German Soldiers chat with American Captors German soldiers, captured by the Alies during the Battle of Normandy, chat wi...

German Soldiers chat with American Captors German soldiers, captured by the Alies during the Battle of Normandy, chat with a U.S. coast Guardsman (foreground) aboard an LCI (landing craft, infantry) vessel transporting the Germans from the French coast to England for internment in a prison-of-war camp. Despite orders from their commanders to hold their ground to the last man, 42.500 Germans surrendered to the overwhelming force of the American drive during the liberation of the Cherbourg Peninsula.