prisoners.

The march of German troops in the direction of Calais.

Trucks on the road.

A horse wanders, a dead horse lies.

A panorama of the burning English oil warehouses.

View of the town hall of Calais.

Street fighting, soldiers turning a cannon on the street.

A blown up water pipe on one of the streets.

The movement of German tanks on the road, broken cannons and equipment on the side of the road.

Soldiers walk against the backdrop of the ruins of the city.

German patrol on the coast, soldiers setting up a machine gun towards the sea.

A burning transport ship in the bay.

Night raid of German aircraft on Dunkirk.

Pilot in the cockpit.

Aerial view of the canal, Dunkirk.

Bombing of the city, ruins of buildings below.

German troops on the march.

Cavalry rides.

Infantry marches to the sounds of a song.