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The Liberation of Eindhoven 1944.
Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation of limited success during the Second World War that was fought in the Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. The airborne operation was planned and undertaken by the First Allied Airborne Army with the land operation by XXX Corps of the British Second Army. The objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. This was to be achieved by seizing a series of nine bridges with the combined US and British airborne forces, with land forces swiftly following over the bridges. The operation succeeded in liberating the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen along with many towns and limiting V-2 rocket launching sites. It failed, however, to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine, with the advance being halted at the river.
Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation of limited success during the Second World War that was fought in the Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. The airborne operation was planned and undertaken by the First Allied Airborne Army with the land operation by XXX Corps of the British Second Army. The objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. This was to be achieved by seizing a series of nine bridges with the combined US and British airborne forces, with land forces swiftly following over the bridges. The operation succeeded in liberating the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen along with many towns and limiting V-2 rocket launching sites. It failed, however, to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine, with the advance being halted at the river.
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21 September 1917
German prisoners captured in the battle of Menin Road Ridge wait their turn to be vaccinated at Locre in Belgium.
(They are most likely being given the Typhoid vaccine.)
The British Army was the only combatant at the outbreak of the war to have its troops fully immunized against the bacterium. For the first time, their casualties due to combat exceeded those from disease.
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German prisoners captured in the battle of Menin Road Ridge wait their turn to be vaccinated at Locre in Belgium.
(They are most likely being given the Typhoid vaccine.)
The British Army was the only combatant at the outbreak of the war to have its troops fully immunized against the bacterium. For the first time, their casualties due to combat exceeded those from disease.
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Recent find at a Transylvanian Fleamarket - WW1 1917 Bavaria,
A soldier and female civilians, my assumption is workers on the home front in a munitions factory,
that's based on their dress and the sign to the rear clearly stating Smoking and naked flames strictly forbidden.
If anyone can translate the rear, much obliged.
A soldier and female civilians, my assumption is workers on the home front in a munitions factory,
that's based on their dress and the sign to the rear clearly stating Smoking and naked flames strictly forbidden.
If anyone can translate the rear, much obliged.
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Opps, just noticed the word colorized in the thread title, black and white are colors though. 
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Yup, the sign translates to something like "Entering with a naked flame or lit cigar will be punished." But the postcard reveals something else than munitions:
So that building may simply be a coal shed.
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Well, the photographer's business has a coloured credit line, so I guess that counts. ?Opps, just noticed the word colorized in the thread title, black and white are colors though.
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Mmm . . thanks, confusing that the card has a military unit post stamp.
EDIT : - Seems for some reason the computer is reading the photo file filename incorrectly hence the wrong cropped picture getting uploaded from the files, will rename the file hopefully that will resolve the issue.
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Nah, that's a card to one Miss Eva Weiler. Not the same card as above.
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EDIT : - Seems for some reason the computer is reading the photo file filename incorrectly hence the wrong cropped picture getting uploaded from the files, will rename the file hopefully that will resolve the issue.
I have a bad habit of scanning multiple pictures at the same time then cropping them into seperate images, just adding 1,2,3, or a,b,c, to the file names, not exactly the best way to do it.
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A member of the C.P.L. (Comité Parisien de Libération / Parisian Liberation Committee) in front of the Paris Police Prefecture headquarters, 4th arrondissement of Paris 24 August 1944.
On 19 August the first skirmishes between the French and the Germans in Paris began. Small mobile units of the Red Cross moved into the city to assist French and German wounded.
Skirmishes reached their peak on 22 August, when some German units tried to leave their fortifications. At 09:00 on 23 August, under general Choltitz's orders, the Germans opened fire on the Grand Palais, an FFI stronghold, and German tanks fired at the barricades in the streets. An estimated 800 to 1,000 Resistance fighters were killed during the Battle for Paris, and another 1,500 were wounded.
On 24 August, delayed by combat and poor roads, Free French General Leclerc, commander of the 2nd French Armored Division disobeyed his direct American superior, and sent a vanguard to Paris, with the message that the entire division would be there the following day. The 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad which was nicknamed La Nueve (Spanish for "the nine") consisted of 160 men under French command, 146 of which were Spanish republicans.
General Choltitz, as commander of the German garrison and military governor of Paris, surrendered on 25 August at the Hôtel Meurice.
Photograph taken by Jean Séeberger.
On 19 August the first skirmishes between the French and the Germans in Paris began. Small mobile units of the Red Cross moved into the city to assist French and German wounded.
Skirmishes reached their peak on 22 August, when some German units tried to leave their fortifications. At 09:00 on 23 August, under general Choltitz's orders, the Germans opened fire on the Grand Palais, an FFI stronghold, and German tanks fired at the barricades in the streets. An estimated 800 to 1,000 Resistance fighters were killed during the Battle for Paris, and another 1,500 were wounded.
On 24 August, delayed by combat and poor roads, Free French General Leclerc, commander of the 2nd French Armored Division disobeyed his direct American superior, and sent a vanguard to Paris, with the message that the entire division would be there the following day. The 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad which was nicknamed La Nueve (Spanish for "the nine") consisted of 160 men under French command, 146 of which were Spanish republicans.
General Choltitz, as commander of the German garrison and military governor of Paris, surrendered on 25 August at the Hôtel Meurice.
Photograph taken by Jean Séeberger.
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Gucci weapon!! I bet he had a Ferrari by 1960
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That is a good looking Stg.44 he's got, damn that thing looks like it right out of the factory!!
X2, I was going to say the same thing!!! very shine !!!
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Three British Royal Artillery officers playing cards in the sunshine outside their sandbagged shelter near Pilckem Ridge. 23 September 1917.
"Note that the new boy on the left (with the shiny kit) has the new fangled brown metal pip on his shoulder (indicating 2nd Lieutenant) while the older hands have their rank on their sleeves. The change was to prevent the easy indentification of officers by snipers. Looks like the one in the middle is wearing the Military Cross ribbon. The one on the right is wearing puttees, not riding boots, so may well be infantry." (An earlier Page followers comment)
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"Note that the new boy on the left (with the shiny kit) has the new fangled brown metal pip on his shoulder (indicating 2nd Lieutenant) while the older hands have their rank on their sleeves. The change was to prevent the easy indentification of officers by snipers. Looks like the one in the middle is wearing the Military Cross ribbon. The one on the right is wearing puttees, not riding boots, so may well be infantry." (An earlier Page followers comment)
(Photo source - © IWM Q 6012)
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yes, and I used to have one - gave it up to the armoury in LeedsThat is a good looking Stg.44 he's got, damn that thing looks like it right out of the factory!!
My father brought it back after WW2 - just became too much hassle to store it under a Liebour government
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