Photos Photos of the US Army in the ETO

GI stands next to a snow covered Panther, wrecked during the Ardennes Offensive. Winter of 1944 - 1945
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487th Bomb Group, 1944
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B-17 Flying Fortress "Miss Donna Mae II" is hit by bombs after drifting under the bomber flying above it. The damage to the horizontal stabilizer caused the plane to go into an uncontrollable spin and crash, killing all 11 crew members. May 19, 1944.
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B-17G-20-BO 42-31540; Delivered Cheyenne 11/16/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Cleveland 12/9/43; Syracuse 12/11/43; Presque Isle 12/15/43; Prestwick 12/19/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-A] Rougham 12/20/43; Missing in Action Berlin 5/19/44 with Pilot: 1st Lt. Marion U. Reid; Co-pilot: 2nd Lt. Lewis T. Carter; Navigator: 2nd Lt. Roger F. Tessier; Bombardier: 2nd Lt. Stanley D. Duffield; Flight engineer/top turret gunner: T/Sgt. Lee Z. Kieffer; Radio Operator: S/Sgt. John F. Boone; Ball turret gunner: S/Sgt. Ludwig H. Huth; Left waist gunner: S/Sgt. James A. Kalahar; Right waist gunner: S/Sgt. Richard E. Brennan; Tail gunner: S/Sgt. Willard M. Christensen; Observer: T/Sgt. John B. Davis (11 Killed in Action); hit by bombs from #42-97791 (94BG) above, knocking off left rudder, then wing broke off as it spun to earth, crashed Oderbergerstrasse, Berlin, Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 4946. MISS DONNA MAE II.
 
Operation Plunder-The final push into Germany: GIs of the 89th Infantry Division crossing the Rhine River under heavy enemy fire, March 1945.
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GIs of 2nd Platoon, D Company, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, firing a .30 caliber machine gun into the town of Schlich, Germany, December 10, 1944.
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Throughout the Battle of the Bulge the 2nd Infantry Division held fast, preventing the enemy from seizing key roads leading to the cities of Liege and Antwerp
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Liberation of Namur by US Army troops of the 3rd Armored Division.
There are also a few pics of buildings destroyed by Luftwaffe bombings on August 19th 1944.

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La Gleize and surroundings after the withdrawal of "Kampfgruppe Peiper" .Pictures taken by John Florea Photographer for LIFE Magazine.

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