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A soldier standing in the ruins of Kleve , reading a German poster calling for civilians to conserve fuel supplies for the war effort.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command The German town of Kleve, photographed from a low-flying Auster aircraft, a few days after the major Bomber Command raid on 7-8 February 1945, carried out as a prelude to Operation 'Veritable', the British and Canadian advance across the Rhine.

A column of Churchill tanks and other vehicles at the start of Operation 'Veritable', NW Europe, 8 February 1945. Churchill tanks and other vehicles at the start of Operation 'Veritable', 8 February 1945.

Churchill tanks of 107th Regiment RAC (King's Own), 34th Tank Brigade, at the start of the Reichswald battle in Germany, 9 February 1945. Churchill tanks of 107th Regiment RAC (King's Own), 34th Tank Brigade, at the start of the Reichswald battle, 9 February 1945.

Ruined Landscape, Reichwald Forest 1945 image: a ruined landscape scarred by war near the Reichswald Forest in Germany. In the foreground various petrol canisters and implements litter a shell hole, with bomb damaged buildings and trees in the background. Military vehicles move along a road on the horizon.

British troops loading rocket projectiles in preparation for the offensive in the Reichswald , Germany.

Metz - 1:7,500 1943 (3.3MB) - France City Plans, U.S. Army Map Service, 1942-1944

Luxembourg City, building of Banque et caisse d'épargne de l'Etat, avenue de la Liberté and place de Metz. The plaque at the right commemorates the first meeting of the Haute autorité of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952. The plaque at the left commemorates the presence of the General Omar N. Bradley of the US Army in Luxembourg in 1944 when the City was liberated.

Four infantrymen, members of two patrols that closed the escape gap east of Metz cutting off the escape of the encircled Germans in the town, shake hands after their mission has been accomplished. Left to right: S/Sgt Henry Tackett, Portsmouth, Ohio, S/Sgt Leonard Malicole, Cleveland, Ohio, and Tec 5 Ancil T. Horbison, Rockville, Ind. 5th Infantry Division & 95th Infantry Division. 19 November, 1944.

5th Infantry Division. Photographer: Lt. Freeman, 166th Signal Photo Co.

Bombing of Fort Driant by P-47's from the XIX Tactical Air Command

5 November, 1944. Photographer not credited. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.

Two German officers of the Metz garrizon captured by Americans when tried to escape.

Photographer: Ryan. Editor's note: Young was a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 377th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division. He was wounded in action a month prior to this picture being taken. Source: <a href=" http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/vetegb.php?id=172 " rel="noreferrer nofollow">mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/vetegb.php?id=172</a>

Photographer not credited.

359th Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. Photographer not given. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.

Y-34 Metz Airfield - facilities witer 1944/1945

A damaged German Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind near Metz, France, in December 1944.

Company G, 2nd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. Photographer not credited.

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U.S. soldiers of the 5th Infantry Division inspect a German Panzer V "Panther" tank in France, 29 October 1944. The 5th Infantry Division operated around Metz at that time.

10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. Photographer: Lt. Freeman, 166th Signal Photo Co.

95th Infantry Division. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.

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