A M26 Pacific Truck from the 464th Ordnance Evacuation Company is dragging a Panther tank inside of Geilenkirchen from the area of Prummern, november 1944.
Then image: USNA
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GI’s cleaning the streets of Geilenkirchen, november 1944.
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Troops passing through the damaged town of Geilenkirchen, 21 November 1944.
Then image: © IWM (B 12021)
Photographer: Sgt. Midgley
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Churchill AVRE entering Geilenkirchen from the Aachener Straße going right to the Jülicher Straße 19 November 1944.
Then image: © IWM (B 11959)
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Troops of the 7th Somerset Light Infantry, 43rd (Wessex) Division resting at the Pappelweg junction An der Alten Schule during the assault on Geilenkirchen in Germany, 18 November 1944.
Then image: © IWM (B 11952)
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Sherman tank advancing through Gillrath near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944.
Then image: © IWM (BU 1416)
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Shermans, including flail tanks, and other vehicles in Gillrath near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944. In the foreground CMP motorcyclists stand ready to direct traffic.
Then photo: © IWM (BU 1406)
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A M26 Pacific truck tractor of the 464 Ordnance Evacuation Company dragging a German Panther tank in Geilenkirchen around November 1944.
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A German officer captured by British troops during operations at Gillrath in the
Pfarrer-Lowis-Straße , 5 December 1944.
Then image: © IWM (BU 1408)
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Infantry march through Gillrath near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944.
Then image: © IWM (BU 1409)
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