Captured German soldiers wait on Normandy beach for transfer to Allied prisoner-of-war camp.

Captured German soldiers wait on Normandy beach for transfer to Allied prisoner-of-war camp. Captured by Allied forces in the St. Lo area of Normandy, German soldiers are gathered on a beach they could not defend, before boarding the U.S. LST (landing ship-tank) in the background for transport to an Allied prisoner-of-war-camp. These prisoners, among the 54,000 captured in France by July 11, 1944, surrendered to the overwhelming might of the Allied Expeditionary Force.