Photos Photos of the US Army in the ETO

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American troops use a lifeline to rescue several men from a sunk landing craft, Normandy, Jun 6, 1944.
United States National Archives

 

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Paratroopers of the US 82nd Airborne Division after their jump into Sicily. July, 1943.

 

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Men from the 526th Armored Infantry Battalion rest a moment during a reconnaissance mission in the Ruhr Pocket, Germany, Spring 1945. From left to right, Saba Herrere, Jack Mocnik, Chris Breuninger, Louie Belezzuoli and Harlan Baker.

 

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US 90th ID Personnel use the 105mm guns at the recently captured Fort de Guentrange in Thionville France to fire on German forces - September 12, 1944
Originally a German fort before WW1, the area was annexed by France after WW1, the original 100mm guns were replaced with 105mm Krupp guns captured in WW1 and the fort was incorporated into the French Maginot Line defense system
The fort overlooks the Moselle valley and its western approaches, as well as the railway lines to the west of Thionville
The Germans name for the fort was “Feste Ober-Gentringen”
After WW2, the French Army used the fort to store munitions until 1971, it is now open for tours, see comments for present day pictures
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer

 

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Live entertainment in the vicinity of Nancy 1944. Possibly 6th Armored Division Band on stage. 6th Armored Division Band "Attackers" shown playing to the 76th Medical Battalion.

 

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Medic Elwin Armitage, 120th Med Bn, 45th Infantry Division (Thunderbirds) enjoying some rare sunshine during a lull in the battle for Anzio, Italy in April 1944
Armitage survived WW2, and passed away October 9, 1981 at the age of 57
He was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Warren, Massachusetts
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer

 

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B-29 #41-36963 at Glatton airfield in England - 11 March 1944
This was one the few B-29's sent to Eruope before the end of the War

 

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B-29 #41-36963 at Glatton airfield in England - 11 March 1944
This was one the few B-29's sent to Eruope before the end of the War

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It's a shame that it took so long with the bomb, and the B29 were not in Europe earlier would have saved a lot of GIs, and the affair would have been over sooner

 

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This photograph, taken in the summer of 1945, in Scheinfeld, Germany, shows Corporal Ralph J. Gordon (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) giving a chewing gum to a German girl. As a member of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Ralph survived Day Z and participated in the Battle of Normandy, the Battle of Aachen, the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest and the Battle of Bulge. Of all the members of his company who stormed Omaha Beach on Z-Day, only three men survived the war. Upon his return to Philadelphia, Ralph started a family and died on October 29, 2010.

 

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THE CAMPAIGN IN NORMANDY 1944.
M12 GMC 155mm self-propelled guns of the American 987th Field Artillery Battalion in action near Bayeux, 10 June 1944.
In the foreground a crewman mans the .50 cal machine gun in the 'pulpit' of one of the vehicles.
Creator: No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit.
Source: © IWM B 5412

 

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Two penetrating hits to the upper front plate of an M5A1 Stuart knocked out in the ETO

 

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P-51D Mustangs of the 359th Fighter Group operating out of East Wretham, England, 1944

The 359th FG flew 346 missions from this base between December 1943 and April 1945. The majority of these missions were escorting bombers flying over occupied Europe.

The individual Mustangs are CS-E / 44-13893, 'Caroline', CS-L / 44-14733 'Daddy's Girl' later 'Ruggie's Ruthie', CS-F / 44-13795, 'Marg' and CS-K / 44-13966.

 

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LST-310 (2nd LST from the right) along with other ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Among identifiable ships present are LST-532 (in the center of the view); LST-262 (3rd LST from right); LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and LST-524. Note the barrage balloons overhead and Army “half-track” convoy forming up on the beach.

 

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P-38J Lightning aircraft of 370th Fighter Group, US 485th Fighter Squadron at the former Luftwaffe night fighter base at Florennes, Belgium, Oct-Dec 1944

 

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USAAF B-17 over Germany.

 

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A demolition platoon of the 504th PIR, 82nd Airborne keep a close eye while a demolition expert searches for hidden S-mines on the slope of Hill 1017 in Italy, November 1943.