Infantry, carriers and trucks advance through Kleve, 16 February 1945.
Then image: © IWM B 14675
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Kleve – Römerstrasse (1)
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Goch – Am Markt
Original wartime caption: He’s well off for weapons. And his new dagger belonged to an S.S. man. The blade is inscribed ‘My Honour is True’ (Sgt A. Tait, New Clarendon Inn, Appleby St, North Shields, Northumberland).
Then image: © IWM B 14788
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Kleve – Tiergartenstraße (2)
Churchill tanks of 6th Guards Tank Brigade and infantry of the 2nd Gordon Highlanders in Kleve, 11 February 1945. (Did this one before, but on the wrong location)
Then image: © IWM B 14608
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Nideggen (2)
Troops of the 9th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army, file through an archway in the town of Nideggen, Germany. 28 February, 1945.
Then image: US Signal Corps / SC270831
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Duren – Monschauer Strasse
Tank destroyers of Company B of the 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached to the 8th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army) are the first allied armored group to enter the battered German city of Duren on February 24, 1945.
Then image: US Signal Corps / SC201386
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Kufferath
Infantrymen of company A, 16 infantry enters the village of Kufferath 25 February 2022.
Then image: US Signal Corps
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Maastricht – Hof van Veldeke (2)
Plans for the Western Front were discussed at a summit at the Henric van Veldeke College in Maastricht on 7 December 1944. There, US General and Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General Omar N. Bradley, British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, British Air Force Commander Arthur Tedder and US 9th Army Commander Lieutenant General William H. Simpson meet each other.
Then image: Imperial War Museum
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Then image: Imperial War Museum
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Maastricht – Hof van Veldeke (1)
Two Allied Commanders (Bradley and Montgommery) after the “Maastricht meeting” about further plans for the western front, 7 December 1944.
Then image: Imperial War Museum
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Maastricht – Sint Lambertuslaan
Five Allied Commanders (Tedder, Bradley, Eisenhower, Simpson and Montgomery) after the “Maastricht meeting” about the Ardennes strategy (Battle of the Bulge), 7 December 1944.
Then image: Imperial War Museum
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Gurzenich (2)
German soldiers surrender to the Americans in Gurzenich, Germany, during operation Queen, december 1944.
Then image: US Sigal Corps
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