Photos Photos of the US Army in the ETO

Bombardier said:

Looks like a captured German 8,8 cm Panzerabwehrkanone Pak 43/41 ( German Antitank Gun )

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You are spot on!
A gun of the "Schwere Panzerjäger Abteilung 683 (motorisiert)"

Another batch of 351st Eng. G.S.R. pics.

I've been sidelined so I could not post in here for a while....time to get on with it!!

17th Airborne Division "Golden Talons"

Some more form the 17th Airborne.

And still more 17th Abn.

^^ Dinner!

Kind of ETO? Anyhow, I like the story!

This photo, published on December 14th 1944, two days before the beginning of the German onslaught in the west, shows US Coast Guard men disembarking on the shores of an island in eastern Greenland. All tough geographically separated form the Ardennes by thousands of miles, this pictures is closely related to the tragedy that would unfold in the German-Luxembourg-Belgian borderlands a few days later.





The picture shows ”Coasties” disembarking on the shores of Eastern Greenland, on a mission to hunt down German weather stations. These secret stations were of the uttermost importance to the German forces, for they allowed the NAZI’s meteorological service to establish reliable long term weather forecasts for the Atlantic and western Europe. These forecasts were crucial for Hitler and his cronies to set the date for launching “Operation Wacht am Rhein”.

The first German secret meteorological station had been installed on the eastern coast of Greenland as early as August 1942. For two years the barren ice deserts of Greenland had been the setting for a game of cat and mouse going on in between the German weathermen and the US Coast Guard, helped by Eske Brun’s “North East Greenland Sledge Patrol”. The last German station in Greenland, “Edelweiss II” was attacked and captured by US Coast Guard personnel in early October 1944. Only a few days earlier the US icebreaker “USCGC Eastwind” had replaced the “USCGC Northland”, on one of it’s first missions “Eastwind”’s J2F “Duck” scout plane spotted the German station. In the early hours of October 4th the crew of “Eastwind” put a landing party ashore which stormed “Edelweiss II” and captured the 12 men German weather team, under the command of “Leutnant Karl Schmidt”.

Ten days later the USCG scout plane discovered the German vessel “Externsteine”,the cargo, which had the order to resupply “Edelweiss II” had been trapped in the ice and could not escape. The boarding party from “Eastwind” managed to prevent the German crew to ignite scuttling charges, and with the help of a few well placed charges of C4, they were able to free the German ship from the ice. It was immediately rechristened “USCGC Eastbreeze” and commissioned into the US Coast Guard.

Malmedy Massacre.

A series of pictures taken by a GI of the 696th Armoured Field Artillery Battalion

And another batch coming from the 351st Eng.G.Sv.Rgt.

Love these photo's @Skyline Drive

BravoZulu said:

Love these photo's @Skyline Drive

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Thanks for the kind words BravoZulu!

Some more 696th Armd. F. A. Bn.

Another batch from the 696th Armd. F. A. Bn.

Skyline Drive said:

Another batch from the 696th Armd. F. A. Bn.

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Moien !
wou as dat

Talibanhunter said:

Moien !
wou as dat

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Let's stick to English, so everybody can understand!

It depends on what photo you are asking about, some were taken in Belgium, some in Germany.

Skyline Drive said:

Let's stick to English, so everybody can understand!

It depends on what photo you are asking about, some were taken in Belgium, some in Germany.

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Hello
Sorry
the last picture of this from today

regards