Infantrymen of the 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment walking down Zweibrücken, their rifles are slung across their backs; bombed-out buildings line the street.
Note: Between the soldiers on the right on the box the slogan “Volk & Kamp” is written.
Then image: Signal Corps
Now image: Marcus U. Katja Maurer
Allies soldiers reach the city/village of Baal in February 1945. On the wall is written the slogan “Tapfer & Treu” or “Brave & Loyal”.
Then image: Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
US soldier is looking up in at an air raid shelter with the slogan “Ein Volk, Ein reich, Ein Führer” written on the wall in Mönchengladbach around March 1945.
Then image: Life Magazine – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU
US soldier is taking a sigaret at an air raid shelter with the slogan “Ein Volk, Ein reich, Ein Führer” written on the wall in Mönchengladbach around March 1945.
Then image: Life Magazine – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU
US Personnel are taking a break and exploring the surroundings at Schriefersmühle Germany – February 1945.
Then image: Life Magazine – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Again the same US M4 High-Speed Tractor towing a 155mm “Long Tom” Gun M1 with “B” Battery, 261st Field Artillery, on Anton-Heinen-Straße, Erkelenz early February.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Same US M4 High-Speed Tractor towing a 155mm “Long Tom” Gun M1 with “B” Battery, 261st Field Artillery, on Anton-Heinen-Straße, Erkelenz early February.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
US M4 High-Speed Tractor towing a 155mm “Long Tom” Gun M1 with “B” Battery, 261st Field Artillery, on Anton-Heinen-Straße in Erkelenz, Germany – February 1945.
Then image: LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
US Personnel examine a Soviet 85mm M1939 AA gun captured & reused by the Germans, and then abandoned in Schriefersmühle Germany – February 1945.
Then image: Life Magazine – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Two surprised Germans are caught in the village of Dieteren, The Netherlands by a man of the 9th Bn DLI, 16 January 1945.
Then image: IWM (B 13715)
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
