US Personnel are exploring the surroundings at Schriefersmühle Germany – February 1945.
Then image: Life Magazine – William Vandivert Photographer
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Schriefersmühle (3)
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Linnich (2)
Pfc. John J. Cook of Staten Island, N.Y., 407th Regiment, 102nd Division, posts a warning sign on a road near enemy positions. 19 February, 1945. A portrait of Hitler, surmounted by a German eagle stands in the road at the left.
Then image: Signal Corps / SC 411794
Now image: www.NOWstalgia.EU / Cor Sleutel
Baal
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
Mönchengladbach (2)
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
Mönchengladbach (1)
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
Schriefersmühle (2)
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
Erkelenz (3)
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
Erkelenz (2)
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
Erkelenz (1)
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
Schriefersmühle (1)
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
