Battle of Metz, Lorraine 1944

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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A U.S. Army M36 tank destroyer on the crossing of Avenue Foch (at that time "Hermann-Göring-Straße") and Rue François de Curel, in Metz, France, 21 November 1944. The building in the back has a sign saying "Kreissparkasse" (regional savings bank).