Photos Photos of the US Army in the ETO

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Slave labor camp Mittelbau-Dora, Thuringia.
American soldier looking at a partially assembled V-2 rocket inside the tunnel B.
The year is 194

 

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.50 Cal machine gun of the 5th Army, somewhere in Italy.

 

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On November 27, 1944, S/Sgt. Joe Sullivan (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania), 104th Infantry Division, marked an unexploded phosphorus bomb on the streets of Weisweiler, Germany.
Source: US Signal Corps Archives

 

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Joined in the common bond of suffering, wounded Nazi prisoners of war lie side-by-side with Allied casualties on the bottom of an LCV (Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel) speeding back to England from the French coasts. American paratroopers are included among the casualties.” June 12, 1944

 

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Corporal Leo L. Kaller (1920-2000), from Whitman, West Virginia struggles happily with a gobbler’s leg. Europe.

 

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US Soldiers in a Jeep with a improvised mount M1917 water-cooled MG in Ohrdruf Germany - April 1945
LIFE Magazine Archives - David Scherman Photographer

 

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Jülich is an ancient fortified German town which stands in the Rur valley on the banks of the river Rur.
Advancing US troops crossed the Rur valley...which had been deliberately flooded by the retreating Germans...in assault boats and amphibious vehicles.
After much effort they established a bridgehead and in the course of February 23- 24, 1945, the German defenders were successfully ousted from the citadel of Jülich.
British PM Winston Churchill visited Jülich on February 26, 1945 at the invitation of US 9th Army Commander Lieutenant-General William H. Simpson.
Accompanying PM Churchill were F-M Montgomery and F-M Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
They were received by Lieutenant-General Simpson together with a group of senior US Army commanders.
The principal photos shown here were taken in front of the old citadel and appeared in “LIFE” magazine on March 19, 1945.
(LIFE / George Silk)

 

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US Officers in the ETO, Winter 1944/1945.

 

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M4 Sherman in Eischweiler Germany - December 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer

 

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US Army Engineers set up a “Daisy Chain” of M1 Anti-Tank mines next to a road during the opening days of the German Offensive during the Battle of the Bulge - December 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer

 

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US soldier shares Christmas treats from home with children in Belgium; Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. Colorized.

 

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The American St. Nick, Richard W. Brookins (1922 - 2018) in Wiltz, Luxembourg, December 5, 1944.

 

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Cemetery for men of the 4th Armored Division at Pont Scorff, France.

 

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It was 3:23 pm on Saturday December 16, 1944 when a gigantic blast resounded through Antwerp, a German V2 rocket hit the overcrowded Rex cinema. 567 people died under the rubble of the cinema, all victims of blind terror. Among them, no fewer than 296 Allied soldiers died far away from home during an afternoon at the cinema. 291 other visitors were rescued from the rubble, often with serious injuries. The bomb impact on the Antwerp Cinema Rex was the deadliest of the entire Second World War

 

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US forces in Malmedy Belgium during the opening days of the German Offensive during the Battle of the Bulge - December 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer

 

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Sgt. Sam McNeely stands watch by his machine gun during the first snowfall of the year in this sector of the wetern front. Monschau, Germany.
The first snowfall around Monschau was on November 7, 1944.

 

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"C" Company medics... 76th Armored Medical Battalion... 6th Armored Division ........ Must have been night duty at the medical dispensary... a very serious card game