Anti-tank gunners set up their 57mm gun, commanding a street in the outskirts of Kleinblittersdorf, alert for a possible counterattack by the enemy, 21 February 1945.
Then image: US Signal Corps / SC 334964
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Allied soldier in Trois-Vierges Luxembourg during the battle of the bulge looking at a grafitti slogan saying “Hinter der letzten schlacht dieser Krieges steht unser Sieg” or in English “Behind the last battle of this war lies our victory“.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel – Grace Kailuhu
Infantry men advance under the cover of a M4 Sherman tank in Sprimont, Belgium, 9th September 1944.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Lt. Richard H. Davis, Pensacola, Fla., Company B, 253rd Inf., 63rd Division, points to the German statement on the wall of a house with a potato masher (kitchen type). The sign reads: “Sieg Oder Sibirien” or “Victory or Siberia“.Kleinblittersdorf, Germany. 21 February, 1945.
Then image: Signal Corps / SC 411796
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel – Grace Kailuhu.
Pfc. Abraham Green, medic, New Haven, Conn., 253rd Regiment, 63rd Division, stops, reads and wonders at a German sign, “We fight for the future of our children“, in the town Kleinblittersdorf cleared of the enemy 21 February 1945.
Then image: US Signal Corps / SC 411797
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel – Grace Kailuhu
Christmas celebrations then (1944) and now (2023) in the village of Ederen, Germany.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel & Grace Kailuhu.
Würselen, PFC Herman G. Bulau im Haus, Scherberger Str. 45.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
M5 of the 2nd Armored Division in Beggendorf November 1944.
Then image: ?
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Heavy streetfights in the battle for Gurzenich on 14 and 15 December 1944 during Operation Queen.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Soldier from the U.S. infantry (30th Division) is giving directions in front of Gasthof Dreschers in Übach Palenberg. Written with graffiti on the wall on the left:
Leave civillian stuff alone and on the right looter you ma(y) be shot.
Then image: US Signal Corps
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
