#BBB NEWS| HISTORY: General's Never-Before-Seen Photos Show Horrific Reality of World War Two's Western Front! Check It Out.. [RARE/HISTORIC/CLASSIC PHOTOS]

Fascinating photographs snapped by a four-star general during the bloody skirmishes of World War Two have provided a rare insight into the dark realities of life on the front line in Germany and France.

General Charles Day Palmer rose to the rank of four-star general in the US Army as battles raged across mainland Europe, fighting on the Western Front and taking part in the invasion of Normandy.

As well as turning his gun sights on the enemy, he also aimed his camera at visions of bombed-out towns, dead bodies and prisoners of war during the campaign to halt Adolf Hitler's Nazi march.